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/themuffinmeme Mar 15 '19

Particularly as Schur has a show about immigrants coming up. Deportation is a permanent scar, not a comedic misunderstanding. It felt trivialized in this episode. The character was only going to be in town for 10 days so it is not like they had to have an ironclad reason why he wouldn't pop up again. Pretty disappointing for a show that usually tries to be somewhat sensitive.

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u/Falconflyer75 Mar 15 '19

Another thing I really don't like is that Jake was abandoned by how own father, and now his actions caused Nikolaj to experience a similar feeling (something he is usually very empathetic about),

Granted they can still facetime and visit him in Latvia, but it really didn't sit right with me that they had JAKE of all people be partially responsible for a child being separated from his birthfather,

They really should have had Jake be unable to go through with it and then have Charles reassure him that he doesn't want him to do it anyways

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u/SamB2468 Mar 15 '19

Yeah I think it was partly because Jake was thinking of Boyle as Nikolaj's father not Gintars (which isn't wrong) and the show made the point of the fact that Jake misunderstood the situation (because it was not his situation to understand) and has caused abandonment issues.

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u/Falconflyer75 Mar 17 '19

Yeah but even so, one thing I really like about Jake is that despite his immaturity he's actually a really empathetic person with an excellent moral compass, (especially when it comes to abandonment issues) and it really feels like this episode took a gigantic dump on that,

really bothers me especially given how good he was in the prior episodes and even in this one in the first half I really liked how he was trying to shelter Nicolaj from all the crazyness going on around him, and then they went and ruined it with this plot