The Rookie S02E07: Safety *spoilers*

I love the quirkiness of this show. So Nolan is now free to date the doctor (although I'm hoping he and Chen start back up)

 

I thought this was the most ridiculous part of that whole scene. It's not like the guy would have the booby trap armed when he was in the house, so why would he need to avoid the pressure plates? Not to mention being able to have pressure plates under a wood floor that would be triggered by a foot on one board but not on the next one over, since the floor is all one attached piece.

As to the coins, I thought that maybe they had time to go get them from their lockers or something. But I don't know that keeping in their lockers is any more believable than carrying one around.

 

She *says* she isn't pregnant. The only thing I could think through that last scene is that she really *is* pregnant, but told him that she wasn't to test to see if he wanted to be a father or not.

I'm predicting that we see her again, more visibly pregnant.

 

Interesting theory----never occurred to me...

 

Me either.

I think (or at least hope) it was a simple as she is getting older and if she wants a child of her own she is running out of time.

If she was actually pregnant Nolan would do the right thing. However she isn't and he doesn't want to be a dad again. So that is that (hopefully).

 

I disagree that the chemistry is the same between Nolan and Grace vs. Nolan and Jessica. Maybe it's just because I like Sarah Shahi a lot more than Ali Larter, but I don't really feel the relationship with Grace at all. But whatever. The thing that really seemed weird to me is that in the morning Jessica is worried because she's three days late, and by the evening of the same day she wants a baby so badly she's willing to call off their relationship because of it. Even by TV show standards that seems a little ridiculous, and it feels extremely out-of-character for Jessica in particular.

 

While I enjoy the show, they seem lost as to what they want to do with supporting characters. Sometimes I wonder if they were tied into story lines with Bishop initially and they didn't know where to go with them when she left. For example, what was the point of ever introducing the night general guy. Seems like they don't really know what to do with his character.

 

I had to look it up on Wikipedia, but I think the point of the challenge coins is to have them on you. [edited to add: Oops... AM already covered that in the original post.]

Though Wikipedia didn't say anything about the "slide to the edge" game.
It looked like the "game" was typically someone at a bar would whip out a challenge coin and tap it on the counter. Then everyone around would need to produce a challenge coin. The ones that couldn't would buy the round of drinks for those that do. If everyone does produce a coin, then the one who initiated the challenge buys the round.

(I've only heard of challenge coins before this because they had a discussion on the West Wing Weekly podcast. But I guess it's a thing...)

 

They should bring in some new rookies not new TOs

 

The problem is that the show is called "The Rookie" and Nathan is the main character. If they brought in a new class of rookies, then he wouldn't be a rookie anymore...

 

How many years can he be a rookie? I don’t really see a problem with him eventually becoming a TO with a rookie beneath him, the show will still be about a rookie

 

While it looks like Chen made the right choice with the wooden boards, I was thinking with all those books around maybe throw some on the ground and see what happens. lol. Let's go out in a blaze of glory!

 

I wondered about this during the first season and looked it up. Apparently it varies quite a bit from place to place. There's an official probationary period, which can last from a few months to a couple years. From that point forward, it's essentially undefined and determined by when your peers (and you) feel like you can stand on your own two feet.

 

I'm totally infatuated with Sarah Shahi. If anything my wife will be glad to see her off the show so I can stop commenting on how smoking hot Sarah is. Every single time I see her.

It did not occur to me that Jessica may actually be pregnant, which would explain her bizarre character shift, but she already played a character doing something very similar on another show recently.

 

If Madame Secretary is still Madame Secretary, then this can still be The Rookie even if he's not.

 

Essentially, it's his police service bio and story, wherever he might be.

 

Do they really not teach female police trainees how to handle assailants larger than them?