VLVL Pynchon's filtered narration

[jbor]

>> _TV Guide_ a "right-wing weekly"? Trenchant media
>> criticism that. 
> 
> You know exactly what I'm referring to.  The various
> observations beforehand

There's not a whole lot of substance to the observations beforehand either;
like the airport picket line scene the passage puts Frenesi's character on
display more than anything, the way she is trying to "cast" herself here,
trying to play herself as the victim rather than the perp. The comment about
_TV Guide_ is the crowning exaggeration in her hypocritical, and
hypocritically self-righteous, litany.

Note also that her knee-jerk anti-cop show, anti-Hector fake polemic follows
on directly from Hector's reminder of how "she's an honest soldier ... and
we been out on so many of the same type calls over the years". And she does
end up doing Hector "the honor" and dancing to his tune, after all.

best

      "You're an honest soldier, Frenesi, and we been out on
    so many of the same type calls over the years. . . . "
    Here came some sentimental pitch, delivered deadpan -- cop
    solidarity, his problems with racism in the Agency, her
    59¢ on the male dollar, maybe a little "Hill Street Blues"
    thrown in, plus who knew what other licks from all that Tube,
    though she thought she recognized Raymond Burr's "Robert
    Ironside" character and a little of "The Captain" from "Mod
    Squad." It was disheartening to see how much he depended on
    these Tubal fantasies about his profession, relentlessly pushing
    their propaganda message of cops-are-only-human-got-to-do-their-
    job, turning agents of government repression into sympathetic
    heroes. Nobody thought it was peculiar anymore, no more than the
    routine violations of constitutional rights these characters
    performed week after week, now absorbed into the vernacular of
    American expectations. Cop shows were in a genre right-wing
    weekly _TV Guide_ called Crime Drama, and numbered among their
    zealous fans working cops like Hector who should have known
    better. And now he was asking her to direct, maybe write,
    basically yet another one? Her life "underground," with a heavy
    antidrug spiel. Wonderful. (345)