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If cops in real life acted like cops in fiction, people wouldn't hate them as much

That’s because most fictional cops have ethics, empathy, and a conscience.
- Lmao idk if "most" even holds up in fiction. Even the "good" cops in fiction tend to perform illegal searches, abuse suspects, break the law in countless ways to get the bad guys. How many times have we seen the "good guys" stymied by their inability to search a home but one turns to the other and sarcastically says "oh I think I heard someone scream for help lol" kicks down the door?
  Sometimes they have a conscience but I'd call very few fictional cops "good"
- Fictional cops rarely have any ethics. Quite famously, they ignore people civil rights or liberties when they "know" that person is guilty.
  It's like the male lead of a shitty romance novel acting super creepy, abusive, and rapey, but it's okay because it's fiction and they always luck out and the woman is into it.
I love Brooklyn 99, i wish cops were humans l'île that
Columbo comes to mind, he refuses to carry a gun and goes after the wealthy and powerful, including other cops. If only real cops were so chill.
Which is why most cop shows function as authoritarian propaganda. They show an idealist fairy tale version that nonetheless creates this aspirational image of cops in mainstream culture. It gives cover to the true cop culture. Just like villains in movies are always just a bad apple that is corrupt and once eliminated all is well, when in real world the rules of the system is what breeds corruption. It's not meant to be, but it acts as authoritarian propaganda.
I love cop shows, they are my guilty pleasure, but one needs to be aware that this is fairy tale.
- Which is why most cop shows function as authoritarian propaganda.
  Exactly!! I mean why else do you think Law & Order:SVU has been on the air for like fucking 30 seasons? Its not because of Ice-T's incredible acting ability, thats for sure...
- You just need to mix sometimes the other extreme in to balance it out: Training Day, Leon The Professional, Kiss Of The Dragon and so on.
- Often such movies and military movies must be approved by the government and get funded by them so the military gets to co-write the propaganda

cant read acab without thinking "assigned cop at birth"

There’s always a brief moment moment of deep confusing when I read AFAB
- Is AFAB like ABFAB?

NCIS is legitimately one of the stupidest shows in the history of television.

I simply do not understand the appeal

"NCIS is a horrible show" links to one of the only bad scenes in the show
- I choose to believe that the NCIS has developed a technique with which two users can controll a computer at the same time through the same keyboard. And that they are using an advanced operating system which UI is based solely on the technique pop-up ads in the 2000s used.
  They are simply thát good at computers.
- My friend, my dad used to watch that show all the time, so I have seen a lot of it.
  The 2 idiots 1 keyboard scene isn't "one of the only bad scenes in the show," it's literally one of the single most entertaining moments of the show.
  And that's not retroactively calling that scene entertaining, it is meant as a scathing insult to the abysmal quality of the rest of the show.
  I loved my father, but I constantly questioned his intelligence being able to sit through that drivel.
  If you disagree with my opinion, that is okay, but I promise you are not going to be able to change it
Same appeal as all the other decent hospital/cop shows of the time. Just because some of the tech scenes were did poorly on purpose doesn't mean the rest of it is equally bad. The cast, dialogue and plot were fine. Not sopranos or whatever, but definitely not "drivel". Not everything needs to be super serious all the time.
Edit: lul, the guy actually questioned his father's intelligence because they enjoyed NCIS. What sort of person judges others for their taste in art/hobbies? Jfc.
- I had a girlfriend that was really into anything Hitler... Rest assured I judged.
- Nah, it's bad. I'm sorry you have bad taste, but I'm sure you're otherwise tremendous
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Without even clicking the link, I'm going to bet it's the stupid fucking double hack scene.
It's a show for basic dads to feel smart watching.
Boomer humor at its most basic. "Them young 'uns think they're so smart, but they just got schooled...that's why you gotta respect yer elders!" Right, because unplugging a single node is going to save the network servers. I've literally only seen this clip of the show, but that blatant pandering to boomers told me all I needed to know. Also, fuck 12.
- I've always took that scene to be way more about not panicking and thus missing the obvious solution than any sort of boomer humor.

Unpopular opinion: the show was kinda cool. Not because it's very realistic, but because it had really good writing. Well except for the computer science, but that much is obvious.

I remember reading somewhere that TV show writers/producers are well aware of this and it’s kind of a sport to get the most ridiculous hacking scene in.
Real hacking would be kind of boring to show, it would just be a guy staring at a screen for hours on end and occasionally typing something.
- The show that does it best is Mr robot, at least as far as I am aware it has the most realistic hacking scenes.
Four handed counter hacking on the same keyboard was peak TV.
- It really was
Well except for the computer science, but that much is obvious.
And that's never good. But as a computer scientist, I am of the opinion that the real thing is rarely as compelling as The Imitation Game, and even that was about people more than math/science. I'm on board with writers having fun with this stuff because it sort of challenges us to do better out in the world.
For instance, Hackers was not a wildly-off-target take on what computing was like. Rather it's what we wanted computing to look like.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that scene where her and McGee were fighting against a hacker in real time using the same keyboard at the same time...
  chef's kiss
- Mr Robot was very accurate

If you like that character just go watch some Nina Hagen music videos instead.

She was the inspiration for the character, she's the original punk opera prodigy, she's crazy and she was once a strong contender to be the german voice of marge simpson.

Smack Jack, So Bad, Naturträne, Imma Lauter are all tracks I still listen to a lot. Her recent cover of 16 Tons is great too.

She is great in her version of Seemann with Apocalyptica too

Hey now, let’s not be totally hasty here

In the show, Abby is not a cop.

She works in "criminal justice" for the U.S. military.
You can be pedantic about the 'C' in ACAB applying, but the Bastard bit inescapably applies.
Acab includes military and people who assist cops
- So you're taking a good premise to an absurd extent. Got it.

Juniors still got a lot to learn from the Intimidator

No but she's so quirky!

Nigel Mansel and Fergie