NYPD Blue is gone, and I shall miss it. My father and I had agreed yesterday that Tuesdays were going to be something less now that we didn't have Blue to watch and discuss. We'd also agreed that the follow-on Blind Justice wouldn't be the replacement.

At seven minutes after ten tonight, we reversed the decision and watched the pilot episode of this new Steven Bochco police drama.

Having done so, a few observations:
-It certainly isn't Blue. I miss Mike Post's opening theme, and then the usual cues for the series. I also miss Bonnie Somerville's Detective Laura Murphy, who was exceptionally easy on the eyes.¹

-Had Detective Jim Dunbar been employed by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (part of the Virginia State Police) and received his injury, he would have been sent home on disability. No ifs, ands, or buts.

-What's with the quasi-infra-red imaging that Det. Dunbar uses to figure things out? It reminds me of the xenomorph's view in the Aliens versus Predator series of games.

Nothing further, your Honor. Pop and I have decided to give this program a chance to replace Blue, but it'll be hard. ¹ Send her to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center to replace that Noo Yawk accent with either a proper British or Southern accent, and she might just zoom past Det. Diane Russell as my favorite observation object in the series. Sorry, Charlotte.

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