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My way of thinking is that we have to see just how much they're in love (remember, the rule of TV: Show, don't tell). Then, when she dies during kidney transplant surgery we, the audience, will process the depth of Vince's loss. Maybe she'll get moved to Chicago Med where Crocket will do the operation in ER 2.0 and it goes horribly wrong. Oh, wait. Wrong network. What I was kinda disappointed about was they didn't seem to have any mention of the old guy after the episode was over. The guy's old life is gone and I'd like to think maybe they'd try to organize some kind of relief effort for him. Since we saw retardant on the character's boots as he was lighting the torch, it's obviously a firefighter. I have a feeling deep in my gut that it's Manny, who, I suspect has no intention of leaving that newly-started fire alive and has perhaps taken out life insurance payable to Gabriella. I hope I'm wrong.

They had a perfectly good potential pairing with Callie Thorne. I loved her character in guest appearances and the two had chemistry, for some definition of that word. This, out of the blue, makes zero sense.

OK. I guess there's an "in" joke in there somewhere. Friend of Nathan's maybe? So if Chen's a singer, I guess we'll eventually get a musical episode? I knew her face looked familiar. That's awesome!

Can someone please explain the elevator scene with me? Obviously it's an inside joke of some kind, but I'm not really big into pop culture or celebrities. And likewise, what was the Castle crossover? I've forgotten most of that show, as much as I loved it before it jumped the shark).

This would make a lot of sense. Send him off to Fire Investigating School for formal training and state certification (in reality, after a bit of light Googling, it's a 3-week full-time course). Assuming Kinney comes back to the show, they'd now have a viable career path for Severide if Kinney doesn't want to do the heavy action stuff any more. And fire investigation is certainly within the purview of the show, and uses far less effects and staging budget resources that heavy rescue scenes.

I left in 1979 and I was a West Island kid back then. It looks really close to St. Joseph, so I don't think it's quite as far as Outremont, but yes, it could be part of UdM. EDIT: Found it! 3101 Tour Rd., east of Descelles. The UdM Faculty of Law and Law Library.

I rewatched and it looks like they only shot B-roll at Hewes St. The clue is the signal on the middle track: homeball J4-170/X-880, which protects the crossover between Hewes and Marcy. As for the filming location, beats me. Definitely an out-of-service track somewhere without a third rail. You may be right about the LIRR but the canopies definitely had an MTA NYC Subway look to them. The signage was all wrong, though—MTA uses Helvetica and that wasn't Helvetica on any of those fake signs. These days it's more likely the abandoned outer platforms at Hoyt-Schermerhorn and the museum leads for tunnel tracks. I was thinking a yard track somewhere, but the thing of it is there is no third rail (power rail) visible on the trackbed. What was weird was that the murder scene and the platform arrest scene were on a station at ground level, but the B-roll at Hewes and a couple of tight shots of Quinlan were on the elevated structure. p.s. no practice stations for train operators. They have an instructor in an out-of-service train for school car classes.

I'm curious where they filmed the subway murder scene. It definitely wasn't on MTA property. Fake signage, tracks with no third rail, and there is no middle track at the real Van Siclen station on the J. Where Quinlan and company arrested the two masked perps was actually shot at the real Hewes St. J-M-Z station, on the Manhattan-bound platform. Not anywhere near East New York.

Well they're not really germane to the plot—and that would take time away from the relationship dramas and Severide's personal OFI jobs. Yes, Boden should be out visiting the houses in his jurisdiction and taking in a lot more runs, even when 51 is not assigned. That's the nature of a Chief's duties, whether it's a Battalion Chief (his old job) or a Deputy District Chief (his new position). When he was still a BC he wasn't just 51's chief, but he probably had a half-dozen companies to look after within his battalion. In his new role he's higher up the food chain and oversees a number of other battalion chiefs' actions and stations. I'm not sure how the department as portrayed in the show handles chief officers across different shifts (first watch, second watch, etc) or for that matter IRL.

That's immediately where my mind went. I first saw that on Emergency! when it aired live, when I was a teenager back in the 70s. I had nightmares about it for weeks. A truly horrible way to go out but good for TV drama. Glad they chose not to go there. Otherwise this episode really started to annoy me and everything just really seemed overly contrived. I found myself zapping ahead frequently, which I never had to do with this show before.

A little better this week but still below 0.4, and with Ghosts as its lead-in doing so much stronger (0.57) and its competition, SVU, higher still, it's pretty clear that this is a valid rating and probably won't go much higher. I would like to see a second season but the hour is getting late for Todd.

It really doesn't work like that. Not all houses have a chief stationed on the premises, and the chief is not really the "boss of the house" in the same way a police precinct would have a commander. Each piece of apparatus has an officer assigned on each shift and they are responsible for the actions of the firefighters assigned to that company. For the sake of the TV show it makes sense to have a chief appear to be the boss of that particular house, but in reality, the battalion chiefs, deputy district chiefs, and district chiefs are the command hierarchy for firefighting operations. They are the scene bosses at major incidents. A DC will have a couple of DDCs under him (or her) with each Division responsible for several battalions, whose chiefs will direct their companies' officers to perform different duties, and those officers will coordinate with their firefighters. In the absence of a chief, the apparatus officer would likely be in charge of the house. Obviously different departments do things differently, but that's the general gist. In the case of 51, there would actually be three bosses (Severide, Hermann, and Kidd); not sure how the medic side is structured--they didn't hint at that, but since Hawkins was Violet's supervisor, there did not appear to be an EMS chief officer stationed at 51.

I suspect we'll see her again, only this time probably trying to kill Violet or Gallo. Maybe in the season finale. Agreed. That outcome was strongly hinted at when Hermann came home and the kids and basically gone feral inside the house.

That was truly disappointing. The HBO series finale curse strikes again (see Game of Thrones and The Sopranos). Too many unanswered questions and everything this season just felt rushed and way out of balance. Glad it's over.

According to closed-caption text he was wearing one, but the bullet hit just above it.

They got a "Full Season Order" (likely 18 episodes) in September so there's still a chance it can improve if they start promoting it heavily, but even with that it's not much of a chance. Here's last week: 0.37 in the key demo by itself isn't horrible these days (not great but not awful), however with mega-hit Ghosts as a lead-in and it loses nearly half its audience is saying something. SVU on NBC is nearly double Todd's ratings in the 18-49 in the same timeslot. The only measurement that matters on the renew/cancel decision is the 18-49 demo based on C3 (commercials watching within 3 days of live).

They're hovering less than 0.4 in the target demo. Barring a miracle they're one-and-done.

Yes, that is very much the case. they are using plastic replicas with muzzle flashes added in post. Personally I think that's absolutely the right thing to do post-Rust and just in general. But if you're going to have the bad guys firing machine guns, the machine guns don't keep their spent shell casings to themselves. They are ejected in a torrent. So if they're going to CGI hundreds of rounds being fired (from magazines that might hold 30 or 60 cartridges), the empties should be CGId, or at least later seen on the floor/ground.

And also the where was all the spent brass that should have been littering the ground after all those rounds were fired?

Yeah, a .64 in the key demo is outstanding. Easy renewal with those numbers for sure, barring unforeseen complications of course. It's also a series that will do really well in syndication so yeah, bump up the episode count and keep 'em coming.

Without delving into gun politics, and regarding the firearm plot points in this specific episode, run-of-the-mill bank robbers having access to full-auto "machine guns" (unlikely, in and of itself) firing so many rounds without reloading is a stupid-bad level of writing. For the number of rounds they fired they'd need an accomplice lugging around a 250 pound wheelbarrow full of loaded magazines. At most they'd get 2 or 3 seconds of fire before it was empty. I don't honestly care about baddies shooting things up in movies and TV, just make the scenario possible with good writing. Bad guy fires a 3 second burst and his weapon is empty. Good guys put one between his eyes, or tackle him for a loss; game over. And as for those signs, in some states violating them is a First Degree felony. In others it's only a suggestion. YMMV. I frankly wish they wouldn't do so many shootouts in this show to begin with. It's billed as a light-hearted dramedy and IMO it would be far better to dial down the cartoonish levels of violence and maybe get into the more thoughtful aspects of crime-solving.

@Skooma, I found that Series 1 was uneven and like you, I really didn't like a number of the characters, but by mid Series 2 the characters have found their footing and have become much more interesting. Yes, Thomas is skeevy, but for a 19th century poet that would be in character. My least favourite ghost initially was Mary but even she's grown on me as the show progresses. The only character I truly dislike is Allison's husband, Mike. He's an utter idiot and played as if he has the IQ of a small soap dish. He's not fun to watch and contributes very little positive energy to the show. Jay is the anti-Mike. A talented chef and a really cool guy. I'm currently midway through Series 4 (I watch one a week) and it absolutely gets better IMHO. What I find is the more sentimental episodes are done better by the British ensemble, but the U.S. (well, technically the Canadian) version's cast is more well-rounded. I enjoy them both for what they are.

The technical advisor for this show must have taken the day off. A small car like that weighs very little (comparatively speaking) and could be easily secured to the far side of the bridge, or even dragged away from the precipice. Figure about 3500 pounds spread across 20 people, less if there's a snatch block pulley or two (for a double or triple-line pull) if someone on the scene had one. But even if not, the lines and chain would have easily sturdied that load, and they could have easily cut up some timber for cribbing if they didn't have any on the truck that they could bring. There are tie-down points under every vehicle to secure it to the ship, car-carrier, or train car. Many cars (but not all) also have rated recovery points on the back. Also sirens have loud public address modules, so switch the siren into PA and order the car in front to move over, lather rinse, repeat. A bunch of ridiculous and useless plot points in furtherance of some less-bad family dynamics.

Is his middle name "Sandor" by any chance? Does he like hounds (or chicken)? His backstory is very much like one of the most tragic anti-heroes from Game of Thrones, Sandor Clegane, known as The Hound. (see below) From the GoT Wiki: Sandor is the younger brother of Ser Gregor Clegane. In his youth, Gregor nearly burned off half of Sandor's face because he found Sandor playing with a toy that Gregor had discarded. Without warning or uttering a word, however, Gregor grabbed Sandor and "punished" him by holding his head into a burning brazier. Gregor was only forced to stop after half a dozen servants managed to pry him away from his brother. The incident left severe burn scars over the right half of Sandor's face, thus he usually wears his hair long on that side to cover them. Instead of blaming Gregor, their father merely stated Sandor's bed caught fire. Ever since, Sandor has been deeply afraid of fire.

Well that was a mostly-depressing hour of television. Since there are only three episodes I'll stick it out, but if this was an ongoing open-ended story I think I'd be ready to bail. For as much as they do great world-building, the story has become tedious and at times difficult to follow. Plus out of however many billions of people who have died through the millennia, we only see this small group, and they easily find two dead characters amongst them after barely searching (well, one finds them). The HDM Shark has been jumped as far as I'm concerned. I just want to see the end and then forget how much time I wasted on this.