r/TheRookie

Fun fact - the location of westview hospital is a real, very errie, no longer in use hospital as well as the surrounds area. I’m surprised they decided to film there. I worked on a super low budget sci-fi movie of the week there once. We were set up in the morgue and other locations both in the hospital and surrounding buildings on many night shoots. It wouldn’t let me post the link to the wiki but it’s called the lanterman developmental center you can google or maybe it let me

it is the creepiest place I’ve ever been to in my entire life. I couldn’t even bring my self to watch these episodes I had to fast forward!

I’m surprised they used this location for a tv show that’s pretty high up in rankling but I guess it’s a good location for what they needed. plus it basically on the cusp of the 30 mile zone. Most of the set Dec stuff was probably found on site. It’s not a place you want to be at at njght!

It’s an eerie place!

Back during the Doug Stanton episodes, we find out that the bodycams they use even if you "turn it off", once you turn it back on, it will rewind the past 2 minutes and keep it in memory. This is how Doug Stanton was caught in the act.

So here's my issue, season 8 episode 8, we saw Everett click the off button, but we know that if Tim turned it back on once he put Everett back in the shop it would rewind and the part where Everett bribed him and Bradford declined would've been caught on body cam right? So did Tim forget to turn it back on or something? But this coming from, as Lucy called him, Tim "supercop" Bradford is kinda weird right? Or is this just bad writing and the writers forgot that the bodycams have this feature?

Because we were reminded of this again after the Stanton episodes when Professor Ryan went on the ridealong, Nolan told her "Oh did you know that our bodycams rewinds 2 mins once we turn it back on" and Ryan said "wow, and why is it every time a cop does something bad it's always broken". 😂

Anyway it's just weird that he never got that on video.

What’s your favourite iconic quote? Mine is when Nyla says “its a girl” while calmly holding her baby AND a gun to the intruder she’s an ICON

Now that Season 8 is complete, I do have some thoughts on Miles and his lack of progress this season.

He’s a great addition to the cast but at times it’s felt like they aren’t really sure what to do with him. Or he’s stagnated a bit.

He started off in Season 7 as a cocky, charming, charismatic cop with “2 years of policing under my belt back in Texas” and now at the end of Season 8 - no further forward than he was when he started. If anything, he’s further back than he should be. Professionally and personally. I’m not sure what’s going on with him. Or what it’s all building to.

As much as Seth was extremely problematic - putting it mildly - he was a fascinating character and they could have done so much with him and delving into his backstory. Instead they went with Miles who started off so promising and yet, seemed to just drift along and has made IMO no real impact. Which is such a shame because the potential is there.

Why did he leave Texas? He had been a cop for two years there. What made him join the LAPD and start all over again? Did he ever say why?

What about family? Does he have any?

Why do they always leave Miles out of team get togethers? He wasn’t at the gala in S7, he wasn’t at Wesley’s Fundraiser or his commiseration party. Nolan didn’t even visit him in hospital - his actual boot - after the station explosion. He was one of the last to know about Tim proposing and that’s only because he overheard. It really gives “outsider” vibes to me. Even Aaron knew before him and he doesn’t even work there.

He’s made mistake after mistake - some serious, some not and the constant TO changes did not help. He’s been written as if he knows nothing about policing but he was a cop before. He’s an LAPD rookie, not a rookie cop.

I really hope in Season 9, he starts to get treated like one of the team, he cracks some cases and starts to settle down in his personal life. The comments he’s made about his lack of love - give him someone to decompress with!

I can’t help thinking it’s all leading somewhere but I’m not sure where yet.

An issue I’ve had binging the first seven seasons before watching season 8 live that I have is we get the reoccurring villians sticking around way too long in my opinion. Rosalind, Elija, Oscar, Monica etc are fun characters but at a certain point I feel like they became overplayed and overstay their welcome, with me starting to feel the same with Liam.

i get the reality of bad guys don’t always go away or down neatly but idk part of me rolls my eyes when I see Oscar or any of them really now. Im sure had we not have had the real life passing of Rosalind’s actress her character wouldn't have been written out (not sure if it’s been confirmed if her illness lead to that or not).

Idk is this just an issue of me binging and had I watched it live it works better? Like I think they handled La fiera well and made that a solid story that could have dragged on. Like at this point I won’t feel satisfied from a story telling standpoint when or if Oscar dies just like relieved which I think is a disservice to how good he was at the start.

Joke because I take this way too seriously and need to get over not being able to watch a new episode for another year. I already miss reading my dialogue teasers and looking over promo pics 🥲 it's been a good run