Bad TV writing and abstract "Nazi" white paintings.

in tv •  3 years ago 

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There's a lot of stuff that annoys me about bad TV writing, but nothing nags at me more than plot points that rest on obviously stupid premises. I don't know why, but it's often the little stuff that bugs me the most.

In Daredevil S3, Wilson Fisk gets himself out of jail through graft and corruption.

Although it is pretty good overall, there are a number of bizarre writing choices in this season, not least of which being Matt's insane refusal to wear body armor. But the little detail that I found to be the dumbest was the idea that Fisk's all-white, abstract painting "Rabbit in a Snowstorm" would have been confiscated by the Nazis.

It's such a stupidly contrived sequence, meant to equate Fisk to historical evil, allowing the writers to have some nameless character lecture him about being a bad guy... But the painting looks like (and is) the kind of nonsense that people only really started painting in the 80s and 90s when fine art became a money laundering scheme.

Yes, abstract paintings existed in the early 1900s, but this isn't a Mondrian, a Kandinsky, or a Rothko. It's not even a Jackson Pollock, which came about well after WWII.

It's just this ridiculous all white study in texture that almost certainly wouldn't have existed in Nazi Germany.

It's obviously modern. And the gallery he bought it from would have absolutely known the detailed history of every painting in their shop. Retconning it as a stolen Jewish artifact is silly, and I think a little gross.

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