dear Debra Joy Levine
Sep. 13th, 2005 02:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchor however the hell you spell your name,
i sat through a panel that you were on at Words Into Pictures. i found you a completely condescending, man-hating bitch. as you can see, i'm still kinda bitter about it. you and your whiny compatriots prattled on about the utter lack of women over 30 in lead roles on television shows, and women in kick-ass roles on tv. you said that with a straight face, despite the fact that JJ Abrams was also sitting on your panel. (at that time, Lena Olin was a season regular on Alias and it had recently featured a two story arc with Faye Dunaway. and let's not talk about Farscape, or SG-1, or hell, ER and NYPD Blue.)
you boasted about crap like making sure your detectives, an all female division, (don't get me started), wore "comfortable shoes", because you thought that was realism. and how they didn't wear makeup (although, they apparently do now) because you thought that was realism.
you wouldn't know realism if it bit you in the ass.
and now, my bitter is vindicated. i made myself sit through a whole episode of your unbelievably obnoxious so-called cop show on Lifetime. (amazing what you'll do when you're deeply bored. [read: avoiding writing])
you? are a total hack. i've read better dialogue in contest scripts. but it's not even the dialogue that kills me. it's the total absence of any kind of research into the world of law enforcement. you think that tossing out acronyms like IBIS and NCIC makes you authentic? uhm, no. not so much.
let's talk about authentic. how about the scenario where two cops, the "lone male" in the Division and his groovy chick partner, are walking back to the courthouse and just HAPPEN to walk into the middle of 3 guys, heavily armed, breaking out of a US Marshall's van. let's even ignore the fact that there is no way in hell they'd have guns inside the van. let's just talk about the guy, so clearly trying to escape, who is just utterly overwhelmed when the getaway driver gets shot by the LoneMalePartner. so distraught, in fact, that he runs right at the cop, who's gun SUDDENLY is out of bullets! oh noes! he no longer cares about his freedom. he just wants REVENGE!!!!
meanwhile, GroovyChickPartner watches from across the street. her gun is not out of bullets, but she is apparently so...gawd, i lack the adjective...fucking stupid?...that she freezes??? when she has a perfectly clear shot of the bad guy who has his gun pressed against the forehead of the LoneMalePartner???
but WAIT!
bad guy's gun jams!!!!!
*whew* (because i knew i was worried there for a sec.) instead, bad guy must make do with hitting the LoneMalePartner on the head with the gun that doesn't fire. GroovyChickPartner runs across the street, all earnest and angsty, cradles her partner's head in her hands and says, "I've got you, partner."
i almost hurled.
THAT'S your gritty, realistic cop drama? doOd. you're brilliant.
i sat through a panel that you were on at Words Into Pictures. i found you a completely condescending, man-hating bitch. as you can see, i'm still kinda bitter about it. you and your whiny compatriots prattled on about the utter lack of women over 30 in lead roles on television shows, and women in kick-ass roles on tv. you said that with a straight face, despite the fact that JJ Abrams was also sitting on your panel. (at that time, Lena Olin was a season regular on Alias and it had recently featured a two story arc with Faye Dunaway. and let's not talk about Farscape, or SG-1, or hell, ER and NYPD Blue.)
you boasted about crap like making sure your detectives, an all female division, (don't get me started), wore "comfortable shoes", because you thought that was realism. and how they didn't wear makeup (although, they apparently do now) because you thought that was realism.
you wouldn't know realism if it bit you in the ass.
and now, my bitter is vindicated. i made myself sit through a whole episode of your unbelievably obnoxious so-called cop show on Lifetime. (amazing what you'll do when you're deeply bored. [read: avoiding writing])
you? are a total hack. i've read better dialogue in contest scripts. but it's not even the dialogue that kills me. it's the total absence of any kind of research into the world of law enforcement. you think that tossing out acronyms like IBIS and NCIC makes you authentic? uhm, no. not so much.
let's talk about authentic. how about the scenario where two cops, the "lone male" in the Division and his groovy chick partner, are walking back to the courthouse and just HAPPEN to walk into the middle of 3 guys, heavily armed, breaking out of a US Marshall's van. let's even ignore the fact that there is no way in hell they'd have guns inside the van. let's just talk about the guy, so clearly trying to escape, who is just utterly overwhelmed when the getaway driver gets shot by the LoneMalePartner. so distraught, in fact, that he runs right at the cop, who's gun SUDDENLY is out of bullets! oh noes! he no longer cares about his freedom. he just wants REVENGE!!!!
meanwhile, GroovyChickPartner watches from across the street. her gun is not out of bullets, but she is apparently so...gawd, i lack the adjective...fucking stupid?...that she freezes??? when she has a perfectly clear shot of the bad guy who has his gun pressed against the forehead of the LoneMalePartner???
but WAIT!
bad guy's gun jams!!!!!
*whew* (because i knew i was worried there for a sec.) instead, bad guy must make do with hitting the LoneMalePartner on the head with the gun that doesn't fire. GroovyChickPartner runs across the street, all earnest and angsty, cradles her partner's head in her hands and says, "I've got you, partner."
i almost hurled.
THAT'S your gritty, realistic cop drama? doOd. you're brilliant.
