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#(it's ok to want & encourage cops to quit and try to make reparations. like it doesn't happen much. but it's ok to WANT it to happen.)
equalseleventhirds · 4 years
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thinks abt making a post abt how daisy and basira are likable and sympathetic characters but are also characters who do terrible inexcusable things and are a deliberate exploration of how there’s no such thing as a ‘good cop’, and how actually there’s some valuable themes you could explore abt how you might meet a cop especially an off-duty one who’s nice and funny and seems like they’re ‘on your side’ but is actually still a cop and a terrible person, but fandom seemingly can’t handle nuance and instead makes excuses for them as ‘not really cops like that’ or w/e
............nah that’s too much of a post.
#dfsjfdskl ok this sort of is that post#but it could have been. much longer.#listen to me. listen. i love frank voss and have difficulty separating that from basira#and also daisy and basira are fun characters! they are!#but daisy did HORRIBLE things and altho she acknowledge them and tried to change#ultimately her change was not fully thought out or sustainable and her big sacrifice is not REDEMPTION#(in fact this ep jonny is p clearly saying that her big sacrifice made her WORSE)#(like she was on her way to being a 'cop that quit' which is ofc what all cops should do but also she didn't do it right#she didn't do it completely and she went back to it when the going got tough and there's a metaphor somewhere for that)#and basira not only still has not questioned the things daisy did before; she was also unsure abt daisy when she was TRYING to be better#which like! bad! very bad!! she's not a GOOD person#like yes i like them they're likable they're written that way#and i was rly hoping for daisy especially to rly work on that 'being better' thing#(it's ok to want & encourage cops to quit and try to make reparations. like it doesn't happen much. but it's ok to WANT it to happen.)#but that doesn't mean i'm gonna make excuses for the objectively awful things they have done#we don't get to just ignore that. any more than daisy and basira get to. any more than jon gets to.#(jon was daisy's friend; he pulled her out; he was trying to help her be better; but now she's worse and he Knows and he's admitted it.)#and there IS a little room to explore that in fanworks but it has to be VERY careful & sensitive & well thought-out and warned for#but actually most ppl lose all fuckign sense of nuance so like. maybe we can't have that.#tma spoilers#rly vague and in tags but just in case#fandom wank
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