Subj : Re: Canon City To : alt.tv.er From : Ellen K Hursh Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 03:01:01 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er npardue@indiana.edu wrote: > I found the Sam/Luka storyline very watchable (or, maybe it was just > that Luka was exceptionally watchable...), though it did peter out at > the end. And, of course, they never explained a few rather important > points ... like how Alex made it all the way to Colorado without anyone > wondering who this kid was. I noticed he made the rookie mistake of bolting when he saw the cop at the truck stop. > Sam did the franctic mom thing well. Rather > scuzzy of her to dump Luka like that at the end though. "Thank you for > running me halfway across the country and letting me trash your car ... Did anybody else see the ex-antelope and wonder who was going to get the meat, or was it just me? (Hey, Alaska doesn't wear off easily....) > but now I'm leaving you because we don't want the same things in life." Oh, you *know* that's going to go the way of "No commitment, no strings, no co-parenting..just keep it casual". (Heck, I'll bet Luka still has Gillian's number *somewhere*.) > And the scenes in the ER. I liked the fact that they finally > remembered that County is supposed to be a teaching hospital. I very > much disliked the way they shoved down our throat, in every single > scene, that "COUNTY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL." What was with that intern Neela got? Did someone in casting say "Hey, we don't have nearly enough people who look like Bull from 'Night Court' on this show", or something? Man, if ever there was a candidate for being asked "Are you high?".... > They could have been a BIT more subtle about it all. There were, as > near as I could tell, no attendings on duty. The supply of attendings has run a bit low, hasn't it? > A few other minor glitches/questions. > How probable was it for the kid in the Davenport hospital to have been > Alex. Could he really have ended up in a diabetic coma THAT fast? He > left the previous evening; it's now early the next morning. He was buying snacks and sodas from machines at the truck stop (not exactly what I think of, when I think of a place to buy healthyish vending machine food items, even if he had got diet soda), so his carb-watching was probably not that careful. > Along with recasting Alex, they also aged him a bit. IIRC, he was 9 > when he joined the show early S10 (October 2003). It's now just under 2 > years later and he's 12. Maybe they're trying to subtly age Sam (by proxy) so the age gap between her and Luka doesn't seem quite as glaring? (God knows, that unfortunate bleach job does her no favors.) > While I liked Luka's little anecdote about Marko, (and I noted that the > closed captioning could spell neither Marko nor Danijela correctly!), The part about him crying over the sink with the water running was very touching (and entirely believable)... I suppose it's too much to expect, that she'll realize what he gave her with that. > the age of the kid has me puzzled. While it was never entirely clear > how old he was when he died, he was in a crib, so was probably under 3. > THe story had to have happened the summer before the war began -- like > summer 1990 -- by summer 1991 they were already in Vukovar. So he would > have been under 2. Which seems a bit young to have done all the stuff > Luka describes him doing. (Being left alone on the beach, wandering off > that quickly, telling the police his name and giving them enough > personal information that they could track down Danijella. (Kovac is a > VERY common name -- just telling the police that he was Marko Kovac > wouldn't have gotten them very far!) He was gifted? > But I loved Sam's line about "There are beaches in Croatia?" That was what I loved about Luka's line about playing pool with goat testicles last season... I'd been waiting for him to make that kind of sarcastic reply to "There are [x] in Croatia?" for... pretty much since the first time one of those came his way. Hey, how about that breast-feeding mom shortly after the credits? If the kid is able to ask for it or help Mom undo her bra, I figure, he's too old to be feeding at the ol' mom-trough. .