On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:26 PM, <maryann@kih.net> wrote:
I'm going to watch it, hoping that the character aspect keeps it from getting boring. There was one thing that I did not like about the previews, however. It appears that he ordered a cop to shoot a hostage in the leg, in order to free the hostage from a gunperson, assumedly so the hostage would drop to the ground and not get shot in the head by the gunperson. This reminds me of an episode late in the show ER, where one of the newer doctors frees a person from a mangled car by cutting off the person's limb with a chain saw.
The thing that was unpleasant to me was that the audience was expected to accept the rightness of the character causing dramatic physical harm to another person, because that character is aggressive and dominant and presented as a "good" character.
Absolutely. This is where fantasy vs. reality comes in for me. There's something viscerally satisfying about a 'good' character giving the bad guys a taste of their own medicine. That's ok in fiction, because it's always black and white and the baddies are completely irredeemable and violence is portrayed as justice. In the real world, things are much more complicated, and I would never condone in real life the kind of police brutality I sometimes enjoy in fiction.
Gwyn
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
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