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7 minutes ago, statsgirl said:
I liked the second episode better than the first.
The team wasn't wrong to think that it was an honour killing because there are approximately 12 -15 reported honour killings per year in the United Kingdom but they were wrong to refuse to move on from the theory.
I wish that Rachita wasn't all "I can't take time to recover from my concussion because no one can do this but me." It's a trope I've always hated.
I thought that Martyn would be killed by episode 4 because Jamie Bamber is not signed on for season 2. But they're going to have to do some twisty things to make him a bad guy.
SpoilerApparently, Bamber has decided to switch from always playing people who get killed to playing bad guys. He has a slew of these types of roles and he's always very effective in them.
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34 minutes ago, Broderbits said:
Does anyone else suspect that the bathtub scene assailant was her fiance?
SpoilerWith what I learned from reading the recap, I had a Fridge Horror realization about that possibility too. Or that at the very least, he knows who it was--no forced entry, he doesn't catch the guy because he supposedly ran off, etc.
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I made the mistake, or perhaps good decision of looking up a recap of the first season:
SpoilerStop watching if you love Jamie Bamber and therefore any character he plays, because Martyn turns out to be one of the bad guys--he's working with one of the traffickers she's looking for, had sex with one of the underage trafficking victims (though he swears he thought she was of legal age), and is indirectly involved in the victim's murder.
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3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
think it was Battlestar Galatica which turned me off him
REALLY? After THAT scene?
I really like the fact that the show is avoiding the Britain Is Only London trope and is set somewhere other than London. It still amazes how technically big England/the UK is and how far away from London many of its other major cities are.
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16 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:
I used to really dig him, then I kinda lost interest
Shame on you.
18 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:I'm wondering why, because, yum.
Exactly.
19 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:think everyone else on the team, and her boss, looked at her and her name and assumed she'd be the perfect liaison for the Indian/East Asian community
It's one of the reasons police departments have made an effort to recruit more diverse applicants, but unfortunately, a lot more progress still needs to be made. What's the point of diversifying the department if its non-white/female members are still going to be treated badly?
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15 minutes ago, qtpye said:
the good doctor ever think of getting these kids some therapy?
The There Are No Therapists/Therapy Is For The Weak tropes. No one ever sees a shrink even though they desperately need to.
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On 6/3/2023 at 5:16 PM, JAYJAY1979 said:
Arden is less toxic and doesn't succumb to Vera until she drugs him
And even then, he's coherent and angry enough to fight her off.
Aside from participating in the ruse like everyone else, Arden is a MUCH better person in the movie than in the book.
Some changes were just absolutely necessary otherwise we wouldn't have rooted for anybody. I'm still not sure how I feel about Bart and Cindy hooking up in the Seeds Of Yesterday movie, but it's still a much better alternative to him spending nearly the entire book verbally and physically abusing her.
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47 minutes ago, Notabug said:
Kerry was known to be a mealy mouthed syncophant when she felt it was to her benefit.
Something else that ruined her character. As much as I disliked her, I respected the fact that she wasn't a wimp or pushover. . .until she was in such a situation as you describe. It was really rather pathetic watching her basically kiss Romano's ass when she despised him and only minutes earlier had literally dropped what she was doing in order to find Mark and drag him up to the meeting, going on and on about how they had to fight his becoming Chief of Staff.
* As an aside, how on earth did Kerry, an ER attending, not know about the meeting, when all of the other department heads did and even Lucy, a mere medical student did? Kerry strikes me as the kind of person who'd expect to be notified/consulted if the cafeteria was getting their napkins from a new distributor.
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On 7/9/2023 at 11:28 AM, Scarlett45 said:
Yes- it gets gratuitous.
She and Danielle Steel. It makes their books awful to read because it always happens and there's often no point to it.
As awful as this may sound, it's *slightly* less gratuitous in the VC Andrews books because the prequels almost always result in a child, which kicks off the saga.
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On 12/30/2022 at 10:21 AM, libgirl2 said:
I remember when he was so admired after 9/11. I just can't believe it is the same guy.
Me neither and I was never a huge fan to begin with, though I like to joke that I'm one of the few African-American New Yorkers who didn't outright despise him. Either way, I put that aside after 9/11, but now. . .
It would be heartbreaking what he's reduced himself to if he hadn't brought it on himself and weren't so indeed, despicable.
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On 10/29/2022 at 1:29 AM, MollyMelrose said:
Will any of this season's movies better than this one?
Those poor dogs!
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On 7/6/2023 at 10:52 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
But now I cringe because it’s obvious she did it to offload Romano to chief of staff so she could be ER chief.
Well. . .yeah.
I wish she could have just admitted that instead of trying to gaslight Mark with her "I did it for the good of the ER" crap and act like he should be grateful to her instead of rightfully angry how she screwed him over. Don't do lousy things and then try to spin them as noble deeds.
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9 hours ago, possibilities said:
I'm grateful the show is not set in the USA because at least nobody got shot.
It's such a stark difference. I've long known that UK cops don't carry guns, but being American, I still expected them to draw their weapons at the first sign of trouble.
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Anything that gives me Jamie Bamber is fine by me.
ETA SHIRTLESS Jamie Bamber. TWICE.
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On 6/22/2023 at 11:59 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
kind of rolled my eyes at Carol’s “I don’t want to be a single mother” rant to Elizabeth. But you don’t have to be! You could have gone to Seattle! Doug is alive and well! Hmmph
I always liked Carol for the most part, but the way she handled her pregnancy, etc., really annoyed me. I get that she's upset about what he did, but ffs TALK TO HIM and try to work something out, instead of refusing to and then lamenting your circumstances.
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22 hours ago, DisneyBoy said:
Ah cool! I always get so nervous at the end of the show for that final reveal, dreading the inevitable freak show where the Phantom actor doesn't disappear in time and is revealed sitting there, looking sheepish.
Which has apparently happened several times, though none that I've seen. The Phantom actor acts as though he's died and Meg takes his hand in a gesture of comfort.
22 hours ago, DisneyBoy said:Boy, I miss this show. Were you at any of the closing weekend performances?
Yes, I went to the charity performance on April 14. I entered the lotto for several other shows throughout April, including the final weekend, but didn't win, sadly.
22 hours ago, DisneyBoy said:I definitely want to see a bootleg of the final two performances because both were similar in the sheer amount of love from the audience. The "invite only" final crowd were appreciative, sure, but let's get real - the real hardcore Phans coughed up serious $$$ to be there at the Saturday night show and refused to leave after the performance was over.
You'd probably have to settle for an audio version, if that at all, because the ushers got VERY vigilant about walking around to make sure no one was recording.
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58 minutes ago, Heathen said:
but I would have liked a fleshed-out Dr. Dave storyline (minus the character assassination in his last episode).
Him too. It would have been nice to see him get the Character Development Morris did--from annoying, incompetent fool to excellent, respected physician, instead of him never changing and being reduced to barely appearing. I remember one episode where his sole appearance was for him to be seen leaving for the day.
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9 hours ago, Heathen said:
fully (all too fully) understand people's ability to self-destruct, but I still have a hard time believing that Doug finally got it together -- he was an attending, he wanted to marry Carol, they were trying to conceive -- and then blew up his world just like that. Complete with Sad Doug, Moody Doctor shots on the El.
Precisely why that storyline made no sense.
19 hours ago, Notabug said:Her entrance actually coincides with the show's slow slide in quality and the perpetual worship of St. Abby was a big part of the decline. Her character got way too much focus and attention and it hurt the ensemble
To this day, I wonder how different the show might have been had the writers focused on all of the new characters come Season 7, in a "Next Generation" kind of way, instead of focusing solely on Abby, and in a manner that backfired--as I've repeatedly said, by the time the 6th episode in a row was all about her and her miserable life, I couldn't stand her.
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4 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
Only a few episodes left for me now until Doug leaves. The Joi and Ricky Abbott plot just started.
24 years later and I still hate that storyline so much that I won't watch it. Doug blowing up his personal and professional life in the space of 4 episodes that took place over as many days, if not less, was utterly nonsensical, even with his history of rebellious behavior. Couldn't they have just sent him off to do humanitarian work in some poor country and have him come back in time for the birth of his kids? There's a wonderful fanfic called "One Candle Burns" with that precise scenario and it always makes me regret the writers didn't do something like that.
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On 6/7/2023 at 9:39 AM, Notabug said:
He/she criticized me for taking Adderall for my medical condition, ADHD.
That storyline INFURIATED me.
People prying into others private medical business is a HUGE Berserk Button for me. Carter, you are A doctor, not HER doctor. Her medical conditions and the medication (s) she takes for them are none of your business.
Then a year later, he gets pissy when Mark asks him what his pain medication regimen is and snaps "That's between me and my doctor". Yes, and I'm pretty sure it was between Lucy and her doctor too.
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On 5/30/2023 at 10:46 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
I am four episodes into S5 and Lucy is just grating on me this time around. On my first rewatch, I just thought she was OK, like I was indifferent to her, but now she just seems hopelessly incompetent in the ER.
They really botched her introduction. This is the key problem with Cousin Oliver characters--either (a) Their appearance is contrived, like some long lost relative suddenly showing up out of nowhere, or (b) All the focus is on them, to the detriment of the established characters, or (c) Both. With Lucy, it was a classic example of Error B. There were all these terrific cliffhangers from the end of season 4 that I was dying to see picked up, and instead, they all get resolved with one or two throwaway lines while the entire season 5 premier and several episodes after are all about Lucy. Then they add insult to injury by booting her into the background just as abruptly when they realized she wasn't clicking.
I actually liked her for the most part, it's just that the excessive focus on her backfired. She was much more tolerable in season 6, when she didn't dominate the entire show and was visibly more mature and competent (as befitting someone entering her 4th year of medical school).
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It was an interesting change from the original when Eric was under Ursula's spell immediately and went through the wedding in a complete trance, not even reacting to the various sea creatures attacking her. In this version, despite still being under her spell, he's still aware enough to be genuinely confused about what's happening, even saying so to Grimsby.
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On 5/24/2023 at 5:40 PM, Fool to cry said:
First Bond I saw in theaters. RIP.
A PHENOMENAL Bond theme song. Everything about that movie was excellent. Pierce Brosnan hit it out of the park with his debut.
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I just finished taking my mother for a belated Mother's Day outing.
I LOVED it. Halle Bailey was a phenomenal Ariel, and, yes Eric was better developed.
I don't usually like the "extra" scenes that these remakes have been adding, but they worked here.
If you can catch an IMAX showing, go. It's INCREDIBLE.
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D.I. Ray - General Discussion
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I don't think it's him, because he'd be soaking wet if he'd just tried to drown her in the tub,
but since he does turn out to be one of the bad guys, he likely knew who it was. It's unlikely the guy could have gotten away without him seeing him.