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Anonymous wrote:I hate Robby not knowing what happened to Jake. You could just feel that tension throughout the episode. Dana was an absolute standout in this episode - I love how she calls Robby “Cap” like captain. She is an amazing asset to the team - very calm and capable.

Dr Javadi yelling, “Read the f*$king room, Mom,” had me laughing but at the same….she’s just not professional. Always tense and freaking out when her mom is nearby - I wouldn’t want her as my dr. She seems incompetent at those times. I don’t like seeing a doctor get so rattled.

It just dawned on me that Dr. Collins wasn’t on this episode at all - and I didn’t miss her! I still think she’s one of the weakest links. Her chemistry just isn’t there with the other doctors.

Completely agree on Dr. Collins.

It's a writing problem. The most interesting stuff with her character is personal -- the miscarriage thing. That leaves her outside of the ensemble where the drama is always best when it is sparking between and amongst the characters. Even when Robby is worried about "his" kid which is a personal thing, there is a lot of back and forth with the charge nurse trying to get ahold of him, and the problem is related to the drama of what is going on in the episode.

I didn’t think the miscarriage or her confession to Robby about being pregnant before was interesting. They don’t feel believable as a former couple and lack chemistry.

Disagree - I clocked them as a former couple from the first episode

+100

There was so much tension, and so much connection, it was extremely obvious. The scene in the back of the ambulance makes it really clear that however they left things there is still a very strong connection there. I also reject the idea that she’s underwritten. She’s a professional, and we see that she compartmentalizes her personal distress while maintaining her empathy and composure with patients. She’s tactile, connected and warm. We have seen her in two very emotional, physical scenes connecting with Dana and Robby, and we’ve seen her in rage and loss miscarrying. And she goes back to the ER because she is also a very tough woman and an excellent doctor.

And yet nobody missed her in the latest episode.

I call sepsis from the miscarriage

I don’t think so.

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We should be allowed to not like certain characters and be able to express our opinions without fear of being labeled a racist. Shame on the one poster who keeps bringing race into this.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t miss Collin’s, like at all

+100

Same here. And no to the PP who brought race into it, it has nothing to do with her being a black woman. Strong, weak, whatever.

It’s just that the character is boring.

+1 exactly. The character is a complete snooze fest. She has zero personality. Zero warmth, too.

I disagree. Think about the actual arc of the show -- this all takes place in one shift; one very emotionally complicated shift. Her character is awesomely trying to keep her ish together over the 10 hours we've seen her, while reliving the same trauma her boss is going through, plus having an IVF pregnancy fail during the shift where children die, babies are born, abortions are requested, other staff's kids visit, etc. Her face does all the acting, and we only see the major cracks in the last hour. Maybe it depends on your life experience, but hers seems to be the story arc that ties whole show together. Right now she is at home mourning the loss of what she saw as her last chance at motherhood, with her phone off, while hundreds of people's grown children are being rushed to her ER, with many deaths. How will she process this when we see her again?

I don’t think anyone cares honestly. Haven’t thought about it this deeply.

Then you aren't reading the thread. Lots of people are very interested in Collins.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried about Robby. He's still traumatized by losing his mentor four years earlier through no fault of his own. How is he going to feel if he feels responsible for many lives lost?

I loved how Santos sniffed out that reporter or clout chaser and threw his phone in the bloody bucket. She also sniffed out Langdon and came up with a solution to the guy who was pervy with his daughter. She has really good instincts about people. But when Robby was explaining what was about to happen, she looked so young and scared, which gave her character more depth.

Speaking of young, Javadi makes me laugh. She is advanced in book smarts, but she's still just a 20 year old in emotional intelligence.

Mel might be my favorite character. She was so earnest and tender giving blood to save her patient's life.

McKay's ex also cracks me up (I remember him from Imposters). I liked when he was on propofol and said, "I feeeeeeel sad . . ." Propofol is some funny truth serum. I'm glad that when I had a fracture reduced in the ER, thankfully all I admitted to was really loving my kids' Title 1 public schools, lol. And you could see him admiring her when he stumbled through looking for his son.

I want Dana to come live in my house and make everything right in the world. I also love the nurses who speak Tagalog to each other (I think . . . I don't speak it, but I heard one of them mention it).

I'm totally obsessed with this show. I got my friend hooked too . . . we're going to watch the finale together.

One thing weird about that is the timing. From the time the needle goes in and the pint is done, it takes minimum 6 minutes for me, and that's if I've had an extra 6 cups of water that morning. On a typical day it would take closer to 10. Dana said the blood was 8-10 minutes away. So it was kind of pointless to take a doctor off the floor to get her blood drawn.

I used to donate all the time and could be in/out in 4 or less, including venipuncture and bandaging after, so it's totally possible.

I've never heard of anyone doing it in 4 minutes, why did you stop?

The Red Cross says 8-10 minutes so you are an anomaly. https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html

Yes, they would frequently praise me for being "a good bleeder" I switched to double reds because it gave me more time to listen to music.

I stopped because I started taking meds that made me an incompatible donor. I still donate platelets sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:We should be allowed to not like certain characters and be able to express our opinions without fear of being labeled a racist. Shame on the one poster who keeps bringing race into this.

Yeah, but when your reasoning amounts to "I dunno, I just don't like her" and the character is a black femme, you should be checking for misogynoir yourself before an anon here points it out to you.

DP. GTFO with this b.s.

I haven’t warmed to Langdon (as well as not caring for Collins). The character and the actor are awfully bland to me.

Does this mean I hate white men?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried about Robby. He's still traumatized by losing his mentor four years earlier through no fault of his own. How is he going to feel if he feels responsible for many lives lost?

I loved how Santos sniffed out that reporter or clout chaser and threw his phone in the bloody bucket. She also sniffed out Langdon and came up with a solution to the guy who was pervy with his daughter. She has really good instincts about people. But when Robby was explaining what was about to happen, she looked so young and scared, which gave her character more depth.

Speaking of young, Javadi makes me laugh. She is advanced in book smarts, but she's still just a 20 year old in emotional intelligence.

Mel might be my favorite character. She was so earnest and tender giving blood to save her patient's life.

McKay's ex also cracks me up (I remember him from Imposters). I liked when he was on propofol and said, "I feeeeeeel sad . . ." Propofol is some funny truth serum. I'm glad that when I had a fracture reduced in the ER, thankfully all I admitted to was really loving my kids' Title 1 public schools, lol. And you could see him admiring her when he stumbled through looking for his son.

I want Dana to come live in my house and make everything right in the world. I also love the nurses who speak Tagalog to each other (I think . . . I don't speak it, but I heard one of them mention it).

I'm totally obsessed with this show. I got my friend hooked too . . . we're going to watch the finale together.

One thing weird about that is the timing. From the time the needle goes in and the pint is done, it takes minimum 6 minutes for me, and that's if I've had an extra 6 cups of water that morning. On a typical day it would take closer to 10. Dana said the blood was 8-10 minutes away. So it was kind of pointless to take a doctor off the floor to get her blood drawn.

I used to donate all the time and could be in/out in 4 or less, including venipuncture and bandaging after, so it's totally possible.

I've never heard of anyone doing it in 4 minutes, why did you stop?

The Red Cross says 8-10 minutes so you are an anomaly. https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html

Yes, they would frequently praise me for being "a good bleeder" I switched to double reds because it gave me more time to listen to music.

I stopped because I started taking meds that made me an incompatible donor. I still donate platelets sometimes.

Ah, thanks for responding. Good to know you still donate in some capacity. I try to go 2-3 times a year but it just ruins me for a few days and I hate the needle. I'm a universal donor so I suck it up!

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Anybody else brough to tears by the screaming newborn Robby delivered with difficulty? God, my youngest is 15 and that noise still just breaks my heart.

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Anonymous wrote:We should be allowed to not like certain characters and be able to express our opinions without fear of being labeled a racist. Shame on the one poster who keeps bringing race into this.

Yeah, but when your reasoning amounts to "I dunno, I just don't like her" and the character is a black femme, you should be checking for misogynoir yourself before an anon here points it out to you.

DP. GTFO with this b.s.

I haven’t warmed to Langdon (as well as not caring for Collins). The character and the actor are awfully bland to me.

Does this mean I hate white men?

Maybe? But since there's not a built-in, systemic cultural bias against white guys (no matter what the manosphere would argue to the contrary), it's not the sort of thing you should be habitually checking for. Misogynoir, OTOH, is baked into our culture, so you should always review for where it shows up for you.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried about Robby. He's still traumatized by losing his mentor four years earlier through no fault of his own. How is he going to feel if he feels responsible for many lives lost?

I loved how Santos sniffed out that reporter or clout chaser and threw his phone in the bloody bucket. She also sniffed out Langdon and came up with a solution to the guy who was pervy with his daughter. She has really good instincts about people. But when Robby was explaining what was about to happen, she looked so young and scared, which gave her character more depth.

Speaking of young, Javadi makes me laugh. She is advanced in book smarts, but she's still just a 20 year old in emotional intelligence.

Mel might be my favorite character. She was so earnest and tender giving blood to save her patient's life.

McKay's ex also cracks me up (I remember him from Imposters). I liked when he was on propofol and said, "I feeeeeeel sad . . ." Propofol is some funny truth serum. I'm glad that when I had a fracture reduced in the ER, thankfully all I admitted to was really loving my kids' Title 1 public schools, lol. And you could see him admiring her when he stumbled through looking for his son.

I want Dana to come live in my house and make everything right in the world. I also love the nurses who speak Tagalog to each other (I think . . . I don't speak it, but I heard one of them mention it).

I'm totally obsessed with this show. I got my friend hooked too . . . we're going to watch the finale together.

One thing weird about that is the timing. From the time the needle goes in and the pint is done, it takes minimum 6 minutes for me, and that's if I've had an extra 6 cups of water that morning. On a typical day it would take closer to 10. Dana said the blood was 8-10 minutes away. So it was kind of pointless to take a doctor off the floor to get her blood drawn.

I used to donate all the time and could be in/out in 4 or less, including venipuncture and bandaging after, so it's totally possible.

I've never heard of anyone doing it in 4 minutes, why did you stop?

The Red Cross says 8-10 minutes so you are an anomaly. https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html

Yes, they would frequently praise me for being "a good bleeder" I switched to double reds because it gave me more time to listen to music.

I stopped because I started taking meds that made me an incompatible donor. I still donate platelets sometimes.

Ah, thanks for responding. Good to know you still donate in some capacity. I try to go 2-3 times a year but it just ruins me for a few days and I hate the needle. I'm a universal donor so I suck it up!

Do it for the cookies!

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Anonymous wrote:We should be allowed to not like certain characters and be able to express our opinions without fear of being labeled a racist. Shame on the one poster who keeps bringing race into this.

Yeah, but when your reasoning amounts to "I dunno, I just don't like her" and the character is a black femme, you should be checking for misogynoir yourself before an anon here points it out to you.

That wasn’t my reasoning at all. I said she was boring and lacked warmth and I didn’t see the chemistry with the other characters. So because she is black I can’t say that? BS.

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Anonymous wrote:We should be allowed to not like certain characters and be able to express our opinions without fear of being labeled a racist. Shame on the one poster who keeps bringing race into this.

Yeah, but when your reasoning amounts to "I dunno, I just don't like her" and the character is a black femme, you should be checking for misogynoir yourself before an anon here points it out to you.

DP. GTFO with this b.s.

I haven’t warmed to Langdon (as well as not caring for Collins). The character and the actor are awfully bland to me.

Does this mean I hate white men?

apples/oranges

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t miss Collin’s, like at all

+100

Same here. And no to the PP who brought race into it, it has nothing to do with her being a black woman. Strong, weak, whatever.

It’s just that the character is boring.

+1 exactly. The character is a complete snooze fest. She has zero personality. Zero warmth, too.

I disagree. Think about the actual arc of the show -- this all takes place in one shift; one very emotionally complicated shift. Her character is awesomely trying to keep her ish together over the 10 hours we've seen her, while reliving the same trauma her boss is going through, plus having an IVF pregnancy fail during the shift where children die, babies are born, abortions are requested, other staff's kids visit, etc. Her face does all the acting, and we only see the major cracks in the last hour. Maybe it depends on your life experience, but hers seems to be the story arc that ties whole show together. Right now she is at home mourning the loss of what she saw as her last chance at motherhood, with her phone off, while hundreds of people's grown children are being rushed to her ER, with many deaths. How will she process this when we see her again?

I don’t think anyone cares honestly. Haven’t thought about it this deeply.

Then you aren't reading the thread. Lots of people are very interested in Collins.

Not really. It’s one poster who accuses people of being racist. The same one who got kicked off way earlier in the thread for going off about “MAGA” bs. She accused a PP of being MAGA because they didn’t like Collins.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t miss Collin’s, like at all

+100

Same here. And no to the PP who brought race into it, it has nothing to do with her being a black woman. Strong, weak, whatever.

It’s just that the character is boring.

+1 exactly. The character is a complete snooze fest. She has zero personality. Zero warmth, too.

I disagree. Think about the actual arc of the show -- this all takes place in one shift; one very emotionally complicated shift. Her character is awesomely trying to keep her ish together over the 10 hours we've seen her, while reliving the same trauma her boss is going through, plus having an IVF pregnancy fail during the shift where children die, babies are born, abortions are requested, other staff's kids visit, etc. Her face does all the acting, and we only see the major cracks in the last hour. Maybe it depends on your life experience, but hers seems to be the story arc that ties whole show together. Right now she is at home mourning the loss of what she saw as her last chance at motherhood, with her phone off, while hundreds of people's grown children are being rushed to her ER, with many deaths. How will she process this when we see her again?

I don’t think anyone cares honestly. Haven’t thought about it this deeply.

Then you aren't reading the thread. Lots of people are very interested in Collins.

Not really. It’s one poster who accuses people of being racist. The same one who got kicked off way earlier in the thread for going off about “MAGA” bs. She accused a PP of being MAGA because they didn’t like Collins.

+1. I think Collins sucks.

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Just an fyi, I have reported the poster who keeps trying to start a race war. Thank you Jeff for taking care of it so we can all go back to discussing this lovely show without the drama!

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Anonymous wrote:Just an fyi, I have reported the poster who keeps trying to start a race war. Thank you Jeff for taking care of it so we can all go back to discussing this lovely show without the drama!

Congrats