Anonymous wrote:How many Emmys is thing thing going to win?

Noah Wyle is a lock after her performance last night.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else keep conflating Dr. Robby with Carter from ER? I keep thinking he will mention his start in Chicago and dealing with Langdon's addiction would trigger his.

I'm actually surprised that I don't conflate them, and I was ER-obsessed back in the day. I'm about the same age as Carter/Robby, so that probably influences my feelings.

Robby seems like a very different character. To me, the essence of Carter was his youth and inexperience. My primary memory of Carter was not so much of a new doctor learning to practice medicine, but of a new doctor learning to emotionally reckon with the intense trauma and pain he witnessed every day.

Robby is more than just the opposite of that-- He's like the ideal of a mature and wise man/doctor. When he speaks to patients and especially to families, his affect, tone, and words are pitch perfect. He's straightforward but kind, knows how to gently lead them to face the truth while giving them time to absorb what's happening. He's equally great with the staff.

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Anonymous wrote: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. 🙌

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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:I like Collins and relate to her. I also think it's total garbage to call it misogynoir and implicit bias because some viewers don't.

But can we get past that? THIS episode was amazing television. It was so hard to watch, but extraordinary acting across the board. I wish there was another season finale so it wasn't ending the way it started with Dr Robby relieving his Covid trauma. ER doctors and nurses are heroes.

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Anonymous wrote: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. 🙌

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Collins' abortion lead to the miscarriage? In any case her suffering in silence while surrounded by the chaos of an active ER was one of the stronger plot lines. I expect her to return to finish her story for this season.

No. A past abortion does not cause miscarriages in future pregnancies. WTF?

Anonymous wrote:Did Collins' abortion lead to the miscarriage? In any case her suffering in silence while surrounded by the chaos of an active ER was one of the stronger plot lines. I expect her to return to finish her story for this season.

Anonymous wrote:How many Emmys is thing thing going to win?

Noah Wyle is a lock after her performance last night.

Anonymous wrote:I like Collins and relate to her. I also think it's total garbage to call it misogynoir and implicit bias because some viewers don't.

But can we get past that? THIS episode was amazing television. It was so hard to watch, but extraordinary acting across the board. I wish there was another season finale so it wasn't ending the way it started with Dr Robby relieving his Covid trauma. ER doctors and nurses are heroes.

Anonymous wrote:I love this show so much that I am pulling my husband in and starting (for me, again, for him, first time) from the beginning. We started yesterday and got through episode 4 so far. He loves it, too!

We have a teenage daughter with mild autism — no interest in being a doctor (and that’s great tbh) but I can also see some of her in Mel re her emotional reactions.

There are quite a few great Collins moments in these episodes, I don’t really understand the people who don’t like her. She’s funny. Remember the policeman who was going to hit on her and she just confidently cut him off? Then cut off Robby from asking about him? lol. Or how she figured out the train lady was from Nepal by showing her a map (and then the lady wound up congratulating her on her pregnancy)? I like Collins a lot, and I think she’s very sympathetic. Some of the other characters on the show are higher drama (like Langdon and Santos), but I don’t *like* them as much.