Subj : Re: Canon City
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Dropping The Helicopter
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 18:22:56

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> Yeah but it seemed to be a break in character to me, which is something
> 
> we simply have never seen happen on ER.  I just don't recall her ever
> showing any tendency for "OMGOMGOMG!!  I'm in a total tizzy because
> Alex
> is out of my sight!  Stand back, I'm about to completely flip out!"
> 
> We've seen it often.  The first time Luka and Alex met she flipped out
> because Luka didn't automatically know that Alex was a) her son and b)
> diabetetic.

Angry Flipout, not Out-Of-Control-Panic Flipout.

>  A couple of eppies later when Alex wasn't at home and Sam
> got there, she flipped out and called Luka in a panic. (And was still
> borderline hysterical by the time they got home.)
> 

Mmmm, I don't recall the episode, but I'll take your word for it.

> 
> What really was over the top for me was the Iowa deal:
> 
> Cop: "They're faxing a photo over now..."
> Sam: "ELECTRONS TRAVELING IN WIRE IS SIMPLY NOT FAST ENOUGH!  WE MUST
> DRIVE TWO HUNDRED MILES INSTEAD!!!"
> Luka: "I will go with you even though doing so makes absolutely no
> sense
> even to mothers who are completely flipping out."
> 
> 
> IIRC, by the time Sam and Luka got to Davenport, they were still trying
> to track down a digital camera to take the picture in the first place.

200 miles divided by 100mph == 2 hours.  In that time they could hire a 
portrait artist to paint him and send a lithograph over over via UPS.

> (Right ... we all know that Iowa is still back in the stone age and
> they still use Brownie Cameras in their hospitals.)
> 

And the nearest telegraph is plum in the next county!  But they just got 
their own Moving Picture House; what a wonder of the modern age!

> Naomi
>

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