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Crisis Command

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Crisis Command	label	Crisis Command
Crisis Command	page	CrisisCommand
Crisis Command	comment	Could you run the country?A role-playing interactive drama documentary thing that ran on BBC2 in 2004.The program gave three people the chance to run the country during a potential disaster. The crises included terror attacks on London, flood, plague, collapse of the power network and hostage taking. These had been designed to be as realistic as possible, although there where still some cases of artistic license. Viewers were able to make decisions interactively at the same time as the studio players. Each scenario was played once on BBC2, and then redone with a different set of "Ministers" on BBC4 immediately afterwards.They receive advice from military, police and communication experts (at least one of whom will not agree with anyone else, usually either military (who was often teetering on the General Ripper) or PR (who more than once advised the ministers take the path of greatest damage, because the lesser of the two would make a better headline). This communication expert was Amanda Platell, who had been the top Conservative spin doctor in their 2001 whipping, so her skills were already questionable...Not only that, but the options placed before the players, the realism of some of the events or scenarios and the timeline (although that may have been due to editing) were all criticized by some people. On more than one occasion the "Ministers" did something the government would not be able to do for legal reason (such as flood buildings with people still in them, murder under UK lawnote Unless Parliament specifically voted for it or bestowed upon the Government the power to do it.) but no one told them until after they had done it. Hardly realistic.
Crisis Command	fetched	2024-04-21T13:01:51Z
Crisis Command	parsed	2024-04-21T13:01:52Z
Crisis Command	processingComment	Dropped link to Mockumentary: Not a Feature - ITEM
Crisis Command	processingComment	Dropped link to ThePlague: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Crisis Command / int_1bd4c0bf	type	Unwinnable by Design
Crisis Command / int_1bd4c0bf	comment	Unwinnable by Design: Somewhat. The ministers at one point get to a state where - because they've spent too long debating - the correct option (shooting down the hijacked jet plane approaching London) becomes unavailable as the plane enters the London no-fire zone, at which point their RAF jets cannot shoot it.
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Crisis Command / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Crisis Command / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": The RAF pilots are generally pretty calm, but one of them utters a quiet "Jesus" as the hijacked jet careens into the Houses of Parliament.
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Crisis Command / int_45e41b66	type	It's a Wonderful Failure
Crisis Command / int_45e41b66	comment	It's a Wonderful Failure: The television audience are shown just how badly the ministers failed to intervene in the crisis at the end of the show: Parliament is destroyed and the rail network is flooded, causing billions of pounds in damage and killing an unknown number of people.
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Crisis Command / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
Crisis Command / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: What the ministers are effectively told after they decide what to do about the approaching hijacked passenger jet - just after it crosses into the London exclusion zone at which point firing on it is impossible.
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Crisis Command / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Crisis Command / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: In the Hijack episode, the show ends with the Houses of Parliament destroyed and the rail network flooded. Aside from the significant loss of life, economic damage to the UK as a result of the ministers' failure to intervene is running up in the billions of pounds.
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Crisis Command / int_61ce93fd	type	Big Disaster Plot
Crisis Command / int_61ce93fd	comment	Big Disaster Plot: The premise of the show is how the members of the public who become pretend ministers of The Government cope in a major crisis like a terrorist attack.
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Crisis Command / int_71a429d2	type	Power Outage Plot
Crisis Command / int_71a429d2	comment	Power Outage Plot: Due to issues at a series of substations, the power supply to areas of West London are interrupted, causing parts of the London Underground to stop running. It's later revealed that someone close to the power network was able to issue a command to the substations that they were experiencing oversupply, causing them to stop transmitting power.
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Crisis Command / int_722a6ef4	type	Game Show
Crisis Command / int_722a6ef4	comment	Game Show: The BBC defied that it was one at the time, but there are contestants, playing a game, that technically has a - nuanced - win or loss condition, on television.
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Crisis Command / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Crisis Command / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: This, mixed with a smattering of I Warned You. The military expert gave this to the ministers after they failed to stop the jet crashing into the Houses of Parliament, denouncing their failure to shoot the plane down despite already knowing it was being controlled by a terrorist group, and that the whole point of mobilising the RAF in the first place was to give them that option.
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Crisis Command / int_854601b3	type	Government Procedural
Crisis Command / int_854601b3	comment	Government Procedural: If it were a game show, anyway. The contestants are ministers in a simulated UK government, attempting to navigate national crises.
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Crisis Command / int_946a37a3	type	Ignored Aesop
Crisis Command / int_946a37a3	comment	Ignored Aesop: The group fails to shut the flood doors in the London Underground in time to prevent flooding the entire network because they spent too long debating it, which was the same reason the option to shoot down the jet as it approached the London no-fire zone became unavailable and led to a disaster.
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Crisis Command / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Crisis Command / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Tim Garden walked into his territory at times. Later he became a peer for the Liberal Democrats.
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Crisis Command / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Crisis Command / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: As cold as it sounds, the ministers' desire not to let anyone die means they allow more deaths then if they had intervened in a way that would have led to some deaths; see their decision to use the helicopters to send in paramedics following the Waterloo train station explosion rather than evacuate burns victims with a high probability of survival, and their refusal to shoot at the approaching hijacked passenger jet because of the passengers on board, even though they die anyway when the plane hits the Houses of Parliament.
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Crisis Command / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Crisis Command / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Or rather Too Dumb to Save Others. In the terrorist attack episode they let a jet crash into the Houses of Parliament despite having RAF fighters in the area to shoot it down (and indeed had scrambled them for that purpose). Afterward at least one minister still thought it was the correct choice.
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Crisis Command / int_bb48f8ba	type	Timed Mission
Crisis Command / int_bb48f8ba	comment	Timed Mission: The ministers are on a Race Against the Clock; the hijacked passenger jet is flying towards the capital and they have until it enters the London no-fire zone to issue a command to fire on it. Ultimately, they do not do so.
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Crisis Command / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Crisis Command / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: The ministers ultimately take the word of the terrorists that they intend to land their hijacked plane at Heathrow Airport to engage in hostage negotiations. Instead they crash it into Parliament.
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Crisis Command / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Crisis Command / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: In-universe, the ministers have the power to command the apparatus of the UK government - and their failure to operate it appropriately can lead to significant loss of life and severe economic damage.
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Crisis Command / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
Crisis Command / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: The refusal by the ministers to fire on the approaching hijacked jet, which leads to it crashing into the Houses of Parliament.
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Crisis Command / int_fc39769d	type	Gunboat Diplomacy
Crisis Command / int_fc39769d	comment	Gunboat Diplomacy: Kind of, but not really executed right. The ministers scramble the RAF in an effort to get the approaching suspicious jet to divert, but then don't carry out the implicit threat by firing on the plane when it becomes clear they're unwilling to comply with their instructions.
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Crisis Command / int_fc5e7c2e	type	Lying to Protect Your Feelings
Crisis Command / int_fc5e7c2e	comment	Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Heavily inverted. The aides aren't afraid to tell the ministers when they think they're wasting time or making bad choices.
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