In case the title makes anyone think Nathan Fillion will be on Game Changer, that's not what this is announcing - an episode of The Rookie will take place at Dropout on the Game Changer set,...
In case the title makes anyone think Nathan Fillion will be on Game Changer, that's not what this is announcing - an episode of The Rookie will take place at Dropout on the Game Changer set, featuring Sam Reich, Vic Michaelis, Jacob Wysocki, and Zac Oyama.
Sounds fun and will undoubtedly be a lot of publicity for Dropout. I'm a little surprised Dropout wants to be associated with a police show, though? Maybe it's different nowadays, but the early episodes of The Rookie that I've seen definitely gave me a "copaganda" vibe.
The copaganda of the Rookie has been thoroughly discussed by the showmakers and after 2020 went through quite a bit of change to tone it down. They were struggling on how to make a cop show...
The copaganda of the Rookie has been thoroughly discussed by the showmakers and after 2020 went through quite a bit of change to tone it down. They were struggling on how to make a cop show glorifying police with public police brutality going on in real life.
One of the actors even left the show citing difficulties reconciling his skin colour and copaganda.
It's impossible to make likeable and competent characters and not fly in the face of real life problems with the police, but they try. Some characters have been introduced with strong opinions about police reform and an ongoing theme is how the District Attorney's office is key to making justice reform in tandem.
This all has created a sort of "lefty" progressive police show that's aware of their role. It also turned the show into less of a "beat cop" show and more of an over the top "international sting operation" show but that's neither here nor there.
All of this has nothing to do with Dropout, but I can see how they'd align themselves with the Rookie without shooting themselves in the foot politically speaking.
I view The Rookie as spiritually connected to Sam Vimes's Watch (not the show, fuck that show). It avoids most of the tropes of CSI et. al. where cops are infallible and anything they do is...
I view The Rookie as spiritually connected to Sam Vimes's Watch (not the show, fuck that show).
It avoids most of the tropes of CSI et. al. where cops are infallible and anything they do is justified to get the "bad guy". The first season is rougher, like most are. Among other things the show drops the romance angle between Fillion and his significantly younger co-star after the first season. Like Brooklyn 99 they did some concentrated reworking after BLM.
In case the title makes anyone think Nathan Fillion will be on Game Changer, that's not what this is announcing - an episode of The Rookie will take place at Dropout on the Game Changer set, featuring Sam Reich, Vic Michaelis, Jacob Wysocki, and Zac Oyama.
Sounds fun and will undoubtedly be a lot of publicity for Dropout. I'm a little surprised Dropout wants to be associated with a police show, though? Maybe it's different nowadays, but the early episodes of The Rookie that I've seen definitely gave me a "copaganda" vibe.
The copaganda of the Rookie has been thoroughly discussed by the showmakers and after 2020 went through quite a bit of change to tone it down. They were struggling on how to make a cop show glorifying police with public police brutality going on in real life.
One of the actors even left the show citing difficulties reconciling his skin colour and copaganda.
It's impossible to make likeable and competent characters and not fly in the face of real life problems with the police, but they try. Some characters have been introduced with strong opinions about police reform and an ongoing theme is how the District Attorney's office is key to making justice reform in tandem.
This all has created a sort of "lefty" progressive police show that's aware of their role. It also turned the show into less of a "beat cop" show and more of an over the top "international sting operation" show but that's neither here nor there.
All of this has nothing to do with Dropout, but I can see how they'd align themselves with the Rookie without shooting themselves in the foot politically speaking.
I view The Rookie as spiritually connected to Sam Vimes's Watch (not the show, fuck that show).
It avoids most of the tropes of CSI et. al. where cops are infallible and anything they do is justified to get the "bad guy". The first season is rougher, like most are. Among other things the show drops the romance angle between Fillion and his significantly younger co-star after the first season. Like Brooklyn 99 they did some concentrated reworking after BLM.
And Fillion and the rest of the cast are fun.
(and Anna Garcia)