Charlie has a tattoo for Rex (this is not negotiable lol).
Theyād their first kiss on the bench on Signal Hill, after Charlie finally confessed his feelings for Sarah in the lab.
Sarah likes to be in charge in bed and Charlie has no problems with it, he even finds it to be a huge turn on.
The lock screen on Charlieās phone is a photo of Sarah and Rex from their weekend getaway in Apple Bay.
Rex chose Sarah for Charlie before either one of them realized they'd feelings for one another.
They have a whole box of sex toys under their bed (I already mentioned this in a fic so...)
Charlie enjoys watching Sarah in bed and he always pleases her first (this is a common trope applied to male characters in fiction, but Charlie is a good guy, so itās not far fetched. Also, Sarah is not the kind of woman who would accept a relationship with selfish or one-way sex).
They got married in their backyard, a small ceremony, with only their closest friends and family. Joe officiated. Rex served as the ring bearer and as Charlieās best man.
Sarah kept Truong as her last name after they got married, although occasionally, she (unofficially) will hyphenate it with Hudson.
Rex knew Sarah was pregnant before everyone else. And he became very protective of her and would refuse to leave her side (unless he had to). He would even low-key side eye Charlie for getting close to her. Heād obviously never growl or anything like that, but heād be hesitant to move from taking up Charlieās spot on the bed or the couch etc.
Sarah insisted on working up until the very last minute, until Charlie almost had to beg her to go on leave, arguing she did not want to go into labor at the precinct.
They have two kids (a son and a daughter) and they are very equal on parenting. Sarah would never accept anything less and Charlie would never be one of those dads who ābabysitā their own kids.
Once the time comes for Rex to retire, everyone at Major Crimes throws him a farewell party and he gets a honorary plaque with a picture in the SJPD building.
Charlie and Sarah starts fostering dogs for the K9 program (usually puppies are placed with foster families to learn socializing and such, before going onto extensive training), with Rex being an unofficial mentor.
I have been rewatching season 6 in-order (which I rarely do, I tend to jump around between seasons and episodes) and I think it will replace season 3 in the third spot as my favorite season. While the episodes are hit and miss (especially the first three, although second and third were better than I remembered), the season still kind of flows better overall.
Also, Wag The Dog is the best episode of the season (followed by Hour of the Dog), if not one of the best episodes overall (so far anyway).
"I don't think I ever see you as happy as when we are at this restaurant."
Does that mean this restaurant was their go-to spot for date nights?
I love Rex's expression when Charlie is whispering whatever obscene thing in Sarah's ear. He looks like he actually understands what's being said lol. Poor Rex.
That's also a very self-satisfying smirk from Charlie, if I've ever seen one. Whatever he reminded her about must've been a fond memory.
The way they try to hid from Chief Archer is funny, but it also does not make much sense.
How are hiding behind them menus supposed to work? He is sitting behind them. Also, they have Rex with them, which means they are already sticking out, because dogs are generally not allowed in restaurants.
"What is he doing here?" Oh, I don't know, Charlie? What do you usually do at restaurants? Eat?
Honestly though, I doubt Chief Archer would have even cared enough about two SJPD employees having dinner, that he would bother to tell anyone about it. And it's not like they were doing anything suspicious or indecent anyway. And it will be a moot point in a few seconds anyway, because he's gonna be busy getting poisoned.
At the end of the episode, Jesse also says he saw Charlie and Sarah on the CCTV, but like, what gave them away? They weren't doing anything other than having dinner, that would give away their relationship status. Unless they were going all PDA off-screen before the episode started lol.
Anyway, I find this scene unintentionally funny, in a good way.
You know what? I've had a lot of ships through the years and non of them has ever ended up being endgame. Charlie and Sarah better be the exception for that.
Because (not to be dramatic or anything) I honestly don't think I can handle it if they aren't.
Let's talk about this show's "good enough" mentality. This may start from a seemingly random example but to me it's indicative of the show's entire culture. Yesterday, Instagram, which has finally calibrated their algorithm to "Alice likes Hudson and Rex" suggested a S3 video where Charlie and Rex clear a car and then sprint to a pier. Charlie's gun is drawn for the entire duration.
Cue nerd!Alice mode. I have not caught John Reardon holding his gun wrong yet and, well, I randomly check if he does from time to time. The scene is pretty static at first, so trigger discipline is quite easy (although some other actors STILL fail to do it). But then it changes to Charlie running with his gun still drawn (whether that's a great idea or not in that scene is up for debate but this isn't up to John Reardon to decide) so I was like, this is as good a chance as any to check trigger discipline. Thanks to the show's ridiculous slow-motion at random times, I had the chance to see it clearly and nope, he still had his index finger in the right place.
Some screenshots which I got from my own copies later (click to enlarge):
(To avoid confusion, John Reardon is left-handed.)
Now, there's always a chance I will catch him holding his gun wrong one day. But today is not that day lol. And this "random testing" is something I've done plenty of times now. It's one of the details that sells the realism for me. And it's something that even if told, the actor has to keep in mind because that's not a live gun. In fact, Hudson and Rex guns aren't even real guns (real guns are often used in cop shows with fake bullets), they're fake. This is information from back when the incident with Alec Baldwin had happened and lots of cop shows decided to switch to fake as well after that, but Hudson and Rex reportedly always had fake guns because of the dogs.
So you get to hold a toy gun in your hand and pretend to have an actual gun that can kill people instead. You need to sell that this gun is real so the way you're holding it matters. And what John Reardon does shouldn't feel groundbreaking and wouldn't be in a different cop show. Except, it is for this one. Because rarely do I see actors holding their guns properly on Hudson and Rex.
For example, that post in which Justin Kelly is holding his gun as Jesse in a promotional photo for S8 used by Up Faith and Family, which has been talked so much about because John Reardon liked it? Finger on the trigger. Maybe now that John Reardon is coming back, he can say a word about that. Maybe not, maybe he didn't even notice it. Just like the entire promotional department thought it was a good shot. I mean, every one of these photos stills goes through multiple levels of approval before getting posted. But if you don't have a police consultant, this will get approved because there's nothing else wrong with it and your PR department doesn't know what finger discipline is.
I still remember Kevin Hanchard and Justin Kelly joking that they don't need a police consultant on the show at a Hudson and Rex event, by the way. I wasn't impressed then, and I'm not impressed now. You can say that if you have the cop impression perfected which I doubt any of them have. Each one of them brings their "cop impression" from a different show using their experience that they learned on different sets. John Reardon didn't learn finger discipline on the Hudson and Rex set, Mayko Nguyen didn't learn finger discipline on the Hudson and Rex set. And Justin Kelly, because I've seen him holding the gun wrong before, just... never learned finger discipline. It's not the actor's fault. That's why a police consultant is necessary.
And it brings me to my point, the "good enough" mentality. Thinking that the actors portray cops in a way that is convincing enough, that it's "good enough" and there's no need for a police consultant. They didn't get so they could save money. And that kind of mentality doesn't stop there. The entire show has been corroded by it. When the production says "We don't need X" (because that is what a production decides, not an actor) it means "we don't understand what X is useful for". They don't understand that John Reardon's trigger discipline and general gun handling makes him look like an actual cop instead of a drama school action figure. They don't understand that Charlie and Rex's partnership wasn't just about blocking and dog training, it was a relationship that seemed real to the audience. They don't understand that the team dynamics aren't furniture that you can just swap.
And so they were shocked when viewers did, in fact, notice.
That kind of mentality shows up everywhere if you pay attention. In lack of police realism, in queuing episode orders, not giving actors enough takes while making sure the dog parts look great, and lately in skipping grief, pretending Mark Hudson is a good title preservation solution rather than a crude one, and assuming viewers are watching for the barking parts.
The most frustrating thing is that Hudson and Rex was never some prestige masterpiece in which every detail needed to be perfect. We had accepted that. The show had goodwill on that, but that goodwill depends on people who make the show understanding what matters and keeping that intact.
So we accepted the first season being rough, the procedural aspects being silly, the Rex magic which was sort of mandatory, and the Canadian comfort show logic. But when the same "good enough" mentality reached the foundation then it stopped being charmingly imperfect and became downright insulting. Because it meant that the show not only didn't understand what people loved about it but it took advantage of that love to cut corners.
The last two years were not mistakes that were made because producing a show is hard. These were things the production did intentionally because they thought that the audience loved the show enough to accept less. And for a while (S7), people did. Because affection can buy you patience.
But then, the production read that goodwill as permission. They thought that meant people would watch just for Rex, or just for the title, just for the habit, just because they'd already watched seven seasons. And that's how goodwill gets exhausted.
As a production, if you enjoy the audience's love, you should make sure to honor it, not to take advantage of it to cut corners and make maximum profit. S7 already spent a lot of that goodwill because it already had none of the elements the show was about. And then S8 happened and a lot of people finally said, "You don't get to use my attachment to the show to keep making money" and turned off the tv.
My online friend, who has seen maybe one episode of Hudson & Rex total (after I kept bugging her to watch it lol. This was in the beginning of last year, before everything went to hell), has had to listen to me ranting about the show and the whole debacle around it several times over for a year now. And apparently it made her invested enough, that yesterday she asked me if they had started filming yet, and she's intrigued how they will go on about incorporating John Reardon back on the show.
I swear this whole circus fest has been safe from no-one lol.
Edit: After I responded with another round of lengthy messages and said "that's what you get for asking me about it", she said she kind of likes hearing about the show now. Maybe I should try and convince her to give another shot at watching it.
Filming has officially begunā¦ While the expectation for any kind of behind the scenes content remains low, Iām just happy to know that John Reardon is back on set with the rest of the original cast.
Up until a few months ago, I could not understand why @alicepao13 was obsessed with this song. Now I get it.
So this is for you, and for everyone hoping that these two will meet again. Hudson & Rex doesn't work without Charlie but I can pretend that Charlie is right now off like Odysseus, getting in trouble as he is trying to find his way back to his family.
Lyrics from the song: Would You Fall In Love With Me Again - Epic The Musical
This is awesome and also fuck you for using this song and thank you! It's perfect for them and the moment I heard some of it I was like, it will never fit them. That was in late December. Of course I'm egocentric enough to think that I jinxed them.
But also, if the production does the one logical thing and manages to get back John Reardon, then @somefandomcontent might get more material to use in relation to this song. And maybe I'll be able to make a damn video about them. Miracles could happen. Getting an English speaking adaptation of Kommissar Rex after so many years of it ending was a damn miracle in the first place.
This song is fucking awesome and please give it a listen, the creator of the musical, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, has it uploaded on Youtube, although I have to mention that it tells a very specific story, that of Odysseus and Penelope. This is the last song of a musical concept album about an adaptation of The Odyssey.
First off, this gif edit is beautiful. I've seen it several times since it was first posted, but I never reblogged it, because it made me too sad. Because I thought we had lost them for good... But now, well, now we are getting them back, so time to reblog.
āReally fucking forgivingāā¦ yeah, so forgiving that he went back to work for a company that kicked him to the curb while he was battling cancer. That takes a lot of grace.
I dont see anyone else within the charah fandom talking about this but what are your thoughts on the michael situation? i think its sad for michael obviously but no one is talking about how brutal sarah was an i dont think she intended to be it just happened and thats what made it even funnier. anytime they were on a date she would mention charlie but what gets me is the dog situation her telling him she thinks getting s dog is too big of a step when their not sure were things are headed like girl how is a dog a bigger commitment than telling your coworker you like him then michael tells her its hard adujsuting to a work relatioship and all she says is "well get there" girl what not to mention she broke up with him and met charlie at signal hill the same day. sorry for the long post but i didnt see anyone talking about sarah's unhinged brutality towrads michael no complaits but i wanted to know your thoughts on that situation ?
Hi, thanks for the ask!
I do think that Sarah did treat Michael a bit unfairly, and her going directly from Michael to Charlie, generally isn't a good look.
However, I do think it's important to remember that Michael was brought on as a mere plot device (a very common trope when the writers don't have a justifiable reason to keep two characters apart anymore). And he wasn't meant to be anything more, alas their relationship was never going to last for that reason.
But inside the story-verse, it wasn't going to last in the long run, for the simple fact that a relationship doesn't work when the people in it aren't on the same page. And especially not when one person is already in love with someone else.
By season 4, Charlie and Sarah had been dancing around their feelings for each other for a while already, and while it's hard to know where Sarah's head were at (because we don't get to see her POV since she's not the protagonist), I think she wanted to try and give Michael an honest chance. Because she didn't think Charlie would come around, or was even sure he felt anything for her (because the loving fool couldn't find the words to tell her soon enough). And because she had to try and move on, she couldn't just wait around for Charlie to get his shit together forever... However, the moment Charlie finally confessed, the decision was easy for her and she dropped Michael like a hot potato lol.
Now (just like you mentioned) I don't think Sarah intentionally meant to use Michael or mislead him, but from the get go, it's pretty clear that he was more into her than she was into him (she barley talked about him, didn't introduce her to her coworkers, she answered Charlie's call in the middled of their date etc). He also went farther ahead than she did in imagining a future together and was ready to take steps she wasn't. And I think him springing the idea of adopting a dog together, after such a short time, was a bit of much, considering they'd only been together a few months, and getting a dog is a huge commitment. Sarah was right to be hesitant about that.
Also, Michael saying "when you know, you know" (or something along those lines) in that scene in the bullpen, is kind of ironic. Because Sarah said the same thing to Charlie in S02E12, and while Michael thought he had that with her, Sarah instead realized Charlie was the one for her.
Realistically though, she should have been kind of angry at Charlie for not telling her he had feelings for her before she was in a relationship with someone else. But since they didn't show what happened on Signal Hill, we don't know how their talk went or how it led to them getting together (I have ideas for that scene in my head, but I've yet to write them).
Ultimately, I think Michael and Sarah just weren't compatible and was just wasn't going to work (for the reasons I mentioned above). I mean, the fact that Sarah dropped him so quickly, is a good indicator that she can't have been that sure about Michael to begin with, or she would've been more conflicted in her choice.
As for the episode where Michael admits it's been hard for him to move on to a professional relationship, and Sarah says "we'll get there", I don't think she intended to be dismissive. But at that point it had been a couple of months since they broke up, and while it might have been harder for Michael to process it; Sarah had already fully moved on and was happy with Charlie.
