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Brooklyn Nine-Nine to Scrap All Episodes Written for Season 8, start from scratch in an effort to address systemic racism and police brutality.
- Thread starter Volimar
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I love this show and the cast so much. I'm really glad the show can keep going and this good bunch of people can address the problems in the real police.
Or they can have Captain Holt be fired due to racist, homophobic cops at the top of the chain, and the main crew all follow him in opening their own private detective agency.
Or they can have Captain Holt be fired due to racist, homophobic cops at the top of the chain, and the main crew all follow him in opening their own private detective agency.
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Has there ever been a college security show? If not I can't believe it.
They could bring Pimento back full time with this. Though I guess he wasn't an insurance investigator in his last appearance.
I'd be up for this. Could even get H. John Benjamin to play the head of a rival detective agency as a funny nod.
Good on them. Wish it covers defunding the police, systematic racism rather than bad apples, and systemic reform.
Good... personally i don't understand why they should cancel it! The show was often really progressive aside from some typical american ideas that don't sit right with me... And if they can do even better by sending good messages about how the police is fucked up, i'm all for it
One scenario I could see working is a time jump of a few years where they have all gone back to school during that time to study themselves into the kind of professions DefundThePolice is advocating we focus more of our efforts on (social service workers & such) & perhaps showing them working on cases involving drugs & problematic people/people with issues in society, except from a non-police work POV.
I'm out of the loop here, as I try to avoid Twitter, what'd he do/say?
edit: nvm it's literally on the next page
User banned (1 month): Dismissing concerns around police violence and systemic racism
They could have done another season just fine without grovelling like this its pathetic. Start the season with a disclaimer or a word from the cast and crew then carry on.
Brutality hasn't been addressed much (from what I've seen, I'm 1,5 seasons behind), but corruption, racism & incompetence have been and in ways that they don't ever claim to have solved the issue. They acknowledge they are on-going, large scale issues and just kind of make a point of "we just have to keep fighting it whenever & wherever it manifests"
Go back to NeoGAF.
Grovelling? GTFO with this pathetic idiocy.
This is such a good idea. I'm going to be upset if it doesn't happen now.
Just have a different company each week that they call the 'Nine Nine'
one week it's a post office, the next a plumbing company, then a gardening company, then a criminal organisatikn
fuck it just go nuts
one week it's a post office, the next a plumbing company, then a gardening company, then a criminal organisatikn
fuck it just go nuts
I started watching the show just before the death of George Floyd and it has been interesting watching the show in the wake of all the protests. I think I finally just got to a very real and emotional episode last night in Season 4 for the first time that takes on a cop that is very clearly racist towards Terry and he has to debate about filing a report with Holt. Most of the other episodes so far have had lighter touches of other systemic issues in a police department but haven't really taken anything on seriously.
It is tough seeing them get excited to use various heavy police tech. It is also really obvious how they are never in the wrong and that they almost never are just in the street patrolling or responding to calls where they have to react to live situations because they are detectives.
Either that or the show should be cancelled, it cannot continue as a cop show without leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
Yeah, they should just put the entire cast in another occupation no matter how nonsensical that would be. It's going to be hard getting the show back to tone without doing that.
For those claiming that the show doesn't need to adjust much or that it wasn't copaganda, I found this to be a good read for someone who has casually watched the show in the past: https://fourgetregret.tumblr.com/po...9-is-more-culpable-actually-all-cop-shows-are
I don't see a way forward that isn't totally abandoning the premise of the show, which I do not believe they will do.
I don't see a way forward that isn't totally abandoning the premise of the show, which I do not believe they will do.
With the current environment I don't think they'll be able to successfully pull off another season. As mentioned before they could pull a gag and completely change the setting either in the same timeline or alternative for one more season and call it quits. The best move forward is for the creatives to move on to an entirely new show concept that includes as much of the current cast as possible.
There is no way they are going to build totally new sets and scrap the ones that exist. The show isn't that popular to handle that kind of change. I like going with the defunding angle, and make that the series arc.
A completely new show would be way more expensive than just reframing the current one. At that point it would be better to just let the whole thing go and not even try.
Glad they're doing this, but we will see what they decide to do. There's been a lot of stuff in that show that rubbed me the wrong way and wasn't even copaganda. (Peralta being ganged up on and essentially forced into changing his mind on having a kid left a super bad taste in my mouth)
To be honest though, if there wasn't a pandemic putting a strain on show biz right now I'm not so sure they would have completely thrown everything out and started over. I think the pandemic just made that a lot easier, but I guess that's neither here nor there.
To be honest though, if there wasn't a pandemic putting a strain on show biz right now I'm not so sure they would have completely thrown everything out and started over. I think the pandemic just made that a lot easier, but I guess that's neither here nor there.
That would actually be amazing. They should do this at least for a single episode haha
They could make it Wuntch's last act to reassign them all to the fire department.
Makes total sense and yes I agree it should be separated from beat cops
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oh nvm i get what you mean. i think they already moved beyond that far enough where it wouldn't make sense to retro that. plus wuntch doesn't work for the FD.
It's a complicated situation, because on one hand it's hard to do an actually honest and aware US cop show where the characters are anywhere near heroes, but on the other, if every socially progressive show about cops just entirely sidesteps the issue by changing the setting, then the only remaining cop shows will be full on copaganda, skewing the public perception even more. I have no clue how this problem can be solved in a way that is not just convenient for the showrunners, but also positive for raising social awareness long-term.
Once a week may be a bit too much, but once a season could work well.
Once a week may be a bit too much, but once a season could work well.