The fact that small towns in Indiana like that are built on Native genocide and are incredibly fucking racist today is played as a JOKE on P&R
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That always bugged me. It's part of that "soft-comedy-with-the-occasional-edge" thing I was referring to, seemingly written from this **desperate** desire to believe we already live in a postracial society and we can make jokes like this willy nilly.
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Yeah hence the fact that B99 may be trying to be a softer and more PC cop show than all the other cop shows but it ultimately still is a cop show
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eh I don't agree there, like they're always fighting the NYPD, like the closing "joke" of last season was they ousted the villain from the position as chief and he took a much more high paying job in the private sector "the world truly is a terrible place"
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Yeah, it turned out they didn't... meaningfully affect anything, and all they had to show for it was Holt humiliatingly demoted to a beat cop.
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bullseye, which is a DARK theme the show is not unaware of, like compare the squad CONSTANTLY trying to fight the NYPD over its corruption & brutality vs. team cockroache who just rewrite the entire afterlife in 4 seasons
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You know, that's a fair point. B99, I reckon, is desperately trying to argue its vision of a reformed police force is possible... but it's fighting an uphill battle it may never win. It's kind of Quixotic, in a way.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @saintwalker98 and
And more remarkably, as you noted, that's *textual.* Whereas Team Cockroach kinda easily rewrite the fundamental rules of the universe.
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There's a meta thing with, like the comparison to Bojack I was making in the other subthread, choosing to end the show on Earth, in the living world, and leave the afterlife behind
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Bojack gets some sort of final closure teased and then taken away Life goes on and is just more of the same
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TGP did give us that ultimate fantasy of Heaven and let us bask in it for a whole hour long special But then it takes that ultimate closure away, and we go back to Earth and the life of a mortal man who no longer has any special power or knowledge about the universe
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
The next story has to be about life, not death, it's Shur's message
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... Which is rather affirming, honestly.
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