New Vid: "Shock the Monkey" (Hawaii Five-0)

[giandujakiss]

AKA, how I spent my Sunday....

Song: Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0

Summary: Full immunity and means.

Spoilers: Through 1x18

Sizes: 30 MB (540 x 360 .divx), 14 MB (420 x 280 .wmv)
Length: 2:14

Download from Sendspace: The .divx file is here and the .wmv file is here.

Notes: Honestly, this vid is more catharsis for me than anything else. I can't help 'shipping Steve and Danny, but I really resent the show for making it impossible for me to love them guilt-free, and for making me feel so ashamed about liking the parts that I like. So I felt like I had to at least register my objections in some way, however weak the effort may be, in between all the devouring of Steve/Danny first-time fic. IDEK.

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Comments welcome.

(Crossposted to LJ)

Comments

[malnpudl]

Wow. That really brings it home. What a great job of shining a light on so much of what I've found enormously disturbing, right from the first episode. Really effective.

It's been weird for me, watching this show, since I have three close friends who are retired cops, and I occasionally watch the show with one of them, and have discussed it with all three. They all LOVE it. They recognize that it's completely unrealistic, but they love it for the id vortex wish-fulfillment fix.

As they've put it (I'm paraphrasing, of course), cops are so often prevented from bringing about real justice by the many strict limits on what they are allowed to do. They recognize that this is necessary, as is the justice system and [at least most of] due process, but it's almost unbearably frustrating to watch so many bad guys get away with so much and be unable to do anything about it -- and that's compounded over many years of service, with ever escalating bitterness and cynicism.

I don't have any of that background, so the only way I've been able to watch and enjoy the show is to switch my critical brain all the way to OFF before turning it on. Zero relationship to reality. Fantasy world la la la ad infinitum. Look at the pretty slashy boys, oh my.

Anyway, yeah. Powerful vid, enormously effective. Awesome. I'm very glad that you made this and that fandom is talking about it.

[giandujakiss]

Thank you so much! And, heh, I guess I shouldn't find it surprising that cops enjoy it - there's actually a line in the show where they're talking about CHiPs (but on a meta level clearly referencing H50 itself) and calling it a "TV cop fantasy" :-). But I just find it disturbing because I think these kinds of shows feed into a myth in American culture that all of these rules are just technicalities that are manipulated by evil defense attorneys. And I think that's dangerous and it has real-world effects on our political dialogue.

Anyway, I'm really glad you enjoyed the vid - thank you!