SnarkySheep

The thing that bugs me is that the show made SUCH a huge deal about Gabby being a female firefighter...we saw how no house in the area wanted to take her on, how much trouble it took for her to learn to do all the things she needed to do physically, etc. Then suddenly here's Stella, no bigger or stronger than Gabby, and also working in the same field in the same geographic proximity. But apparently she has no such problems. No, I watch PD faithfully...she was never there. My biggest issue with JJ and his mom was that his spending all that time at the firehouse was no big deal; but remember just last season, when Newhouse, an actual firefighter employed there, wanted permission for his daughter, who was older than JJ, to spend a few school vacation days there so he could keep an eye on her? And Boden made a huge deal about allowing it? But here, the child of some random acquaintance gets to leave her child there without anyone batting an eye. Bianca Holloway was just like, "Is is it ok with you, Kelly?" and he says, "Sure!" like it's totally up to him, never mind what the chief wants or if the rest of the crew wants a child underfoot. I know that JJ was a well-behaved, quiet kid, but so was Newhouse's daughter...

Well, but even that didn't really make much sense...Jo and Blair were still in college and doing various other work (e.g. I recall Jo student teaching around that time), Natalie made it clear she was just helping temporarily and Tootie was still finishing up high school, for heaven's sake. So it isn't exactly like these were equal adult business partners for Mrs G or anything. Then again, I could never really fathom how much time any of the girls could possibly have put into the running of Edna's Edibles, considering they all had full loads of classes and various extracurricular activities. Sure, it was just a small shop but Mrs G would've had to be up at the crack of dawn baking every day prior to opening. If the girls actually covered any significant number of hours at that shop with anything resembling regularity, they would've needed about 30 hours each day.

Me neither. After the fire, Mrs G was all like, I'm so tired of that shop already!! WTF?? It had only been a year or two since she opened it, so I'm really not sure where they were going with that one. Unless, of course, TPTB simply wanted to change gears and didn't know how to do it.

I think Sharon Goodwin went to Voight first because it seems everyone in Chicago at this point knows he can make things happen. He's the guy with the connections. I don't claim to know anything about such things...but if there had been some area of concern seen in the baby's ultrasound following mom's car accident, wouldn't she have been told about it? It just seemed weird to me that mom had no clue until Manning saw it.

From this episode, it seems that the interminable Halstead-Baker lawsuit plot will finally be ending; at the funeral, it didn't seem the husband was upset with Will, implying that it was the wife who pushed for the legal action. This makes zero sense to be, first because, as someone pointed out upthread, she didn't have to go through with the trial, and second, the woman was literally at death's door. Would she really want to spend her final moments dealing with the stress and complications of a lawsuit? But, whatever. If it's done, I'm good. I was also a bit puzzled about the baby's christening. If it was the mother-in-law pushing and not Natalie, then why on earth would she want Will to suggest a priest? If she did ultimately agree to a baptism and had no one in mind personally, then no doubt she would go with whoever her mother-in-law suggested (which would also be her husband's childhood parish). Having been raised Catholic, I can say that it's not just about the sacrament itself, but about having the child become part of the St. Whoever community. Also, most parishes won't even do it if the child's parents are not active members of their church. Yet no one mentioned any of this.

Interesting point, because I think it works storywise...as in, just how much of Lindsay's career is her own abilities as a police officer and how much is having Voight behind her? In any case I'd imagine there would be quite a bit of talk within the district.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall a scene with Burgess, Roman and Platt...there was some mention of a year (which Platt was mocking, of course), I want to say 1986? In any event, Burgess is definitely old enough to act differently. However, for some reason (because nothing has ever been said one way or another) I have this idea of Burgess as someone who's never been in a serious relationship before. If that were indeed true, then it would stand to reason that she might act the way she has, simply because it's all so new to her. IMO the writers wanted to create a new dynamic by having Lindsay and Burgess together. They did work together a couple times, once by special request and once by coincidence of being together, but as Burgess isn't Intelligence that clearly can't happen too often. So they did the only other thing they could think of, which was putting them together to talk "girly issues." Because, let's be honest...the two might be friendly but something just says they wouldn't be natural friends. They just seem to have come from different worlds and have different interests.

Regardless of whether they do or don't, I'm sure that TPTB must chat with one another periodically, or at the very least watch each other's shows, just to make sure that they aren't stepping on each other's toes by duplicating a storyline or messing with someone's continuity, as they do incorporate one another's characters quite often.

I'm sure you could watch the scene again on YouTube or somewhere...but no, IIRC, the minister was definitely talking about the perpetrators being treated fairly by the police.

The character of Bob, IMO, was meant to be Joe Average...balding, a little paunchy, nobody you'd really take notice of. But it always felt like he was somebody you'd be lucky to know, or have as your neighbor (Howard took total advantage and nobody would've been surprised if Bob and Emily ended up in prison over him...)

We've had another two episodes since you asked this, and we STILL haven't seen or heard anything about this. I hate when they start something and then drop it. If they don't want to devote a lot of airtime to it then it's fairly easy to have a few throwaway lines, like showing Olinsky on the phone with her or Ruzek remarking to someone that he's "so glad Olinsky and Michelle got their own apartment," whatever. Just SOMETHING, please!

I agree...I think it was well acted and overall a good story. The thing that appalled me, though, was when the minister came to see Voight and remind him that "black lives matter", in other words to promise that the police would treat the killer(s) respectfully. I was all whaaaaat?? Here you've got a little boy - also black - murdered in cold blood and the minister's big concern is that no one rough up the person who did it?? Yes, I get the whole real-life issues with police brutality, especially in Chicago, but that just felt a little off to me. I was seriously waiting for Voight to say, "Yes, black lives DO matter; that's why we want to find and apprehend the person who killed this child ASAP."

I agree with everyone who enjoyed seeing the maturity of Linstead's relationship; too many shows go the predictable "OMG, s/he's cheating on me!" route, only to have us find out by the end of the episode that nothing happened, etc. Lindsay clearly knew her man well enough not to doubt him, and likewise I think the viewers agreed with her POV. It would be very OOC for Halstead - the guy who dated the same girl all through high school and is still in touch with her family at age 30 - to go to bed with a woman who merely suggested it. He's an attractive guy, so I'd have no doubt this wasn't the first situation of its kind. But he dealt with it well, and Erin knew that he would. In regard to Voight...I thought he was really out of line asking Halstead if he was sleeping with Brianna. Yes, we know that's how Voight rolls, especially when it comes to protecting Erin. But there comes a point where it's absolutely NONE of his business. Even if he was cheating, that's for him and Erin to work through and nobody else. As for Terry leaving a pregnant wife...I would have been a little better of that if it didn't smack so strongly of Natalie on Chicago Med. It was like the writers were too lazy to come up with a fresh storyline.

Not necessarily out of fear for himself, but for Justin or Erin, sure. Someone like that Eddie wouldn't care one bit who he hurt, as long as he felt he came out ahead.

Voight was not one bit naive. However, he was basically put into a corner on this one. Eddie seemed to have made it quite clear all along (even before this, when he was on the phone with Voight a couple of times) that Voight owed him for his protection while in prison. I'm sure Voight knew all too well what kind of scenario he'd be faced with were he NOT to go along with Eddie, so he basically went into it hoping for the best. However, Eddie ruined any legitimate help Voight might have been able to provide him because of his greed.

Doesn't Vanessa live with her grandmother? It suddenly occurred to me that she's always with Gerald's family, they are the ones who take care of Edie, etc. Seems a little odd that we wouldn't even hear a MENTION of Grandma Vanessa, even some throwaway line like from Sara like "I can watch Edie this morning; maybe your grandma can help with the afternoon?", whatever.

From my POV, we have seen Anneliese only as very strong and capable in her daily life. Then suddenly, something happens where we see her insecurities - a whole other side of her, in fact. To me that's a good thing, because it's pretty much as happens in real life. We all have our "moments," so to speak. Sometimes it's nice to see a chink in someone's armor, and in fact may help solidify her relationship with the rest of the staff.

Geez, poor Will can never catch a break! First everyone calls him out for acting too smug and presumptuous; then when he tries to consider the feelings of others, it's seen as him not standing up for what he wants. What exactly IS the guy supposed to do here? Re: someone commenting upthread about Will's hair - I just watched the ep of Chicago PD where we first meet Will. As he's talking to Jay, it's VERY obvious that the hair he had then is nothing whatsoever like the hair he now has. I wonder why?

Same here, but it just made me question why he would have CHOSEN to go into general population. Clearly he understood the danger, but he didn't want to die (a little confusing, as he claimed he was ok with it but didn't want his kid to think of him that way, i.e. the same kid who was the CAUSE of Voight being there.) Aside from that, God bless Burgess for breaking off the engagement in a calm and reasonable manner. Too many shows have the people making a scene, flinging the ring into the nearest body of water, etc. I was a bit confused about Mama Burgess having to "fly in" to meet with the Ruzeks. Just the other season, when her niece Zoe was in the hospital, didn't Burgess mention trying to call her parents? I would presume that would mean they were local and could quickly get to the hospital. Either Mama Burgess suddenly moved cross country or else the writers forgot this detail (I'm willing to bet the latter.)

Clearly Tawny hasn't been tuning in to the various Chicago shows lately...otherwise she would know nothing good comes of staying at an AirBnB lately (see: Chief Boden). I know we're supposed to think they are doing the "right" thing, as they are generally lashing out at people who kinda sorta deserve it. But I can't help but think this sort of behavior, regardless of what spurred it, would be so ongoing in the PD, especially considering all the issues in real life these days with police brutality. Surely someone would have told their lawyer about the cage by now? Shown some unexplained bruises they hadn't come IN to the station with? etc. Perhaps for Dick Wolf, but NOT for either Voight or Bunny! At this point I fully imagine each working in their own individual underground lairs, twirling their cartoon villain mustaches... Huh. Well, ok, maybe not.

Because I am a nitpicker, I couldn't stop thinking about that VHS tape, "Xmas '88." Let's say the child in the movie is about three or so; this would make him born in 1985. That, in turn, would make him now 30. We know that Erin was 30 on her last birthday. Somehow I am doubtful she and Justin are supposed to be the same age. (Remember the first time Jay met him, and Erin said he was "like a little brother" to her?) Also, if Camille died six years ago, that would mean Justin was 24 then. Of course having his mother die would be horrible, but it wouldn't seem that it would have affected him so dramatically as an adult as it apparently did when he was younger. It would also seem a bit odd that Justin did essentially NOTHING with his life in practically three decades until joining the Army last year. Ok, I'm done...I'll see myself out...

True. (I myself am not a bar person.) But it doesn't seem there are too many strangers at Molly's :-) The vibe I get is that it's more about friends hanging out after a stressful day at work than getting drunk, y'know?

I gave the Molly's thing a bit of thought...could it be that given his PTSD, he dislikes crowded/noisy places? That would be about the only thing to make sense to me. We know that he does drink, as we've seen him drinking a beer with Halstead or alone, just not in larger settings.

Yep, she was introduced as a nurse when we first met her via Severide on Fire. And apparently, a nurse important enough to be able to take a personal leave for six months to globe-trot and still have a job waiting for her when she returned...

My personal take on this ep was that Gerald really needed a slap of reality, which it doesn't seem he's gotten from Sara. Yes, I get that she'd want to give him a place to live; she doesn't want him to suffer. But he's a father now, which means he needs to put his own whims aside in order to provide for Edie. He doesn't (or shouldn't) have the luxury of playing the kid role at this point, turning his nose up at jobs he thinks he won't like or are beneath him. As he well knows, his own mother worked her tail off to support him; yet Gerald seems content to let Mom still pay the bills while he works on apps. It's wonderful to have a dream, but at this point that's something Gerald should be doing in his spare time, not in place of gainful employment.