5x16 Exposed

LOL. Okay it's been FIVE years of this nonsense. You guys need to stop trying to make patrol cop seem like the most dangerous job on earth. When Nolan is telling his hot rookie: "Oh you don't know? Valentine's day is the most dangerous day of the year". I nearly died laughing. I thought Halloween was the most dangerous time of the year? I thought summer was the most dangerous time of the year. I thought the fourth of July was the most dangerous time of the year?

Every day can't be the most dangerous time of the year. Next year Christmas will be the most dangerous time of the year because parents will go nuts for the presents. Uh oh look out for Labor Day the secret most dangerous day on the force because workers unite and bosses get heavy handed.

I was promised a fight between Nolan and Bailey and they can't even do that right. I don't hate Bailey. She's not Ali Larter but she's fine. But this fight felt like "oh right we haven't had them fight right? We can do that for a story have them fight." It was over something silly. Honestly it really felt out of character for Nolan to snatch someone's phone without so much as a "May I?" I actually thought going into it that the point of the scene was that Nolan was using his male privilege to get them to listen. Which would have made sense. Instead our good guy Nolan snatched his girl's phone and just did it for her which we're supposed to think is in character? I do think the people of this show are performatively perfect a lot of the times but this isn't the sort of real people mistakes I was expecting. This is just silly. It was a cro-magnum level fight. The fight between Tim and Lucy was much better. It was seeded it was in character. Even though Tim says it wasn't about being emasculated it still fits everything we know about Tim who CAN be above such things but sometimes isn't. Which is fine. But that fight was handled better because it was treated like what it was which was a small tiff and minor manipulation but for a greater and personal good.