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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m still confused as to why McKay has the ankle bracelet and how it’s the ex’s new girlfriend’s fault.[/quote]

The writers haven't told us -- we're not supposed to know.[/quote]

It’s sort of a dumb storyline IMO.[/quote]

I think it was because the new girlfriend has a restraining order against McKay- Like maybe she threatened McKay of assaulting her/ she was convicted of assaulting her? I think I could see McKay and the guy together- [b]she seems like she is up for a good time, which before parenting she may have been more of a partier and then maybe had a baby with the guy. [/b]Then she grew up, and he didn't.[/quote]

Doubtful. She would have been in med school already. No time to “party.” Typically they aren’t the parting type anyway.[/quote]

[/b]She's 6 years into her medical training, but her kid is like 10. [b]And she's in her 40s -- she took a big gap between college and med school. She also tells a patient that she made a lot of mistakes when she was younger before getting her life together for her kid. She might have been exaggerating in order to make the patient feel a connection, but it rang true.

So I think the PP's probably pretty spot on. McKay married that guy who is clearly really immature and kind of stupid. If they got married when they were in their 20s, maybe both young and dumb, and then McKay had a baby in her early 30s and not only grew up but realized she wanted to really buckle down and pursue a serious career as a doctor, her current situation makes sense. McKay grew up and got her life together (very together, to get through med school while having a young kid at home), but her ex stayed in the same place maturity wise, and now she has the baggage of co-parenting with him which makes it especially difficult for her to juggle parenthood and her job (which would be difficult no matter what -- it's a hard job for parents).[/quote]

How do we know she’s 6 years in? Is she a 2nd year resident? I’ve forgotten.[/quote]

Yes, she states she is a 2nd year resident and that she's older (in her 40s) in the first episode. Actually she was Ms. Exposition in the first episode (also talking about her son, explaining how the ER works, explaining stuff about other staff there) in the first episode, which I think is one of the reasons I don't like her. It's hard to make a character do a bunch of exposition and make it feel natural or make that person likable. But on the other hand, having McKay do all the exposition also enables other characters to just be in the moment instead of having to do that too. So McKay being an annoying motormouth in Ep 1 enables Mohan and Dana and Collins and Robbie and Langdon (the other veterans on the staff who would otherwise have to explain everything) to be a bit more natural/normal.[/quote]

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