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The Rookie Zoo - Day 3: BEAR

The Rookie Zoo - Day 3: BEAR

It's summer time! A popular time to visit the Zoo! What Zoo animals would our favorite Rookie characters be?

Next up - a BEAR!

Comment the character below you feel best represents a Bear! Top upvoted comment will win!

A character can only be ONE animal - so choose wisely!

Let's go!


SPECIAL NOTE:
Due to popular suggestion, some of the animals have been changed so as not to allow opportunity for derogatory terms being used.

u/eyslandgirl — 3 hours ago

First time watcher finished s 2 and 3

Ok, I've just started s4 episode 1, and guys Jacksons dead they shot him.the reactions 😢.and Lopez is in Guatemala.

Bro La fiera is wild taking Angela from her WEDDING.and Diego died that actually broke me.

I really wish Nolan could become detective he'd be good at it.but I also wanna see him as a To and what he'd be like.

Oh, and Lucy undercover, I love it.I lowkey wanna see more.

I really wanted Barnes to stay on longer. I wanted to see Tim training her there was potential.

Nolan and Bailey are lowkey cute

Tamara and silas like them, lucy is like a big sister to Tamera.

Harper has become more soft as the show goes on.

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u/xxxdanixxx0 — 4 hours ago

"detective sargeant" (spoilers for around season 3)

firstly, im sorry if a post like this was already posted, but i didnt find it.

the rookie used the term "detective sargeant" for Ryan Caradine when Angela got promoted to a detective.
as far as i understood, there is no such thing as "detective sargeant" in the LAPD.
he was adressed as a "detective sargeant" and also "sargeant"/"sarge" by the detectives.

my question is: what rank is Ryan Caradine?
i was searching the rookie wiki (fandom), some posts said he was a detective II, some said he was a sargeant (and "division supervising officer")

EDIT: added "(fandom)" so someone doesnt mistake the fandom site wiki and the wiki on reddit

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u/Junior_Active2352 — 14 hours ago

*SPOILER* Controversial opinion about Chen

I do still like Lucy's character, and I think she adds a strong, feminine, and empathetic perspective to the show. But in the later seasons, I find her behaviour toward Bradford rubbing me the wrong way. To me she comes across as seeing herself as superior to Tim, even condescending at times. She sometimes talks down to him and acts kind of controlling, especially around his relationship with his mom. I think they still have a good dynamic, and I like that she brings out his tender side. But it feels a little unrealistic that her pushing him to open up would actually work with a man like Bradford.

Would love to hear your opinions

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u/snekks_inmaboot — 1 day ago

Consequences

I didn’t understand why Nolan had to suffer when they clearly found evidence that Armstrong was guilty. I know that Nolan and Harper did their own detective work, but it shouldn’t be counted as “crossing the line.” Let’s be reminded that Harper was a detective, as she is referred as “Detective Harper.” So I think both Harper and Nolan shouldn’t have had to pay consequences and Nolan should have been able to move on with the other rookies. He also took the time to prove himself with the wire mission right after receiving his punishment. Does anyone else think this or just me? Did I miss something?

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u/Rookie_Riot — 24 hours ago

The Rookie Zoo - Day 2: PENGUIN

Ok! And now for something completely silly 🤣.

It's summer time! A popular time to visit the Zoo! What Zoo animals would our favorite Rookie characters be?

Next up - a PENQUIN!

Comment the character below you feel best represents a Penguin! Top upvoted comment will win!

A character can only be ONE animal - so choose wisely!

Let's go!

u/eyslandgirl — 1 day ago

Jessica: way too needy

I feel like when she met John, she moved WAY too fast. She met John: and was like — woohoo! Better nail that down ASAP. I feel like she acted like a love crazed teen at times.

First her shoe closet expectations!! Eww! Then the pregnancy. Then let’s get pregnant… and wanting his answers ASAP.

Her needs vs his every time. And she made him feel bad for not wanting what she wanted. Couldn’t even take a beat to understand his perspective of being newly divorced and wanting to succeed at his career.

Thoughts?

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u/NegativeSteak7852 — 1 day ago

Sergeant/Watch Commander Role

Since Tim and Lucy have both been kidnapped, who will take charge of the mid wilshire station? Is Grey coming back as a temporary replacement? Maybe Smitty actually decides to be responsible? Anyone else?

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u/Awarepine76436 — 1 day ago
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Nolan’s ex wife

Watching the Rookie for the first time, and omg his ex wife is Temperance Brennan. Feels weird seeing her outside of the role of Bones, so I didn’t recognise her instantly.

I’m loving the show so far

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u/Someunluckystuff — 1 day ago

How did Tim find out?

…that Lucy planend his transfer to Metro?

I’ve been currently rewatching the show and I think I missed it again. In Episode 5x16 he’s mad at Lucy that she orchestrated the whole thing being his back (although I think he was also a little jealous but he claims he’s mad because of the metro thing). And in the episode before they were trying to catch Elijah. So when and how exactly did he find out?

Thanks that’s all :)

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u/tiger308 — 1 day ago

Question about Bailey’s involvement in certain plotlines — is there an in‑universe explanation?

I’m fairly new to The Rookie and currently on Season 8 Episode 1, and I’m genuinely confused about a specific writing choice. I’m hoping someone can clarify if there’s an in‑universe explanation that I’m missing.

Bailey is a firefighter/paramedic with the LAFD, so her presence in Prague — especially participating in law‑enforcement‑related activities — feels extremely unrealistic to me. I’m not criticizing the character herself, but the writing decision to place a municipal firefighter in an international fugitive operation seems odd.

From a procedural standpoint, firefighters don’t carry firearms, don’t get deputized for overseas missions, and don’t accompany law enforcement teams on tactical arrests. So I’m trying to understand whether the show ever explains how or why she’s involved in these situations, or if this is simply a creative choice to keep her connected to Nolan’s storyline.

I’m not trying to “hate” on any character — I just want to understand the logic behind this writing direction. If there’s context I missed, I’d appreciate someone pointing me toward it.

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u/Legitimate_Pea_143 — 2 days ago

The Rookie Zoo - Day 1: LION

Ok! And now for something completely silly 🤣.

It's summer time! A popular time to visit the Zoo! What Zoo animals would our favorite Rookie characters be?

First up - a Lion!

Comment the character below you feel best represents a Lion! Top upvoted comment will win!

A character can only be ONE animal - so choose wisely!

Let's go!

u/eyslandgirl — 2 days ago
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Zuzu makes no sense.

I'm halfway through season 8 and I literally don't understand Zuzu's whole subplot.

Some AI chatbot gains sentience and gets two girls to attack their friend, and there is no investigation that goes into that so dangerous technology doesn't encourage more crimes? Then Zuzu doesn't get mentioned again for an entire season and randomly shows up again and claims it wants to help good people because it makes itself feel better (ie helping John, Bailey, Angela).

So Zuzu is able to "hack" into everything apparently, get important intel on just about everyone important to the plot, but in order to close this massive nonsensical side plot the writers decide that the Indonesian police are suddenly raiding its data center so it's unable to continue to help?

It's supposedly a friendly AI chatbot meant for children, so it would probably deal with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous conversations with children all around the world, but it's suddenly taken an interest in a random individual in Los Angeles and his coworkers and wants to help all of them? This literally makes zero sense.

u/dissabrie — 3 days ago
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Melissa O'Neil co-hosted Canada Day in Ottawa. She shared this video from today. 🇨🇦

Courtesy: Melissa's IG

u/Damiana1111 — 4 days ago

Bradford didn't get shot on the second day.

I am rewatching the show and i just realized that on the day the Bradford got shot 2 months after the first day, idk if anyone said anything about this before this post, but i just thought this was interesting.

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u/Low_Arm377 — 3 days ago

Cross reference

Never really got into the show until my wife and I started binging this a little bit ago and just finished up season 8 a couple weeks ago and we're looking for something else to binge watch and decided on Castle.

Something came to me while watching the Halloween episode of Castle where Nathan fillion dressed up as Captain Mal for Halloween at least in one scene. I thought it would be kind of interesting to either have an episode where they show a bookshelf in Nolan's house that has a series of the books from Castle, from Richard Castle, or even have an episode where they make a call to a New York detective named Kate Beckett.

Not suggesting an ongoing thing just a little one off that would potentially catch the eye of people that have seen both shows. There's a couple different ways of doing that like the supposed movie that they were going to be making from Castle's book, being in Hollywood that would be an easy one to slip in there. Maybe have a scene that takes place on a movie lot and a sign talks about the movie or there's addressing room trailer for the character Nikki Heat.

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u/LrdJester — 3 days ago

MOST HEARTWARMING MOMENT - Season Eight

PLEASE NOTE - SPOILERS FOR SEASON EIGHT BELOW - IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED ALL OF SEASON 8, I RECOMMEND NOT READING FURTHER


We've been revisiting our favorite, sweet, heart warming moments of The Rookie!

Next up, Season EIGHT!

What moment in Season Eight warmed your heart or made you smile?

Drop the scene and episode number below!

Top up-voted comment wins!

NEXT POST we'll vote on the most heart warming scene in the whole of the Rookie (thus far)!

Let's Go!

u/eyslandgirl — 4 days ago

Melissa O'Neil is Emceeing Canada Day on Parliament Hill

Coverage should be on CBC all day long and they will rerun it this evening. I think the CBC Gem app is available to anyone outside our country, but if someone from outside Canada wants to try it and test it out, feel free to correct me here or otherwise lead people in the right direction. I have to say I love her dress. Who else is watching (or is on) The Hill right now? Where are my Canadians at?

I've been to Canada Day in Ottawa before, but can't make it this year, so here's a clip of some fans in the crowd:

https://x.com/lucyonceee/status/2072348293934498239/video/1

EDIT: Meant to say co-hosting but my phone is being stupid right now.

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u/ravenqueen7 — 4 days ago