Cop drama

Then we got told to watch a cop drama or a soap and adapt the four narrative theories into the programme we watched.

I watched The Bill and it fitted into Vladimirs Propps narrative theory because one of the police officers conformed as usual, which is sticking to the rules. Then they got too involved in a case and they started subverting, which is going away from the rules and then they start being conventional which is not defying expections. So they dont really care what the consequences are as long as it haps the people that need to be helped and they dont expect anything in return.

Then I watched Eastenders and this fitted in with Todorovs narrative theory because Whitney had a boyfriend and she was going along her life being happy and they were thinking about getting married, so this is the equilibrium and then all of a sudden the boyfriend dies which is the disequilibrium and then she becomes all depressed and in the end becomes a prostitute and this is the new equilibrium.

I also watched Criminal minds this fits in to Claude Levi-Strauss' narrative story because it was about a serial killer and obviously we have to good detectives trying to stop him and then we have the evil serial killer. This fits in with the narrative theory because it is binary opposites soo good and evil. Also this breaks down a bit more to youth and age because in this episode the serial killer is quite an old person and we have to young detectives so there is micro and macro binary opposites.