This episode isn't meant to garner "sympathy for a criminal." Instead, this episode challenges the viewer to imagine the life from someone else's pov for a short 45 minutes.
Boden is a man of patience. His calm patience and quick thinking is what got everyone out of a bad situation in this epsiode and for just a moment we far removed viewers who could never imagine ourselves in this situation, either as the victim or the perpetrator, were given an example of what we could possible faced with if we ever were. With the growing number of active shooter situations, this might save some lives seeing how a first responder would react if they were caught up in it as well.
Of course, it's frustrating to see the very capable Chief Boden get constantly thrown into that same storyline over and over, with a whirlwind between his duty and compassion for fellow man who happen to share nothing else in common but his skin-tone. Regardless, there were still things to be gained for the viewer, as with all other episodes. At the very end, we saw what truly mattered to Boden. It wasn't some invisible brotherhood, but saving a life, no matter how worthless everyone else thinks that life is. That is the job of a first responder. At the very end of it all, the only thing he could think of was the one person he couldn't save.
On the other hand, just what makes a man risk his life and the lives of those around him? For everyone it's different, most people are compassionate and selfless enough to never risk that, but the man in this story (whom some could call a monster) did it all to escape a tortuous existence. Could YOU live with being chopped up everyday for being young and dumb enough to help your friend rob a place?
Could YOU live with the mistakes that other people made, which you are now responsible for just for being in the vicinity. That is why Boden had compassion but no one expects you as the viewer to see it the way he does. It only asks you to challenge yourself to see an existence outside of your own.
No matter how you feel, the line towards the end was correct, all it takes to save someone's life is the right person being there at the right time. If that kid had a Boden in his life sooner, he could have made better decisions. Now that he had a Boden, he can now work towards rehabilitation, which is supposed to be the point of locking people up for a certain amount of time.
Can you go on to be the right person at the right time for someone you care about? Anyway, that's my take away.
No need to get so deep into your politics that you miss the real messages in this episode.
Boden is a man of patience. His calm patience and quick thinking is what got everyone out of a bad situation in this epsiode and for just a moment we far removed viewers who could never imagine ourselves in this situation, either as the victim or the perpetrator, were given an example of what we could possible faced with if we ever were. With the growing number of active shooter situations, this might save some lives seeing how a first responder would react if they were caught up in it as well.
Of course, it's frustrating to see the very capable Chief Boden get constantly thrown into that same storyline over and over, with a whirlwind between his duty and compassion for fellow man who happen to share nothing else in common but his skin-tone. Regardless, there were still things to be gained for the viewer, as with all other episodes. At the very end, we saw what truly mattered to Boden. It wasn't some invisible brotherhood, but saving a life, no matter how worthless everyone else thinks that life is. That is the job of a first responder. At the very end of it all, the only thing he could think of was the one person he couldn't save.
On the other hand, just what makes a man risk his life and the lives of those around him? For everyone it's different, most people are compassionate and selfless enough to never risk that, but the man in this story (whom some could call a monster) did it all to escape a tortuous existence. Could YOU live with being chopped up everyday for being young and dumb enough to help your friend rob a place?
Could YOU live with the mistakes that other people made, which you are now responsible for just for being in the vicinity. That is why Boden had compassion but no one expects you as the viewer to see it the way he does. It only asks you to challenge yourself to see an existence outside of your own.
No matter how you feel, the line towards the end was correct, all it takes to save someone's life is the right person being there at the right time. If that kid had a Boden in his life sooner, he could have made better decisions. Now that he had a Boden, he can now work towards rehabilitation, which is supposed to be the point of locking people up for a certain amount of time.
Can you go on to be the right person at the right time for someone you care about? Anyway, that's my take away.
No need to get so deep into your politics that you miss the real messages in this episode.
