Post by goragrad on Jan 28, 2020 9:09:57 GMT
My brother discovered the British series 'New Tricks' on the Hulu streaming service a couple of weeks ago. For the uninitiated it is a 'procedural crime drama' featuring a trio of retired police officers called back as consultants under a detective superintendent to work on unsolved crimes - i.e. 'cold cases.'
A fair bit of humor is involved.
At any rate we watched "Congratulations" (S3,E8) last night and it involved 'wargaming.'
The case was a school arson that had occurred during the night 8 years previously. The man convicted of the arson came into the team's office upon his release and showed that he was wrongly convicted as he had been committing a crime in another part of the country at the time of the fire.
Coincidentally a gaming convention had been occurring at the school that was set on fire.
And it just so happened that one of the leads led to a rivalry between two of the gamers as a cause for the arson, so the team got to interact with them at a current convention. Where it developed that one of the team's retired officers had been an avid gamer in the past. He had given up gaming due to the fact that wargaming was helping fuel his alcoholism (didn't see that coming, did you?).
Ultimately our detective enters and wins the 'Age of Reason' tournament at the convention defeating the school headmaster who it turned out had burned the old school (it was falling apart and he felt it a public good to see it replaced by a new school).
The rest of the team shows up to rescue their fellow as the winners of the tourneys are sitting around toasting each other with champagne from their trophy cups.
All in all not a bad depiction of the hobby.
Although where in the world they got the idea that gamers imbibe alcoholic beverages (in excess even!) I'll never know...
A fair bit of humor is involved.
At any rate we watched "Congratulations" (S3,E8) last night and it involved 'wargaming.'
The case was a school arson that had occurred during the night 8 years previously. The man convicted of the arson came into the team's office upon his release and showed that he was wrongly convicted as he had been committing a crime in another part of the country at the time of the fire.
Coincidentally a gaming convention had been occurring at the school that was set on fire.
And it just so happened that one of the leads led to a rivalry between two of the gamers as a cause for the arson, so the team got to interact with them at a current convention. Where it developed that one of the team's retired officers had been an avid gamer in the past. He had given up gaming due to the fact that wargaming was helping fuel his alcoholism (didn't see that coming, did you?).
Ultimately our detective enters and wins the 'Age of Reason' tournament at the convention defeating the school headmaster who it turned out had burned the old school (it was falling apart and he felt it a public good to see it replaced by a new school).
The rest of the team shows up to rescue their fellow as the winners of the tourneys are sitting around toasting each other with champagne from their trophy cups.
All in all not a bad depiction of the hobby.
Although where in the world they got the idea that gamers imbibe alcoholic beverages (in excess even!) I'll never know...
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