{"id":1992875,"date":"2023-08-07T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-message-of-apple-tvs-hijack-dont-be-a-hero-just-let-criminals-be-criminals\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:22:13","slug":"the-message-of-apple-tvs-hijack-dont-be-a-hero-just-let-criminals-be-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-message-of-apple-tvs-hijack-dont-be-a-hero-just-let-criminals-be-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV&#8217;s &#8216;Hijack&#8217; message: Don&#8217;t play hero, let criminals be criminals."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-message-of-apple-tvs-hijack-dont-be-a-hero-just-let-criminals-be-criminals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1992875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><em>Warning: spoilers ahead. \u2062 <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t Make a Fuss: The Philosophy of &#8220;Hijack&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Watching the new Apple \u2062TV+ Idris Elba vehicle \u201cHijack,\u201d the\u2063 philosophy of the show is clear: If you\u2019re on a hijacked plane, don\u2019t make a fuss.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2136928328\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-96fc8014643b06ec8af7fa6c3987394b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-96fc8014643b06ec8af7fa6c3987394b\"><\/div>\n<p>In this seven-episode show about an\u200c Airbus A330 full\u2063 of mostly British passengers\u2062 en route \u200dfrom Dubai to \u2063London, Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) focuses all his considerable talent as a corporate negotiator not on fighting a small gang of hijackers but on facilitating their efforts, because, you see, \u201cI just want to get home to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To \u200cthat end, he makes helpful suggestions\u2064 to the\u2062 hijackers, aids \u2064them in their efforts to manage the passengers, placates their anger, sympathizes\u200c with their personal \u2062crises, and actively discourages resistance. He literally \u2062hands\u2063 a hijacker\u2019s gun back \u200cto him. By the end, he\u2019s\u200c made it progressively <em>less<\/em> likely that he or anyone else\u2062 will get home \u2014 this despite (without \u200cgiving too much away) learning early on that for a very specific reason, resisting the hijackers with force stands a very \u200dgood chance of success.<\/p>\n<p>Watching at our house, we were literally left shouting \u2063at\u200d Elba and the \u200bapparently super-glued-to-their-seats passengers: \u201cDo something!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It \u2062all works\u200d out to be\u200c a \u200bperfect illustration of a certain evolved mindset toward criminals: \u201cPlease don\u2019t make\u2063 them angry; fighting \u2064back \u200bwill only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uc-berkeley-spends-25-million-a-year-on-diversity-and-inclusion\/\" title=\"UC Berkeley Spends  Million A Year On \u2018Diversity And Inclusion\u2019\">make things worse<\/a>. It\u2019s best \u200bif\u2064 we just cooperate and help them along their way.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cc93fcfae6bff829b75b3d727caa4bb1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cc93fcfae6bff829b75b3d727caa4bb1\"><\/div>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if it says something\u200b about the European\u00a0mindset toward\u2063 criminality\u200b or not, but the \u200btruth is there are more than 200 passengers aboard this aircraft and only five hijackers \u2064thinly spread between \u2063several compartments. It\u2019s\u00a0hard\u00a0not to imagine that a handful of\u200b ordinary American\u200c 4-H kids would have routed these scalawags in the first 20 minutes and been home to work on their county fair projects by now.<\/p>\n<p>But that \u200cwould have prevented the\u200d show from unrolling episode by episode as a master class in\u2064 Too Clever by Half.<\/p>\n<p>Of course,\u200d that is not the intent of the\u200c show. Throughout the message seems to have been that thinking people need not and <em>should not<\/em> resort to brutish resistance. In fact, the two passengers (50-ish white males, naturally) \u200dwho are eager to oppose the hijackers in the \u201cLet\u2019s roll\u201d\u200d mode are quickly identified and easily defeated. They spend the rest of the show tied up and impotent as Elba\u2019s character launches\u2064 his schemes, \u2063each making the situation worse than \u200cthe last.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s\u2063 one howler where Elba\u2019s character saves a \u200dhijacker with a bad chest injury using a \u2064makeshift\u2062 chest tube. The producers were apparently under the impression that such \u200da thing is used to breathe through rather than merely to \u2064release lung-collapsing pressure in the chest cavity. They seem to have confused it \u2062with \u200cthe emergency tactic of using the empty tube of a ballpoint pen to establish\u200c an airway for a\u00a0choking person.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-33bd15ba2324bef31d2d08a021fa59be fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-33bd15ba2324bef31d2d08a021fa59be\"><\/div>\n<p>Why it would be a good\u2064 thing to save the life of a hijacker anyway is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u200dpoliticians handling \u2062the crisis on the ground\u2062 squabble about whether\u2063 the hijackers are \u201cterrorists\u201d or merely\u200c \u201ccriminals,\u201d \u200cwith a recognizably smug and uncompromising conservative (50-ish white\u2064 male, again, naturally) easily outwitted by criminals. This hard-line advocate is later revealed as irresolute and cowardly. Surprise.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all so boringly predictable, not \u2062to mention unhappily reminiscent of blue-jurisdiction urban areas where leftists enact their notions of criminal justice and\u200c community\u2064 activism.<\/p>\n<p>In American\u2063 cities like Indianapolis, a Democrat mayor launches endless community peace initiatives that are of interest only to already \u2064peaceful people, while every morning the news \u200ddetails the previous\u200b day\u2019s shootings. The city-county council in July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2023\/07\/11\/indianapolis-council-passes-hogsett-gun-control-measures\/70397550007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed<\/a> his \u201caspirational\u201d gun control package promising to make the city free of \u201cassault weapons\u201d and \u2062permitless and concealed carry \u2014 if the state legislature allows it. (It won\u2019t,\u200b not that the criminals shooting people would observe the new rules anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>The previous Republican administration\u2019s signs\u200c urging residents to\u2064 \u201ccall to report illegal panhandling\u201d are still in place but seem to be unenforced. Beggars are a constant \u2064presence squatting on the median at many major intersections.<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis is no Seattle or San Francisco, but there has been an undeniable\u2063 decline in the quality of \u2062life in the central core. We have relatives who were\u200b repeatedly verbally assaulted \u200bby a street person as they dined at an outside restaurant downtown. Such experiences are not uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not coincidental that, \u2062just as in\u2062 many blue\u00a0jurisdiction\u00a0urban areas, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-two-philadelphia-cops-were-shot-mayor-cant-wait-to-abandon-crime-ridden-city-so-he-can-enjoy-stuff\/\" title=\"After Two Philadelphia Cops Were Shot, Mayor Can\u2019t Wait To Abandon Crime-Ridden City So He Can \u2018Enjoy\u2019 \u2018Stuff\u2019\">police department struggles<\/a> to maintain effective\u2064 numbers and recruit new officers. \u200cIn Indy and other Democrat-controlled cities \u2014 where\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-vs-blue-as-dems-deny-defunding-the-police-major-cities-police-forces-are-at-record-lows\/\" title=\"Red Vs. Blue: As Dems Deny Defunding The Police, Major Cities\u2019 Police Forces Are At Record Lows\">declining police forces<\/a> and administrations are determined to endlessly invent new and creative ways to avoid acknowledging real problems, never mind\u200c effectively \u200baddress\u200d them \u2014 a crash seems inevitable. And when it comes, it\u2019s likely to require tragic levels of violence to restore order, when judiciously applied force much earlier on \u2064would have sufficed.<\/p>\n<p>A catastrophic crash also seems inevitable as Elba\u2019s jetliner loses altitude over London in the \u200bseries finale, and it\u2019s\u2063 hard not to look back over the previous episodes and identify any number of points at which the use of force could have ended the crisis. This, though, would have required Elba\u2019s character and others to fully acknowledge the truth of \u200btheir situation and take steps to end it, rather than hoping that reasoning \u200bwith the hijackers and easing their path would bring them back into the fold of decent behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that \u200cthis\u200b approach has an abysmal and bloody track record, Elba seems\u2063 to have gone into the project explicitly \u2064determined to give it full play. He \u200chas been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/27\/arts\/television\/hijack-idris-elba.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quoted<\/a> elsewhere as saying about his character,\u00a0\u201cI didn\u2019t\u200c want to play the tough guy, or the hero. \u2062\u2026 I wanted him to be quite weak and\u2062 fragile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s genuinely toxic masculinity, and it doesn\u2019t bring peace; it invites violent\u00a0aggression.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-12692b41fbac1c264a698693d9579c7c fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-12692b41fbac1c264a698693d9579c7c\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: spoilers ahead. Apple TV+ presents &#8220;Hijack,&#8221; starring Idris Elba. The show&#8217;s philosophy is evident: stay calm during a hijacking. In this seven-episode series, an Airbus A330 carrying British passengers from Dubai to London is the setting. Idris Elba&#8217;s character, Sam Nelson, uses his skills to handle the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2259,"featured_media":1992876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}