Fievel wrote:Fuck that.
Taking a way for a moment that those people were having a memorial for their friend whose body had just been found in a horrid state of decay. That's their neighborhood. Those are their homes. And here comes a tour bus designed to go through the very same neighborhood so that people can sightsee and take pictures. They responded with their cameras. They responded by (likely) paying money to bear witness to these families' loss. Now if they were only going through the business district? Different story. But to have a tour bus pass through neighborhoods is sick.
OK the tour bus I do understand people being pissed off about. Because its only design is for photo moments etc... but for people who do actually come down to help and want to help its a totally different story. The problem is Simon is having a one-sided argument and not presenting both sides of the story. It was different in the wire where you had the cops and dealers etc.. and thus presented both sides and through both sides conflict he had his theorem. On Treme thus far hes only presenting the one side.
Dont get me wrong I think this is a fantastic show and I am loving all the attention to detail and characters. I just wish he was presenting a more thorough argument.