Shorter Torchwood

[rivkat]

Anyone who champions public virtue or government action is actually corrupt (not even excepting our heroes, which is at least a variation). 

This attitude is not all that shocking or uncommon--see this NYT article--and certainly caution is warranted.  But how I wish I could see a pop culture portrayal of a public official who wasn't a cop or a prosecutor who was seriously invested in doing the right thing for the right reasons.  I know some!  It's not made up!

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[epershand]

[n.b. I haven't seen any of Miracle Day yet.]

Hmmm. I thought there were some people in Children of Earth who were both government officials and doing the right things for the right reasons. TBF, a big fraction of them ended up dead, but it ended with bureaucrats taking a firm command to do things for the right reason, and put women in a position of power in that situation, which I liked.

Although CoE also had that narrative arc about the bureaucracy vs. the government where the bureaucracy had long-term goals and did bad things to achieve good things in the long term, and the government had short-term goals and did horrible things without thinking about the long term.

[rivkat]

Yeah, my comments are specific to US Torchwood, which I think says something about US TV production.