No, not really the police, at least not just for "being a cop"s sake itself. I meant finally becoming Jims *permanent* partner (in whatever capacity). With the dissertation as the only official reason his position with Jim was always temporarily and I think he enjoyed working with Jim (and Jim himself *g*) enough that he somewhere along the way started to dream about turning it into a permanent thing.
With the "solution" canon provided I would think that no, he wouldn't really long to go to the academy, but he might try to do it for the sake of getting a permanent partnership with Jim. But then, canon didn't really require him to take the full academy curses. *g*
You know, I *do* know that in reality there wouldn't be a chance in hell that the canon-provided solution would work. Perfectly clear to me. But I simply take it as canon that the "solution" - complete firearms training and come on board in Cascade City and in the TS-reality *would* work. *ggg*
Somehow saying "it's unreal, it would never work this way" strikes me as saying "Harry Potter would never be able to work magic. There is no magic in real life, it's unreal". I'm not talking specifically of you, Gilly. :-) More in the general.
In Harry Potter's universe, there *is* magic, period. It's canon for Harry Potter. For TS I take the viewpoint of "In the city of Cascade, in the TS-reality, there *is* a possibility, a perfectly fine procedure, that allows Simon's suggestion to work." The man isn't captain for nothing, he would have made sure of that before he made promises. :-)
And we shouldn't forget, Simon never said, Blair had to become a "cop". All he said was, that Jim was looking for a permanent partner after Blair had the necessary firearms training completed.
The conclusion that he would *have* to become a cop most likely comes from the badge that was thrown at Blair, which looks like a detective's badge. But what this badge really means, whether it was meant as a symbol, whether it was a badge meant for a special position... *shrugs* I guess we can interpret this every way we want. :-)
And politely disagree? *g* Man, Gilly you can disagree with me in any shape and form at any time and as much as you want. ;-) Imagine how boring it would be if nobody would ever disagree with anybody. ;-)
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With the "solution" canon provided I would think that no, he wouldn't really long to go to the academy, but he might try to do it for the sake of getting a permanent partnership with Jim. But then, canon didn't really require him to take the full academy curses. *g*
You know, I *do* know that in reality there wouldn't be a chance in hell that the canon-provided solution would work. Perfectly clear to me. But I simply take it as canon that the "solution" - complete firearms training and come on board in Cascade City and in the TS-reality *would* work. *ggg*
Somehow saying "it's unreal, it would never work this way" strikes me as saying "Harry Potter would never be able to work magic. There is no magic in real life, it's unreal". I'm not talking specifically of you, Gilly. :-) More in the general.
In Harry Potter's universe, there *is* magic, period. It's canon for Harry Potter.
For TS I take the viewpoint of "In the city of Cascade, in the TS-reality, there *is* a possibility, a perfectly fine procedure, that allows Simon's suggestion to work." The man isn't captain for nothing, he would have made sure of that before he made promises. :-)
And we shouldn't forget, Simon never said, Blair had to become a "cop". All he said was, that Jim was looking for a permanent partner after Blair had the necessary firearms training completed.
The conclusion that he would *have* to become a cop most likely comes from the badge that was thrown at Blair, which looks like a detective's badge. But what this badge really means, whether it was meant as a symbol, whether it was a badge meant for a special position... *shrugs* I guess we can interpret this every way we want. :-)
And politely disagree? *g* Man, Gilly you can disagree with me in any shape and form at any time and as much as you want. ;-) Imagine how boring it would be if nobody would ever disagree with anybody. ;-)
PatK
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