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Hudson and Rex S04E09 - Impawster Syndrome - Part B

I'd love to know how she was planning on fighting them off with a shaving razor.

Charlie is surprised because he was probably expecting a boyfriend.

What exactly are you fighting about, children? The level of Jesse's nerdiness? Nerds can have girlfriends, you know.

Joe: "Rex found a girlfriend in your apartment."

Charlie: "Am I the only one who's still single?"

"Is questioning new girlfriends standard procedure or something?" It should be in this place. It really should be.

lol I'd forgotten the video of fake!Jesse punching someone.

It's a great day for justice.

"But do we really need to make an arrest before we question him?" Um, we just did? Do you want to do it yourself, is that it?

You cannot possibly think it's a good idea for Jesse to be questioned by his own team, Charlie. Anyway, he's out of his mind with worry and I like it.

"Okay, but if the media learns that IA is investigating, they're gonna take that as an admission of Jesse's guilt!" So, the proposed solution is to not let them do their jobs?

Rex just snuck into holding.

Man, they really should have thrown your snarky ass to IA.

The funny thing is that in this season Charlie does do a few things for which he deserves to get yelled at. That's definitely not one of them.

Okay, so your job is to be the tech specialist (or whatever title). You are aware of the new technology known as deepfake, and since you know that it's not you in the CCTV footage, how do you wait for a second video to emerge to think that it might be a deepfake? It should have come up even as an outlandish theory.

Jesse: "I can explain but I need my computer." Charlie: "Sorry, but I already had a criminal fool me like that. Not again." End of episode.

I died.

"I heard there are even programs now that can fake a person's voice." Well, you guys are really good at predicting your future. I'm not talking about the Charlie/Rex mashup, although I'm sure that must be somewhere out there as well.

Aw, Rex is barking because he doesn't want Jesse to be sent down to the holding cell again.

Diesel's head is huge lol

It's one more police cover-up. And you know what? It's not, obviously, but Jesse has received preferential treatment in this case, they even more or less admit it, and what gets me is that he is whining on top of that about how his friends have treated him.

Livestreaming and uploading a live video would have showed as different in most social media platforms. Unless you had, like, put the camera in front of the video that was already playing in another screen or something, which would in most cases result in poor audio and video quality, making it obvious that it wasn't live.

You can say that the guy was abusive, people.

And an actual peeping tom. Always, ALWAYS make sure you camera is covered when you don't use it.

Well, now you can do whatever you want.

"I'm not gonna eat healthy!" lol Jesse. But that donut looks nice.

Rex, you could have nibbled on the guy a little. For Jesse.

Charlie shoved him a bit. That's fair.

"Her Majesty's Penitentiary"? Jeez.

Uh-oh.

Okay, I'm having a hard time believing that SWAT would be deployed for a domestic dispute in Canada, even if there was a distressed call from a woman.

SWAT consistently is made to look pretty bad on this show lol

"We're totally surrounded." You don't say.

"We're not gonna let anything happen to you, okay?" How will you guarantee that, Charlie?

Oh god, he was framed and you guys were doing your jobs!

I'd have told him to stay put, actually. I don't know what protocol SWAT follows, but in all these cases you try to de-escalate the situation, not escalate it. And you need a negotiator.

lmao are you for real?

"I'm not letting you shoot Jesse! I don't know what the fuck the humans are doing!"

Jesse could use a hug, you emotionally stunted people (affectionate).

I mean, financial motivation to ruin someone's life, I get. But this is pure revenge because you sucked at poker? Don't gamble.

You know, believing him or not, it shouldn't have made much of a difference on how you handled your job.

Okay, sap.

I love this.

Wait, is Charlie wearing the same jacket he will wear in S04E14 for the undercover thing? Or am I tripping?

"Rex knows all my tells." Rex knows everybody's tells. I just don't know how he's playing poker. And winning.

Generally, Jesse's attitude frustrated me in this episode. And the team's up to a degree. When I rewatched this with my sister (who couldn't care less for these characters so I consider her a more impartial viewer), she couldn't understand why his behavior during the investigation was even a tiny bit justified and reasoned with in the end. From the team's part, I think some of this has to do with the fact that Jesse is part of the team and they care for him, so of course by the end they would apologize. But the thing is that they've done nothing wrong, they're just in an impossible situation.

And I don't know why Charlie apologizes for not believing him, it was pretty clear up to a point that he was merely entertaining thoughts of how Jesse could be involved in this but purely theoretically and as the evidence against Jesse started piling up, he grew more and more concerned for Jesse, not certain of his guilt. At no point did they show any of the team believing that Jesse might have done this, which, had it happened, would have actually made me side with Jesse. Instead, he comes off as a person who expects preferential treatment because "they know him". Some of which he gets, without the team breaking any major rules, at least. Just the fact that they look for another explanation once they find the weapon of the robbery at his house, when that usually provides an airtight case to hand to the Crown, says a lot. Which is sort of the right thing to do when you know that this person can't be that dumb, but it's still based on the fact that you know them.

Jesse is redeemed for me at the end because he stands his ground. Which is a different thing altogether but I still liked it. It's not exactly a case that told me "You know what? This guy should make detective in a year" but that's just me.

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Hudson and Rex S04E09 - Impawster Syndrome - Part A

I like this one better than the previous one but... I disagree with a lot of the things Jesse says, and mainly with how he thinks his coworkers should have treated him in this case.

Black letters in quotes: Actual show quotes.

Green letters in quotes: What I come up with my twisted brain.

I wonder if they had Justin Kelly voice the criminal in the opening scene to throw us off.

Wait, I take it back. They probably did because they already had him play that scene.

Oh, that rascal.

Remember when we thought that the worst thing to come out of technology the last decade were deepfakes? Good times.

Dear Hudson and Rex, I think your actors are suffering from the cold again.

lol why is Rex the most annoyed that Jesse stepped on evidence? Everyone else is pretty chill.

I bet this won't come up later as sketchy behavior.

Sarah: "Wait, I need Charlie to translate Rex-speak for me." Rex: "I wait for no one. Follow me."

That's what they all say.

Why would he not assume that since his car was stolen (crime) it was used in the robbery (also crime)?

I wish. What I mean to say is that they took a long time to actually act like they should impartially investigate this.

I'm sorry but Jesse's acting like a child. He knows the procedure, he should know that if this case went to court and he was on it without having been cleared beforehand, he would be the one to blow it and create doubts for the court. He should know that it doesn't have anything with his friends not trusting him. Which, later, they will actually have ample reasons not to.

On my first watch I'd actually thought she had something to do with this.

Dude, you stepped on evidence and your face is on camera committing a crime, and there's currently no explanation for why this isn't your face. You can't be surprised they don't want you anywhere near this case.

Oh my god stop! I mean the thing with the tongue, I can't concentrate. Also, stop joking around because we definitely will be doing the "I'll hear something my friends are saying about me out of context and take it the wrong way" trope.

What did I say?!?! Jesse, this is just how they do foreplay, I promise. It has nothing to do with you.

Charlie is actually doing his job and entertaining the possibility that Jesse might have had something to do with this, even as a joke.

Yes, guys, after all this I, too, would assume that Jesse's car was used in the robbery. I'd bet on it before finding it.

I'm not sure what joking about Jesse having many action figures achieves when the house does look geeky. A loading bar on the wall? An entire gaming installation in the living room? That's how I'd imagine it. Does it have to have action figures? Not to mention that I don't remember Jesse mentioning action figures a lot. I'd love to go to Comic Con too but I don't want to buy action figures.

Not sure they should have done this. Then again, if it was any other case, they would have done this. They have had Rex sneakily search again and again. And I think they mostly did this because they thought that would at least clear Jesse.

Not Rex too!

Sarah is the one who's supposed to clinically examine the evidence, how did we get to that point?

Oh, he was. Which definitely didn't make all this any better.

I'm not sorry for suspecting Imari. She was the red herring, anyway. She always popped up at the right time. And was too chipper for this job.

I think the most clear sign that Jesse hadn't done this would be the fact that he wouldn't be so stupid to deposit robbery money into his own account. He's worked so many cases. Although that's not exactly a defense and they'd still have to keep searching.

I'm sorry, you're interrogating him and you say "We're on your side"? This is insane. Will IA review the interrogation tapes?

Jesse plays online poker. That's not as weird and out there as they make it seem.

Crypto again. I know that in my country most of the gambling websites that gave winnings in crypro have been banned. Probably in the EU (although the law here has a pretty funny idea of who is and who is not allowed to run a gambling website).

"Are you doing a search of my apartment?" Shocked Pikachu meme. Are you serious right now, Jesse? Yes, of course they are! The evidence is piling up.

All this is because you were gunning for Charlie's job in the previous episode, Jesse lol

Aaand, they found a shotgun.

"Nice find, Rex." May I ask how you humans were searching Jesse's apartment all this time? Because it was literally on the chair under a blanket.

Sarah: "If I take your approach forgetting we're talking about Jesse and just looking at the evidence..." The investigative, approach, yes.

Indeed. At this point, the frame-job is getting way too obvious.

I got to the image limit in 16 minutes of episode runtime. This is not good.

To be continued in Part B.

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This is a slow fandom zone

None of that "Oh no they bomb-dropped all the episodes in a week 1 month ago, I'm late!" "The tag hasn't been active all week is the fandom dead?" "I only got a hundred shares the first hour no one cares about my art"

Slow down

Take a deep breath and slow down

Fandom is YOU. And me and everyone. If we doodle stick figures for a show that ended 30 years ago we aren't "late" or "doing too little", we're playing dolls in our own time and having fun with works of art that mean a lot to us

You can literally watch and engage with something that aired in 2004 as if it aired yesterday

If the tag hasn't been active for 14 months guess what? If YOU post there, it isn't dead. Literally you can talk about anything you want whenever you want there is no weird law against watching things that people aren't actively talk about

Let's be deranged about stories together

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How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

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Odysseus in Epic: the musical

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Buying you time

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I had to.

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what to do if you met poseidon (feat odysseus)

1. scream and run ❌️ (nah)

2. beg for mercy ❌️ (no use)

3. poseidon why you know I'm too shy~ ❌️ (nice try but no)

4. conversation ❌️ (would be great but still no use)

5. give up ❌️❌️❌️ (I must see my wife)

6. stab him with his own trident ✅️✅️✅️ (nice and epic choice)

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The s4 episode order was certainly A Choice.

The question is, whose choice?

“Let’s throw the shippers the tiniest bone” - the writers, probably.

I mean, I won't complain about the amount of Charah focus on S4. It was certainly a lot and it varied from angsty to fluffy. (I almost wrote smutty, what is wrong with me, definitely wishful thinking lol)

I know as a Canadian, I’m supposed to get excited for a hockey episode. I somewhat enjoy watching hockey. This episode did nothing for me.

How is the golf episode (which I hate, golf, not the episode) better than the hockey episode?

Hudson and Rex S04E08 - Sudden Death

Hockey episode. It's pretty standard for the Rex franchise, you must have at least one. I didn't care much for this one.

Black letters in quotes: Actual show quotes.

Green letters in quotes: What I come up with my twisted brain.

Sudden Death and Impawster Syndrome should have never been put one after the other. Not even close, in fact. They don't make Jesse look good. Any of episodes 6-9 could serve as justification for Adele's speech about oversight, which is why it's infuriating to me that they have her say it right before these happen (she's like the harbinger of doom lol) when the team operates efficiently. Magically, it's only in the episodes she's on that their level of efficiency can withstand any kind of scrutiny.

This is not my favorite way of exchanging germs but it will have to do. Also, he still brings her coffee.

Me with all the hockey lingo.

Shut up, Charlie, you're going to interrogate your own brother next season.

He's thinking what I'm thinking. That guy says sir too much to be completely innocent.

Why not meet with your friend who's now a suspect on a suspicious death case? Jesse, what are you doing?

Well, now that you said it, it sounds truer than before.

Dude, why would you walk in front of them when the kids are playing? Do you want a concussion? Also, that ball in Rex's mouth is pretty much entirely covered in his mouth, for a minute I thought they'd done those shots without it lol

The boys are fighting. Or, what passes for fighting in this show.

"Unsubstantiated rumors."

I'm sorry but if I'd heard that a dog's sniffing range was 50 miles I wouldn't believe it for a second.

So, when's Charlie going to take Jesse shopping and teach him how to pick shirts? Mind you, I don't think Charlie is a fashion icon (and I'm hardly one to usually notice such things) but anything is better than *gestures at whatever Jesse has going on*

"Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one." Please, Charlie, Occam's razor might apply to about 10% of your cases. In fact, crime show writers hate Occam's razor.

"This guy is gunning for my job."

Joe is like, oh what the hell, why not. Be proud of the little nerd. He's going to make detective one day (soon).

"You played me"??? You prick, you called Jesse twice with the only intention of getting information out of him!

The first thing Charlie would teach Jesse about shirts is that when in doubt, you just pick a cool jacket and no one notices the shirt.

You made Rex sniff hockey players' shoes? Do you have any idea how smelly they must be?

Bar!

And now the Russian mafia is involved.

Sarah: *spouting hockey player stats from memory, or at least I think they're talking hockey players* Charlie: "Forget dating her. Why haven't I proposed?"

What kind of idiot would throw bloody shoes inside open garbage?

I'd have preferred to hear more about this than most of what they explored in this episode.

So, do Canadians learn hockey at birth?

Rex the goalie. So cute.

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i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

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so, you’re finally awake, onii-chan

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Hudson and Rex S04E08 - Sudden Death

Hockey episode. It's pretty standard for the Rex franchise, you must have at least one. I didn't care much for this one.

Black letters in quotes: Actual show quotes.

Green letters in quotes: What I come up with my twisted brain.

Sudden Death and Impawster Syndrome should have never been put one after the other. Not even close, in fact. They don't make Jesse look good. Any of episodes 6-9 could serve as justification for Adele's speech about oversight, which is why it's infuriating to me that they have her say it right before these happen (she's like the harbinger of doom lol) when the team operates efficiently. Magically, it's only in the episodes she's on that their level of efficiency can withstand any kind of scrutiny.

This is not my favorite way of exchanging germs but it will have to do. Also, he still brings her coffee.

Me with all the hockey lingo.

Shut up, Charlie, you're going to interrogate your own brother next season.

He's thinking what I'm thinking. That guy says sir too much to be completely innocent.

Why not meet with your friend who's now a suspect on a suspicious death case? Jesse, what are you doing?

Well, now that you said it, it sounds truer than before.

Dude, why would you walk in front of them when the kids are playing? Do you want a concussion? Also, that ball in Rex's mouth is pretty much entirely covered in his mouth, for a minute I thought they'd done those shots without it lol

The boys are fighting. Or, what passes for fighting in this show.

"Unsubstantiated rumors."

I'm sorry but if I'd heard that a dog's sniffing range was 50 miles I wouldn't believe it for a second.

So, when's Charlie going to take Jesse shopping and teach him how to pick shirts? Mind you, I don't think Charlie is a fashion icon (and I'm hardly one to usually notice such things) but anything is better than *gestures at whatever Jesse has going on*

"Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one." Please, Charlie, Occam's razor might apply to about 10% of your cases. In fact, crime show writers hate Occam's razor.

"This guy is gunning for my job."

Joe is like, oh what the hell, why not. Be proud of the little nerd. He's going to make detective one day (soon).

"You played me"??? You prick, you called Jesse twice with the only intention of getting information out of him!

The first thing Charlie would teach Jesse about shirts is that when in doubt, you just pick a cool jacket and no one notices the shirt.

You made Rex sniff hockey players' shoes? Do you have any idea how smelly they must be?

Bar!

And now the Russian mafia is involved.

Sarah: *spouting hockey player stats from memory, or at least I think they're talking hockey players* Charlie: "Forget dating her. Why haven't I proposed?"

What kind of idiot would throw bloody shoes inside open garbage?

I'd have preferred to hear more about this than most of what they explored in this episode.

So, do Canadians learn hockey at birth?

Rex the goalie. So cute.

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I know they call Eva a libertarian, I see her more as an edgy wannabe anarchist.

It fits. Especially since she wasn't seeking to profit from the website, something that a libertarian would be all for.

I don’t think he was thinking. At least not with his brain.

Agreed.

I relate to Eva’s description of the fog of depression. It’s been a rough year for me in that regard.

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it gets better.

Eva: “According to what your laws allow?” Me: Oh STFU, you live in a society.

Yeah, I don't really get these people. I have issues with certain laws myself but she seems to have issues first and foremost with authority (as a lot of libertarians and/or anarchists) and it always seems to me that people who disagree with the basis of how a society is formed should be the ones to pull away from that society. We cannot possibly get an entire societal system to conform to the demands of a handful of people. Fun fact, libertarians tried to create a libertarian society in a town and they utterly failed. But it was a fun read. https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

Random, but I’m pretty sure I drove past that cliff when I was in Newfoundland. (Yeah I know it has a lot of cliffs but I swear it looked familiar.)

They have all kinds of wonderful landscapes, I'm jealous.

I was one of the ones who made one of those comments and my rationale is face value: white male cop, in position of responsibility for the security of this vulnerable (at least we’re led to think so at the time) woman. Did she initiate? Yes. Should he have stopped it? Yes, absolutely and so should Jesse and Sarah but as previously established, none of them were at their finest in this episode. Now, looking at the situation, was Charlie actually the vulnerable one who was taken advantage of? Absolutely. My face value commentary is just about the surface level power dynamics at play that is the main reason this episode gives me the ick.

To me, it's what makes this episode interesting. That a guy who, for all intents and purposes, should have the upper hand in that interaction, gets bested (and I don't mean just the distraction with the kiss) and even Rex, who would in a lot of cases save him from falling for it acts as a vehicle for Eva to gain Charlie's trust, when Rex is there to do the exact opposite, to get criminals and witnesses to open up. A lot of things don't work as well as they should in this episode but it's still fascinating.

Yes to all of this. But apparently we are expecting too much from this show beyond the surface level stuff they give us. We’re the ones who will always want them to go deeper, and I don’t think the writers necessarily get to or perhaps want to explore that depth as much as we would like. Because at its heart the show is supposed to be about super doggo, and not so much the humans’ feelings. But as s4 and s5 have proven, they can do both. And sometimes they do it well.

I'm sure not even the majority of the audience wants them to dig deeper. I can imagine that any writer worth their salt would want to explore the characters further. But the recipe for most long-standing crime shows is that you offer a morsel of information about the character, and nothing more. Or at least the classic ones. Anyway, I wouldn't even go as far to say that all these writers are worth their salt, so the hypothesis about their intentions collapses before it even begins. It's a shame because I've had the chance to witness how a good script and a good writer can actually transform a mediocre production, and if this can happen in Greece, then it can certainly happen in Canada.

Hudson and Rex S04E07 - A Stab in the Dark Web Part B

"We've got a surveillance team in place." That's great. Will you remember this in a few hours? Will they, even? Why were they so "discreet" as to let Eva near Charlie's laptop when they knew she shouldn't be on it?

Sarah is not jealous AT ALL. Nope. Not picking up anything.

"I'm so going to take advantage of this information."

Like, how can I not pin this on the whole team? Joe suggested that Charlie's place was the best place for Eva to be in, when they already thought that they were compromised, which meant that they should have assumed their home addresses were compromised as well. Charlie leaves Eva alone at his house so that Rex can go pee instead of calling either Sarah or Jesse to take him out, which would leave one cop in the van and one guarding Eva, instead of having two in the van (which helps at nothing) and zero in the house. Then we have the house which is supposedly under surveillance by Jesse and Sarah, supposedly watching, but they don't alert Charlie to the fact that Eva touched his laptop. Once Charlie realizes that she's done that, he takes her explanation at face value and doesn't ask Jesse to check his laptop.

The graphic for the disappearing chat messages on the dark web is fun.

I've had some contact with libertarians over the years, more than I'd personally like. All the talk about revolutions and whatnot, and their fondness for the dark web are indeed real. When crypto had first risen, lots of them were salivating at the idea of an unregulated and anonymous form of currency, and even more when they discovered private cryptocurrencies (which supposedly offer an extra layer of anonymity). It's funny, though, that they thought even for a bit that governments and banks would let them do that. Anyway, what I want to say is that Joe wouldn't know how to talk to that person at all. But let's disregard that.

"I can't believe that I left her with a laptop and she opened it! I said no electronics!"

And then he gives her his phone too. Forget Sarah, why didn't Jesse burst into the house?

It's true that the way some drugs are regulated actually hinders some people who could benefit from them, instead of helping. Still, in that moment, Eva is pretty much selling a sob story to Charlie, which isn't even the whole truth since she also needed those drugs for herself, to try to get him on her side.

This is a very appropriate distance.

Sarah looks like she'd fallen asleep and just woke up for the good part. Which would actually make more sense than whatever they were doing in the van with Jesse.

First time I watched this I was like, eh, let the guy kiss someone if it's not Sarah. I hadn't realized he was entering his slut era. Also, yeah, Sarah, they are, this is a very astute observation.

And Jesse is entering his pervert era.

I can't decide if he was thinking "I'm so screwed" or "I wonder if Sarah is watching".

I love that Rex is thoroughly disappointed by that development. Rex was all of us in S4.

And then the ninjas attacked. I'm assuming our surveillance is too busy watching the Charlie Hudson show to see the guy approaching the house?

Dude had knives everywhere. Charlie was lucky he wasn't hit (and I was unlucky).

"I'm having a really bad day. Thank you for letting me get off some steam."

This is the only slightly disapproving look I can find. I mean, given the circumstances, she could have said something.

What a plot twist! She lied and she used you, Charlie. Also, again, where were the rest of you when she was using Charlie's laptop?

More bad news.

I... have questions. Like, where did the paramedics go? Did she make them abandon the ambulance? And was that before or after she tied Rex to the stretcher? This scene was executed sloppily.

Congratulations, you finally figured out why he wouldn't leave Eva's side. I think that played a part in Charlie trusting Eva.

Their brilliant ideas to subdue an angry guard dog is: pet behind the ears, put jazz music... Are you kidding me? At least Jesse thought of food.

I feel like they should have made Mercurius seem more scary and money-hungry or even power-hungry.

In which season?

Sorry, that's just funny. I really don't think he's ever made the first move.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Oh god, he still doesn't get it. Because it was easier for her to manipulate you when you didn't have all the facts!

Bold of you to assume that Charlie would follow, but he's definitely not at his best. This is actually using Rex as Charlie's weakness, unlike the previous episode. Although I don't think Charlie should risk that jump regardless. Also, really, a dog wouldn't have made it? I find that hard to believe, they seem like better jumpers than humans. And have more legs.

Yeah, even at his worst, he will do the right thing.

Oh, yeah, we forgot all the hitmen that might come for her. Whoops.

The more they show that cliff, the more confident I become that Rex would have survived it and Charlie wouldn't.

Angst.

Joe: "There's nothing you or any of us could have done." Except for your jobs, but better?

Poor Charlie. He's definitely not okay. I wish they'd written something deeper about what's wrong with him.

And this is Eva letting Charlie know that she made it and even had time to hack the app to let him know that she's okay.

I like this episode but it always makes me think of what it could have been if it was another show, another production and another network involved.

Once again, I'd like to focus on the fact that after a certain point in the episode where it becomes clear that Charlie's head is not in the game, no one says anything about it. No one pulls him back, no one asks if he's okay or even what the fuck he's doing. I guess they keep all the second-guessing for the last episode of the season. Charlie tried to do his job until the very end but I think the distractions were just too much for him and they're indicative of his state of mind.

And they all made mistakes. I still don't know where to pin the surveillance failure, there were two people in the van. They should have intervened in two separate instances, one to take the laptop away from Eva and one to intercept the masked guy who also might have strolled right next to the van. Am I to presume that they put cameras inside the house and not outside? Where they suspecting Eva more than they suspected someone would show up to kill her? In both cases, they failed.

Again, this less than stellar performance from our characters is a great reason for Adele to show up and say that they need more oversight. But some part of this would have to make it to the reports for that to happen.

I've written thoughts on this episode before. I'd pointed out that Eva notices some sort of kinship and attraction between her and Charlie and she tries to use them to her advantage. Which is why the morality of their kiss is more complex than it seems at first glance. At first glance it might seem like he's the one taking advantage. He's not. Is it still wrong that he let her kiss him, and from the way the scene is shot, for several seconds too? Yes. But I remember from the first moment this episode came out, reading about how he was in a position of power. And in that scene, to me, he always comes off as... powerless. Lost.

I understand the contradictory opinions this episode causes. Personally, I like the episodes where there is an upset. We have too many episodes where everything feels like another day on the job, and it doesn't seem to affect them in either way and the repercussions begin and end in that episode. In this one we do see Charlie visibly upset. I'd have liked to see the rest of the team more worried about him or even frustrated and not understanding his predicament. I'd have liked friction more than getting a mention in the finale. There was something there worth exploring.

I'll say again that it would have been a much better storyline to write something about depression or PTSD for Charlie rather than heartbreak throughout the season. Or a combination. He has been through a lot. Maybe I'm asking again too much of this show and this belongs to fanfictions.

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I’m watching this under duress. Or something.

lol

Mental note that I should use this in fic.

Insomnia is very helpful in fics.

This is basically how we learn it in school. Like, it’s exactly the same, right?

Pretty much. A few details here and there, like a god that protects something in Greek mythology protects something else in Roman mythology. And they apparently hate a lot of Greek heroes because they're Greek. I'm not sure where they think their "Roman gods" come from.

See and my mind went to “she’s just described Rex. Is she dating Rex?”

Ahaha you did write this! I remember now. Yeah, it's not exactly a description of what one likes in a man? I'd certainly not describe someone I like that way.

Let the lapses in judgment begin.

I want to find one smart person in this case but I can't. Still, I didn't remember that fumbling this one was such a teamwork. The team that fails together... should go through the basics of police work again?

Hudson and Rex S04E07 - A Stab in the Dark Web Part A

Yes, I like this one. Why? Because I'm a fan of characters screwing up, being emotionally tortured, blaming themselves, etc. It fits in the general theme of S4 too.

Black letters in quotes: Actual show quotes.

Green letters in quotes: What I come up with my twisted brain.

Disclaimer: I actually like all the characters, even when I comment negative things about them. Just remember that when you read this lol

Iris has blue streaks on her hair. It's the first time I'm noticing.

He's probably the only one.

So, Charlie hasn't been sleeping... for how long? "Again" means that he's done this before and that Sarah knows about it. Of course, I don't expect these people to have a normal sleeping schedule. But if anything, it's indicative that something's wrong. Would it kill them to write a PTSD storyline? (Well, it might have killed the audience, but I'd be happy.)

Sarah knows... quite a bit about psychedelic mushrooms.

"I did mushrooms in college" is not exactly the first thing you share in a new relationship, Joe.

lol what the actual fuck.

They used an actual onion URL. It's amazing how much attention they pay to some details when they don't really work that hard on going deep on their main characters.

Okay, Iris died from the drugs. Case closed.

Damn it. Don't you guys have enough work?

Why is Roman mythology exactly like Greek mythology with different packaging (names)?

Chat history on the dark web. Good one.

Charlie's grandmother is alive?

Why would Mercurius trust someone who with their username proclaims that they're two-faced?

"I'm a capable police officer, not a go-fer."

Rex's head is turning like he's watching a match with both their reactions. I'm thinking that his thoughts are somewhere between "who are you two trying to fool" and "I'm going to bite you".

He said most of that under his breath. In a "I'm not happy with this development" way.

"This could turn into something, huh?" Yes, if you don't do anything about it.

"We both like to run." Are you kidding me? I mean, were you actually actively looking for Charlie's replacement?

"I don't like that homewrecker and I haven't even met him."

"Seriously, Charlie? You're actually helping this along?"

They seriously stuck this technologically inept (sorry Charlie) guy with a tech-savvy criminal. And maybe they didn't know about the fact that she was the co-owner of the website then but they knew she was tech-savvy and a person of interest who was being uncooperative.

"Most people are loyal to their usernames." That all changes when you make a shady website. I mean, I have my username since I was 15 but I wouldn't use it to commit a crime, unless I was a complete moron.

That is... a... look... And I also saw the tattoo on his arm.

They got chemistry, what can I say?

This website is a parody of Silk Road, by the way.

I think Charlie was totally thrown by the fact that Rex seemed to trust Eva so easily. Only, as we find out later, Rex wasn't acting like that because he trusted her.

You're both idiots. You could have kept her inside the bullpen.

Please. Then how do you even know that hubris is Greek? Charlie is being portrayed as having an all-round knowledge in this one. Aside from the one thing that could be useful to him in this case. Technology.

Crap, the image limit already got me. To be continued in Part B.

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I need Sarah to have more lines like this one.

Definitely.

I get stuck on “last year.” Like what even is this timeline?

Probably because it was 2020 and this is 2021 but it's more than a year because the other one was early 2020 and this is late 2021.

Hudson and Rex S04E06 - Dead Man's Bridge

I like this episode. Road heist.

Black letters in quotes: Actual show quotes.

Green letters in quotes: What I come up with my twisted brain.

So, today's mission, should you choose to accept it, is to escort a truck full of highly explosive content. At no point did I focus on what exactly it was and I'm sure it's for the best.

Eek. Back off.

"You know what they say about the size of a man's truck?" "The bigger it is, the more he's compensating for something?" Damn, Sarah. Go off.

Charlie is like, I will not get in the middle of this and come off as a caveman. Good choice.

"It's been five minutes since you last petted me."

"When it comes to food, Rex will do pretty much anything." Good for him, really. I wish humans were motivated only by food.

"I was just hoping to write down some of this guy's pickup lines." lol Charlie. I mean, it's hard to decide if it's worse to have this kind of pickup lines or no pickup lines at all.

Okay, why were we expecting from Sarah to think that Charlie even liked her romantically? Look at how that doofus responds when he realizes that Sarah may actually not be single! And then he moans like a cow. Sorry, I'm sure that this sounds like a bad thing to write but... What the fuck is wrong with him?!?! He's like "Girlfriend, spill! I want to hear everything about your new beau".

You can see from a few of his expressions afterwards that he's not loving it but... Seriously, I'm having secondhand embarrassment.

On a deeper analysis, he probably reacted like that because he was blindsided with the news. Although I'm not far from headcanoning that any sex he's had with a woman post-divorce must have been after the woman made the first move and he literally has no idea how to make the first move. And it wouldn't be my fault if I did.

"I learned to trust Rex's instincts." And it was a painful process lol. To be fair, every good crime show must have partners who at some point will doubt each other. Only ours is a bit one-sided because... dog.

Hey! Only we can call him that.

Joe: "Tell me you've heard of the movie Sorcerer?" Jesse: "What year did that come out?" Joe: "Not that long ago. Late 70s maybe." Jesse: "Oh, so before I was born then." Dude!

Splitting up is a bad idea, but thank you for doing it anyway. I like that Charlie is worrying about leaving Sarah with a dude who's been flirting with her from the moment he saw her, and that she worries about whatever and whomever he might find.

"Rex won't let anything happen to me." You've been banged up how many times?

Sorcerer: "Alone at last." Boy, you're really angling for a second concussion, aren't you?

Sarah's quick thinking as soon as she sees the other woman approaching, to hide her phone, might have saved everyone's lives.

"Everything was going perfectly until you and your team showed out of the blue." Sorry for doing our jobs.

He definitely lingers a bit as he searches her. Although it's barely there because we're that kind of show. Like, in any other show, we'd get a shot of Sarah's reaction to this, in this one we don't. Anyway, fuck off, dude, and I did have a vague "I hope you die in a ditch" feeling about him which I didn't remember why that was (aside from the lame comments and the whole setup thing, that is), but I couldn't remember why. I took a screenshot, but when paused it seems like more is happening and I didn't want to have that on here.

They didn't even tie her up. Amateur hour.

One day someone can explain to me how Charlie seems to hear a car only when it's right in his face. In this case, two SUVs which had to travel on a bumpy road too, so they'd be extra loud.

"Tell your men to stand down." "Why would I do that?" Why, indeed. They've got the numbers. And they've surrounded you.

"Where it stands?" Fuck off.

Kai's not much of a dog lover unlike Mankiewicz. Although, saying that Rex is Charlie's weakness in this case, when they're surrounded by bad guys... I mean, what else would Charlie do, try to shoot his way through them? They'd fill him with holes. In this case, Charlie is Rex's witness, because Rex could have run away from there but he stayed because of Charlie.

"It's okay." "It is not okay, Charlie, you're tripping!"

Six months for taking over a police station. Yeah, that deal would happen.

One more time that Charlie managed to get cuffed. I don't hate it.

Charlie, you dummy, you should have commanded Rex to run ages ago.

"I don't like this plan."

I haven't commented much on Jesse and Joe because they just seem to be getting pissy with each other. And it's so not the time for that.

If you're going to blow them up, then why would you not shoot them? Bad guy logic.

Sarah is asking endless questions. Act like a hostage, keep your head down.

Sorcerer definitely overshares.

"They hit me really hard." He literally whined lmao

I don't think sass will get you far in this case, Sarah.

"Love does funny things to a man." That seems to be the tagline of the season.

Charlie to Rex: "If you have any ideas, now is the time to share." And Rex actually has one. I will never apologize for calling Charlie a himbo.

So, like, how fast can dogs dig? I really have no idea about this. But this isn't soft terrain.

Those two have two braincells between them but the lady's got both of them.

Work them, Sarah, they're both idiots.

"Work with me in Major Crimes, he said. It will be fun, he said. He didn't mention how many time's I'll have to save his ass. I need a raise."

They're cute.

Hands. Also, looks like some abrasions from the cuffs. I hope it's makeup?

Trucker!Charlie. Fun fact, Moser (original Rex's first partner) was a trucker before becoming a policeman. Not sure they ever gave a full explanation for the change in careers, but he was a bit of a troublemaker and had some kind of mentor figure who guided him to join the police, who also often helped with cases.

Another fun fact, you need a special license to drive this beast, so it's definitely not John Reardon driving it.

No, we're stuck! Dump the truck and run!

I wonder if that dimwit Kai remembers Sarah as Charlie's "girlfriend".

Good of Joe to notice that Sarah sent the message to everyone, so she must be separated from Charlie.

Yep, that explosion is who you think it is, guys.

Yeah, too close for you two to have gotten away with it, but I'll let it slide, for the sake of the drama. And the whump. Nice scratches.

Joe: "You guys really do know how to make an entrance." Charlie: "I'm just glad it wasn't en exit." lol

"High risk, high reward" is something that could maybe go right for you if you're risking your savings, not your life.

Charlie: "Are Sarah and Sorcerer still with this other car?" Joe and Jesse: "Uh-oh, who's gonna tell him?"

Yes! Cue the angst and self-blame. Also, where the hell did the rest of the scratches go already?

Angel: "He's a businessman." Sarah: "No. He's a criminal." A businessman! Can you believe it?

I like Sarah's subtle reaction to Kai telling her that Charlie and Rex got blown up because she knows that a) Kai could very well be bullshitting her and b) Charlie and Rex have more lives than a cat which is funny, considering.

Oh, man, I completely forgot that Kai actually talked about Charlie having nine lives. Anyway, I'll just focus on the fact that Charlie and Joe are finally using the car as cover in a proper way.

I think that backup made unrealistically good time to arrive literally a minute after them.

"Letting me get that text out probably saved all our lives. I'll pass that information on to your defense attorney." What are you talking about, you literally had to con them into believing they wouldn't get their money to send that text.

Jesse, down. This one will eat you for breakfast.

He wants to shove you somewhere deep enough that you won't be able to crawl out of, actually.

Go ahead, buddy, gloat. You've earned it.

Charlie: "I call first shower when we get home." Now that would be a bad idea, unless this dog also showers himself.

I consider this a good episode. I'd have liked a bit of an ending scene with the team. I'd have liked to have seen Sarah's reaction to seeing Charlie and Rex alive. Charlie's reaction to the information that Sarah is dating is odd as I pointed out but not completely unreasonable. Tactically, I'm sure the team made a few mistakes but I'm not sure they'd have gotten Kai if they hadn't made them. Joe and Jesse's pissy moments aren't my favorite, but I guess I understand that being stuck in the same car when you're chasing a truck moving explosives may do that to you. Rex is probably learning a new trick every episode at this rate. I haven't counted.