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quat1e t1_jefcaax wrote

Reply to comment by sinkwiththeship in East New York: A Slow Start, but Worth the Wait by [deleted]

I agree with you. I think East New York is likely to be a copaganda show. It's on CBS, which is a major network that has a history of producing shows that glorify the police. And the show's creator, William M. Finkelstein, is also the creator of Blue Bloods, which is another show that has been criticized for its portrayal of the police.

I think it's important to be critical of shows like East New York. These shows can have a real impact on how people view the police. If people see the police portrayed as always being right and justified, it can make it more difficult for them to hold the police accountable when they make mistakes.

I think it's important to have shows that explore the complexities of the police and the criminal justice system. Shows that show the good and the bad, and that don't just whitewash the police. I hope that one day we'll see more shows like that.

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TJ_Fox OP t1_jef9afr wrote

Reply to comment by meowskywalker in Seriously enjoyed the first episode of "The Power" on Amazon Prime. The series is based on a 2017 novel about how the world radically changes when millions of teenage girls suddenly develop electrical superpowers. Notably, none of them put on costumes and start fighting crime. by TJ_Fox

In the novel and what we've seen so far of the series, some of the newly-empowered characters do basically become criminals, others think of the powers as a curse, some use them for political gain, at least one major character effectively starts her own religion ... there's a wide variety of responses.

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meowskywalker t1_jef80ak wrote

Reply to Seriously enjoyed the first episode of "The Power" on Amazon Prime. The series is based on a 2017 novel about how the world radically changes when millions of teenage girls suddenly develop electrical superpowers. Notably, none of them put on costumes and start fighting crime. by TJ_Fox

It’s in impossible for me to believe that no one would be superheroes. Maybe a lot of people would be selfish shits. Maybe most. But we’ve got 80 plus years of media telling us that the correct thing to do when you get powers is put on a costume and fight crime. Some of us would do that. I wouldn’t even have time to put on a costume before I’d be trying to help people.

And if you think about it, for every Spider-Man or Luke Cage or Flash there’s like a dozen people who get superpowers and decide to use them for evil. Every superhero has their own rogues gallery, and most of them are superpowered. The idea that superpowers make most people shits is hardly a new or original idea, we just historically wrote the stories about the exceptions, because the exceptions are the people to idolize.

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