No great storyline here, but the last scene with the older guy and the preteen girl was at first ambiguous and then it made it much more obvious re: the pedophile leanings (“Don’t tell anyone…we’ll be secret friends”).
I got that what’s-his-name-rugby-playing Dr. was haunted by his past, but he had no way of knowing, especially at that time, (nor do we, still…neccessarily) whether or not the guy was a pedophile and should have his ass blasted for attacking the guy. His reaction was way over the top and he should be suspended immediately (at the very least!) and get some help.
It would have been a much more complex episode if they hadn’t added that lame and quite needless “twist” at the end. The twist should have been this: we truly don’t know whether he’s a pedophile or not. Maybe Simon’s correct in his assessment, maybe he isn’t. Like him, we’d really have no idea.
The whole point of the episode was that we shouldn’t rush to judge people. Being labelled a pedophile is an absolutely terrible thing and you shouldn’t beat the crap them because they’ve been accussed because there’s chance they’re completely innocent.
But no. He really was a pedophile. Just kidding everyone. You were right to label him and burn his house down.
It was just a cheap and shoddy way to invalidate the storyline they’d tried to establish.
Agreed - there was too much of an attempt to tie a pretty bow on this, to justify the beatdown this guy recieved. It would have been much more impactful if they had let it be unknown. I will see that ausie’s acting was quite nice in this.
That aside I thought it was great acting from Doctor Brenner.
I agree, the ending was not needed. We do not need to have everything tied up neatly for us, writers!!
David Lyons is indeed a fine actor.
I liked that Neela learned her lesson, and let that intern do the procedure. That was particularly bloody, too. I was wincing when he was snipping the corner of his eye! :eek: