Re: Sleepy Hollow

>Matt said:

>I want to like Ironside, but as a person with a physical disability, I'm >pretty annoyed that they didn't get an actor with a physical disability >to play the title role. We're out there. There are plenty of people who >could do it well. I haven't actually sen the show yet, and I do plan to >check it out. I'm eager to see how accurately living as a mobility >impaired person is portrayed. I'm willing to give them at least a little >slack, since I'm kind of pleased to see a mobility impaired character on >television at all. But I'm going to be scrutinizing it fairly closely.

>Gwyn said:

>I agree with you, but in this case I can forgive them because a lot of >the story is told in flashback - before the main character became >mobility impaired. So the actor had to be able to do all the physical >activity the character was involved in before he was shot. The whole >premise seems to be split between showing what kind of a cop he was >before he got injured, and then how he's adapted to continue doing his >job while paralyzed. There are still a lot of pitfalls they could >blunder into, but so far, I've been impressed with how it's being handled.


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.

Maryann

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