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John to Jason: “Don’t lecture me on the consequences of being you”. That line alone, and the actor’s delivery of it, is enough to get me pregnant.

I think there’s been a misunderstanding here. BJ was clearly (to me) visiting Port Charles as an Angel. She’s not alive and back from the dead. At least not now.

Alan! The show continues to disrespect Stuart Damon even on their tribute wall. His photo is too small, and in black and white so it barely registers compared to the rest.

Yes. He mentioned it in this very episode about 15 min before.

Here’s my contribution to useless information. I’m positive that the meditative tea lady, Shiva Rose, at the start of the episode, is the ex-wife of Dylan McDermott.

I'm calling BS on the mountaintop family dinner. There was one table set up for 4. There's no way the restaurant was expecting a party of 12+ more people. Every other group meal involved 1 or 2 long tables to accommodate everyone, just like the hotel restaurant was set up for the large group that allegedly bailed on Kris' dinner. The minor plot point of Kris being disrespected in trying to arrange yet another family (her family only apparently as Sheila and Randy didn't seem to be expecting their kid(s) to come) was totally scripted in my view. From what we saw of them, I actually quite liked the other two families. Their interactions with the K crew made the Kardashians a lot more likeable.

As an aside regarding Jeff Clarke, when Dr. Manning asked him how his wife Lisa was doing, he answered that they were divorced. As someone who watched Chicago Fire, what Jeff should have actually said was, "We're divorced and she's in jail for murdering her loan shark boyfriend. I thought about killing him myself and was actually arrested for his murder. I spent 30 days in jail and tried to take the fall for her until Dr. Halstead's brother helped convince me that was probably a mistake". I guess just going with "we're divorced" was easier in the circumstances, what with it being his first day and all.

I'm really going to miss the Sean Roman character. I liked what he had the potential to bring to the show, if only he had been served by better writing. I liked that he took pride in being on patrol and that he had no ambition to move up to Detective. He was proud of the job he was doing and knew that it could make a difference in people's lives. He didn't view patrol as just an irritating stepping stone to making detective. He certainly didn't put Voight or the unit on a pedestal. He recognized the value that the unit offered in serving the city but he didn't feel it gave them any free passes or diminished his own contributions. He was confident in himself, a good judge of character, a practical realist and not intimidated by Voight, Olinsky or anyone else. He felt the most real of all the characters on the show. I just wish he had been given more to do. Even his exit was such a lost opportunity. It would have been more compelling to watch it play out over several episodes as Roman had to deal with loosing the very thing that defined him and all the emotional upheaval that would have created. He could have potentially had some nice scenes with Mouse, Platt (especially Platt, as she had been through it herself) and Dr. Charles about that. I also don't really buy that the character would suddenly decide to quit when he could possibly have taken a position as an academy instructor. It was only a few episodes earlier that he expressed an interest in being a field training officer. I understand it was the actor's choice to leave. I get that and frankly I never really understand why he had agreed to two seasons anyway. To go from strong supporting parts in movies like The Hurt Locker and Flight to playing 3rd fiddle on mildly successful network show for less than 15 minutes of airtime a week seemed like a strange career choice to me. So all the best to the actor. And to the character, Sean Roman...your alternate reality storyline(s) that existed in my head were really good.

I'm sort of in to this Roman and Burgess pairing. They have an easy friendship. Roman is straight-forward, a good person, easy on the eyes and drama free. The Ruzek relationship started when he was seeing someone else. He's pretty insufferable (to me) in that he forgets he never worked a beat and hasn't really shown himself to be a natural for the Intelligence unit (he's pretty useless really and doesn't offer anything special to the team). He has bad taste in pants (let's burn those rust coloured khakis he used to wear all the time). His looks are fading and he was a jerk to his father. Actually, he's pretty consistently a jerk with a big ego and lack of maturity. I say, go for it Kim. Roman has been looking pretty damn fine lately. He was looking great last night.

For me, Carmen = Bestemianova and Bukin from 1985 Worlds (or was it 1986?). I loved that program so much that I eventually wore out my poor VHS tape after countless viewings.

Clarke was the most compelling character on the show. I pine for a spinoff, Chicago Fire: Lieutenant Clarke.

I have to agree 100% that this show just has way to much Dawson to be even remotely watchable. There is nothing compelling or interesting about her character. She never struggles (for too long anyway), is never wrong, is always adored and seems to have everything go her way. I don't need to root for her, since everything works out for her and when it briefly doesn't everyone she meets is already rooting enough for her. On the other hand, I loved Shay and Clarke. Both were interesting in different ways. I wanted to know more about their respective backstories. I was looking forward to their individual future storylines. Thanks for nothing Chicago Fire.