Rescue Me
No I am not asking anyone to "rescue me" and no this is no cry for help. I am talking about the ONE and only show that may actually surpass the great 24. I know what most of you are thinking. "How can Lucas ever think a show is better than 24, I mean this is the guy who got me hooked." As much as a drug as 24 is, and as much as I enjoy being the "drug dealer" in this case, I was sadly disappointed with the last season of 24 and anxiously awaiting the arrival of season 5 of Rescue me.
Ok so this is how the new "addiction" started. Chris, who is currently my roommate, is a show fanatic, he got me hooked on a few shows. One of them being survivor, in which I actually sent in an audition tape only not to get selected, but lets save that for a different blog (Ok so I lied, I probably wont write about my audition tape. I just sounded cool) And then got me to watch Rescue during season 4. I wasn't sure I would like it being I was 3 seasons too late, but the very first episode I watch...I LOVED. Not only are certain parts freakin hilarious, there are very VERY dramatic and deep parts of the movie which I find very interesting and VERY entertaining.
So once I got my free month of Netflix, guess what was the first thing I rented. THATS RIGHT!!!!! Season 1 of Rescue Me. Now is where it gets a bit deeper. Season 1 is based soon after 9/11. Now take in mind these are New York city firefighters who were present at the towers on 9/11, who lost many men, three of which were in their own house.
I...also going through a traumatic experience, not quite like 9/11 but I would say pretty darn close, observed how each character dealt with their grief in different ways.
Tommy, our main character (Dennis Leary) Deal with grief through aggression. He shuts himself out from everyone else, and is very "edgy" while fighting fires. What I mean by edgy is, I mean like living life on the edge. He always put his life on the line saving people from a fire, even if it is not necessary, as if he had a death wish. And I haven't even got into his horrible drinking problem. Tommy like most alcoholics, tries to drink his pain away.
Franco is a younger fir fighter who deals with his grief by working out and getting his aggression out that way. He is also a HUGE player, I mean you name her, he banged her (sorry for the word "banged" i have been watching this show WAY to much) I feel he does this so he does not have to get close to anyone in his life, if you don't love anyone, you cant lose anyone you love right??
Sean is a very basic character, he is mostly the comic relief. I have not seen Sean deal with it at all. He seems like he is just pushing it down, and trying to life his life as normal as he can so as not to have to deal with all this trauma.
Lou is the one I find the most interesting. I mean FDNY do not really sit down and talk about their feelings AT ALL. That is never appropriate in the firehouse, and that is basically all these men have, they are all brothers. Lou gets his feelings out by writing poetry. Thats right a fireman writing poetry, but he does it in secret, he HAS to, the way these guys get on each other, there is no way he can tell the other guys.
Basically I have observed how these men dealt with traumatic times and compared it my own life, and people around me, and found things VERY similar. I mean yeah no body is drinking or sleeping around or writing secret poetry (at least not that I know of) but each of us deals with our very much same traumatic experience very VERY differently.
Ok so this is how the new "addiction" started. Chris, who is currently my roommate, is a show fanatic, he got me hooked on a few shows. One of them being survivor, in which I actually sent in an audition tape only not to get selected, but lets save that for a different blog (Ok so I lied, I probably wont write about my audition tape. I just sounded cool) And then got me to watch Rescue during season 4. I wasn't sure I would like it being I was 3 seasons too late, but the very first episode I watch...I LOVED. Not only are certain parts freakin hilarious, there are very VERY dramatic and deep parts of the movie which I find very interesting and VERY entertaining.
So once I got my free month of Netflix, guess what was the first thing I rented. THATS RIGHT!!!!! Season 1 of Rescue Me. Now is where it gets a bit deeper. Season 1 is based soon after 9/11. Now take in mind these are New York city firefighters who were present at the towers on 9/11, who lost many men, three of which were in their own house.
I...also going through a traumatic experience, not quite like 9/11 but I would say pretty darn close, observed how each character dealt with their grief in different ways.
Tommy, our main character (Dennis Leary) Deal with grief through aggression. He shuts himself out from everyone else, and is very "edgy" while fighting fires. What I mean by edgy is, I mean like living life on the edge. He always put his life on the line saving people from a fire, even if it is not necessary, as if he had a death wish. And I haven't even got into his horrible drinking problem. Tommy like most alcoholics, tries to drink his pain away.
Franco is a younger fir fighter who deals with his grief by working out and getting his aggression out that way. He is also a HUGE player, I mean you name her, he banged her (sorry for the word "banged" i have been watching this show WAY to much) I feel he does this so he does not have to get close to anyone in his life, if you don't love anyone, you cant lose anyone you love right??
Sean is a very basic character, he is mostly the comic relief. I have not seen Sean deal with it at all. He seems like he is just pushing it down, and trying to life his life as normal as he can so as not to have to deal with all this trauma.
Lou is the one I find the most interesting. I mean FDNY do not really sit down and talk about their feelings AT ALL. That is never appropriate in the firehouse, and that is basically all these men have, they are all brothers. Lou gets his feelings out by writing poetry. Thats right a fireman writing poetry, but he does it in secret, he HAS to, the way these guys get on each other, there is no way he can tell the other guys.
Basically I have observed how these men dealt with traumatic times and compared it my own life, and people around me, and found things VERY similar. I mean yeah no body is drinking or sleeping around or writing secret poetry (at least not that I know of) but each of us deals with our very much same traumatic experience very VERY differently.
posted by Ice at 10:26 PM
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Good words.
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