Up to segment, Heart and Sparks, Rookie Blue was standing up to anything produced out of Hollywood. in this script the usual, bright, mature characters dissolved into immature teenagers incapable of processing a logical stream of thought. It's like the usual writers and director went out to lunch and let fans write and produce the show.
First, the plot takes on the trappings of a bad soap opera and not the on-going experiences of green (albeit bright) police officers. Then we see several of the characters make decisions not on considered logic but emotional jumps. This includes the wife of an apparent victim of a burned out building who inexplicably runs into the building even though the fire has already been out for some time and curiously not roped off and taped off from the public.
Emotional characters, supposedly mature law enforcement officers, become involved in jealousies that erupt in violence. In one character thread, one of the officers is enraged by his childhood assumption of what took place in his boyhood, meets the man he feels responsible and does not talk to the man or engage him in any conversation requesting an explanation. This is left up to his girl friend who receives the reasonable answer but fails to pass it on the the outraged officer. There's more but my point is made.
The show should continue to be a well written drama of law enforcement (with the additional interest of being a Canadian production shot in a Canadian city environment). Personal issues are good but they should not be allowed to dominate the production. It's likely that if the show is allowed to disintegrate into a soap opera, it will fail.
First, the plot takes on the trappings of a bad soap opera and not the on-going experiences of green (albeit bright) police officers. Then we see several of the characters make decisions not on considered logic but emotional jumps. This includes the wife of an apparent victim of a burned out building who inexplicably runs into the building even though the fire has already been out for some time and curiously not roped off and taped off from the public.
Emotional characters, supposedly mature law enforcement officers, become involved in jealousies that erupt in violence. In one character thread, one of the officers is enraged by his childhood assumption of what took place in his boyhood, meets the man he feels responsible and does not talk to the man or engage him in any conversation requesting an explanation. This is left up to his girl friend who receives the reasonable answer but fails to pass it on the the outraged officer. There's more but my point is made.
The show should continue to be a well written drama of law enforcement (with the additional interest of being a Canadian production shot in a Canadian city environment). Personal issues are good but they should not be allowed to dominate the production. It's likely that if the show is allowed to disintegrate into a soap opera, it will fail.
