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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They had one Spanish speaking patient all day, then ICE shows up and half the waiting room flees?

Robby and Santos were at their worst. Ogilvie was painful to watch. Mel and Javadi were both a mess. Dana is so hyper competent that it's not really believable.

Such rapid fire editing, it was just scenes flashing by, not much coherence. The show continues to get away from what it had going in season one.[/quote]

Disagree, thought this episode was great. I like how it's the flip of last season's chaos with the mass shooter. The ER is eerily quiet because patients are taking off due to ICE. The tension of that situation is heightening all the existing stressors for everyone. The quiet and patients leaving are also giving people more space to think, and to discuss issues, which is leading to trauma and conflict bubbling up.

I thought this episode was very eerie and well done.[/quote]

I agree 100%. I would like to rewatch this one. As always, the pace was so fast that I almost missed the patients scurrying out of the waiting room. The ICE agents were scary as heck.

And OMG, that shot of Robby's face when Al-Hashimi asked the mom if she had thought about hurting herself.

I also very much agree with the characterization of Langdon's bad apology on the previous page. And I LOVE him. But that scene was very good and it went a long way toward explaining why Santos is so mad. 
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I think that moment where Al-Hashimi was asking the mom about self-harm was hitting Robby especially hard because she was talking about second-guessing her choices, and how she'd thought she'd been doing the right thing, and now having to confront the idea that her son might be permanently disabled because she lost track of him for a few minutes. Robby carries enormous guilt about removing his mentor from a ventilator during Covid to save someone else, and also from being unable to save his step-son's girlfriend after the mass shooting, and also from failing to see signs of Langdon's drug abuse and intervene before it got to the point where it harmed Langdon, Santos, and others. He's a conscientious person who genuinely has been trying to make the right choices and do the right things in his life, and yet he feels like he's still failed and is to blame for people he loves dying and hurting.

So yes I think some of it was him having to confront his own feelings about maybe self-harming or at least not caring about his well-being, but I think really what he was identifying with was the heaviness of her guilt and sense of having failed her responsibility to the person she loves most in the world. I think that's exactly how Robby feels and that many days he does feel like wandering into traffic, not because of a concrete desire to die, but because the weight of that [perceived] failure is just too much for him to carry.

I really hope he gets help in carrying it by the end of this season. It's too much.[/quote]

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