I like Nathan Fillion too.

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned much is that the cast of his shows are usually half women, or more than half.

That’s what makes it an easy and fun watch for me, that there are interesting, varied, substantial roles for women in the show.

And I like Nathan Fillion because that’s what he thinks makes a better show. He’s right.

And I’m delighted to see Melissa O’Neil in “The Rookie”. I was so sad when her show, “Dark Matter” was cancelled. Fillion has picked another great co-star (and another star ship captain).

Joe Mallozzi put on his blog how Dark Matter would have progressed in the fourth and fifth seasons if they got to complete the series, and it made me even sadder that we wouldn't get to see it.

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I watched it basically because my wife just wanted to know how he ended up becoming an Old Cop, and we were too lazy afterwards to change the channel. It was fine...the perfect kind of show to throw on at 10pm when you'e dozing off and don't care if you miss 15-20 minutes cuz "I'm just resting my eyes".

With that said, I've always been partial to Fillion, and always felt like that failed Rockford Files reboot Steve Carell produced with Dermot Mulroney would have been better served with either him or Josh Holloway as Jim Rockford.

Yes! Fillion would have been a good Rockford.

It was a fine show. My son was very into it. I think I'll keep it around because it is a perfect background show.

"Nathan Fillion is the Mark Harmon of his generation"
Summer School aside you just took "damning with faint praise" to a new level.

I wonder if he takes on these kind of projects so he can have more time to do his pet projects like con man. I've always thought it was weird that he's a nerd king and also did castle for 500 seasons

ANOTHER movie [ahem - show] titled The Rookie???

People, what the fuck? There are literally countless possible titles for movies and tv shows and books and songs... what the FUCK is with using the same ABSOLUTELY BLAND titles over and over?

It’s like every goddamned male protagonist being named JACK. Enough al-fucking-ready!!!

Yeah but remember what happened to Terriers?

This is a TV show, like The Rookies.

That’s what I meant. Will edit. Regardless - how many times have we seen this fucking title? Gah! There’s GOT to be at least one, maybe two that would work just as well if not better.

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I read this entire article and I still can't tell if you like Fillion or hate him.

Good trick.

So much Zmed, so many car hoods...

Sorry, I hear Zmed, I think Grease 2. They're gonna bowl tonight.

" He’s out of shapes."

This typo tickled me, like Nathan Fillion ran out of circles or parallelograms, or something. Oh no! He's out of decahedrons!

Lol to me it was like he was "throwing shapes" on the dance floor but then ran out of moves.

♫ "I'm all outta shapes set me free / and let me out of Geometry / oooh-ooh" ♫

His days of being a rhombus of love are done!

I watched this last night passively with my folks (I have no real interest in this show at all but I watched it by circumstance) and boy does it ever suck. I had no idea who wrote this, but I exclaimed that whoever did write it was bad and should feel bad and that whatever money they're making, they need to payback to the school they attended as an act of penitence for their shoddy craft. It was bad.

Unfortunately, creativity isn't something that can be taught, and in Hollywood people are often hired not because they're actually good at what they do, but because they play the political game. Not necessarily because they play it well, but because they hold the same views as those in charge.

It's the poster that trips me up. There's something about his facial expression in the poster that is so . . . pursed-lip prissy, which is not an attitude that comes to mind when I think of Nathan Fillion. It's like he's looking at hijinks and shenanigans and is judgmentally shaking his head. I don't see that guy making it past rookie.

Can't jump a fence mention leads to obligatory clippage:

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Literally cackling at my desk.

I'll add the Taken fence jump.
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I wonder how a 45 yr old man can live in LA on a rookie cop salary.

Especially with alimony!

$62734 starting pay. Great pay for a starting cop. Except the cost of living in California. Detroit starts at half that.

He said he lives in his wealthy college roommates house, which allows him to live on a rookie salary AND allow the show to be shot in a beautiful house with a scenic view.

same way the people on Friends could afford those Manhattan apartments. Special Section 8 for fictional characters.

Oddly, they DID try to rationalize it out...

If memory serves, Monica had one of those rent controlled apartments and Chandler did the heavy lifting cause he made good money...

They had that episode where they almost got kicked out, because the apartment was rent-controlled dirt cheap as it was in Monica's grandma's name. It was technically an illegal sublet. Joey become's the super's dance partner so he won't report them.

that was retconned in, though, wasn't it? I watched the first few series and it was never addressed, but when it became a cranky New Yorker talking point they came up with that, at least as I remember.

It was retconned in, but on the other hand, I'm not bothered by that kind of retconning. Presumably most of the characters already knew that information, so it wouldn't have been something they had to explain to each other at the beginning of the show.

I'd have to ask the warden, she's the bigger Friends fan than I am. It wouldn't surprise me though.

Especially a rookie who isn't grifting or grafting yet!

So we are moving on from bands now?

Nathan Fillion is just so damn likable I will check out this show just for him, even though procedural shows (save for 9-1-1 which I checked out for Angela Bassett) usually really bore me. Also my grandma was watching it last night (lol) and I saw a bit and it looked genuinely pretty good. Again by the numbers but if you have likable enough characters and action I can get into it...

Side Note: Nathan Fillion also made an appearance as himself in several eps of Big Mouth and he was fantastically hilarious...

....I actually really liked the first 3 seasons of Castle. Not as a show with deep plot mind you, but it was a good mindless folding laundry show.

I think I watched about 3 seasons too. It was fun, although Castle himself sort of ended up being the least enjoyable character.

Side note: Seamus Deaver was in an episode of Legion last season and I squealed with glee when he appeared.

I even bought them on DVD because I really liked them... and the first book...*chrm*

I bought the first book too! And then couldn’t get through it.

Lol, me neither, it was pretty terrible.

Did anyone else ever watch DRIVE, the series that Fillion did for one season about the illegal cross country car race? It was entertaining and intense, but FOX canceled it after 4 episodes. I would have loved to see how that series unspooled.

Unrelated, I know. I just hate the loss of Fillion potential and had to get that off my chest. You can watch DRIVE on Amazon, BTW.

I enjoyed Drive, but every episode someone had to say the phrase 'illegal cross country car race' and i found that hilarious.

GOD I loved every minute of that show. It had Fillion, Emma Stone (!), Melanie Lynskey (!!), Amy Acker, Dylan Baker (!!), Lindsay Crouse, Alan Ruck...
It was completely weird and fascinating and I loved it. I fucking hate fucking Fox.

Yep. Also Kristin Lehman, Taryn Manning, Cindy Williams, Kevin Alejandro, and Brian Bloom. Whomever was able to wrangle all of those people into the same cast deserved a standing ovation, not a cancellation.

Brian Bloom. *swoon* That’s a blast from the past. Looks like he has an excellent voiceover career too.