Rescue Me

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Permalink Reply by Clint M. Nelsen on August 4, 2008 at 9:29am

AMEN! Thank you for stating what I couldn't put into words. I'm in the military as well as the fire service, and if I spent all my time tearing apart every military movie and tv show out there, I'd never get ANYTHING else done!

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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on August 5, 2008 at 6:57pm

My point exactly!
With that said, my all time favorite episode has to be when his dad had the monkey!
Absolutely hilarious.
Almost too funny for TV.
Art

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Permalink Reply by Mason on August 5, 2008 at 6:31pm

well said brother. personally i love the show. it's great. it is just that....a show, BUT, does it not portray a sense that is in all of us. how we deal with the things we see, not always positiveily. The day im not bothered by an M.V.A. with multiple fatalities involving people is the day i retire from the service.
just a lil tid bit to think about before everyone bashes the show unfairly.

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Permalink Reply by FETC on August 4, 2008 at 9:39pm

He uses the FDNY logo, they have a say (to some degree) plus he uses guys from the FDNY for expertise and if you think this is ALL fictional then your head is in the sand. The FDNY and their culture probably cannot be replicated in any of our firehouses, they have 15,000 guys on the job.

You guys bash Boston alot in these forums, and much of the story line in Rescue Me is from post 9/11 survivor struggles. Not far off from the real deal.

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on August 4, 2008 at 10:04pm

i wish it focused more on firefighting than it being more like a soap opera with all the relstionship drama. I'd love it if it was really about the job not a hollywood version. other than that i live it even though sometimes i have to remind myself its just a tv show

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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on August 5, 2008 at 12:23am

Elizabeth,

The show is not souly meant for just firefighters. The plotline is meant to keep emergency services interested while drawing in an audiance who doesn't deal with the job on a daily basis as we do. (civilians) Rescue Me is just one show that isn't all the job. Look at Third Watch, the same stuff happens. (not all fire/ems related to the job)

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Permalink Reply by Ryan 701 on August 4, 2008 at 10:34pm

i agree with chris lowe it does give firefighters a bad image and plus it shows to much drama and less firefighting

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Permalink Reply by Michael McCormick aka Dent on August 4, 2008 at 10:53pm

i think its a great show and it will be a show that may not be the real thing, but it does show some of ins and outs that some of us in here go thru in our daily lives. just remember they are actors, not everything has to be real for people to get the big i hope!!

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on August 5, 2008 at 6:21am

I've never watched it... don't know when it's on, don't know what it's about... for all I know it could be another Backdraft.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on August 5, 2008 at 7:39am

I have watched it form the begining. I am not sure that the show reflects true to the letter as far as Fire DEpt Polotics and operations (FDNY). But I enjoy it. They could spend less time on all the sex and more on the fire and accident scenes. However to imply the "Tommy" character ahs some isusues with communication, addiction and self preservation those things could be eluded to as they are real problems for some people. Also the show is fiction.. Consider the Sopranos, I do not hear a lot of compalints about that show and it is not a documentary either. But otherwise I enjoy the show.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Aldridge on August 5, 2008 at 1:07pm

I like the show rescue me. It is funny and entertaining but it does not show how real fire departments run.

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Permalink Reply by Russ on August 5, 2008 at 2:37pm

its situation drama (involving firefighters) like the label in turnout geer..not intended to be really about firefighters...but is.

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