01-07-2018, 04:09 PM
(01-07-2018, 02:39 PM)Hell Rell Wrote:On most TV shows where a character's profession is mentioned-police, fireman, doctor, taxi driver-the show does not usually attempt to make how the character does his work reflect how real cops, doctors etc do theirs. I would never want to go to Seattle Grace for an operation, those doctors are too concerned about hooking up and fighting about personal issues while cutting people open. Paperwork eats up a lot of a cop's day, Nick and Hank almost never did it. In Taxi the drivers mostly sat around the garage taking--how did they get tips to make ends meet? Movies and TV are escapes, who wants to see real cops take days or weeks before they have enough evidence to arrest a person of interest?(01-07-2018, 01:57 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: TV typically portrays cops as mavericks who buck authority and even break laws in order to make "justice" happen by the end of a 40 minute episode. I doubt that that aspect of the series format got very much thought at all. Except for the supernatural aspects, Grimm was a pretty formulaic TV cop show.
I haven't watched the Lethal Weapon show but the movies were pretty much built off of this as well as the Die Hard series. Plenty of cops, as well as doctors on TV do things that are frowned upon to get the desired results. This also extends to the FBI.