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theleaveswant) wrote2011-12-04 10:05 pm
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KB fill: 2 Flashpoint mini-picspams (December mini-challenge; authority figures & exhibitionism)
Find enclosed two mini-picspams (four pictures each) for the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kink_bingo December mini-challenge (tiny fanwork bingo), using stills from the first two episodes of Flashpoint. I apologize for the somewhat scuzzy image quality; I'm still getting control of my new computer (think I've figured out now how fix the interlacing problem, but can't be arsed to go back and re-cap). No standard content notes apply; picspams also feature uniforms, guns, and cameras.
Flashpoint, for the unfamiliar, is a drama about Team One of the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), a fictionalized version of the Toronto Police Service's Emergency Task Force (hence my abiding wariness towards the series: I love the cast and characters and am routinely impressed by the show's avoidance of many varieties of Fail, but I cannot pretend to be one-tenth as fond of the actual TPS). The SRU are basically super-cops, performing all the fancy jobs from SWAT to negotiation to snipery to bomb detection and neutralization; they are the most rigorously tested and trained, they have all the neatest toys and gadgets, and they wear the snappiest uniforms (characters on the show regularly refer to joining the SRU as "getting to wear the cool pants"), as tidily demonstrated in the series premiere.
Those are some cool pants, alright (Ed agrees).
[description: image is split into two panels; the smaller, left-hand panel shows a close-up of the crotch of a person wearing grey uniform pants with a black protective vest and a thigh harness and some plastic zip tie-style restraints clipped to a plastic-buckled webbing belt. The larger panel shows three men in SRU uniforms with headset microphones; on the left in the right-hand panel in the foreground is Lewis "Lou" Young (Mark Taylor), carrying a very large gun, and on the right wearing a baseball cap with less gear snapped and strapped to his vest and a "police" label across his chest is the team Sergeant & negotiator Greg Parker (Enrico Colantoni), while just behind them team tactical leader/sniper Ed Lane (Hugh Dillon) is caught in the act of licking his lips]
Civilians are understandably alert and cautious around them: they're pretty obvious in their fancy copdom, what with the cool pants and the headsets and tac vests and the massive guns, even when they are very polite in elevators.
"Ten, please."
[description: smaller left-hand panel shows Ed smiling non-threateningly at the other passengers in the elevator on his way up to his chosen sniping vantage, while larger right-hand panel shows three women looking with wary interest at the rifle he's holding against his chest]
SRU officers also receive a more or less respectful deference from other police officers.
"All yours, Sergeant."
[description: larger left-hand panel shows Greg standing next to two plainclothes detectives, looking over the back of a police cruiser at the hostage situation they're here to defuse; the smaller right-hand panel shows Greg barking orders into a hand-held radio]
But even super-cops must occasionally answer to higher or laterally positioned authorities, such as forensic psychologist Dr. Amanda Luria (Ruth Marshall, who regrettably vanished from the show without explanation after the first season), shown here "encouraging" Ed in his own acerbic tough-guy language to work with her in a professional capacity to deal with his emotional fallout from doing his job (exercizing lethal force against a violent subject).
"You're not that guy. You're not going to wonder if you did the right thing. You're not going to have any sleepless nights, flashbacks, memory loss, time distortions; you're not going to feel alone, feel guilty, feel guilty about not feeling guilty . . . that's what happens to other people. You'll be fine."
[description: small left-hand panel shows Ed leaning against a catwalk railing, facing out at a wall of bright daytime windows, with Dr. Luria at his elbow facing him. The right-hand panel is a closer shot of the same scene, focusing past Ed, who has his eyes closed and his head tilted back, on Dr. Luria]
Today's second mini-picspam comes from a scene near the beginning of the second episode, in which the SRU team put their new member Sam Braddock (David Paetkau), a talented but arrogant sniper (Sam's probably the character who's shown most development over the course of the series--and thank goodness, or I would hate his guts by now) who's joining them from an elite Canadian Forces Special Operations unit, through his paces in a simulated-environment, live-ammunition marksmanship test, and watch him show off for the closed-circuit cameras.
Jules sends Sam into the maze
[description: Jules Callaghan (Amy Jo Johnson) shows Sam the simulation and observation set-up (larger, left-hand panel shows Sam looking excited and Jules looking focused as she adjust the controls in front of the monitor bank), then sends him into the test environment (smaller, right-hand panel shows Sam grinning back at Jules before she shuts the observation room door)]
"I hope nobody turns out the lights."
[description: leftmost of three panels show's Sam's face, wearing eye protection, in silhouette, as he navigates the darkened facility; the rightmost panel looks over Sam's shoulder as he shoots the bullseye on a target intended to look like an armed attacker; while the larger centre panel shows the monitor the rest of the SRU team are watching Sam on, with its screen quartered to show input from four ceiling-mounted cameras]
"Samtastic!"
[description: four of Sam's new colleagues (from left: Ed, Lou, Mike "Spike" Scarlatti [Sergio Di Zio], and Jules) watch the screen with varying degrees of consideration, admiration, and excitement]
"Cool! What else have you got?"
[description: Sam, having successfully completed the simulation, grins delightedly up at one of the cameras he has been performing for; the view of the monitor screen from behind Jules' head in the right-hand panel shows that he is looking directly at it]
kink_bingo December mini-challenge (tiny fanwork bingo), using stills from the first two episodes of Flashpoint. I apologize for the somewhat scuzzy image quality; I'm still getting control of my new computer (think I've figured out now how fix the interlacing problem, but can't be arsed to go back and re-cap). No standard content notes apply; picspams also feature uniforms, guns, and cameras.Flashpoint, for the unfamiliar, is a drama about Team One of the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), a fictionalized version of the Toronto Police Service's Emergency Task Force (hence my abiding wariness towards the series: I love the cast and characters and am routinely impressed by the show's avoidance of many varieties of Fail, but I cannot pretend to be one-tenth as fond of the actual TPS). The SRU are basically super-cops, performing all the fancy jobs from SWAT to negotiation to snipery to bomb detection and neutralization; they are the most rigorously tested and trained, they have all the neatest toys and gadgets, and they wear the snappiest uniforms (characters on the show regularly refer to joining the SRU as "getting to wear the cool pants"), as tidily demonstrated in the series premiere.
Those are some cool pants, alright (Ed agrees).
[description: image is split into two panels; the smaller, left-hand panel shows a close-up of the crotch of a person wearing grey uniform pants with a black protective vest and a thigh harness and some plastic zip tie-style restraints clipped to a plastic-buckled webbing belt. The larger panel shows three men in SRU uniforms with headset microphones; on the left in the right-hand panel in the foreground is Lewis "Lou" Young (Mark Taylor), carrying a very large gun, and on the right wearing a baseball cap with less gear snapped and strapped to his vest and a "police" label across his chest is the team Sergeant & negotiator Greg Parker (Enrico Colantoni), while just behind them team tactical leader/sniper Ed Lane (Hugh Dillon) is caught in the act of licking his lips]
Civilians are understandably alert and cautious around them: they're pretty obvious in their fancy copdom, what with the cool pants and the headsets and tac vests and the massive guns, even when they are very polite in elevators.
"Ten, please."
[description: smaller left-hand panel shows Ed smiling non-threateningly at the other passengers in the elevator on his way up to his chosen sniping vantage, while larger right-hand panel shows three women looking with wary interest at the rifle he's holding against his chest]
SRU officers also receive a more or less respectful deference from other police officers.
"All yours, Sergeant."
[description: larger left-hand panel shows Greg standing next to two plainclothes detectives, looking over the back of a police cruiser at the hostage situation they're here to defuse; the smaller right-hand panel shows Greg barking orders into a hand-held radio]
But even super-cops must occasionally answer to higher or laterally positioned authorities, such as forensic psychologist Dr. Amanda Luria (Ruth Marshall, who regrettably vanished from the show without explanation after the first season), shown here "encouraging" Ed in his own acerbic tough-guy language to work with her in a professional capacity to deal with his emotional fallout from doing his job (exercizing lethal force against a violent subject).
"You're not that guy. You're not going to wonder if you did the right thing. You're not going to have any sleepless nights, flashbacks, memory loss, time distortions; you're not going to feel alone, feel guilty, feel guilty about not feeling guilty . . . that's what happens to other people. You'll be fine."
[description: small left-hand panel shows Ed leaning against a catwalk railing, facing out at a wall of bright daytime windows, with Dr. Luria at his elbow facing him. The right-hand panel is a closer shot of the same scene, focusing past Ed, who has his eyes closed and his head tilted back, on Dr. Luria]
Today's second mini-picspam comes from a scene near the beginning of the second episode, in which the SRU team put their new member Sam Braddock (David Paetkau), a talented but arrogant sniper (Sam's probably the character who's shown most development over the course of the series--and thank goodness, or I would hate his guts by now) who's joining them from an elite Canadian Forces Special Operations unit, through his paces in a simulated-environment, live-ammunition marksmanship test, and watch him show off for the closed-circuit cameras.
Jules sends Sam into the maze
[description: Jules Callaghan (Amy Jo Johnson) shows Sam the simulation and observation set-up (larger, left-hand panel shows Sam looking excited and Jules looking focused as she adjust the controls in front of the monitor bank), then sends him into the test environment (smaller, right-hand panel shows Sam grinning back at Jules before she shuts the observation room door)]
"I hope nobody turns out the lights."
[description: leftmost of three panels show's Sam's face, wearing eye protection, in silhouette, as he navigates the darkened facility; the rightmost panel looks over Sam's shoulder as he shoots the bullseye on a target intended to look like an armed attacker; while the larger centre panel shows the monitor the rest of the SRU team are watching Sam on, with its screen quartered to show input from four ceiling-mounted cameras]
"Samtastic!"
[description: four of Sam's new colleagues (from left: Ed, Lou, Mike "Spike" Scarlatti [Sergio Di Zio], and Jules) watch the screen with varying degrees of consideration, admiration, and excitement]
"Cool! What else have you got?"
[description: Sam, having successfully completed the simulation, grins delightedly up at one of the cameras he has been performing for; the view of the monitor screen from behind Jules' head in the right-hand panel shows that he is looking directly at it]