This goes with any profession. From law enforcement to nursing, from plumbing to pilots, and a host of other things, it's difficult to get all of the details right.
As a former law enforcement officer, with years of experience throughout many aspects of that profession, it irks me when I see shows where things are so wrong. My wife and I just finished watching the hit TV show
Sons of Anarchy. We loved it, but there were aspects of both law enforcement and nursing that struck us both.
It's difficult to get all of the details right, but when some are so blatant (cocking back the hammer on a Glock pistol, for example) I just shake my head as it throws me right out of a story.
The storyline for SOA was complex and entertaining. Yes, you were cheering on the bad guy, but when there were varying degrees of badness, you seemed to be cheering on some more than others.
The first thing that struck me was that city cops typically wear blue. County deputies wear brown. All of the city cops in SOA wore brown. And when it came to hospitals and security, that seemed to be thrown right out the window with SOA. No one should be able to walk into a hospital administrator's office or a doctor's office that is closed.
In a nutshell, if you're going to make things far-fetched as SOA had done, do it well when it comes to story.
It's all in the details.
And I could go on with this. I probably will in future posts . . .
