User blog comment:Epic~00/Epic Analyzes: The Alternate RR Finales/@comment-25285054-20170110214638/@comment-31556666-20170111165711

The thing about the Police Cadets not having a plot just isn't true. From the beginning we see this CPM (complex personality mixed) dynamic with them where MacArthur tends to enjoy herself too much and Sanders has to try and control her. At the same time, there's also their conflict with the Ice Dancers. In most cases interactions aren't storylines but in this case it was. For a show like RR, an interaction of two teams being clashing rivals who are determined to beat the other and have taken blows at each other every two episodes, that would be seen as a storyline in this format.

In the later episodes due to the lack of teams, both their plot with the Ice Dancers and with each other had started to get bigger. Sanders injured her arm and MacArthur had to go through the last five episodes coming to terms with a terrible mistake she's made before learning right in the final episode that she's not the bees knees she thought she was at the beginning of the season. It's not that the Cadets lasted too long either in my opinion, since they still had a balance of storyline and comedy to them.