Blames Boston 'Budget Cuts' Which Don't Exist in Real Life

[Linda]

Blames Boston 'Budget Cuts' Which Don't Exist in Real Life
By: Tom Blumer | December 29, 2011 | 00:55
 
I know, we're supposed to give TV shows and the like a bit of dramatic license to push a plot line. But doesn't it seem that an awful lot of the license taken tends to be pro-big government and left-leaning?

One pretty obvious example came along Monday night during the Season 2 finale of TNTs' "Rizzoli & Isles" (which ran again late tonight). The plot of "Burning Down the House" centered around the death of a Boston fireman in a major warehouse blaze. Ultimately, the perpetrator ended up being a fireman who was upset by "budget cuts," which were mentioned twice during the episode:



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Damn, and I liked watching  "Rizzoli & Isles". I sure hope this isn't a peek into what they are going to be doing next season.

[thundley4]

Damn, and I liked watching  "Rizzoli & Isles". I sure hope this isn't a peek into what they are going to be doing next season.

Almost all cop shows take shots like that and some are more blatantly anti-conservative.

[DefiantSix]

Almost all cop shows take shots like that and some are more blatantly anti-conservative.

I think what disturbs me more is the fact that when I was growing up there were shows like Adam-12, Emergency!, and the like that portrayed government employees as heroes.  There were also shows like the Rockford Files, Simon & Simon, Spencer for Hire - and dare I say it, the A-Team and Airwolf - where the heroes of the series were ordinary Americans who do something extraordinary OUTSIDE THE CONFINES OF A GOVERNMENT AGENCY.

To a great extent, the shows in that second category aren't being produced any longer.  I don't think it's fully intentional on the part of Hollywierd, but it is definitely reflective of the mindset, prejudices and blinders of the Hollywierdos in the Movie/TV industry. 

And it's an increasing disconnect from America as a whole.  After all, who were the first folks in with emergency relief supplies when Katrina hit:  the government?  Not a chance.  My church had boots on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi, and convoys of supplies en route via truck and aircraft, 24-48 hours after the eye moved on shore.  Same thing here in 2008, when we had a tornado pass within 3/4" of a mile of my home, and tear up a town just to the north of me (Windsor, CO):  I took time off from work in order to be there the very next day, chainsaw and come-along in hand, ready to assist in the clean up efforts.  And these aren't unusual: 9 times out of 10, whenever an American stands staring into the abyss of some natural disaster or other, the first person to offer him a hand or a shoulder isn't some government functionary with a rule book, a check-book, and a clipboard.  It's a neighbor.  Another American.

Getting back to my main point though, I think this television dependence on "Big Gub'mint" to save the day can be debilitating - to the generation who has never seen Stringfellow Hawke saving the day in a mach 1-plus chopper the government will neither confirm nor deny the existence of, or Hannibal Smith relishing fine Havana tobacco as a plan comes together, mostly.  It's also limiting to the stories that will make it to the screen, with the consequent drop in market interest from people tired of the "Same Old Crap".  (My wife and I evicted our TV from the house (and saved $85.00 a month we were otherwise spending on satellite service) 3 years ago, after having this discussion.)

[thundley4]

I think what disturbs me more is the fact that when I was growing up there were shows like Adam-12, Emergency!, and the like that portrayed government employees as heroes.  There were also shows like the Rockford Files, Simon & Simon, Spencer for Hire - and dare I say it, the A-Team and Airwolf - where the heroes of the series were ordinary Americans who do something extraordinary OUTSIDE THE CONFINES OF A GOVERNMENT AGENCY.

Maybe that is one reason I like "Leverage", "Person of Interest" and shows like that.  They both have people working outside the law to help people that need it.  "The Equalizer", and "It takes a Thief" were shows I watched when I was much younger and from what I remember, they both fell in that category.

[NHSparky]

Bottom line, Hollywood is risk-averse.  Find me a show on television or a movie in current production, I'll show you something that has been done to death already.

I'm hard pressed to find anything produced by Hollywood by a major studio in the last 30-plus years that has any originality to it.

[vesta111]

Bottom line, Hollywood is risk-averse.  Find me a show on television or a movie in current production, I'll show you something that has been done to death already.

I'm hard pressed to find anything produced by Hollywood by a major studio in the last 30-plus years that has any originality to it.

Hollywood has been the top place to push propaganda from the government since the 1930's

I found this out watching the oldies channel and westerns from back then.   Old Roy Rogers movies that pushed socialism, [  Rail Road needed farmers land to put a rail in, the farmers needed to give up their land at no payment for the national good. ]   

On and on through the years, WW2 era most movies had a America against the Axes theme.   

1950's movies and TV shows had the woman getting out of the work force to return to becoming homemakers so the returning GI's could take their jobs. YOU KNOW, WOMAN WAXING FLOORS WEARING HIGH HEELS.

1960's we were pushing the space theme, all the sici-fi movies and TV programs of that era. 

1970's  a big change, no war movies but the Green Berets, a play down on that Asian War.

1980's was all about distraction, music and dance.

1990's  nothing I can remember.

2000's lots of kung fou and tear jerkers.

2010, lots of fantasy and horror, the nation went wild on CSI and true TV. 

2011 A  love affair with Vampires and Zombies.

It is true for the past two decades I was too tired from working 50-60 hours a week to watch much TV, only movie in that span I went to was Snakes On A Plane and Natural Born Killers.

Reality has become too uncomfortable for the public, were I a producer I would be digging into the disaster of that Russian Sub, the one on fire today and yesterday.   Was it the rubber coating  that caught fire, the anti sonar stuff we use on our subs???

This would make one hell of a movie, but, more people would rather watch Vampires, Zombies and prefer to go into La-La land then pay money to see reality????

But is that not what the movies are for, to take people away from the reality of their lives and transport them to another world, place or time.

Just watch when the movies shift to another theme,   betcha the new ones will be back to space travel as the Chinese gain on us as we in fact have thrown away what could have been our claim to space to for some reason anyone country or big business to get out there ahead of the rest of the world.