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Maybe it has to do with the last 5 episodes, but the locker room scene is another example of Neal not able to make a decision fast when needed. I like your positive thinking, but after seeing how creator distanced himself from the whole thing I am not so positive

I liked this episode for the most part (except the Neal Christa break up ). I liked that they showed Angus as more of a drug abuser in the end and not a drug addict and that his brother realized he needed to talk to a professional. I do not like Heather but I think that Campbell deserved all he got from her, and that it did have me smiling, Karma's a bitch. I hope we see more of Tylor next season, maybe bring him back as director get rid of Grace and put Leann back in her old job ? I think Neal being shocked and not answering Christa is in character for him, its not the first time it happened but I hoped he'd grow out of it finally, I am happy Christa stood up for her self and is not going to talk any of this crap from Neal, it actually shows she is a strong woman character and does not need a knight in shining armor. In my opinion the whole Neal and Christa relationship went serious too fast and dissolved just as fast, Grace was also brought in too fast and was not integrated as well into the dynamic of the show, I think she should go back and save kids in Haiti, everyone will like her better that way :) . I think if the writers slowed down the pace in the last 4 episodes it would not have been as bad, it feels like a rushed job for the sake of angst. Edit: all though neal does remind me of Mcdreamy, I am glad Christa did not give the "love me pick me choose me " speech

I actually did not like the fist one, the second one I did not care one way or the other about

sneak peeks http://news.yahoo.com/video/code-black-blood-sport-sneak-202317957.html http://news.yahoo.com/video/code-black-blood-sport-sneak-202317512.html

But again its only 2 episodes and its hard to judge a series this way. By the way 16 would pass the test since Malaya and Christa had the pregnant woman case and all their exchanges were on the case, so we are back episode 17 only. You are right about the downward trend in the last episodes, I think it has to do with the extension of 5 episode the series got and needing to write whole new story arks for only 5 episodes ( I think it makes things hard for the writers), I hope if they renew they will get 21-22 episodes from the beginning so this way they can develop the whole story from the beginning to the end of a season .

This episode will probably not ​pass the the Bechdel Test although not every exchange about their case was a stand in for Neal, But in any case the Bechdel Test is used more in films, I think it is hard to judge one episode of 45 min in the same standard, we should at least take into account more then one or two episodes to make the judgment for the whole series.

I'm a little more optimistic since they had Campbell ask grace out, I think that is the writers exist plan for grace from the triangle, and from the beginning they were planing of having a lot more angst and they toned it down. If you want to look for more clues check out Somerville's twitter account It still could be wishful thinking on my part.

there is a sneak preview towards min 9:00. Looks actually interesting I hope the whole episode will be this way and I hope this episode will be the end of the triangles and other relation shapes. http://theofficialmarciagayharden.com/latest/2016/02/home-family-appearance/

That is true in a normal pregnancy, this was not a normal pregnancy. After the embryo implantation the embryo has still a few weeks that it is able to move around the uterus until it attaches to the uterine wall so it is possible it exit the uterus by "mistake" or there is a genetic or structural abnormality that caused this, which probably made her unable to keep the other pregnancies in the past. As I said there is also a small chance that they implanted the embryo in the wrong place .

from my understanding the duke game hurt the rating the whole night, I just hope next week there is no big game otherwise it is all over...

At least in animals embryos have a few weeks where they are able to move around the uterus so I guess is is possible it can get out by mistake or someone implanted the embryo in the wrong place (depending on how the procedure was done). From my understanding the codes in this er are based on the original documentary and it is different from hospital to hospital. Here code red just before code black. bummer, I wounder if the basketball game and all the trouble with the broadcasting had anything to do with this, because then it would be worse, loosing a show because of bad timing .

I think this episode was much better then the last one, the pace when back to the regular pace of the episode, there was a lot more action during the whole episode . I do not see the quadrangles so much since most of them ended and I think this is more of the backlash of it all. I did like that someone called Christa on how she gets too involved with her patients and it had to come from someone on the out side(the only other one would have been mike) , and I am glad grace told her in the end that she probably would have done the same mistake as a resident in, I think she felt bad about the whole situation at that point, but on the other hand I do not like the whole passive aggressive part and her pining for neal. She should not have said a word about the scarf and her looking at neal all the time it made her seem petty, I hope the new surgeon will help her get over neal . I do not think neal is "waffling, and flat-out lying to Christa" I think he is just overwhelmed by the situation and although they showed him to be a great people person I think they also showed him not being the best at talking about relationships and he tries to avoid confrontation, so this is what he does. I think the whole change from er to surgery is hurting the neal character, it went from neal being the awesome er "dr everyone whats" and likes ( and episode 13 showed how nice he is to the patients and their familys ) to a mediocre surgeon who has no interaction with any patients and almost no interaction with the other doctors, ( I liked the Heather pinkey tried to defend him in the or ). This is probably ok from a reality stand point, I do not expect him to be the best surgeon and there is a learning curve but it does hurt the character who was a people person from episode one. I hope they have a small time jump next season so neal will be a better surgeon by then, and show him interact with people more, or move him back to the ER. Leanne on the other hand, had a better transition from being an er dr to a director, I liked that transition better, they show how hard the transition is for the character but how she is trying to stay herself in the process.

unfortunately we are going to get too much passive aggression on the Grace-Christa front ... I just hope it will not ruin the episode

there are more sneak peaks, all I can say is : Awkward http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/02/code-black-episode-117-love-hurts-promo.html

love hurts sneak peek https://www.yahoo.com/tv/code-black-love-hurts-sneak-002856396.html

Another problem with this episode is that is one of the slowest episodes and it was put just after one of the fastest paced and best episodes of the season. Part of the reason I think this episode was off was that this episode has a different pace then any other episode we have seen so far. While almost every other episode starts with a major trauma, (car accident, stabbing , shooting ect ) this episode started with chronic patients, and it continued this way till the last 15 minuets of the show when things finally started happening . It was not a bad episode,but it was not as good as we are used to, and the pace was different then what we started to expect from the show. I hope next week it will go back to the normal pace of the show they have gotten us used to.

I think in a real high volume public hospital there is probably a lot of personal change so the personal change in this series is actually fitting. The problem with medicine is that you are often taught about Occam's razor (Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected) and in a very stressful high volume public hospital with over worked staff it unfortunately translates to mistakes or almost mistakes (Leanne made the same mistake in the first episode with the pregnant lady), which is very realistic in this series. I agree with you about Chicago med, even though what Christa did was wrong you could understand her initial feeling, and in the end with the help of Neal she understood what she did was wrong and she even apologized for her conduct what did not happen with the doctor on Chicago med even though he was confronted about it more then once. That is why I think code black is a better series.

Or maybe they made a mistake and they are in the next episode ? (not that I am advocating this but something seems off)

Seems like the description is inaccurate, maybe they made a mistake and some of it is for the next episode ? or they cut the a scene ?

Another preview http://redcarpetcrash.com/watch-code-black-previews-wednesday/

Meagan Good Is an Ex Wanting Answers in Tense 'Code Black' Sneak Peek http://www.etonline.com/media/video/exclusive_meagan_good_is_an_ex_wanting_answers_tense_code_black_sneak_peek-182014/

in any case for the most part the relationship drama on this show only takes a small part of the screen time each episode even though they write it in the synopsis of the episode, at least till now .

My theory, since they are down one trauma surgeon (since Cole left) they will some how make him a trauma surgeon, it will free up an attending job in the ER for season 2.

Neal is in green scrubs now ...