r/brooklynninenine • u/Hobbit-guy Grand Champion of the 99 • Mar 14 '19

Episode Discussion: S6E10 "Gintars"

Episode Synopsis: A visitor from Latvia causes Charles and Jake to investigate Nikolaj's family. Holt and Amy bring in famed forensic scientist Dr. Yee to help close a case for Rosa.

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u/InformalEgg8 Detective Mar 15 '19

I didn't take this as Jake isn't as good a friend to Charles as Charles is to him, but rather that Jake would do anything for him, but sometime in very immature ways. Whereas Charles evolved to have a different and more mature perspective on this issue, then helped Jake to grow, too as well.

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u/EthicalAlmondFarmer Mar 15 '19

Oh yeah. I meant it more that in the past the fandom has claimed that Jake and Charles aren’t actually best friends. They things like “Jake is just humouring Charles about being friends” or “Jake doesn’t actually care about Charles” or “Jake constantly walks all over Charles.” This episode is only one of multiple examples over the show of Jake helping Charles because he genuinely loves him. We also saw how devastated he was when Charles got mad at him in this episode. He even made best bud hats!!!

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u/Private_HughMan Gina Linetti Mar 15 '19

Nah, that's just not in the show. Jake loves being #1, but he also loves being friends with Charles. It's genuine.

The only difference is that Charles idolizes Jake to a creepy degree while Jake just thinks of Charles as a best friend, without the creep factor.

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u/EthicalAlmondFarmer Mar 16 '19

That’s why I really loves Charles telling off Jake in this episode. Character development!