#coppaganda

The whole plot is sidelined for being mostly about lawson, the plot engaging in a "no true cop" fallacy of sorts. We're asked to forgive two boots so easily for being confused and well intentioned. Janix is way too like earth. In clone wars, the police force was seen as a nuicance, but now, again, there are "good cops" in this show. They try to convince us that True Cops would never contact the empire. It was simply in the robots programming. But if everything is so much like earth here, in a show that was released around this day and age, then robots in the police force are more disconcerting. Two boots hides behind being a nice guy and gets too easily forgiven. Lawson is just a poor cop doing his best with his privelaged son who plays sports.

And Maul? very much an alien minority. Was traumatized and abused by the rich elite. His kind is enslaved. He's queer coded. But he needs to be stopped from grooming the girl into his ideology. So who can stop him? The cop. The "not all cops" cop. The show is hiding its coppaganda behind its sleek "neo noir" label. Disney doesn't want its properties to be about villains, and nobody wants to see maul as what they did to cruella or maleficent, so lets make it coppaganda. Make maul more of a black and white villain in a corrpution arc, romanticize it, and let the cop save the day. We all know he'll be back. The first season was his, after all.

Anyway, she was also incredibly intolerant, like, she called Pope Francis the "Black Pope" and often went with the always classic "When HIM was still in charge, we didn't have all those crimes and degeneracy, the americans brought them here when they invaded with WWII," or "I wish we were still a kingdom under house Savoy," you know, the usual shit.

(Wonder if she would have loved me as dearly as she did if she knew about, well... the bisexuality and shit).

Anyway, this isn't about her per se, this is about her awful taste in tv show.

(No offense to grandma on that, cringe culture is dead even for 100 something Italian Grandmothers, but, I mean... she was a Superwholock. She called the Supernatural male leads "The Boys" and never missed a episode. She had frankly shit taste).

Anyway, aside from Superwholock, she also loved Cop Shows (Gee, wonder why), and since I used to be around her alot back in the days, I ended up getting somd of those cop shows by osmosis, consuming them uncritically with her.

(The ONLY valid one was Murder She Wrote, and even that barely).

ANYWAY, I'm saying this cause It suddenly came back to me a episode from one of said cop shows about this whole ass mess of a situation, and just how much of a Propaganda Piece it was.

From what I roughly remembered, A Cop was declared innocent over the murder of a black 15 years old, and the cop team in the cop show had to escort him safely out the courthouse as the boy's father and (white, incredibly stereotypical) girlfriend, leading a protest against police brutality outside, basically starts a riot at the news.

Anyway, the whole piece was raw ass propaganda, the cop is RIDDLED WITH GUILT and the father FORGIVES HIM after a touching scene where he explained he shot him cause he ran away from him because he had stolen a LEAF or some shit and he thought it was a gun and THE COP HAS WIFE AND CHILDREN, FEEL HIS REMORSE, FEEL HIS PAIN, MOVE ON or some shit.

The scene I remember the most is when a member of the squad goes Undercover among the protestors in order to get infos about the leaders of the protests, gets shoved in a detention bus as a gimmick, gets infos from a deteined protestor there, and then leaves "asking for the bathroom" and showing her badge. She's a brunette (Which says NOTHING cause 90% of cop shows have the same Brunette Character) and young, while the protestor wonan she talks to is also incredibly stereotypical and white.

ANYWAY, I decide, from this raw flashes of shit coming to mind, to evince what cop show this was from, because I'm a stubborn autistic bastard.

Searching for the rough plot gives me nothing, obviously, so I go for exclusion:

My first guess is the Closer, because that was the shit show she watched the most, but it doesn't fit my memories, the scene was too dark to be set in LA, maybe New York, also the team has no brunettes, and would have tried to violate way more costitutional rights in the situation.

Law and Order is also a pass, not their style, even if a juridical component was present.

Chicago PD came later in the years, so not that even if a Pro Police Brutality episode really seems something they would do.

Numb3rs discarded due to the lack of cheap math being used...

Criminal Minds seems a good guess at first, from Season 10 they have a "undercover expert" who is also a brunette woman, might work, but this is a protection sting, not a profiling one, the only reason why they would call them was on the pre existing threats sent to the cop, so it could have worked...

And then I remembered that Veronica Mars' dad was also there, as a cop.

So, I check his philmography, and find the hakf forgotten series my grandma used to watch.

Flashpoint is a CANADIAN (COPAGANDA IS COPAGANDA ALL AROUND THE WORLD) Cop Show about a response team in critical scenarios, like suicide or hostage crisises.

And the episode, is Season 4, episode 2, "Good Cop" (GODS EVEN THE TITLE IS ON THE NOSE).

You want some raw ass coppganda? You want to see how they'll try to spin the narrative next, after the dust has settled?

This is one of the two possible ways they'll do it.

The cop is sad, ridden with guilt, but JUST A MAN WHO MADE A MISTAKE, and clearly, the boy is to blame for running away from a stranger pointing a gun at him in thd middle of the night near his workplace, and we must forgive him cause that's what the boy he murdered would have wanted.

This shit was from 2011.

(The second way is going to have the "good cops" band together against 1 racist cop and that way they'll end systematic racism forever. That's also going to happen, but in the less Ben Shapiro adjacent ones).

This is probably one of the most tone fucking deaf things I've ever seen.

Like, even in a different historical context than this, I feel a cop show about "A Heroic Border Patrol Cop Going Rogue after the Mexican Cartels start going after his family after he helped smuggle a young woman into the united states (and not even because she was a sex slave fearing for her life and needing Asylum NO it's because she's bloody PREGANANANT) and starts only now to wonder if things are as Black and White as he thought despite 30 years of unquestioning service" ISN'T the most tasteful of shows to force feed as Youtube Adds to people PARAMOUNT PICTURES, let alone RIGHT NOW.

(Also his cop step dad shooting a unarmed man in the back and killing him cause he was about to cause a Tornado. Or him capturing his brother and tossing him in his private jail cause "he went to the future" or sone shit. Always a classic abuse of power those ones).