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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to say that I really like Collins a lot and made one comment about 2 pages ago that was deleted. I didn’t make any further comments since then so maybe I wasn’t alone in my opinion.

But anyway, I think she is a strong female character on the show who is interesting because she has a more personal (even if not quite equal) relationship with our hero Dr. Robby. And she shows another side to Robby, one showing maybe he had a relationship with a subordinate, which probably isn’t hospital policy, and maybe he wasn’t totally blameless in that relationship failing (maybe because of work, but we don’t know).

I thought their scene together in the back of the ambulance, where Collins confessed she had aborted his baby and not told him because she was afraid he would hate her, and he said he understood, was a real gut punch, something I hadn’t seen before, and fantastic acting by both actors. Bravo. 🙌 [/quote]

Your comment got deleted because you falsely pushed a narrative that people don’t like Collins because she is a “strong black woman” which couldn’t be further from the truth. [/quote]
DP that likes Collins, has posted about her, and way back called out some implicit bias. People are so wound up with not liking a character they describe as bland and cold (despite her arguably having the most affectionate scenes in the season) that they need to pretend that only one person likes her. It's evident that there are multiple posters that like her, and multiple posters that don't. And the race war comments are weird, because for every post that goes too far with calling MAGA, there's a post insisting that anyone who does like her is trying to start a race war.

I have yet to see someone articulate a real reason why Collins is unlikable or a bad character. In some respects her arc is more subtle, but not in all. And if you don't know a lot about her, you haven't been paying attention, because they've told us a lot about her.[/quote]
NP here. I am luke warm on Collins as a character. I have just not connected with her (good or bad) as much as many of the other characters. I think it's because her more personal interactions have been fairly limited to Dr. Robby and Dana. This is understandable given that she's going through a very personal experience, but it just makes it harder to feel like you "know" her. Beyond those two interactions, we see her being really competent and professional with the rest of the cast...which is great, but it doesn't make her feel like part of the show. Aside from a couple of scenes with Dana and Robby, her biggest scenes are entirely alone, so she feels a bit removed from the main story.[/quote]

I'm a fan of Collins and fascinated by this discussion because of my own experience working in a major trauma center ER when I was in college. I remember there was an attending doctor that I didn't like because he always seemed so cold. I mentioned this to a coworker, who'd been there for years. She said that I was completely wrong about him. As a young resident, he was exceptionally sensitive and it showed on his face, especially when the situation was grave. He'd been taken aside by his superiors and told to figure out how to mask his feelings because he was upsetting the patients and families.

I disagree that she's cold, though. She was really warm and lovely when delivering that baby. [/quote]

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