Alis Volat Propriis

Criminal Minds, Football, The Packers. The Cubs. Women's soccer-both the USWNT and the Portland Thorns. From the country in the middle of Illinois. I love seeing the stars at night and listening to the grain bins in the summer while the windows are open. I love the quiet and the peacefulness the open country air brings. I also LOVE New York CIty and am counting the days until I can go back again. And the beach. I love the sun and the sand. 

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One of the biggest travesties this show will leave us with (esp with Jesse all of a sudden leaving) is the absolute lack of good and consistent writing for the talent they’ve had on this show. Jesse and Tracy are awesome on their own, amazing together on screen, and this show has wasted a lot of time and episodes to highlight and take advantage of that. They have/had the viewers and fandom for it. The end for Jays character and ultimately Upstead, unless they work out a way for Jesse to come back, just feels forced, sloppy, and so out of character that it’s hard to understand.

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It’s genuinely hard to find any solace in Tracy still being on this show (for now at least) knowing that Jesse was seemingly just fired to save money. I love and want to support Tracy but I’m not sure that’s going to be possible for me to continue to watch knowing who owns this show and the decision that was made to take away THE main character this show has had since the beginning and in the way it was done. I want Tracy to leave too so I can feel better about not watching while also understanding that this is her job too and wanting to support her. I feel the same way about Kelli-I just don’t fandom that like I do PD and Upstead.

Literally why not cut Voight out if you’re trying to save money? It would have been the perfect time after the way last season ended, and would have been the perfect time for Jay to become Sergeant-and take over the unit they’ve talked about being his for seasons now. People don’t tune into the show for Voight. They tune in for Upstead and Burzek and Kevin.

I’ve been through tons of different fandoms and ships and I’m not sure I’ve ever felt this sad/angry over a decision or actor leaving like I am this one. Especially cause I know how much he loved the show and the character. And I’ve been in fandom for a long ass time.

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Not even getting a full season either?! This just sucks. Feels like it completely came from left field.

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Can Tracy just be leaving too so I can be done with this show? Cause I’m not here for watching without one half of the best duo the show has. I’d honestly feel the same if the roles were reversed. And I don’t feel like watching him die and Hailey doing whatever that looks like after (although I know Tracy would absolutely slay that material).

The excitement for this season just completely disappeared.

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To say Im stunned to hear that Jesse is leaving PD is an understatement. I was not prepared for that kind of announcement.

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If this storyline is going by way of the Al storyline, I absolutely do not want it. For so many reasons. Do not make me hate this show.

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Also, this is where I dislike the way Chicago PD seems to be on character episode kicks, because they completely give up consistency in the storyline. They don’t have to, even with specific character driven episodes, but they do. And that’s where that ending tonight is gonna be super frustrating, especially when they don’t address it next week.

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Voight manipulating Hailey into staying quiet, especially to Jay, and making her feel the guilt she does, and then being the one to tell Jay the truth is some real bullshit.

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I do NOT want an Upstead engagement right now. At all. For any reason. No, no and no.

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I’m so ready for Sharpwin to rise this season. That trailer makes the waiting harder.

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I’ve been attempting not to speculate about anything when it comes to the new Chicago PD season, but if Upstead is in fact moving in together in the first few episodes, that makes me super happy beyond the obvious reasons. It means that the show is going to take them as a couple seriously. You can’t have them breaking up with each other on and off if they share the same space and don’t have other homes to run to. We can get other drama that’s going to come with it, but I feel better that they may write them positively this season.

All I’ve wanted from them is a Densi type relationship. They have fights and arguments and tribulations like normal people, but they come back to each other in the end. I’m hoping that’s what we’re going to see.

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Not necessarily Upstead related but...I just really really really want Vanessa back. Can she magically appear again next season? I mean we didn’t acknowledge her existence this season and watching season 7 reruns all day yesterday gave me feels again. Bring her back.

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How does Hailey...and Jay for that matter when he finds out-continue to work for/with Voight? Voight manipulated her into shooting Kent, made sure that douchecanoe could reach his weapon and a struggle would ensue forcing her to shoot him and ultimately Voight gets what he wanted in the end and at Haileys expense. And then instead of calling it in because it was a good shoot, tells her to go and does what he did. She was in shock and she listened and he could literally be the downfall of her career. Ain’t no way this doesn’t come out and cause problems. I have no doubt Jay will see the red flag Hailey is waving with her marriage comment, will try to figure out what the hell happened, and go from there but WTF I am not happy with Voight at all. The more I think about the end scenes, the more angry I get about where this might go.

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Literally the one thing I didn’t want to have happen at the end of this episode happened. I do not know how anyone can watch that and think that marriage/proposal/comment by Hailey was a good thing.

Voight has fucked with her head too much this season and created this mess that she finds herself in now. And her asking Jay to marry her seems to me to be a way to not have him have to go against her if-when-this comes back to bite her and them in the ass. Or she’s just so scared, and he’s the only good constant thing in her life-besides her job which is now gonna be a question-that she is latching onto him and their relationship and it manifested to that? Girl is headed for a breakdown. WTF would they have just not called that in-it was a good shoot after they guy grabbed Voights gun? This just makes this so much worse. And beyond Voights mind games and insults, now she has to carry that shoot by herself and lie to everyone, including Jay about it? Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely think Hailey and Jay are endgame and they both love each other and want/will get married eventually. I just think this was a trauma response to what she just went through and it manifested itself into wanting to get married right then and there.

I made a post before the ep that I was irritated the writers seem to be regressing Haileys character when it comes to boundaries and lines but was really happy to see her do all she could to keep everyone on the up and up and in the end Voight still managed to screw her over. The episode was really good up till the last 5 mins and I do not feel good or happy about the way they are going to potentially go with this storyline. Literally could have gone a million different directions that would have been better than this.

Also, after 4 years of slow burn, getting them together, and the weirdness of this season, I am not happy that an Upstead “proposal” came in this form, in this fashion. Ideally Jay is gonna have something screaming at him that somethings wrong, and holy shit it’s gonna be a long hiatus, but I hope they fix whatever mess this is in the premiere. Cause I’m currently sitting at yikes. That’s all I’ve got right now.

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I’m gonna reserve my judgement for after the finale (and no I don’t think Upstead is breaking up-I also trust the writers 0 percent, so could be 100 percent wrong on that front), but my biggest gripe this season, which sounds like it may continue into the finale, is the way they seem to be regressing Haileys character (even more) and her decision making/lines when it comes to policing.

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Honestly so annoyed by Chicago PD. The frustration this show brings me is immense. They cannot consistently storytell/follow through to save their lives. Literally have 2 of your main characters get together at the end of one episode and then kind of give them the episode right after-and then don’t speak of that huge ass life altering, life defining moment for now 3 episodes and counting. HOW DO YOU SLOW BURN THIS COUPLE FOR 3 SEASONS, HAVE THEM SEEMINGLY GET TOGETHER IN THIS BIG MOMENT, AND THEN JUST FLIPPING DROP IT FOR MULTIPLE EPISODES?

I’m not asking for every episode to be Upstead, but JFC, have these people act like the things they do carry over into other episodes, like their personal lives matter outside what they’re doing as cops. You can sprinkle in little moments for all these characters during your big character driven episodes. It is possible. I’ve watched it on my screen in other tv shows. You can focus on more than one damn thing at a time!

Are we really going to have Burgess fostering Mikayla for the foreseeable future and not actually see her on screen again? Is she just gonna disappear at some point never to be heard from again? (I’m pretty sure she hasn’t filmed since December). We’re just gonna get random mentions of her by the characters? Why would you write a huge storyline like that and then just do what they’re seemingly doing with it now?

Where is Trudy? What happened to Rojas? We just completely disregarded her without even a mention. Atwater getting almost no time after the first two episodes this season. His thin blue line beef just disappear after episode 2?

This season just feels weird and disjointed and each episode feels like a standalone episode where we’re then supposed to forget everything that happened the previous ep and we just move forward like it didn’t happen.

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Watching the set tour with Laroyce, I’m positive Uptons new apartment is the same one that Antonio had before he left.

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I noticed this too!! I also loved to see more of it!

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I absolutely would too. Hoping that’s why they had her move? Cause it’s an already built set? And not one to just use for random scenes once in a while?