A follow-up rant
Dec. 23rd, 2014 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveContinuing from my train of thought in the last post, another reason I seriously dislike what they did with Ponch and that girl is that it's one of the most badly contrived things I have ever seen. There was a slight indication that the girl was romantically interested in him, but there was no such indication that Ponch felt anything likewise. Laughing quietly at one of her wisecracks does not equal romantic interest. It just suddenly came out of the blue, and maybe that was the writer's intention, but it came off looking really, really badly-done and out of left field. When Ponch suddenly started exclaiming that he couldn't stand the thought of her being dead because ... because ... **cue kiss**, I was just like "... WHAT." He had acted like he couldn't stand her, and it wasn't like where a couple argues and you can really tell they love each other. (I actually generally like that sort of pairing, as long as you can tell they love each other deep down.) It was like he honestly couldn't stand her. And Ponch is a very sincere person. He can't hide his true emotions for very long. It's not believable to me that he could hide that for the entire episode, especially so well that even the audience can't figure it out before the big reveal.
Also, since the episode was about the CHP finally allowing women to be motorcycle officers if they wanted to be, it seems to me that they should have picked a better poster-child for it. This girl seriously cared more about pushing Ponch's buttons than about being a good motorcycle cop. I don't recall seeing her do even one thing right on the job. And they focused more on the innocent problem that got the girlfriend mad than they did on stuff happening on the job. The two on-the-job scenes were both filled with her doing all the wrong things. Honestly? Not very encouraging for showing that female motorcycle cops are a good idea. Just saying the girl did good in her class means very little to me when she's so terrible on-the-job.
I wish Sindy had still been on the show at the time. It was her dream to be a motorcycle cop, and I really liked her and would have loved to see her realize her dream at long last.
Also, since the episode was about the CHP finally allowing women to be motorcycle officers if they wanted to be, it seems to me that they should have picked a better poster-child for it. This girl seriously cared more about pushing Ponch's buttons than about being a good motorcycle cop. I don't recall seeing her do even one thing right on the job. And they focused more on the innocent problem that got the girlfriend mad than they did on stuff happening on the job. The two on-the-job scenes were both filled with her doing all the wrong things. Honestly? Not very encouraging for showing that female motorcycle cops are a good idea. Just saying the girl did good in her class means very little to me when she's so terrible on-the-job.
I wish Sindy had still been on the show at the time. It was her dream to be a motorcycle cop, and I really liked her and would have loved to see her realize her dream at long last.
