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[chenfordsbby]

"Standoff"

Season 1 Episode 9: "Standoff"

“Officer Bradford’s wife is found shot but alive, and he vows to track down the man responsible: Officer Nolan must protect his home and the truth after a home invasion attack”

Original Air Date: January 8, 2019

Written By: Alexi Hawley

Directed By: John Terlesky

Back again with another Shop Drop!! Episode 9 is the episode that aired after coming back from the winter hiatus! So for a good month, we are left wondering what happened to not only Isabel, but with John and Lucy…so let’s find out, shall we?!

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The episode picks up exactly where we left off, with John being attacked by the victims brother, who is clearly out for revenge.  Lucy listens in and she makes the final decision to make herself known to distract the brother to give John enough leverage to knock him on his ass.  John calls in the attack and Lucy is on edge and in panic mode.  She does not want to get seen or caught being at Johns, given their whole predicament and especially at 1 in the morning aka a booty call.  Lucy leaves the house before any of the cops and ambulances come.  Not for nothing, she is trying to save her ass and whose to blame her.

I think its’ clear that Lucy is starting to move on from this relationship with John.  She clearly knows that the back tracking and their previous nights hook up was a mistake, and like she said, a “heat of the moment” type of thing but John seems a bit more hesitant to let her go so easily.  

For just being attacked, John is very cool, calm and collected; a very stark difference from how his demeanor was in the last episode.  He answers all of Commander West and Captain Anderson questions with no hesitation.  Commander West continues to ask John questions regarding the previous nights invasion, especially because now that the brother awoke, and starting to talk, he just so happens to mention that he heard a second voice in the house last night, but John sticks to his original story…that he was alone, much to Officer Wests dismay.  When all units are called to the apartment, the entire precinct scrambles and makes their way over, including Officer West and John.  I don’t know what Officer West sees when he watches John arrest one of Vance guys, but it must have been something special, because it makes him drop all investigations on John.

The next morning, Captain Anderson notifies John that he is cleared in the fatal shooting of his victim, but there are some holes that are starting to gape in his statement and the investigation in the home invasion from the previous night.  John is sequestered to front desk duty until the investigation can clear.  John is very much out of his element at the front desk he is meant to be out on patrol, that’s a given.

Tim and Angela are out searching for Isabel and they get notified that they found her shot and unconscious in the dumpster.  Tim goes into fight or flight mode, all is forgotten in that moment as he watches her getting wheeled into the ambulance, “Im here baby, Im here”.  At the end of the day, Isabel is still his wife, and nothing else matters.

The Tim we see in the the office with Grey is clearly a different Tim than when we saw him in the first episode.  It’s like he’s speechless, somber.  Isabel is the only thing that’s on his mind and running through his thoughts, nothing and nobody else.  The only mission that Tim sees now is getting Vance, who shot Isabel.

All hands are on deck in getting Vance and the guys involved in Isabels shooting, and we are back to the entire ensemble working together, which is what we love about this show. 

We are getting itty bitty crumbs of Tim and Lucy in this episode.   Lucy confronts Tim and gives him her sympathies regarding Isabel, which he seems to take it in stride. Tim has Lucy go gear up the shop and to make sure she includes the Bradford Special.  We see Tim and Lucy, Angela and Jackson and Talia in the parking lot of the apartment complex where they believe Vance and his men AND his pregnant baby mama are all being held up.  They are ready to take this guy down.  Before entering, we get introduced to The Bradford Special- a chest plate for inside the vest for added protection. I guess Tim has been in a situation similar to this one where his special came in handy..

Tim and Lucy find Cesiah's apartment and push their way in.  They need her to lure Vance to her in order to be successful in taking him down.  So when Cesiah calls Vance to come back,  low and behold Vance is in the damn complex hiding out and he knows the cops are there…and BAM! Shots fired towards Talia and Jackson AND Angela.  Jackson has zero hesitation with shooting back.  It’s only a few episodes after his previous freeze ups, so he is either over that, or he has been working on the side with maybe Angela in order to overcome his holds up over open fire.  

I think a showdown is bound to happen.  Vance is outside the door with Cesiah, Tim and Lucy on the inside.  Tim and Lucys view gets blacked out by Vance’s men so they have to figure something else out.  Tim decides to take Lucy’s body cam and uses it as his eyes.  It’s a small moment, but its almost a little lesson that Tim teaches Lucy. “There’s a body cam app on your city issued phone” which Lucy opens up and together they use the body cam and the app to see what’s going on in the hallway. It really is an ingenious idea and I don’t know if Lucy would’ve thought about that on her own. 

Cesiah’s water breaks, and things are about to get a whole lot dicier, being stranded in the apartment, they have no other choice but to deliver the baby in the apartment.  Cesiah asks Lucy is she’s going to deliver her baby and before giving her an answer, she looks over to Tim.  Maybe its because she isn’t sure if it’s something she’s allowed to do, or she needs his approval to do it, but it’s the start of her always looking to get Tim’s approval and support on all of her decisions.

We don’t see it, but Lucy successfully delivers Cesiah’s baby and within seconds, Vances men enter the apartment, guns blazing and shoots Lucy right in the chest before she can even pull her gun out, knocking her cold out.  But did it hit her chest plate?  Honestly thank god for Tim and his special because as Lucy wakes and we hear and see Tim getting his ass beat by these men, Lucy removes her chest plate and the bullet is right in the middle of it.  Lucy taps in and starts double teaming these guys with Tim, I love watching this side of Lucy.

The detectives, Wolfe and Vestri end up at the apartment building, but unfortunately, they don’t know what they are riding up to and the second the elevator doors open, guns are blazing and shots are being fired form everywhere and both are immediately hit multiple times and they both go down.  Talia witnesses it all and comes to their rescue, and brings them to her safe zone, but Detective Vestri dies from the bullet wounds. 

The episode starts to end with Commander West and Captain Anderson informing John that he is cleared of everything, from the fatal shooting to the home invasion.  It’s been a long few days for John. 

Tim is at Isabels bedside at the hospital and when she wakes up, she whispers to Tim, “I didn’t know that rock bottom had a basement”.  I think its safe to assume that being shot in the head, on the brink of death, was her rock bottom and there is nothing but healing and recovery to happen from there.  What her recovery looks like, only time will tell, but will Tim be a part of it, or even in her future as a recovering addict?  It almost is feeling like the beginning of the end for them.

In the final moments, we see Lucy back at Johns house again, and I think they come to a mutual understanding and decision that even though their romantic aspect of their relationship is over, that doesn’t mean that their friendship has to also be over and they decide to be real friends; friends who can talk about their days with each other, real friends.  I think they are going to be way more successful at that type of relationship.  And with that, I truly believe the “Nucy” of it all has come to a complete close. Finally!

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Honorable Mention: The Special Effects Department on this show.  They know how to do their jobs and do it good too.

Episode Peak: Isabel Surviving

Episode Pit: Detective Vestri Dying

Quote of the Episode: “The world isn’t black and white.  And it won’t be better with us off the force.  We’re out there making a difference.  Thank about everybody you have helped.  Now think about what would have happened if you weren’t there.” ~ Lucy Chen

Episode Rating: 8/10.  I forgot how much I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.  It was a very fast paced, action filled one, which I have quickly found out I love.  The only downside to these earlier episodes is the lack of Tim and Lucy, but I know that we’re getting a whole lot more of them soon.  One of my blog readers mentioned to me that, this episode and the previous one almost felt like wrap up episodes for a few of the storylines that they catered too, hence why they were so heavily focused on Isabel and Tim and John and Lucy.  With all that being said, I really, really liked this one!

Side Note: I definitely did not go in order with my recap for this episode, I actually felt like I was all over the place with this one, but everything came to me so quickly and I didn’t know how else to write everything down, I hope it wasn’t too crazy!

Until next time on, “Get in the Shop”…!!!

[fluorescentbrains]

me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off

[crabussy]

hey. don’t cry. crush four cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and pasta of your choice ok?

[bakedbeanchan]

I love the first season of atla

[lichen-soup-scribe]

So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"

The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.

I love trans people so much

Edit 4/8, in case you don't see the reblogged additions -- my wife is now going by Eve!

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[verocitea]

Behold, the truth.

[livixbobbiex]

You know what's fun?

They seem to have made Percy more on the inattentive end of ADHD than hyperactive. Aside from the capture the flag scene, we mostly just see him zoning out, 'daydreaming', the line "I don't think it's the marshmallow's fault I never pay attention".

ADHD barely gets good representation as it is, but I don't think I've ever seen the inattentive type in media like this before. This is going to be huge for a lot of people who don't fall under the hyperactive stereotype umbrella.

I'm just really excited that more people will get the chance to see themselves.

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.

[skybornsoul]

[bpdetrimental]

Being traumatized from an early age is strange.

I long for a home I never had.

[ozlices]

another super insulting part of the watcher situation i haven't rly seen ppl addressing much

ryan deadass saying smth like "nobody else on youtube has made tv quality content"

like... i really feel like it's important to highlight that bc not only do they obviously have no respect for their audience, but that statement shows they have no respect for their peers in the industry, either.

not to mention it is a shining example of bleeding arrogance to such a high degree, you will straight up fucking lie bc you're truly convinced you're that special when you're anything but.

there's been NUMEROUS online creators who were recognized by entertainment industry workers BECAUSE they made tv quality content & even full stop blockbuster quality content.

bo burnham started on youtube & is now one of the most wellknown & loved standup comedians of our generation, with numerous netflix specials & even a movie he wrote & directed under his belt.

the try guys, fellow ex-buzzfeed employees, had their own tv specials on food network (based off their youtube shows, btw) & a documentary made about them as well

rosanna pansino has also been on numerous food network shows both as a host & a judge

quinta brunsun, another fellow ex-buzzfeed employee, went on to create her own whole ass sitcom that has been highly praised

matpat cameo'd in the fnaf movie because of his theories & multiple other fnaf creators had small cameos through the employee of the month board easter egg

markiplier made multiple high-quality shows on youtube & is now working on a highly anticipated movie (he was also planned to cameo in the fnaf movie but couldn't due to conflicting schedules with his own movie)

hot ones got their own tv gameshow due to their popularity & they are still one of the most wellknown, beloved & respected internet shows

many short films made on youtube went on to premiere at film festivals & even in theaters

the hit horror film "talk to me" was created by youtubers rackaracka

webseries of actual fucking tv shows have also existed for literal decades

the list goes on.

to seriously think that overproduced bullshit is all you need to make "tv quality content" is not only tone-deaf, but shows they do not even know what they're talking about. many tv shows & huge blockbuster movies are made with absolutely microscopic budgets & small teams, & they still get praised & awarded for the passion, dedication, & creativity that shined brightly under those restrictions.

the blair witch project is probably the most wellknown & highly praised example of this, but it is far from the Only example

it is a whole other slap in the face, again ESPECIALLY when puppet history is one of their most popular shows, to spit in the face of internet history. to see the success of their predecessors, even ppl they fucking worked with at buzzfeed, & deny them of all their success & efforts to get where they ended up.

no, y'all are not the first people to make "tv quality content" on the internet. FAR from it. because your crap isn't even genuine "tv quality".

but you are the first ones to ever disrespect not only your audience, but your own fucking industry & your peers on this level.

& you are the first & i sorely hope the only fuckwads dumb enough to pull a stunt this fucking stupid, out of touch & utterly tone deaf.

[3twindragons]

[lotrmusical]

poll time. yes this is just a ploy to get people to recommend me poems

if yes, let me know which poems/recite some for me in the tags!

[danielcalmdown]

early morning, on the way to Martinaise

[demigods-posts]

percy doing better than annabeth in college is one my favorite developments in the rrverse. if we reflect on percy and annabeth's academic upbringing. annabeth living at camp allowed her to receive accommodations for her adhd and dyslexia and surround herself with like-minded campers who had the same limitations. whereas percy was ridiculed, belittled, and routinely humiliated because of his adhd and dyslexia. even more so, percy's friends and family leave him out of the loop on so many important issue (no chb orientation film, no information about the great prophecy) which perpetuates his subpar confidence and self-esteem in his skills as a student and a demigod. but going to college at NRU changes his mindset because he receives the accommodations he should have gotten years ago and fucking thrives to the point of getting higher grades than annabeth — a person he deems way smarter and more prepared than him in every way. the most important thing percy is learning now is that a supportive environment makes all the difference, and he is more capable than he initially thought.