(01-07-2018, 04:09 PM)eric Wrote:(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.
I actually find TV doctors funnier than TV cops. House and his crew were notorious for throwing out the book and I laughed whenever someone said they would want a doctor like House. House wouldn't even be allowed to practice medicine for a tenth of the stuff he did and would be extremely fortunate not to end up in prison much longer than he was in the show.
The Wire was revolutionary for showing how much minutiae the cops had to go through to solve a case and we know that isn't exactly what cops have to go through in reality although closer than most shows.
Fantasy shows usually involve a superhero or someone with magical powers and that often has the effect of showing police as more incompetent than corrupt. They can't actually be allowed to defeat the bad guys in nearly every instance because that's the hero's job and they have to show why the hero is needed. Most of Batman's rogues gallery is made up of normal humans but they run circles around the cops until Batman shows up to save the day. So it's completely understandable why Nick needs to do what he does because he's dealing with Wesen.