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I don't hate it, quite honestly, and if it's the hook (and ladder) needed to bring more talented and qualified women into the fire service I'll back it 100%. Good on 'em, I say.

Probably the Russian navy test-firing a missile in their own waters. I'm sure we do it in ours all the time. But my question is why didn't anybody get on the satphone to the Coast Guard, both for the Russian incursion into US waters and the missile. And maybe Keith will get a nice big fat fine for admitting on TV that he violated the border? Or was that fake drama set up for Discos cameras when they were still 50 miles inside US territory or something. I didn't look at the lat/long pairs and look them up because I'm lazy.

In Newfoundland, if you kiss the cod and take a drink of Screech you become an honourary Newfoundlander. If you lick the whole fish do you become an honourary Alaskan?

One more example of how the showrunners' chutzpah has gotten the better of their common sense. This was, to me, a show that needed far more network script oversight. Why exactly are people supposed to watch this mess now? Oh, we're going to see twice as much Iggy and his dysfunctional relationship, or Dr. Threesome, or Max Doing Stupid Shit, blah blah blah. They lost the plot after Season 1, and by S3 they needed to have the proverbial whip cracked over the writers' room.

Jake could be a great fisherman if he knew where to find crab without radio fishing. Every damned season he's portrayed as striking out until he gets a lucky break. Meanwhile Sig and Keith just know where to go, and if plan A doesn't work out, they've already got plans B and C in the backs of their minds. I'd venture to say Sean Dwyer is the same, but he's so rarely on camera these days it's hard to tell. Jonathan I have to wonder about. Is he in it just for the money or is it something he loves and dearly missed when he "retired" a few years ago. Like Jake, though, Jonathan seems to be snakebit at times and has problems finding where to fish. He's also been a doormat to Casey/Josh at times, but maybe that's just who he is. Besides, shenanigans or not, he saved a man out of the Bering Sea--I can forgive a lot of horseplay for snatching one back from Davey Jones. "Harley" can just get off my screen. The only boat I don't care about. Once an asshole always an asshole in my book, although it does look like the Disco cameras are trying to portray him in a better light this season (and part of last), but I still have no use for him.

Better not get to close to the radar or else slow roasted Freedom Chicken is on the menu.

Tangentially relating to The First 48, I just happened to catch a show called Crime 360, which is basically the same premise as this show but with more reliance on forensic evidence collection. What makes this interesting is the Season 1 Episode 9 episode called Bad Blood, from 2008, which was the first case in Homicide for Cleveland Det. Tom Armelli when he was just a Padawan. The lead in the case was Det. Veverk who I really wish had been on First 48 because he really was camera friendly. His partner at the time was Kathleen Karlin, so another familiar face. I think that show only lasted two seasons, which was unfortunate.

He's always been an asshole boss, but generally a competent captain with sense and an understanding of the big picture. So either now he's finally lost the plot entirely or else he's playing to Disco's plot. I gave the CM guys the benefit of the doubt for a while, but it's turned into the Phil Harris Memorial TV show this season. It's like the producers aren't even trying anymore, and for whatever reason, thinks the audience feels a connection to Dipshit Harris. At least Casey is a competent mariner, but even with that said he's become a class A dickhead lately.

I don't think Keith's personal crab tank is completely full if you take my meaning. Something not right or else he's playing a role for the Disco cameras. Also, Sig and the CM clowns just admitted they broke federal regulations on national TV. Sig gave them the "secret" radio frequency of 144.62 MHz in the "Two meter band." Yes, indeed, that is very much in the two meter band, which is reserved exclusively for amateur radio in the United States and virtually every other country in the world. Only licensed hams can transmit there, and they cannot discuss business matters (like commercial fishing). Not that anybody's going to do anything about it, of course, but it's still very much a violation of CFR47 Part 97 regulations and if pursued by the FCC could result in significant fines. With that said, they'd be best to get a private business-band channel and use encrypted portable radios and stay the f@#k off the ham bands. They've tipped their hands now to the rest of the fleet who just need to search the ham frequency bands with a scanner to find "secret" channels for other F/Vs.

This one hurt more than City On The Edge Of Forever. Edith Keeler was single, after all. There were no children involved and the time interval was longer here. Although I doubt they'll ever revisit Laura, if they do, I somehow hope Gordon looks her up in historical records and sees that she had a brilliant music career, and hopefully a happy life with a couple of kids and a loving husband.

Oh good ghods, this sounds extra barfy.

Live-plus-7 means absolutely nothing to advertisers, and they're the only ones who matter. L7 is good for network PR, but not much lot beyond that. The only rating that matters, and the one never released to the public, is the so-called C3 rating. This measures who in the audience of Nielsen households (i.e. those with the actual metering devices attached to their tuners) watch the show's ads live or delayed on a PVR up to 3 days after live. The rating is in minutes of ads consumed. There is also C7 but C3 is still the standard by my understanding. Advertisers don't give a toss who watches the actual show for the most part. They care who watches the ads they spend millions of dollars on. If I'm buing $20,000,000 worth of ad time on CBS, those who Timeshift and zap my company's ads are of no interest to me at all.

if they have an arrest and/or a search warrant then fine, no issue. My issue with this show, and shows like it, is Perez or Tosh come up to a lived-in (i.e. not abandoned) house where nobody's home. They go through the house, the shed, and so on and search for clues. Again I don't know from UK law, but I can state unequivocally here under US law evidence gathered from such a search wouldn't be admissible ("fruit of the poisoned tree") and could even get a case tossed, unless it was in plain sight. By that, I mean the coppers look into a window from outside and see an AK47 propped in the corner and baggies of what appears to be dope, or TVs or electronics that exactly appear to match stolen goods, etc. And even there, they'd just need to phone in a search warrant to be able to seize it.

But what gets me with these things is how they can go snooping around inside someone's property without a warrant to search the premises. Obviously the laws are different Over There, but I cannot imagine the police can just barge into a locked building, snoop around, and seize evidence without a magistrate's signing off ahead of time.

Yes, it's very unsettling. Ditto with the few Irish procedurals I've seen as well. I just don't know enough about U.K. and EU criminal law to comment intelligently. In the primary caution "you do not have to say anything, but anything you do say may be taken down and given in evidence," or words of that nature should basically be enough to tell the rozzers to get rooted. And I agree with you regarding having a barrister in the interview room who's not actually advising the client (unless it's convenient to further the plot). Now what I do love is that it's about the detectives' wits, not how much firepower they have or how freely their big brass gonads swing in the breeze. And the fact they cast normal people, not just Central Casting A-listers with perfect hair and makeup.

Med is the weakest of the three IMO. Fire is the most fun, and other than a couple of main character deaths throughout the 10 year run, it's lighter fare overall. PD is very heavy, never any lightheartedness to it, and lately it's been ruined by one awful character that the showrunner loves to force on us.

Does anybody know if the show is following opies this year? My episode guide shows the June 14th episode (S18E09-Rip Tide) as the finale, with nothing after that.

With 10 minute/10 page descriptions of food and boiled-leather (or cracked plastic) armor. And t*ts. Shame, shame, shame.

That's precisely what I was thinking. The guy got the costume (and the beard) to give off a specific vibe so why wouldn't he offer that as a service? Quite honestly, it would be a far more interesting place to get hitched than the courthouse. But if the show wanted a wedding on the water, why not do it on the department's fire boat?

Yes. It was an ax, not a Halligan.

I've always pictured Chiun as a smaller person, DDK would work from a Hollywood perspective, but it should be a physically smaller actor IMO. And a complete smartass.

The episode was "meh." I was watching camera placement, and every time they passed anywhere near a bridge I was expecting a shooter. Because I'm that dark. As for the not-really-a-cliffhanger, the Feds will likely swoop in seconds after they make their move. What I really wish they'd done was solve Brett & Casey's conundrum, not kick it down the road 'til next season. Best case is Casey comes back to the show but I'm guessing that's not going to happen. At least no main cast members were killed off this year or left in a state that survival would be unlikely.

Agreed! But who would play Chiun? He was the real star of the Destroyer series! The movie was really disappointing compared to the books.

So I'm actually surprised that nobody's yet commented about Mouch's CSI (Couch Scene Investigation). Mouch and Ritter's mostly silent detective work was a perfect send up of one of the most famous scenes from HBO's "The Wire," in which Detectives Jimmy McNulty and Bunk Moreland figure out how a murder occurred in precisely the same fashion, almost beat-for-beat, with basically only one spoken word, used repeatedly, which also happens to rhyme with 'truck.' Even down to Ritter's red licorice vs. Bunk's cigar in the original. This is the original scene. Very NSFW but to this day, one of the best scenes ever written in any movie or TV show. WELL PLAYED, Chicago Fire!

I'm guessing the USCG delay has to do with the investigation of the crewman who had to be airlifted off the boat. But yeah, no way I'd sail with Rip. Bad juju on that boat.