20.2.11

Media shows no merCSI

Recently I had to watch a highly-acclaimed police TV-series. As a typical TV opponent, I have yet sustained the ability to distinguish the errors and inconsistencies that mass media fail to locate within the food they serve to their sheep. I was highly impressed by the lightness and naivety this modern serial.
The script falls into sequential contradictions. In the plot, a smart, gothic-styled, always-cool, always-smiling lady that works for a highly-intellingent criminological agency in the United States, goes for drink at her favorite neo-romantic club with her highly-intelligent colleague where she gets kidnapped with a highly-intelligent criminal. Of course, there, in the middle of the dancing crowd, nobody shows attention that a person is being kiddnapped. Seconds after, her colleague notices her absence and as it usually happens, in just a few minutes the whole of her service accomplishes the impossible, to locate the criminal and the victim. Of course, she is being saved at the last moment with an acrobatic style attack by one of her colleagues by shooting down the bad guy while dangling from the roof.
In a matter of minutes, even after that otherwise shocking, traumatic expirience that would be in real life, she is back at the office, smiling and celebrating with her colleagues like a cheerleader back at the office like nothing has happened, ready to go immediately back to work.
Nomatter that a bloodbath was behind, nomatter that was captive with anesthesia. Like that even the killing of such a genious criminal was "just another case" for this extra smart police agency. Thus taking a life, nomatter that belongs to a criminal is just another workday in the office. Without traces, without hesitations, without remorses, without mercy. And the spectators, now relaxed, going to sleep.
Most possibly because the feeling of surviving through death and blood has nested deeply in the mind of the millions of spectators that cannot see the real essence behing the fanciful chases and shootings and needs only the instict to prevail so for it to appear all of a sudden in our daily lives.