Anonymous wrote:It seems pretty likely that the "incel" kid with the list of targeted girls is the Pitt Fest shooter, right?

Anonymous wrote:The birth scenes were jaw droppingly realistic.

Anonymous wrote:It seems pretty likely that the "incel" kid with the list of targeted girls is the Pitt Fest shooter, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Santos and Javadi seem to be the weak links of this cast.

I think the actress playing Santos has done a good job. She convincingly made me really dislike her for the first few episodes and then also made me convincingly think there was more to her as the thing with Langdon unfolded. She's not an endearing character but she's interesting. Similar to McKay, who I also find incredibly grating, but also find believable and and still interested to see where her story goes.

Javadi's character arc, if you can call it that, has been really weak IMO. They kind of stamped her with some characteristics that might drive some drama with her (child prodigy, overbearing mom who works at the hospital, socially awkward) but then have done nothing with them. Each of the other "first day" people has had an identifiable arc, whether it's Whitaker losing that patient early on but then starting to find his footing, Santos acting cocky and alienating everyone only to wind up showing some character and complexity as the day goes on, or King revealing through a series of tricky patients how her sensitivity and empathy both works for her as a doctor and also makes the job harder and more overwhelming. I don't feel like I know exactly where their stories are going but I feel really invested in each of those stories.

With Javadi, I'm just like "eh, it seems like she should have waited to go to med school." She seems nice but overwhelmed and there's no real drama there for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Santos and Javadi seem to be the weak links of this cast.

I think the actress playing Santos has done a good job. She convincingly made me really dislike her for the first few episodes and then also made me convincingly think there was more to her as the thing with Langdon unfolded. She's not an endearing character but she's interesting. Similar to McKay, who I also find incredibly grating, but also find believable and and still interested to see where her story goes.

Javadi's character arc, if you can call it that, has been really weak IMO. They kind of stamped her with some characteristics that might drive some drama with her (child prodigy, overbearing mom who works at the hospital, socially awkward) but then have done nothing with them. Each of the other "first day" people has had an identifiable arc, whether it's Whitaker losing that patient early on but then starting to find his footing, Santos acting cocky and alienating everyone only to wind up showing some character and complexity as the day goes on, or King revealing through a series of tricky patients how her sensitivity and empathy both works for her as a doctor and also makes the job harder and more overwhelming. I don't feel like I know exactly where their stories are going but I feel really invested in each of those stories.

With Javadi, I'm just like "eh, it seems like she should have waited to go to med school." She seems nice but overwhelmed and there's no real drama there for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Santos and Javadi seem to be the weak links of this cast.

I think the actress playing Santos has done a good job. She convincingly made me really dislike her for the first few episodes and then also made me convincingly think there was more to her as the thing with Langdon unfolded. She's not an endearing character but she's interesting. Similar to McKay, who I also find incredibly grating, but also find believable and and still interested to see where her story goes.

Javadi's character arc, if you can call it that, has been really weak IMO. They kind of stamped her with some characteristics that might drive some drama with her (child prodigy, overbearing mom who works at the hospital, socially awkward) but then have done nothing with them. Each of the other "first day" people has had an identifiable arc, whether it's Whitaker losing that patient early on but then starting to find his footing, Santos acting cocky and alienating everyone only to wind up showing some character and complexity as the day goes on, or King revealing through a series of tricky patients how her sensitivity and empathy both works for her as a doctor and also makes the job harder and more overwhelming. I don't feel like I know exactly where their stories are going but I feel really invested in each of those stories.

With Javadi, I'm just like "eh, it seems like she should have waited to go to med school." She seems nice but overwhelmed and there's no real drama there for me.

Anonymous wrote:Santos and Javadi seem to be the weak links of this cast.

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow this week's episode was more difficult for me than the previous ones. I think it was the birth -- my own childbirth experience was not as traumatic as that but it still brought back difficult memories. I think that combined with the impending sense of doom with Langdon gone and then Robbie sending Collins home as well.

That scene with Robbie and Collins, whew. So... was she telling him that she got pregnant while they were dating and had an abortion? That's what that meant, right? I am really heartbroken for Collins and don't want her to give up.

Looks like Dr. Abbot (the night shift attending, the one from the roof in the first episode) is back next week to help with the GSWs. The actor is Shawn Hatosy, who has been working consistently in TV forever and been in everything, for a couple episodes. He's a real HITG (hey! it's that guy) in the best possible way. He's been in four different iterations of Law & Order! I really liked his chemistry with Noah Wylie in that quick scene from the first episode and am looking forward to seeing them work together.

I didn't get that at all.

Yes, that's what it meant. Why else would he have teared up and gotten all pinched with his words?

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow this week's episode was more difficult for me than the previous ones. I think it was the birth -- my own childbirth experience was not as traumatic as that but it still brought back difficult memories. I think that combined with the impending sense of doom with Langdon gone and then Robbie sending Collins home as well.

That scene with Robbie and Collins, whew. So... was she telling him that she got pregnant while they were dating and had an abortion? That's what that meant, right? I am really heartbroken for Collins and don't want her to give up.

Looks like Dr. Abbot (the night shift attending, the one from the roof in the first episode) is back next week to help with the GSWs. The actor is Shawn Hatosy, who has been working consistently in TV forever and been in everything, for a couple episodes. He's a real HITG (hey! it's that guy) in the best possible way. He's been in four different iterations of Law & Order! I really liked his chemistry with Noah Wylie in that quick scene from the first episode and am looking forward to seeing them work together.

I didn't get that at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somehow this week's episode was more difficult for me than the previous ones. I think it was the birth -- my own childbirth experience was not as traumatic as that but it still brought back difficult memories. I think that combined with the impending sense of doom with Langdon gone and then Robbie sending Collins home as well.

That scene with Robbie and Collins, whew. So... was she telling him that she got pregnant while they were dating and had an abortion? That's what that meant, right? I am really heartbroken for Collins and don't want her to give up.

Looks like Dr. Abbot (the night shift attending, the one from the roof in the first episode) is back next week to help with the GSWs. The actor is Shawn Hatosy, who has been working consistently in TV forever and been in everything, for a couple episodes. He's a real HITG (hey! it's that guy) in the best possible way. He's been in four different iterations of Law & Order! I really liked his chemistry with Noah Wylie in that quick scene from the first episode and am looking forward to seeing them work together.

I didn't get that at all.

Anonymous wrote:Somehow this week's episode was more difficult for me than the previous ones. I think it was the birth -- my own childbirth experience was not as traumatic as that but it still brought back difficult memories. I think that combined with the impending sense of doom with Langdon gone and then Robbie sending Collins home as well.

That scene with Robbie and Collins, whew. So... was she telling him that she got pregnant while they were dating and had an abortion? That's what that meant, right? I am really heartbroken for Collins and don't want her to give up.

Looks like Dr. Abbot (the night shift attending, the one from the roof in the first episode) is back next week to help with the GSWs. The actor is Shawn Hatosy, who has been working consistently in TV forever and been in everything, for a couple episodes. He's a real HITG (hey! it's that guy) in the best possible way. He's been in four different iterations of Law & Order! I really liked his chemistry with Noah Wylie in that quick scene from the first episode and am looking forward to seeing them work together.