Okay then. Sarah and Gates. They’re going to go there, aren’t they? There were hints earlier in the season but I refused to believe it.
If you haven’t watched for awhile, Gates’ dead girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter is living with him and gradually assuming a girlfriend role, fixing him meals (with candlelight, no less), trying to manage his money, and this week, she asked for the HPV shot.
Does Gates not get it? Does he get it but not care because she’s such a good little helper? How far is this gonna go?
Is there some redeeming social value in this? I guess there might be, for any adult males who don’t realize when a little girl is seriously crushing on them.
I predict that one of this season’s cliffhangers will be Sarah doing something that lights the bulb in Gates’ head. He’ll be shocked. He’ll reject her and she’ll run away.
Any thoughts on Sam’s new boyfriend? I hope he’s not a nutcase. Alex will meet him and hate him, of course. Maybe he’ll run away too, meet up with Sarah, and we can have a Boxcar Children spinoff.
Robert Prosky was awesome as the CHF’s guy’s dad. Can you imagine, learning every day like it was the first time that your child is dead?
I think you’re reading way too much into this. She’s growing up quickly because she has to. I don’t get any odd vibe on their relationship. It appears strictly paternal to me from both sides.
He was really good. That was a bit of melodrama, but it worked. I thought the near throw away line at the end by Kovac about thinking about his son’s death every day was excellent; it caught me completely off guard. I wonder if there’s a trip to Croatia in the works.
I liked it. I thought the old guy with Alzheimer’s was excellent. So very sad.
I did not get that Sara was crushing on Gates like that. Just that she wanted him to be her Dad, and to have some real stability in her life. Drunk Dad/Grandpa is a rough thing to deal with for both Tony and Sara, I think.
It was a very sobering show, and made me wonder if I have enough things in place for my own, thankfully healthy, 83 old dad…
Wouldn’t it be gutsy beyond all recognition if Gates did nail the 12 year-old (well, or wait until she’s 13) and there were no lasting repercussions whatsoever?
I figure the odds of this appearing in an E.R. storyline are comparable to (or even lower than) the entire hospital relocating to the International Space Station, though.
I hope I am. But she doesn’t have to grow up quickly – only if she stays with Gates, who needs a caretaker. She could have a normal childhood with her grandparents. (And they have horses, and food in the refrigerator.)
I get a paternal vibe from Gates. He feels responsible for her.
From Sarah I get a couple of things. One is that she’s upset that her mom couldn’t hold on to Gates. She wants to keep Gates in her life and so she’s doing things she thinks will please him, or make her indispensable, useful. So we get the dinner by candlelight and all the helping stuff that Meg didn’t do. The logical next step, in Sarah’s troubled mind, would be something physical. She’s thinking about sex and we haven’t seen her even talking to a boy her own age.
Her comment that she can get birth control without parental consent makes me think that she has.
And she was reaching out to Neela, of all people, who didn’t take time to figure out why Sarah was asking her (someone she hates) about very personal stuff.
ETA: Bryan, it’d never happen. I’m stunned that they might be getting close.
The mistake the docs made with the ALZ patient was in telling him for the second time that his son had died. I know from personal experience that there’s no point in giving them upsetting info like that because they’ll just forget it again a few minutes later.
Again, I really don’t get that from these characters. She wants to keep Gates in her life because he’s been a father figure for all her life. I don’t see her going anywhere near the idea that she wants to replace her mother as his love interest. I don’t see any subtext from her being more involved around the house.
Gates was with Meg all the time Sarah was growing up? I didn’t know that. I thought they were together around the time Sarah was born but that Gates was in and out of their lives.
Yes, it was the same actor who played Borat’s producer.
I thought that Gates was too wishy-washy when Sarah asked him if she could stay with him, even though he’s not her father. It seemed to me that she needed to be reassured, and he was not doing this for her. (Perhaps he didn’t want to be too positive in case she was removed from his custody, but I thought he should have said he wanted her to stay with him.)
Yeah we have. First she talked to Gates about a boy she liked at school and was dressing to impress. Then she flirted with Alex when he was hanging around the hospital before the fire.
All I got from her in regards to Gates was a “See how big a help I can be if you let me stay?” sense. Trying to act grown up makes her see herself as less of a potential burdren to a caretaker. Both are common themes with orphans in fiction, actually. They want to be seen as useful enough and mature to be allowed to stay with whoever it is that’s good to them. You can see similar things in this movie and this book.
