One thing that 'real life' officers liked about Nathan Fillion's previous show 'Castle' was that they always used gloves in crime scenes. There are times on 'The Rookie' where they go into crimes scene and touch a bunch of stuff with their bare hands. Aren't they just contaminating evidence?
that's because Nyla, she wanted to lock then by herself, and show for everyone that she is the Best, but in the end she got rep by her sargeant. and almost sued by Nolan.
That's cool. But this series would be most people first look into the perspective of police officers and their duties. If it was a series about your occupation, you'd want it to be as real as possible so people could see it from your perspective.
i get its not a realistic show, but that's what I like. If it were Too realistic, it would be Boring! i watch tv for escapism not realism . Real Cops are boring
Not really. It all depends on capability of writers and fight coordinator. I mean you could have made that fight more realistic instead of Nolan standing in the open waiting to get shot
The door getting shot is not really so fake since the LAPD has ballistic resistant door panels. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has a standard for ballistic-resistant vehicle door panels, published in November 2018. The standard, E3113, defines ballistic tests for door panels, standardizes protection levels, and includes language to help police departments retrofit current vehicles or purchase new vehicles with ballistic-resistant doors
I find the rookie is mostly entertaining but not realistic at all. Is just after mild action playtime...must be fun to act in tho...cops and robbers playing
From the moment on, seeing 3 LAPD officers flying to Guatemala (S4, E1) to rescue another officer already showed me it's not that realistic. But, except for that, I really like it, even though some scenes are not that realistic and more of a Hollywood thing.
The rookie is my favourite police show - but here: Police don’t just stand in the open and fire. They take cover. The brown lady was just standing there without any cover and not getting shot? 2. Criminals can hit their shots. They don’t miss 100+ shots especially when there are 5 bad guys on their team. 3. Police literally can’t die in this show
It's fun to compare shows to real day to day scenarios and the professional insight is awesome. For the commentors, complaining about the "That would never happen in real life" events, don't lose sight that this is filmed for entertainment and isn't meant to be a docuseries. It's "escapism" at best.
I thought it was just a regular Elcan Specter optic, which also would make 0 sense as Eotech famously has flip magnifier anyway. why not just use that.
Did no one else notice that the M4 the female officer was 'firing' was NOT ejecting shell cases ! The bad guys with the MP5K's look as though they were ejecting shell casings but not the M4...the muzzle flash also looked kinda CGI.
The biggest problem I have with this show is the detective work. Do cops really bribe convicts with a lighter sentence to give up a bigger fish? If that’s really true, then there are 1000’s of convicts roaming the streets because cops set them free. All the cops had to do, was talk to their sergeant, and they may pass the case on to a bureau that can investigate further.
The last time someone genuinely wished me a quiet shift, I was one of only two officers on duty. And we had an armed robbery while we were both busy at the jail processing a different arrest…
I watched the first episode and I was immediately done. I love Nathan Fillion, but in the first episode he has a hostage taker and shoots him in the leg to take him down without killing him. Literally everything was wrong with that, if a trainee had a hostage scenario and failed to take the headshot when it was available, thus putting the hostage at risk, they would be super fired. A tv depicting a cop doing that is super frustrating because it contributes to the public having unrealistic expectations.
The thing on the rifle is a scopecam. The entire show they do that with any optic. They sadly dont know that if ya have a scope cam it goes infront of the optic.
It's a riot reading the asinine comments from ppl that suddenly become police experts. The lines are so cringy I couldn't imagine a shopping mall security or crossing guard say any of them with a straight face.
Bringing their cell phones inside the prison, and visiting inmates in their cell like Oscar is so unrealistic 😂😂 I still love the show and the chenford relationship
At 4:20, some magnifiers or NV optics don't perfectly level with red dots or holographics. My magnifier doesn't level with my red dot despite them being the same brand with the proper riser, hence why my magnifier has to be zeroed with two set screws. EDIT: She's running a PVS-14 with what looks like a USGI picatinny mount.
If I remember correctly, I think Tim once had a rifle with two laser sights and a like two scopes after joining Metro one time. At that point, bro just add a third laser and become the Predator
If it would be really realistic than no one would watch it. As a watcher you want action, shootings etc you want it unrealistic else no one would watch
@@jellew8343 Yes because it's a show and not supposed to be realistic everywhere. Most cops don't get in combat situations where they have to fight. Actors have to train in combat because fight scenes are common.
My favourite is the nvg scope mounted 6 ft away from the eotech 😂 and in some episodes an acog 😂 and they are always firing full auto with their rifles lol
The only thing good or realistic in that last scene was calling out malfunction cover and I always thought the doors on a squad car have kevlar lining in them you would think they would have some resistance to small caliber
I love this show but ya that last scene when I watched it the first time was super immersion breaking. She asked for night vision and an Ar15.... Even though it's day time and the gun they gave her looks more like an m4.
Nope, cars are not ideal cover unless you are behind the engine block. EDIT: Not all police cars, depending where you are they may have plates in the doors or not
They're not armored, they've made advancements to add kevlar bullet catches in the doors to stop at least small arms fire effectively but really only the best funded departments will have it
"I'm gonna put the trauma plate in my vest". It's like, supposed to be there, from the beginning of carrying the damn thing. There are so many ex-LEOs in circulation, why don't they hire/listen to them so that basic stuff, that won't hurt the entertainment aspect of the movie/show, isn't overlooked? Btw, Southland, older series, when I watched it, it did feel somewhat "real", mind giving that a go?
I really liked the Rookie for the first season. The 2nd was ok for parts but it’s gone full comicbook stupid since. I can’t list the amount stupid it’s become.
What’s she’s running on the “AR-15” because I’ve seen the show. Is a PVS-14. Which makes no fucking sense for a day shift. (Unless I’m wrong about this, lmk if I am) Not to mention that “AR-15” is firing in fully automatic
I’m not sure where you are a cop at but I unfortunately live in Los Angeles county and dealt with lapd sometimes in my job and the front doors for lapd and la county sheriffs have armor panels in them capable of stopping rifle rounds. So for the exact situation it’s accurate being lapd but other departments I’m not sure so I won’t argue overall.
Lady with the AR isn't even aiming down the fucking sights. I was like...that's a dumb set up. Not only is it a short barrel making it worse for range, it is also gonna be much louder than a more longer barrel. Not sure if that's a thermal or a night scope on the AR but damn it was pointless. You should watch a scene later where they kept using that exact weird scope behind a red dot but the dude's red dot was mounted on the handguard
i always wondered how realistic the rookie is,obviously they deal with crazy stuff for tv purposes but like do cops actually say shop? call rookies boots and other things
Holy christ! Did the advisors really attach a PVS-14 (Night Vision) behind an EOTech??? That "gunfight" was something else. I've never watched this show because it just looked awful (made for suburban housewives) and wow, I am not disappointed. I'll stick to the first few seasons of SouthLand, although they were really jumping the shark in that final season. That first season is still the best. I did try an episode of the new SWAT but yeah, again, AWFUL!
I do volunteer firefighting and my brother and I were at the station after training and he says it's been quiet lately not even 10 minutes later we get a call
I think that's not a night vision with an EOTech. I think the crew tried to make an EOTech HHS i.e. an EOTech EXPS3 holographic on the front and a G33 magnifier on the back. But G33 doesn't look like that.
5:27 Hey I'm pretty sure that 99% of police cars have ballistics plates in their doors to stop rounds from turning the "shop" into a coffin, and its passengers into DBs.
I am one of those superstitious ones for the Q word. I work in EMS and even I might say this is much but I got sent on calls out of county not too bad til we got stuck outside the county and held over and got ran non stop and a crew down there got into a accident. Like I said it might be a stretch putting that together but that doesn’t make saying the Q word on shift any better
Not sure how much you know about it but you should do SWAT on CBS, not the original one but the 2017-present one. I see a lot of stuff that is relatively realistic in it but there is without a doubt a lot of moments I find myself saying "Wow this is so stupid why would they even....wtf"
You're talking like rifle silhouette shooting (forgot the /proper/ name) in rapid firefights with no civs doesn't exist. As for the device, during this episode Harper (black woman sporting M4) asks Nolan to get "her" rifle with AN\PVS NV module and funnily enough if you google "Eotech ANPVS" you can see it's either Eotech's own M914 or a mounted AN\PVS-14 NV monocular, even in this particular setup. Why? I guess they've wanted something that looks "tacticool" and more exotic than just a magnifier, simply to emphasize Harper's unique approach due to earlier drug busting work (where actually during night raids or pushing into dark warehouses such optic setup could indeed be a godsend). Thus, it's an interesting detail that doesn't need to be bad. As for using door as cover and treating cruisers like it's some MRAP, others already pointed out why, so again - seems you're wrong.
How about no one wearing hearing protection... no recoil from ANY firearm... The way they make civilians gun owners look stupid... its not a pro 2A kinda show.
3:51 you can pause zoom in real good. Looks like a magnifier for the most part, seems a bit big but also lines up pretty good. She definitely isn’t looking through it though
