Subj : Re: Nobody's ... script editor
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Ellen K Hursh
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 15:30:24

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

(Pooh. Had a nice long reply written, and then my browser crashed.)

npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> Lordy ... that sucked!

> I think the show laid an egg. (BTW, after it was over I went back and
> viewed the beginning on tape.)
>
> Ok, what I liked.  Let's the good stuff out of the way firs.

> I really liked the scene where Luka tells Abby that Sam's moving out.

I liked that she was supportive of him, but used better judgment in her
expression of support than she has in the past.

> {Luka really does look especially good so far this season!)

That's definitely been one plus to this season, so far (the screencap
function has been getting a real workout).

> I liked Dr. Coburn; Amy Aquino really did a good job
> here. (Though I didn't care much for her new hair style. 50's
> throwback?)

I like her new 'do. It's a softer look than the Janewayesque bun she's
worn in the past.

> What I hated would fill a novel, so I'll try to be concise.

> And Ray.  Screaming at patients REALLY doesn't help them make good
> choices.  All last season we were shown that Ray is a guy who really
> doesn't care much about his patients; is more interested in moving
> patients out, making a good superficial impression, and picking up his
> paycheck at the end of the week.  And now, suddenly, he's Super Doc,
> totally wrapped up in the wellbeing of this little baby. (To the point
> where, at the end, he spends the night in the NICU with him. "He
> shouldn't be alone...."  Umm... aren't there doctors and nurses in the
> NICU.) Why was he up in OB with her anyway?

It was a sweet idea to sit with the baby, but wasn't he still supposed
to be on duty down in the ER? (Or at least I don't remember him saying
"Well, my shift is over. I think I'll spend my own free time sitting
here so that this baby doesn't have to be alone, even though he
wouldn't know the difference even if he *could* see past his thumb.")

> And the friends told Abby that they were skipping school. But isn't
> this July? (New residents just starting, just a couple of days after
> the previous eppy.)  Why would they be in school?

Summer school, probably.

> The female GSW and her daughter served only to be an anvil for Pratt's
> story ... and Pratt's story is (sorry Uncle Copter) about the most
> uningaging 'pesronal' story to have passed through in a long time.

Though I was amused to re-view that part of the tape and notice that
the half-sister seemed to be checking him out just before Daddy
announced that Greg was his son (and, therefore, her half-brother).
"Oh."

> Today we get a second crop of really-stupid-interns. (I guess the first
> batch from last week all quit in disgust?)

They're the same crop of really-stupid-interns... or at least Babinski
and Clemons are. I don't recall if Abby's intern was the Bouncy Intern
from last week.

> (Though todays POV is probably more realistic.  Blood, espeically O-neg
> blood, is not an unlimited commodity.)

Especially since they can't just stick a tap in Carter anymore, and
draw off the occasional pint.

> Luka might be able to actually SEE if Sam and Alex are home, rather
> than just yelling for them, if he'd turn on the light!

But then we wouldn't have had that lovely "I'm standing in a big empty
set" echo effect when he was calling for them, to indicate that they
were already gone (thus leaving a Big Cavernous Hole in his life, blah
blah fishcakes). Besides, it's not like there's that much in the place
for him to trip over (except for that toy on the stairs, and for some
reason I think Sam was the one who put it there).
I wonder if his little family photograph is among the framed pictures
in the background of that opening scene, or if it's still in its same
old spot in his wallet.

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