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Okay, 7x6. Welcome back Tim Bradford, you were missed. I don’t know what pod person took over you since 6x6, but it’s nice to see glimpses of the character that I thought you were. Having said that, do the emotional work and grow some balls. You are a coward. Also, although the hook up was hot! 🔥 🔥🔥 There is still not the emotional development I need for these two. It almost feels like they are actually over. I hate this show so much for pulling me back in.

Also, I love reading interviews with Melissa because she has all the same issues with this season that I do. It’s super validating. If the actress who plays the character doesn’t get it, how are we supposed to.

Side note: Lucy’s clothes in this episode are amazing.

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Me to The Rookie

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Episode 7x5 was… boring. Once again, completely underwhelmed. I feel like the writing has taken a nosedive from seasons 1-3. Nolan and Bailey feel like caricatures and not real people. I feel like they are trying to make Celina, Seth and Miles similar to Lucy, Nolan and Jackson, but they have none of the same depth or chemistry. Why does Miles all of the sudden have a girlfriend when he has made moves on almost every girl he’s met? Just another example of the writing being so poor. I just imagine the writers sitting around going let’s give him a girlfriend with no acknowledgement of how he has been written prior to that moment.

Chenford, ugh! Make it make sense! They have left them hanging so long, I am apathetic at this point. Their emotional content or really their lack of emotional content for this many episodes is just so incredibly shitty. I am fully convinced Alexi did this on purpose because he hates shippers. Their interactions make no sense based on what happened last season. Their breakup made no sense emotionally either and it’s continued in this season. Which tells me, they are going to prolong them getting back together all season, if ever, or they are going to force them back together without it being earned. They have laid ZERO emotional groundwork for a reunification. There is no emotional growth on screen, especially from Tim. They are acting like colleagues. Tim has not even attempted to make a repair at all considering he destroyed their relationship in 60 seconds in a parking lot. Lucy, who could barely stand to be around him at the end of last season is fine with it all and asking him for advice. WTF? I know it’s a ship, but it was the one little spot I had in this dumpster fire of hell.

I see people hanging onto little moments and turning them into bigger things than I think we see on screen. I think people read interviews and add that to their character interpretations. I think little moments work when building a ship but not after you’ve obliterated it. Not only have you demolished the ship and completely regressed one of your characters, you choose to not let the characters have a cathartic conversation in order to let your audience figure out what to do with the end of the relationship. Also, this idea that he didn’t break up with her because he didn’t love her but because he hates himself is the biggest piece of bullshit. Please, for the love of God, stop making excuses for emotionally immature men, even if they are fictional. How you treat someone is just as, if not more important than how you feel about them.

This was Alexi’s big f*%# y&$* to shippers. It is cruel and purposeful. Just think about Grey’s comments about internet people.

Basically, Alexi ruined Castle and now he’s ruined this. Explains why I couldn’t get past the first episode of The Recruit. I used to love Nathan Fillion from as far back as One Life to Live, but Nolan is so sanctimonious and one dimensional he’s not interesting anymore.

Melissa O’Neill is the only reason I still watch.

I am gutted at what they have done to this couple I used to love. Tim isn’t even attractive to me anymore because his character is so awful now.

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Okay, I feel like I need today this again out loud. Tim is not in therapy. We are not being told or shown that he is in therapy, so it hasn’t happened. Eric and Alexi saying he has in interviews is not make it canon. Tim telling Lucy that Kojo missed her is not the same as saying he missed her. Tim is once again not displaying any emotional intelligence or doing any emotional work. Female fans making excuses for this character is distressing. Please never make excuses like this for your partner irl.

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Genuinely curious as to how people are perceiving this season as flirty and positive as far as Chenford goes. Tim has not done any work, despite what Alexi Hawley says in an interview, it’s not on screen. I don’t see Tim displaying any”small doses.” If anything I just see Tim acting like everything is fine. I see Lucy pretending things are okay because she has no choice.

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Unpopular opinion… I hated Chenford this episode. The fake happiness/ friendship they have going on is very unhealthy. It seems like Tim is the only one benefiting from their current relationship. It feels like they’re still in an emotional relationship minus the actual relationship. That’s not healthy whatsoever. Lucy is doing a lot of emotional labor and it feels like she’s just waiting for Tim to heal so they can get back together. That’s still a toxic relationship no matter how cutesy the heart eyes are. This is clearly going to end up hurting them mainly Lucy in the long run. Honestly I hate this for her. Think about it more deeply Lucy is just settling for whatever she gets and is supposed to accept it with a smile. She doesn’t make detective so they make her a temporary TO. She doesn’t get a romantic relationship with Tim but settles with an emotional (heavy on her part) relationship with Tim. I hate it here.

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Okay, I did not say anything about the first episode of season 7 because nukes?! Don’t waste my time.

Episode 2, had some good elements, but the last scene ruined the whole episode for me. I keep seeing all these interviews with Alexi Hawley and Eric Winter spouting about how much “work” Tim is doing and I call bullshit. You telling us in the interview is not the same thing as having it on the show. Unfortunately, at the end of Season 6, I predicted that they would ruin Lucy’s character and make her a doormat in the service of Tim’s ego and here we are, episode 2, exhibit A. Not only are we making her a doormat, but we have jokes at her expense from the other characters. Ladies of this fandom, please, I beg you look up internalized misogyny for your own sakes.

Tim has shown zero growth, there are no small doses and if anything they have completely regressed him as a character. He is not interesting to me at all anymore. If you have to tell me a character is doing emotional labor in an interview and I don’t see it on screen, that doesn’t mean it happened. That line of small doses, is the complete and utter bullshit I thought it was last season. Melissa O’ Neill is amazing and is the only reason I watch. What they have done to her character is a travesty.

To me they put the nail in their coffin on their relationship in this episode. They are not getting back together anytime soon. The will they or won’t they bullshit never works, see the most epic example of that in Moonlighting. The Rookie will be up there. Basically, Alexi never wanted together and so he broke them up. Tim doesn’t seem remotely interested. Lucy seems like she is covering up, but essentially her relationship with Tim cost her everything and he could care less.

The misogyny in this show is so disturbing. Alexi Hawley thinks he’s a feminist. I would love to sit his ass down and educate him.

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One more thing/rant…

I missed Jackson so much this season, mainly because I feel like Lucy has no support. I feel like she has had so many hits this season, one after another, but we barely know how she is dealing with any of that. (Lazy/poor writing-we don’t have time for that because we have to follow Monica around for 2 fucking episodes and a crazy slew of non relevant bad guys, instead 🙄). I feel like she has been so isolated and feel like none of the other characters seem to give a shit about the hits she took (Looking at Nolan, Angela and Nyla). Each story and hit was just dropped and never acknowledged again (again poor writing). She got teased by the entire station, 17th in detective’s exam (probably due to being blocked by Primm), she shot someone (that dude alive or dead, anyone know?-it’s like it never happened), Tim dumps her (anyone ask how she is, no, we rally around Tim instead).

Instead Melissa has to defend in an interview that she other friends outside of work.

I am glad we got to see badass Lucy Chen again though.

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Badass who???? BADASS LUCY FUCKING CHEN!!!!!

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" And I will spend the rest of my life, trying to pay it back in whatever small doses you allow. ”

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Mr. "We won't go backwards and never in a manipulative way," himself admitting he broke chenford up for drama and bc audiences want a will they/won't they. https://www.tvinsider.com/1136884/the-rookie-season-6-finale-recap-oscar-jason-escape-prison-chenford/

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One really awesome moment, Badass Lucy Chen!! 💪🏼

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Okay. Just finished the finale. Overall, this storyline was really awful and sooo poorly written. None of it made sense.

Tim had this huge murder pact, which prompted the breakup and lead Tim to go to therapy. Huh?! So we get no payoff of the therapy, other than “she was a really good therapist.” Excuse me sir, no she fucking wasn’t. At least he acknowledged the ridiculousness of him going to therapy resulted in learning the therapist was a blackmailer tied to Monica??!!! I am just curious if the writers were making fun of themselves by acknowledging the ridiculousness of this storyline in the dialogue? That was supposed to be Tim’s growth arc? Don’t get me started on the “Freak in the sheets line” way to reduce a female character and their relationship to a punchline about sex. Classy.

All season long, Lucy has taken hit after hit, been treated like absolute and complete shit by ever person around her. Don’t get me started on Nyla, Angela and Nolan. She loses her dream, which is barely mentioned and is dumped by her person. There is absolutely no acknowledgement of that at all either. Tim’s big speech to begin to repair is “You are kind to me. I will try to be kind, if you let me.”WTF??!! Not once, did he acknowledge how he hurt her, just a generalized BS statement. “I ruined everything.” This scene is supposed to be my hope for the future. Looks pretty bleak.

You are kind to grocery store clerks, not the person you supposedly love, who you hope to repair with after you hurt them deeply. But, I guess that is the best this show can do.

I just can’t. I just hate I can’t get the time I have spent invested in this show and relationship back. Alexi obliterated what was built over 5 years in the space of 2 episodes. There was no greater story or character development. It didn’t have any meaning or purpose other than to introduce the Blair/Monica connection. Had nothing to do with the undercover issue at all, which we spent half of last season and the beginning of this season talking about, which could have been a real obstacle for them to work through.

After seeing what Alexi did to Castle, I should have known better.

They are gonna make Lucy a doormat because Tim is kind to her. It’s infuriating because the inherent misogyny in the story is so obvious. How can these be the same writers who wrote this great line, “way to trivialize female anger.” Here we are.

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I want to talk a bit more about Lucy and that feeling of isolation that seems to be one of her main theme this season. While it may not have been as prominent lately, with Grey checking in on her or her burgeoning friendship with Celina, this feeling was back in full force in this episode. Only, this time, it was the writing that brought it out, not the camera work.

The way the team immediately rallied behind Tim and was ready to cross the line or risk their careers was so bittersweet. It was heartwarming to see that support for Tim… But it also emphasised Lucy's lack of support, making the contrast even more painful. When she mentioned how she had created several covers in anticipation of becoming a detective, this was the perfect opportunity for Angela and Nyla to be encouraging and sympathetic… to show some anger too on her behalf… anything, really. But no. Not one reaction from the two women who were mentoring her… And on a more personal matter - not one single person acknowledged Lucy's birthday. What makes it worse is that John's presence at her apartment was the perfect opportunity for that as well… But no. Instead, he had this deer-in-the-headlights look when Lucy started to open up about how she was feeling. From the way she was talking, it is all too clear that she still hasn't fully processed everything that has happened to her, that she is in dire need to talk things out with someone… but so far, besides Grey (her boss!), no one has really bothered to take the time to sit with her.

Like @roguetwelve so eloquently said, this episode highlighted how Tim could still count on Lucy and Angela as a support system… and how Lucy no longer has that. With Jackson's death and Tim's breakup, she really is on her own.

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Poor Lucy… (spoilers for 6x09 below)

1. They told us it’s her birthday, only to show no one (other than Kojo 😂) cares it’s her birthday.

2. She rambled to Nolan about how “good” she was obviously not doing and he was like, “Great 🙂” / gave zero f*cks

3. She brought up her failure to make detective (again) with no acknowledgment from Harper or Lopez, which makes it appear she is acting like a child about it and the adults in the room do not care.

4. She is not v stealthy for an undercover operative 😂

5. We got to see everyone come together and rally around Tim in his time of need (as they should have), while seeing Lucy be isolated as she’s struggled all season for apparently no reason at all…

What else did I miss?

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Lucy when Tim --

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