#ame watches the rookie

[tropicoamargo]

update on me watching the rookie (i’m on season 2 lol):

it’s very good im enjoying the storylines a lot, lopez & jackson are so fun. i already know a lot of what happens in the later seasons but it’s so interesting to see everything come together!

i’m enjoying tim and lucy’s dynamic so much (i’m on the episode where lucy’s kidnapped) love the slow burn here

[sisterofficerlucychen]

i want to empathize with tim so hard right now but the way i just remembered that lucy wasn't seen for 13 hours when caleb took her and he was so worried for him to leave her in the dark for 36 hours????? and justify it because he didn't want to risk her job???? like she would care more about her job than him?????  😭 😭 😭

[kazoosandfannypacks]

fans of drama when their drama is being a drama: oh no it's being a drama!

[paxbe]

the thing about buddie "versus" bucktommy is that this all follows the classic, seasons long, will-they-won't-they plot structure that we've seen with straight couples in tv procedurals and sitcoms for years

our romantic leads have a deep bond and unresolved sexual tension and maybe even come close to a kiss (👀) but it's always the wrong time and "they're with someone else and i want them to be happy" all while the audience desperately hopes they get together because they're so perfect for each other and clearly in love

there's a blueprint for this and there's nothing to say that buck having one queer relationship with someone that isn't eddie means that's all we're going to get

of course there's always the chance that the writers won't take the show the way it seems to be leading cough supernatural cough or that it won't go exactly as the fans hope (see every show ever since the history of time) but i think so far there's plenty of reasons to believe that buddie is still the eventual end goal

both buck and eddie have had several relationships with women over the past five seasons and that didn't stop us rooting for them to get together. it's actually a really cool and still pretty rare thing to get an unplanned sexuality realisation and canon queer relationship during a season of a show that's been renewed for another season and not right at the end because there was nothing left to lose (see legend of korra)

plus the show has had queer characters from the very beginning (hen, karen, michael) and introduced more over time (david, josh) who have all been shown to date more than one person so there's no reason to think they'd suddenly be worried about rationing the number of queer relationships a character can have

[dylanconrique]

i wonder what home videos tim and lucy are watching of each other right now.... 🥺🤧💔

[thesassywitchofthenortheast]

Tim looked so unfairly attractive in his dark suit on chenford’s first date

Like 1. it should be illegal to look that fucking good

And 2. I’m impressed with Lucy’s will power to say she wanted to take things when he’s sitting there look that hot.

[stargazerdaisy]

I'm completely unhinged today. I cannot focus, I do not want to. I have a stupidly busy day at work today, so much that I flaked out on attending an in person lunch meeting (that I normally love attending), because I need the time to get things done.

AND HERE I AM DOING JACK SHIT, BECAUSE ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS CHENFORD.

[kitebird-hockey]

jeff skinner 1,000 games. how about that.

[americorys]

Hey!! There's been a lack of Chenford promo/sneak peaks for this ep?! Thoughts/expectations...

listen...tv being this accessible is so wild. it makes me feel soooo old. like, tv has never been this accessible prior to an episode airing in the history of the format. the idea that we see press photos and releases and 10000 sneak peeks and spoilers is just so...bleh. i'm not into that. it can be fun to follow but idc about anyone's speculation but my own, other people's thoughts/expectations stress me out and i honestly very rarely share my own bc they just get me hate mail ✉️

i miss when the only thing i knew about an episode of upcoming tv was what i read in like, tv guide. i realize this is such an old lady take but as a person who loves the art of tv writing, i just feel like all this shit does the story such a disservice. think about the fact that until like, 10 years ago, honestly a little less, we didn't really see hoards of press photos for every single episode. we didn't see a bunch of sneak peeks so we knew what was to come. sure, there were spoilers, but idk - i yearn for tv to be able to operate in that oblivious space again, i hate knowing what's coming for an episode and forming expectations bc i'd rather just...enjoy television. it's honestly sad to me bc all this shit has changed the way tv works, the way it's written, etc.

anyway all of this is to say: there's been a lack of promo/sneak peeks in general for this ep. that's not abnormal, it just feels weird coming off 2 weeks in a row of a season premiere/100th episode level of hype. the chenford element of it is also not weird to me. they're 2/8 main cast members. other people are going to get the sneak peeks sometimes, just gotta roll with it. if you like the show, it shouldn't matter. ngl, i hate seeing chenford in sneak peeks bc then not all of the content is new for me. i'd so much rather be surprised.

i'm sure there will be some chenford content since there are press photos of them together and we know lucy will wind up riding with celina/tim from spoilers when they were shooting this ep. i'm personally hype not to have to go into this ep assuming i know anything. having all these preconceived notions, imo, is not a healthy relationship with tv so i just try to avoid doing it at all.

tl;dr: i have no expectations of this ep, i'm sure i'll like it bc i like most episodes of this show. i don't think it's weird there's been a smaller amount of promo bc we're coming off two major episodes and i enjoy the rookie without solely caring about chenford.

[tropicoamargo]

i’m on season 5 of the rookie and i am obsessed with lucy, harper and lopez

[sisterofficerlucychen]

i’m so emotional over the way they were talking about their options and tim points out: “break up or one of us leaves mid-wilshire” and there’s absolutely no hesitation with neither of them like lucy doesn’t miss a beat when she says “it should be me” and tim pushes back and lucy tells him that he can’t because he’d be taking a demotion because she checked and there are no open sergeant positions anywhere else. like the fact that she knew he’d push her back on this so she did her homework to be able to argue why she should be the one to transfer but also the way he said nothing and let the conversation be but went directly to grey because he knows what mid-wilshire means to her???? 

and like the parallel to the conversation he had with grey when he told him that rachel was moving to new york. he didn’t go with her because he’d get demoted and start over yet with lucy, this man not only took a demotion, he took a desk job - we have seen how much he hates desk jobs when covering for grey - and didn’t care because he is in love with lucy and the fact that it’d allow them to not only be together but still work the same shifts like he said yes, sold. 

siri play how you get the girl by taylor swift

[buckleyseddie]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN CAPTAIN ANDERSEN JUST DIED WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

[rebelcaptain4life]

YESSS DADDY COP V2 THANK YOU ALEXI AND ZANDER HALWEY

THE CHOIR?!!!

[dylanconrique]

if anybody on this goddamn show deserves to have a completely stress free wedding, where not one! single thing!! goes wrong!!!! it's tim and lucy.

[raceweek]

alex getting rookie of the year at the fia prize giving in 2019 against lando and george was actually so iconic when i think about it like the award means nothing but it’s so cunty that he beat them when he hadn’t set a toe in a f1 car until that season started whilst they had well over 1,000 laps between them in testing time. literally slayed

[earnmysong]

lucy: ‘his playbill?’

tim: ‘his playbook.’

this line is everythingggggg to me! i mean, i was going to maintain my ‘lucy adores musical theater’ headcanon regardless, but. i love me some validity!