#askandrea

They do explain things every so often and especially with last season and this season’s focus on UC stuff and wondering about Lucy’s career direction, I’m not surprised they will be addressing that.

Ok. I have a couple questions…..

1). What is a “document” episode? Do you mean the true crime documentary filming episode?

2) Who is “skipper”? As a female GenXer- “Skipper” is Barbie’s younger friend who when you move her left arm in a circle she gets taller and her boobs get bigger. Coolest doll to have during puberty. But I don’t see how that connects to the Rookie.

3) are you thinking the promo is completely lying to us and won’t actually be about Jake dying, but instead will be a love letter of Chenford to the fans giving us via montage all the shots some people think are missing?

For the record, I don’t think we have missed anything. I have loved every second of this season and am beyond ecstatic that Chenford even happened at all. Once I threw my expectations out the window, I’ve gotten everything I wanted and more.

I think the documentary will make future under cover gigs for Lucy impossible to do and she won’t want to do it any more.

Plus I think the promo is spliced and diced to get us to worry and fear and talk about the show for the next 3 weeks. I am not going down the rabbit hole about angst and wishing for pain and suffering for these characters. They’ve both suffered so much already. Just let them be happy.

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I’m so sorry, I have no idea which one that is. I’ve read all 2,000+ on AO3 and I would need a lot more detail to either recall the title, date or author of the story.

Thank you for that tid bit of information - however, that's actually different than what I read last night.

Several people I follow were making comments about cast and crew members (other than Nathan + William) receiving an increase in hate-based comments because the Chenford story was not working out the way they wanted.

I have no problem with people expressing their opinions - unless those opinions are hate-based vitriolic. It's the HATE towards people doing their jobs over fictional characters that pisses me off.

Tim and Lucy aren't real. They are characters that Alexi Hawley created in his mind.

No idea. There was chatter all over Twitter last night about cast and crew being “attacked” by fans.

Who knows? That's the beauty of these scenes where the actors don't actually tell you what's going on in the character's minds.

I refuse to get all up in arms about whether we agree or not.

Well on the plus side, not that I 100% trust Alexi Hawley, but he said that yes there would be complications but they were not going to go backwards in their relationship. So I still firmly believe in Chenford moving forward full steam ahead.

And causing a strain would cause angst, but not nearly as much as if they broke up. I think both Tim and Lucy will fight to stay together no matter what is thrown in their path because a) they are in love with each other and b) they both know they'd never recover from being apart. That would be devastating to both of them. Plus the fandom would go after Alexi - my pitchfork is ready.

That said, yes, I think Tim might be pre-maturely excited for Metro. We know so little about the group, the leader, the team members, what they do, how they operate, etc. There's definitely room for angst to appear, but all of those angsty moments give Chenford the opportunity to address them as a unified front as opposed to individually.

If they want to address their schedules, they can always move in together. And the "no lies" thing I don't see as much of a problem -because they are horribly liars to each other. Tim knew Lucy was up to something when he saw her at John's house. He just didn't know what.

I think the new LT - who was recruiting NOLAN of all people - which makes no sense to me at all - will be an interesting relationship.

I think Lucy has already put things in motion to address that. By reaching out to the SGT Tim replaced, and offering Tamara's baby sitting services - she's garnered a connection and potential ally for herself and Tim to pre-navigate the office politics of the team. I thought that move alone was extremely smart and strategic. A way to circumvent the SGTs talk warning from Nyla. Using the "talk" to their advantage.

I am so excited for that paintball training. LOL - Tim had paint on his forehead UNDER the goggles. I am sure that Lucy = being the #1 shooter at MidWilshire, is helping Tim prepare and kicking his ass.

So while I was all doom and gloom to begin with, I do think that Tim moving to Metro will be great for propelling Chenford forward.

Maybe there will be angst and maybe not. I'm excited regardless to see how it all unfolds for my favorite fictional characters.

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Great question.

My first reaction to the episode was that i was bored. So bored. And that opening scene while funny, was nepotism at it's finest. The guy singing is Alexi Hawley's son. oh joy.

Then I had the chance to watch the episode again later in the evening, and I enjoyed it the second time through.

I was bored because of all the chenford specific promos we got gave a lot of the story away - so there weren't any real surprises. Plus that really reminded me of previous seasons when chenford was in the promos but sliced and diced in a way to attract viewers, but what aired was not what was in the promos.

here are my thoughts in no particular order:

+ I loved the scene where they are murder boarding a new job for Tim in John's living room. Shooting through the window at the cast was such a cool perspective as opposed to a camera behind them looking over their shoulder.

+ I loved the focus on Celina - and then indirectly on John. First by Grey and then by Sgt Bradford. With Grey, I really liked that he recognized Celina's natural instinct for trouble and helped her reason out why she felt what she felt. Using logic to explain the instinct. John does not do that with her. He's trying to get her to stop being herself - but Grey teaches her how to lean into her existing skills and parse them out step by step - which when called to testify in court she will definitely have to be able to do.

I hope they spend more time on grading Nolan - he's IMO quite smug and overconfident he's been in this role for what? let's say 4 months and he accts like the best TO there ever was. um no. He's still a rookie in that role and I'm surprised there haven't been more checks and balances around grading him grading others.

+ I loved Angela and Wesley working together. That was fun. I love their dynamic.

+ Everyone inviting themselves to John's house because he has A/C.

+Tim being surprised to see Lucy there - like haven't they been texting all day long? and him with his hands in his pockets to keep himself from touching her? I'm sure he picked up on her being cagey - that she was up to something, but I don't know if he yet realizes WHAT she was up to.

Things I'm concerned about for future episodes:

+ Metro - everyone was so excited to get Tim to that team, so yay that he's not stuck doing paperwork bored out of his mind. But I think Tim being the boot on that team could create challenges for our love birds.

Brutal hours, an LT who wanted to bring on John to the team(what?), these guys do not look like they will be supportive of Tim being in a relationship with a P2. I expect his LT to give him a very hard time about than when she learns of it.

Nyla's warning about sergeants talking. I definitely see something bad happening here with that. Grey will be a useful resource to mitigate any flack there, but he won't be able to stop it entirely.

I think the new role will tap into Tim's military history - and who knows why kind of PTSD can of worms could be opened as a result.

But I think he is going to be challenged in more ways than one - more "fun stuff" for Eric to act out - and seeing how he and Lucy react alone and separately will be interesting to watch and a potential for angst. But I have faith in them

+Keeping Tim in the dark. I get why Lucy didn't want to tell him that she was the architect of his new opportunity. That would put the focus on her, instead of on him. She may have had the idea, but she definitely pulled it off because of everyone else - including Smitty.

Smitty side note - I was yelling at my screen when Lucy made her deal with him - she should have said nothing weird or gross. And sure enough he gave her something gross.

I think Tim forgets that MidWilshire is his family. Yes he's got a new love in Lucy, but even before she got there, he had the love and support of the MidWilshire crew and of course, they were going to work together to get him a better job. So I want someone to tell him what THEY did for him. Whether that's Smitty dropping a hint or Angela telling him. It all started with Lucy, yes, but his whole family kicked in to help.