I was watching the show on and off, and missed a couple of things.
Why did Henry’s grandparents decide to give him back to Kerry? Last season, they’d agreed on only giving her visitation correct? Why the sudden change? For that matter, did we ever find out what Eduardo had to say that was so important?
Why is Neela still hanging around the hospital if she doesn’t work there anymore? Does anyone remember how that research job storyline ended? I remember that she ruined the experiment. Is that why she doesn’t work at the hospital?
Other random thoughts: I was hoping that we’d seen the last of that nurse and her kid. Maybe Luka will get fired and just stay with them instead of bringing them back to Chicago. It will be interesting to see whether or not Pratt has any brain damage from the accident. I don’t know why the hospital continues to put up with the guy with red hair, but I hope he’s kept around for awhile for entertainment purposes.
I think a lot of stuff was edited out of the script. They never said why Henry’s grandparents changed their mind, only that they did. My theory is that the editors were waiting to see if there would be any “real life” gay adoption cases that they could base the story on, but didn’t find one in time for the final script.
Neela was hanging around because she wanted to talk to Abby. She doesn’t work at the hospital because she accepted the internship in Michigan (or Minnesota?). She decided to leave medicine, and came back to Chicago to tell Abby.
I don’t think that Pratt is going to end up with brain damage. He was able to scribble out that note to Jing-Mei last night.
As he mentioned, it was his last night. He was never added to the cast (though that smart mouth new intern guy is going to be official cast as of next episode) so looks like Morris is finally on his chicken-eating way out the door. Thank heavens.
Classic Kerry is back. The threat to perform an anal muscle tone evaluation with her crutch was perfect.
I missed the last 20 minutes or so, unfortunately, and neglected, once again, to TiVo, because I’m an idiot. I saw the action and had the captioning on, but the sound was muted and I missed stuff. I will never understand why my friends feel it necessary to call me during my TV shows!
Yes, I’m responding to my own post. Just found out that SmartmouthInternguy is a VERY grown up Shane West, from Once and Again. That’s why I think he’s hot!
Shane West, eh? Interesting… in A Walk To Remember, he played a high school bad-boy who is inspired by his dying girlfriend to turn around his life. He does so, eventually graduating from medical school. Pretty good movie, BTW.
It’d be funny if the ER writers incorporated more details from that previous character into West’s ER backstory.
Didn’t Kerry make two bad diagnosis near the top of the show?
And wasn’t it last season when she forgot her pager in the bathroom (yet covered it up), and she also used the same needle on two different people (as seen on TV!). I wonder if there’s going to be more of a pattern of incompetence on her part.
To me it also looks like the writers just decided for a quick resolution to Henry’s custody storyline, because they were tired of writing about it.
I’d like to hear more explanation from Neela. On the show we’ve never seen someone who got so far and then abruptly decided to quit.
You’ve got TiVo, but not voice mail???
Or, when the phone rings, can’t you just push a button to start recording?
I get the feeling there is much more to Neela’s decision to quit medicine. After she told Abby she was quitting, she looked as though she had something more to say. And of course, catering to my own lascivious desires, I would like to think that she will soon confess to Abby that she is in love with her.
Ok, what the hell is the deal with that show constantly killing off characters violently? Jaayzuz. I’m surprised they didn’t kill of Morris by having him choke on a chicken bone and then while desparatly trying to get someone’s attention by flailing about, he stumbles on an I.V. cart, he trips, stumbling and careening of a wall, then falling flat on his face just as the elevator doors open and a nurse’s aid is wheeling out a gurney carrying a man on his way to surgery to remove a 300 pound tumor from his ass. The nurse’s aid, eyeballing a cute new intern, doesn’t realize that the choking Morris is sprawled on the floor, arms akimbo. He merrily shoves the gurney out of the door crushing the red-headed slacker.
Roll credits.
The big kid from last season, with congestive heart failure.
Telivision Without Pity calls him Fry Cook. He and Pratt struck up a friendship of sorts. Kind of a big brother/ little (heh) brother relationship. Pratt was giving him a ride home since his mother was unreachable (Phone’s out, IIRC, was the explanation).
Near the end of last season, Neela treated to Amish kids on their rumspringa. The girl was explaining how they were allowed to experience outside life, then choose how they wanted to live their lives. At the same time, Neela’s family came to visit. Her life (including the decision to become a doctor) was something her family had pre-determined for her. She was impressed with the Amish girl’s decision to not go back to the Amish, but to live the life she wanted, even if it meant cutting off ties with her family. I believe that’s what inspired her to rebel against medicine. Now she has to decide for herself if she wants to be a doctor, or if she wants something else out of life.
Plus, on the Neela storyline, I remember that the whole time she was at the orientation at Michigan she looked uncomfortable. It had all the most up-to-date equipment and there were all sorts of perks, all the other new docs seemed liked the typical “rich spoiled kids turned doctor so they can stay rich and spoiled” and were talking about going into plastic surgery or other elective surgery stuff–getting bifees without much work. Neela was seeing everything through the eyes of Chicago General, and how the equipment, et. al. would have made such a difference. She no longer felt comfortable in this rather dilettante style of medicine (that was my take, anyway).
I’d rather have her leave medicine altogether, we’ve already had enough hot young doctor that could practice for rich folks and live a comfy life, but gives it all up becaue he/she cares so much. Maybe she’ll go into social work so she can continue to pop up on some episodes.
What happened with Chen–it looked like she was badly hurt, but I missed what ultimately happened to her?
To continue with the Neela backstory - since she came to Chicago General, she was shown to be very intelligent but not a good clinician. I really think that sick people gross her out. That’s why she tried research, but that didn’t work out (although as I recall, it was more because the students she was partnered with were screwing around and experimented on themselves - she saved the day then).
It may be that her concern for Elgin and his grandmother will be the turning point for her, to show her that these aren’t just sick bodies, they’re people.
