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This hollywood bullshit is so unrealistic.
The episode should include at least 10 minutes of him sitting in his car in some empty parking lot just listening to the radio and eating a cheeseburger.
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The Rookie
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This hollywood bullshit is so unrealistic.
The episode should include at least 10 minutes of him sitting in his car in some empty parking lot just listening to the radio and eating a cheeseburger.
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I like the show and even the last few episodes were good but i could not help but notice how they stepped up their virtue signaling game.
They had the neighborhood militia types and the one wearing a bright red hat was abvisouly racist for snagging a poor Latino who was just landscaping and minding his own business and in the last one they had the white supremacist gang being the big bad guys. Just a little too on the nose.
They had the neighborhood militia types and the one wearing a bright red hat was abvisouly racist for snagging a poor Latino who was just landscaping and minding his own business and in the last one they had the white supremacist gang being the big bad guys. Just a little too on the nose.
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Didnt you read what i wrote? I like the show, even the episodes i listed but it was just a bit jarring when i watched an obvious orange man bad moment play out.
Harshaw
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For real. I am actually liking this better than Castle. It's also just one of the better cop shows on TV.
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Harshaw
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I dunno, I don't think they really need a big relationship arc for the character. As it is, they have a decent pool of characters to draw stories from. They can always just use the cop partner dynamic to use as emotional story fodder.
Gavinmad
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Pains me to write this as a big fan of Castle and Fillion, but something about the show just isn't working for me. Feels very formulaic/paint by numbers with little innovation and a diversity checklist/agenda. I'm normally the one to call people out for grasping at SJW straws so I don't think that's what I'm doing here, and it's a lot more than just how overt the 'militia' part of that prison break episode was.
But holy shit I think the single most glaring thing has absolutely nothing to do with any of that, and it's how badly they pissed away Mercedes Mason's stellar performance as Captain Andersen. When Captain Montgomery sacrificed himself in the season 3 finale of Castle, it was very upsetting because of how well set up the twist was and how long Montgomery had been with us. When Captain Andersen has a major badass moment interrupted by a blind neck shot from a fleeing perp, I honest to god rolled my eyes at how out of place and anti-climactic it was.
Regarding the cliffhanger, it's almost certainly just a reaction to the experimental vaccine he was injected with, second most likely possibility being the chair to the head from earlier in the episode. There's no way they start season two with him slowly dying of hemorrhagic fever in a CDC tent, and I think it's unlikely they were planning to write him out after a single season when they didn't even know if they would be renewed.
Hope the show does better in season 2 and ends up with a decent run, but I doubt it can last too long without some major nonsense seeing as how the show is called 'The Rookie' and the first season got us almost half way through his probationary period.
But holy shit I think the single most glaring thing has absolutely nothing to do with any of that, and it's how badly they pissed away Mercedes Mason's stellar performance as Captain Andersen. When Captain Montgomery sacrificed himself in the season 3 finale of Castle, it was very upsetting because of how well set up the twist was and how long Montgomery had been with us. When Captain Andersen has a major badass moment interrupted by a blind neck shot from a fleeing perp, I honest to god rolled my eyes at how out of place and anti-climactic it was.
Regarding the cliffhanger, it's almost certainly just a reaction to the experimental vaccine he was injected with, second most likely possibility being the chair to the head from earlier in the episode. There's no way they start season two with him slowly dying of hemorrhagic fever in a CDC tent, and I think it's unlikely they were planning to write him out after a single season when they didn't even know if they would be renewed.
Hope the show does better in season 2 and ends up with a decent run, but I doubt it can last too long without some major nonsense seeing as how the show is called 'The Rookie' and the first season got us almost half way through his probationary period.
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Afton Williamson Quit The Rookie After Allegations of Sexual Harassment, Racial Bullying Went Largely Ignored
Afton Williamson says that she quit her role on ABC’s The Rookie after complaints she made throughout Season 1 about racial bullying and sexual harassment went largely ignored.
tvline.com
Man that sucks. I mean, I'd love to hear both sides but her character was a good, strong role and her and Fillion meshed well together. She's been replaced with a male role being played by Harold Perrineau.
Now I'm all worried about the show.
Harshaw
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I am wondering if it was just racial shit done at her, because most of the cast is non-white. Hell there are three main black characters to one whitey, Fillion.