09-16-2017, 09:45 AM
(09-16-2017, 07:38 AM)irukandji Wrote: I do like the thought that Nick is fighting his own private battles, which is really what the series has been about, IMO. He's choosing to be a grimm who makes up his own rules as he goes along. But that doesn't make him a good man by any means. And it doesn't make him a good cop.
Yes, that was the basis of the show from the beginning, that the system of rules Nick had been trained to work in was totally ineffective against the secret threats he was seeing and facing. Then it turned out that the ineffectiveness wasn't just because the system was unaware of the secret threats, but was participating in keeping them secret. So Nick ends up being a superhero whose secret identity is a cop.
Nick is as much a "good cop" as Clark Kent is a good reporter. Kent doesn't succeed as a reporter by following good reporting practices, but because as Superman he's actually making the news.
As for Nick being a "good man," I guess that sort of takes us back to the "why would you like a show like that" question.
BTW, the real cops I talk to tell me that the things that really bother them about cop shows are the portrayals of cops' private lives as way more troubled than they really are, and how easy the shows make cops' jobs look. But these are all people I meet while working on shoots, so the fact that they're making off-duty money working on them might skew their viewpoints.