SnarkySheep

ITA. They should at the very least have kept his siblings on the show; we hardly ever saw them anyways. They could have had the drama of his brother being in danger as a storyline, but simply resolved it differently. My idea was that they could've had the Atwaters move into that apartment of Herrmann's - that way the kids would be away from their old neighborhood, still on the show AND there would be potential for crossover with Fire characters.

Per Foster, she was way too busy in her twenties to have a romantic life because she was in med school, so now she's having all these casual flings to make up for lost time. As though every single person in their twenties HAS to have a zillion casual relationships/one-night stands! Many people never do, due to a variety of reasons, but TV likes to perpetuate the stereotype that everyone goes through this, or wants to go through it.

Not to mention, he didn't seem to notice he supposedly has 4 other kids...each time we saw them at home, there was only Lee Henry. You didn't see a single trace of any other kid, or even hear them elsewhere. I guess the show was trying to cut down on extras... IMO this sort of thing is what TV shows love to depict, but would never actually happen IRL...Boden confronting that doctor with the whole firehouse, in front of all those witnesses, would in today's world be seen as a threat/verbal assault/whatever. I have no doubt that the doctor would want some sort of repercussions on Boden for harassment, and Boden in his position should be well aware of this.

Speaking of, the kid who plays Young Jack seems a little too olive-complexioned IMO to grow into Jack By Milo...

IMO it makes sense, if only because to date, we have seen all the effort being on his end. He has been chasing her, making excuses for her, begging her, you name it, to no avail. Now he's stopped, and what happens in the future is really a case of the ball being in her court now. She needs to make some effort to win him back, show she cares about him as much as he's cared about her, etc. If she can't or doesn't want to do that, then it's best for both they move on.

I loved how he had his whole "Great Americans" set still on cassette...you know he's the kind of guy who would make absolutely no apology for not moving forward with technology. I still feel like the show has no real overall plot. Like, they have their little storylines in each individual episode, but usually most sitcoms will have something overarching throughout an entire season. Other than them all struggling as single parents, there really is nothing emerging here.

Now that I'm thinking back on the whole thing, didn't Ava also say no when Conner wanted to see her finger? (This was when they were in the hallway outside the OR.)

Adele-O-Grams must be in real demand...

This. Nicky has, at the current time, been living the way he has for approximately 50 years. Kevin's good intentions are not going to change him overnight. Also, Nicky's issues are alcoholism and PTSD, not stupidity. Presumably he would have info from the VA about resources available to vets, and if he were so inclined, he'd have gone toward them himself well before Saint Kevin swooped in to save him.

Yeah, that's one of my biggest TV/movie peeves. IRL if someone started yelling in public, you would automatically turn around, if for no other reason than in today's world you'd (very sadly) immediately worry that they might pull out a gun next. But on the screen, you can practically hear the director's instructions for all the extras to totally ignore the main actors, LOL Personally, my main peeve was how green the yard was in February, how everyone had unzipped jackets just symbolically slung over their shoulders, etc. I know I've complained about it here before, and I don't mean to beat a dead horse. But if you set a TV show in CT and it's supposed to be winter, then at least make SOME effort to show that. Otherwise, set it in some warm weather location and call it a day.

Unfortunately, that kind of injury doesn't usually just go away, especially not in a physical job where he would constantly be having to use it, as the police do.

This one I have to disagree with you on...imagine being in Maggie's place. Some woman she met maybe once, through a long-ago classmate, comes into the ED, trying to butter Maggie up with how her relative always said you could count on Maggie if you needed help, then tells Maggie that she doesn't really need to get an exam, just give her some painkillers? Sure, they had to have the story twist another way for the sake of drama, but IRL unfortunately it would not have been that way. And Maggie is a smart woman who's been around the block a few times. Who could blame her for her initial conclusion? An important point to consider: If it hadn't been for Nurse Hank conveniently happening to encounter the patient, nobody in the ED would ever have known a thing about him other than the medical details. And who's to say that other patients who have come through there haven't done terrible things, just that nobody knew about them, so they treated the patients as normal? It's a slippery slope. At this point, if I were Will I would be seriously paranoid about living with Natalie. Married or not, it seems like every time she doesn't like something she kicks him out. What if Will didn't have a brother he could crash with? I'm assuming he shares in the rent of this house by now? It's not exactly healthy to be living like that, constantly wondering if you say or do one thing "wrong," you aren't going to have a place to sleep that night.

Not to mention, that's when a show loses viewers and ratings go down, because people quite simply forget about it...

How in the world did Will get down into that canyon?? One minute he's at the edge, the next he's down there. Huh. I'm still not entirely sure what Natalie's main issue with guns is. Is she just afraid Owen will somehow get to it? Or is she just against guns in general? If it's the latter, I can kind of see her point; but for someone who just claimed to be trying a lot harder to see things from Will's POV, she really isn't at all. If having that gun lets him sleep at night, then let him have it, at least when things are still so fresh. They can always revisit the issue in a few months.

This. While I can agree with Otis in saying they have to laugh and joke in order to stay sane in their work, he ought to know the difference between laughing WITH vs AT someone. Anything can be funny once or twice; after that, it's bullying/harassment.

So Melanie claims to be Disability Supermom all the time, as much as Maya...but has all this time to hang out at the Dimeos', working on their business and going out with Kenneth? Where IS Logan, by the way??

Agree on both points! I also thought it was pretty realistic, more so than this show's kid storylines have been so far.

I have always loved Halstead, but for the past couple seasons - from about the time Lindsay left - he's just been so depressed all the time. I know he's had a lot happen, but it gets a bit tiresome to watch, with nothing changing and nobody even mentioning it. At least it's not as bad as on Med - every time Jay shows up there, he seems angry and downright unlikable. And, of course, now that Antonio is clean, we no longer see or hear a single thing about his chronic pain - you know, the pain that made him seek pills in the first place.

At this point I'm finding it a little unbelievable that Ray is considered such a nerd by the girls at school...he did have Taylor, after all. I know she went to a different school, but she and Ray were together long enough for her to have gone to a few school events and had some of his classmates see she existed...

On a side note, the actress playing Cara's mom guest starred as Dylan's mom on Modern Family last week...so now I have no choice but to think of Cara and Dylan as long-lost siblings...

If they play this character trait straight, it'd get pretty ugly fast. Imagine Haley, always thinking she's so gorgeous and wanting to be center of attention, suddenly realizing life is no longer all about her when she has two tiny, super-needy infants. Then throw in a few extra pounds she just can't lose and maybe some postpartum depression...

I watched this ep with my mom...after seeing this, she asked, "That isn't a real song...is it??" After I reassured her it wasn't, she said she didn't think so but you can never be 100% sure these days, LOL As for the permanent marker hysteria...it's skin! Did these people never hear of rubbing alcohol?? Likely hand sanitizer would also work.

Actually, no. In the book the doctor (named Eric, not Max) gets cancer as an older man. At the time, he has one son who's in his early 20s, not a soon-to-be baby daughter. And most important, he was out of work for two years because of the cancer.

So Natalie is so against having a legal gun for protection...yet it's the second time in recent history that staff got caught in crossfire right outside the hospital, numerous mentally unstable people have come INTO the hospital and Will just almost got killed by mobsters. Of course, in an ideal world, nobody would ever need a gun; but certainly Natalie must realize she lives in a dangerous place during dangerous times? How does she propose to stay safe? And speaking of Will, how on earth would he be safe in a month?? Even if the Burkes were arrested, there'd still be a trial (which he'd presumably have to testify at). Lastly, whatever happened to Dr Latham??

This is actually a big TV peeve of mine (Speechless has the DiMeos supposedly having done the same for JJ). Students with special ed needs MUST receive whatever they need regardless of what town they live in; you can't just say, "Sorry kid, our town is too poor to help you!" It's federally mandated in ANY public school.