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I, too, finally just got around to bingeing the final season and I'm sad it's over, but it was time. I preferred the earlier seasons, when the surrealism wasn't amped up to 11, but just enough to make it interesting. Much like spices in food. The best season-theme was the constant rain. l miss this show, but it also reminded me of a far more interesting long-gone law firm drama, Suits.
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Ratings were dubious but I guess just good enough to earn a second season. Glad it did--I really didn't think it would make the cut.
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If so, then that nugget is about to get fried.
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3 hours ago, Madding crowd said:
The actress who plays Sharon overacts so much it drives me crazy. She acts like she is drunk or high all the time and doesn’t seem professional at all. My husband and I have been married 28 years and we are still affectionate but can survive for ten minutes without kissing or stating our undying love. It is great to see middle aged people shown as still romantic and sexual beings but not on the job.
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.
2 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:In reality, if there were a whole bunch of houses scattered out through the woods, as is often the case, firefighters usually do a quick triage on which houses are stand alone savable, which need help, and which are losers. That house would absolutely be in the last category because it would likely burn anyway. He should have done some clearance way ahead of time. Anyway, for a single house, an engine crew and a hand crew could get that job done straightaway, unless they're jibberjabbing about personal stuff, and then the hand crew moves off to do its normal job. But, since this show is the forest equivalent of copaganda, you gotta have heroes.
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.
12 hours ago, Danielg342 said:My guess is that the guy in the cliffhanger is either Odin (from "Mama Bear") or a completely new character, someone not referred to before their introduction. I'm going to guess this character will provide the storyline for February Sweeps.
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.
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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.
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11 hours ago, bros402 said:
The elevator scene had Kelly Clarkson, a musician who became famous through winning the first season of American Idol (and now has her own talk show.
The actor who plays Chen (Melissa O'Neil), won the third season of Canadian Idol.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?
1 hour ago, Shelbie said:The Castle crossover was the woman who played Oscar’s daughter. Molly Quinn played Castle’s daughter Alexis.
I knew her face looked familiar. That's awesome!
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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).
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4 hours ago, KeithJ said:
Maybe they can make him an undercover arson investigator that takes him off the show for a while. lol
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.
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16 hours ago, 3 is enough said:
I left 32 years ago, but I know the real SQ headquarters is, in fact, a modern looking building close to the Jacques Cartier Bridge. I was also stumped trying to figure out what building was used. It has to be on the other side of the mountain (not facing downtown). Wonder if it is one of the Universite de Montreal buildings? I never visited that campus so I am unfamiliar with the different buildings other than the tower which is visible from the Metropolitan Expressway.
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.
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1 hour ago, transitfan said:
It actually looked like 4 tracks (in the subsequent scene when Officer Quinlan was undercover). Of the 3 Van Siclen Av stations on the system, only the one on Pitkin Av (A and C lines) has 4 tracks, and it is underground. It looked to me like it may have been an LIRR station.
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.
1 hour ago, kwnyc said:I know that sometimes tv shows and films use the NY Transit Museum for shoots in an indoor station. And yes, that didn't look like a real station where the body was found...I wondered if they used one of the MTA train yards, or if there's a "practice" station for engineers in training.
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.
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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.-
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3 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
What confuses me though is that we still see Boden doing practically the same job he did before he was promoted to district chief. (I don't capitalize that because I'm not sure if that's the exact title...) But remember he was their house chief (Battalion Chief?), and then he got promoted to oversee more firehouses and he was supposed to move his office to a central location, but he only did that very briefly and then came back. But it's like he still does the same exact job and we don't hear about the other houses he's supposed to oversee.
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.
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3 hours ago, Raja said:
As soon as they set it up I was remembering an Emergency episode and Vincent D'Onofrio on Homicide: Life on the Street and thinking that they really had to make it his last day
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.
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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.
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13 hours ago, DanaK said:
raises the question who is in charge of the station below Boden and who replaced Casey as captain?
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.
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20 hours ago, DanaK said:
Emma got taken down with post death assist from Hawkins. This is either her swan song or she’ll find another way to mess with Violet
I suspect we'll see her again, only this time probably trying to kill Violet or Gallo. Maybe in the season finale.
14 hours ago, iMonrey said:I hope the plan here isn't to kill her off so Herrmann has to become a single dad.
Agreed. That outcome was strongly hinted at when Hermann came home and the kids and basically gone feral inside the house.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Dowel Jones said:
Why wasn't Bentley wearing a vest? Plot requirements?
According to closed-caption text he was wearing one, but the bullet hit just above it.
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21 hours ago, NJRadioGuy said:
They're hovering less than 0.4 in the target demo. Barring a miracle they're one-and-done.
29 minutes ago, Sarah 103 said:Unless Paramount+ is desperate for content, which is a possibility.
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).
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On 1/7/2023 at 3:38 PM, Simba122504 said:
But we don't know the future of this show. It may not even get a S2. It's all up to CBS.
They're hovering less than 0.4 in the target demo. Barring a miracle they're one-and-done.
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4 hours ago, Raja said:
I think after the Baldwin accident The Rookie was among the shows that announced they would no longer use blanks in productions. And to go back to afterwards would be expensive
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.
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5 hours ago, Raja said:
Or at least someone who ain't got time to bleed.
And also the where was all the spent brass that should have been littering the ground after all those rounds were fired?
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On 1/6/2023 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Crown said:
The final in the key demo was actually 0.64 beating out CBS in the key demos for the night. Everyone at ABC must be ecstatic with the Rookie's performance on its new night.
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.
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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.-
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S01.E13: You Know Your Dragon Best
in Fire Country
I'll preface this by saying I know little to nothing about brush fire fighting, beyond what I remember from watching Johnny and Roy in the 70s, but with that said, once the SUV got going, the first thing I saw in the middle of the screen were those Big Honkin' Propane tanks (or whatever gas that was). Job 1, get those the hell away from anything potentially combustible. Re that dragon contraption, a K12 could have gotten through the apex of that in about 2 seconds flat. Maybe try pulling the burning car away from anything further combustible before things got out of hand? Just silly any way you look at it.