all recent interviews for S7 point to lucy chen getting paid dust and remaining as the punching bag for a second season in a row (fourth season if we’re being real) and i don’t know if i have it in me to watch her go through it again.
no promotion, but she’ll temporarily train a rookie who will most likely put her in situations that may get her in trouble (clown incident anyone?) which will again deter her road to promotion.
melissa says in a recent interview that the stakes for lucy take a bit of a backseat this season, which to me sounds like she’s getting pushed to the sidelines AGAIN. it is most likely she’ll still be there to support everyone else though AND she’ll probably be helping tim a lot despite him being the one who did the hurting and does not deserve any sort of gestures from her. we won’t be seeing her navigate the aftermath of everything she went through last season ON SCREEN because alexi wants to give that precious screen-time to other characters.
alexi wanted to go into S7 with positivity, because you can’t really focus on timmy b’s beautiful mental health storyline if lucy is still rightfully upset about timmy dumping her for absolutely no reason, right?
we’ll spend S7 watching the man who broke her heart go through therapy, have some character development and possibly be happy as a result, but her? we might not even get to see any of her sl play out, we’ll probably only get a scene of her doing that cute exasperated thing she does, if we’re lucky.
so much for giving her back her agency and not making her a doormat to everyone on this show, right alexi?
You're still in the headspace where everyone is either a friendly or an enemy combatant. It's my job to help you change that mind-set. These people are all your neighbors. Now, some are neighbors with problems who do stupid things, crazy things, selfish things, but they're just people. I want you to take a look around.
When you're in country, everything's hostile. You never turn it off, you only turn it down. Cops who are fearful, they use officer safety as a way of treating everyone like the enemy. In fact, you're doing the job wrong if you are. I don't know how to live like that anymore. You'll remember. Just give it time. Be in the moment. That's it? It's harder than you think. At least it was for me. But it's only way I could leave the war behind.
When a female character is even mildly "annoying," their actual, irl actress gets fan hate and bullied off Twitter.
But a male character can be a genocidal fascist war criminal, and he's every man and woman's little uwu baby sunshine, and his actor should win Emmys and get a Maserati and his dick should be sucked forever.
Like really?
A woman's unforgivable crime is that she's poorly written by men but sure, men can execute thousands of people and they're "iconic" and "totally justified."
This is why I support female characters mass murdering everyone.
i wasn’t looking for her to get promoted at a random moment in the season, so that’s not the issue. she’ll get promoted eventually. she has to be. otherwise, these writers will never beat the allegations, and tbh, they’re running out of time.
it’s definitely a collective decision, too, bc the writers have changed hands multiple times since that girl, ep 513. not even my fave writer could save the five-player trade storyline from the trenches. such a shame bc this ep was vintage rookie: very cohesive and exciting!
what are these allegations?
it’s 100% misogynistic for them to falsely equate lucy’s influence with manipulation to create obstacles in her life. it was annoying for them to do it personally, but now it’s downright infuriating for them to do it professionally.
because if anyone deserves a stress-free path and a fast-track to a promotion on this show, it’s lucy chen. mid-wilshire’s shooting champ endured traumatic hazing to prove her chops for UC as a rookie. as a newly minted P2, she singlehandedly dismantled two drug cartels on her first deep cover op, after meticulous preparation.
yet, she has none of the commendations that would normally go along with accomplishments of that magnitude. they moved on way too quickly from that to make chenford ride together again and assert nolan’s position as the rookie. so even though lucy has nothing left to prove, she’s been stuck fighting for leadership positions to get more points in favor of a promotion.
why does this matter?
lucy chen is a unicorn. finding a highly capable, girl-next-door asian-american female lead with an equally strong moral compass like her, esp in her field, is very difficult.
it’s painful to watch the writers ruin what they’ve built by making something out of nothing, given the way they’ve upgraded the careers of their two white male officers in the last two seasons without issue. it’s sending the message that women of color really do have to work twice as hard to get the same accolades, even in a fictional world, and not in the social commentary way.
in s4, nolan’s promotion to P2 was so ugly. the team was concerned with finding the killer of lucy’s best friend, a black man, and her situationship’s former TO’s best friend, a latina woman. somehow, though, the white man who undermined the justice system egregiously in the name of self-righteousness got an on-cam pat on the back from his black watch commander for taking his punishment well. the audacity. even tim’s deserved promotion happened off-cam.
in s5, her peer, nolan, leaves her in the dust by getting awarded a golden ticket for being a white savior at the border. detective is seemingly open for him again, even after being told that his self-righteousness cost him that privilege, but he opts for TO. what a slap in the face for lucy, who always navigated policy and procedure well.
make it make sense.
to make matters worse, the writers have now proceeded to willfully interpret her goodwill to help her bf get a more prestigious lateral transfer as malicious to make everyone turn on her.
after everything you have been through, how often you have proven yourself, there is not a cop in here who would not have your back if you asked. –harper in 505
so suddenly, every accomplishment lucy’s ever had is thrown out the window bc she did a lil networking to get her superior sergeants referrals for placements more suited to their current values? this punishment of making her worried about getting her score tanked doesn’t fit the crime of her secret involvement in tim’s career at all.
regardless, she’ll take the detective's exam in two weeks their time (ep 521). let’s see what bs comes up to make the ‘grand plan’ of delaying her promotion for the 100th ep happen (ep 602). 🙃
Lucy Chen will climb up that corporate ladder dont you worry.
She will also have a successful relationship with her Sergeant and kills it as a woman in love.
I think they're building up Lucy's character to be the one that is the most successful Out of all the characters despite this being a show about Nolan.
