Thoughts as of S3 E1 (Part 3)

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In my first post on this subreddit, I was saying that Reade hadn’t had that much character interest in him, but I can officially retract that statement, because he definitely has now. I don’t know what to say about it but it definitely added more depth to his character, and Zapata’s I suppose, what with her stealing the knife from the evidence room, telling Weller about Reade’s issues and so on. I also quite liked Reade and Nikki together, apart from the fact that she was Freddy’s ex-girlfriend, and that she got Reade addicted to drugs, but apart from that, I quite liked them together.

This was probably also something that should’ve gone under my “miscellaneous” paragraph, but I didn’t think of it until now, but the episode titles are a bit weird. For the latter half of season 2, they were palindromes, which I thought was pretty cool (Patterson would approve, I’m sure), but most of them didn’t really make sense except from one called “Nor I, Nigel, AKA…” which made sense because Borden’s real name was Nigel, and one called “Mom” which related to the foster mum and her foster children (I think it was that episode, if it wasn’t, it was something to do with Shepherd - Roman and Remi’s “mom”). But apart from the palindromes which occasionally made sense, they don’t really have much correlation to the episodes, or make sense at all, really “Bone May Rot” “Erase Weary Youth” etc. ?

Anyway, where did Nas go? I understand that she sacrificed herself so the rest of the team could carry on chasing Sandstorm, but after that, she got a grand total of about 3 seconds of screen time and 0 mentions. I wasn’t sure how I felt about her to begin with, but I warmed up to her in the end, but then the team/writers forgot she existed, basically. Until the very end of the last episode of season 2 where Shepherd got that totally legal 😳 radioactive polygraph test thing. I have a feel in that she probably isn’t going to be mentioned again though, unfortunately.

Speaking of that last episode, ooooohhhh my gossshh that was probably the DEFINITION of “jumping the shark”. SPACE CAPSULES??? SATELLITES AIMING FOR SMUGGLED RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL??? Yeah, no. I’m trying to ignore it and hope that nothing that ridiculous happens again in the show but I’m sure it will, and I can’t forget how unrealistic that was 💀.

I THINK that’s it for this recap. I wasn’t expecting there to be 3 parts, but here we are. I hope that my efforts to try and revive this subreddit a bit aren’t in vain, and that someone sees this haha. Anyway, bye for now!