Monday, March 9, 2015
Chicago Fire
There is a show I watch called Chicago Fire that comes on Tuesday night on NBC. It is a show about firefighters and paramedics who face dangerous tasks to save people's lives. It also shows what goes on in their personal lives. I usually wouldn't watch shows like this because they are often very unrealistic about what firefighters and paramedics go through on a day to day basis. But this show is unlike those other shows and many who watch it can relate to it even if they are not a paramedic or firefighter. My mom got me to start watching it and we love watching it together. I find "pleasure and escape" when I watch it because it is always very intense from start to finish. It always leaves me wondering what's going to happen next. The show always leaves me wanting more and more. I feel that the more intensity and drama that a show has it is going to make it more popular than other shows and get more people to watch it. I believe the purpose of entertainment in popular culture is to get people completely sucked into it and have them absolutely addicted. They want people to basically dedicate themselves to it and not do anything else except immerse themselves in entertainment. I feel that they do whatever they can to control people into believing that they absolutely need it when in reality it is not a necessity for people to have.
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I agree, the drama in Chicago Fire is very intense. It follows a storybook arc but it is on steroids. This rhythm of building suspense, the climax, small conflict then resolution pattern from storytelling is there so we accept the conflicts and drama as fast paced but believable. Sometimes the characters will make a poor decision, making the problem bigger, but that only adds to the drama. The result is like being on a roller coaster ride. The show follows the pattern of very old serial programs, it will end with a cliff hanger so you wait for next week's show to see what happens next. ( I had to watch an episode on the internet to know what the show was about).
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