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Shonda was a big West Wing fan and had some West Wing references in Scandal. The end of this episode felt very “You’re wearing my shirt, Gordon” from Sports Night. Ken Marino always reads Vinnie Van Lowe to me and reminds me there was a season of Party Down I’ve never seen. Jane Curtis was gold. I always enjoy Randall Park. And Uzo Aduba is brilliant. I’m surprised more of my friends aren’t talking about this one.

I was 20 when my dad had the heart attack that lead to his death when I was 21. I was that young. I lashed out at my virtual grandmother for moving my dad’s hat. No, seriously. I still feel bad about that. my mom died when I was in my 40s. My sister in her 60’s had a family meeting to assess how they were going to deal with me because of how much of a live wire I’d been when my dad died. I was fine. I was 44. My mom had been sick for a decade. I’d been her caretaker. I was relieved she was no longer in pain. Jake really is that young. And he’s had not just the trauma of the day he’s likely lost a parent to death or abandonment already because kids with really supportive biological dads don’t become besties with the guy who dated their mom for a bit and have that relationship persist years after the breakup. kids who have previously been abandoned by a parent often aren’t as emotionally mature as kids who haven’t been. And Robby comes at this kid, this kid who has had this trauma today and in his past and says, “hey, we’ve been friends for a long time”. Robby has told strangers this is virtually his kid but he comes to Jake at that moment and says, “we’ve been friends a long time”. and kids who have had trauma? The people they lash out at are not always but very often the people they trust the most. And on a different day Robby would have handed Leah over to surgery and stayed with Jake. This day is the only day Robby would have been in this position with Leah in the first place.

He’s in denial. He is going to say and do whatever he needs to say or do to make it seem like he’s not in as bad a shape as he is. His drug use isn’t a problem? Oh, okay, well then I’m not the only one with a problem. It so reminded me of my dad coming home from rehab and telling me that the doctors didn’t know what to think of him because he wasn’t an alcoholic he just couldn’t stop drinking when he started. 7 years old and I knew that it was bs. And a few years later being furious when I found a beer at his house and him telling me he wasn’t drinking really he was just seeing if he could drink and stop now. I was so afraid he was going to lose custody and so angry that he’d risk that. Langdon has a problem and he’s is going to lash out at anybody who tries to make him confront that problem until he’s ready to confront it himself. Yes he should just shut up and go to rehab but addicts are can’t see beyond their addiction to see that. That is what makes them addicts. At what age do people begin to be not so young that they can process that kind of trauma in a matter of minutes. Jake’s girlfriend was murdered in front of him. He’s a kid he’s in the car with her bleeding all over him and he’s trying to keep pressure on the wound because he knows that is what he’s supposed to do but he is terrified. Then the girl dies and he’s taken to see the body which is a lot! And Robby is having his breakdown in that moment and lashes out at the kid at the same time as trying to give comfort which is super confusing. And his mom has been there long enough to redirect his feelings? His mom turned up in episode 14. His mom has been there for an hour and change. That’s asking his mom to do a hell of a lot of therapy work in a matter of minutes. He’s a kid and he’s angry and he’s scared and he lashed out at Robby and yes narritively it is to make Robby feel worse and more issolated. And it is something Jake’s gonna feel pretty bad about soon too. But it isn’t weird or unusual behavior or proof that this kid is a bad kid. This kid is just a kid having a trauma response aimed in the direction of another character having a trauma response.

In my experience most of the anti-medicine moms are white. It takes a certain kind of privilege to think little Johnny won’t get sick because you use all organic cleaning supplies and can have an active sourdough starter. I have plenty of friends who are crunchy granola and non-white but the non-white ones are vaccinated.

I’m still a hard no on Santos. She just has to immediately peg the kid is suicidal, that Whittaker is homeless and she happens to have a spare bedroom that she can afford not to collect rent on. I suspect Jake’s mom said something akin to that but Robby walked off immediately and didn’t hear it. Because Robby is the character we are watching struggle today and losing that connection to Jake is part of that struggle.

Because she say something on the internet that told her spinal tap’s might be dangerous so she couldn’t possibly allow that. the fact that encephalitis would be worse?!?!? Parents of children hospitalized in the Texas measles outbreak have been defending their anti-vax views.

It is an interesting time Robby’s in because you saw how patient he was with the OD kid’s parents, and adult children of dying dad, but 12+ hour Robbie has a much, much shorter fuse. And he says the things that he was able to surprise at the start of the shift. David’s situation isn’t easy. He needs help. The women on that list need him to get help and their lives aren’t worth less than his. Robbie’s right. McKay’s right. And the er isn’t the best place for mental health issues but mom literally didn’t know what else to do. Abbot was a rockstar in the crisis but maybe a little reckless now? Very much like Santos. I like the doc that was making her do the boring things and not bouncing fore more flashy patient. Mel, is always a rockstar. But it was nice to see Robbie clock and acknowledge that. Whittaker is a fav and I’d like to learn more about how he went from theology to pre-med. Will Robbie seek help in the off season? Knock wood but so many people don’t.

Eh. I don’t need Lucky to turn Kristina in. I don’t think that really helps anybody. I need him to blackmail her ass into therapy. I came back to GH for JJ and LnL2. I love them. They still sparkle but this has been far, far, far too easy without Lucky and Elizabeth doing the work so if Liz finds out Lucky is holding onto this secret it gives them a place to go with them examining who Lucky is and what choices she’s comfortable with him making l I’m here for that.

It isn’t just not saving Jake’s girlfriend. It is all the people he couldn’t save. It is being in that room where he couldn’t save his mentor telling a boy he loves he couldn’t save that girl. It isn’t one thing. It is all the things and it is all the things in this place on this day.

Team Crosby. also go Whittaker for taking the time to talk to the kraken and even be moved to volunteer. plus his mad farm boy skills. I worry they are trying to turn me around on Santos but I’m doubling down her move this episode was to gain allies in her vendetta against Langdon. Maybe even going so far as to cry foul a few hours for now about Langdon crediting the other doc for her brilliant save because he is so anti Santos. Javadi and Dana talking about Utah’s was a cute bit but I’m glad it didn’t drag on longer. I hope silent heart attack collapses.

Seriously I will be so annoyed if Santos is right. But I guess with the vial her concern is if the meds were diverted and then say replaced with saline it would explain why Langdon was so cavalier about giving the more than standard extra dose. but yeah I so don’t want her to be right. There is no end to how much I don’t want her to be right. loved Javadi finding the spider bite. Robbie was so low key this episode but still such a calming and central presence. I called trafficking the minute the STD patient came in which is the only reason I wonder if it is something else. But it still smells like a super creepy trafficking situation. called daughter fell asleep in her car! Love that she might be getting some relief although in real life I feel like somehow when she got home she’d be told she didn’t qualify for some reason. So many, many tears between the little girl and the honor walk.

I really liked King with the ping pong player and the sweet interaction by the woman from Nepal and her good samaratin. this episode was so not full of horrible things I knew we were in for a last minute twist. And while I’ve been expecting Dr Collins to lose the baby I also hate that for her. I’ll hate it more if in the next episode she’s upset and Robby thinks it’s because of him. My mom had a disagreement with somebody at work once and the next day she didn’t go in and her superior called her and told her she shouldn’t miss work because she was emotional. She missed work because I had chicken pox. I still feel guilty about that. I guess I’m supposed to like Santos now because she went all hard ass on dad but I don’t. First of all because she told Dr King to watch the chief resident guy… but also because she’s been horrible and she’s still taking matters into her own hands like she’s the god of everybody. I guess Dad’s blinking means he was mollesting the kid. But I don’t think molesters stop just because you had a talking to and that doesn’t get the kids d the care she needs either.

My childhood pediatrician had a brand new practice when we went to him. And he took per diems in the local er. We were in a car accident when I was 4 and my mom called his office just to have me checked out. And so he had us come to the er. But we weren’t in triage. They just paged him when we got there, although it was 9-10 am on a Wednesday so there may or may not have been people in triage. He came out and saw us and really just looked me over. I was fine. But he noticed my mom wasn’t and all of a sudden she was in a proper exam room being really, really examined by not a pediatrician. She’d got out of the car after the accident into a fire ant mound and she was having an allergic reaction. But yeah within a year his practice was established and we never saw him in the er again.

We knew Garcia was into Santos but asking her sign in the middle of a trauma?!? I think they both got what they deserved. Watching Robby wheelchair dance with his patient was too cute. My prediction is not dramatic enough but I say daughter just took a moment when she moved the car to settle herself and fell asleep. Whittaker managed to keep a set of scrubs for an entire episode.

Yup not only is he old enough to be her fault her and looks it. He’ll be fake daddying the kid he of the a baby he fake daddied. Hooking up with your grandbaby’s mama is squick.