I was just wondering how Luka got suspended. I thought I saw all of this season’s episodes, but apparently I missed one.
He’s been playing doctor with quite a few of the nurses.
Please don’t ask him what it was.
It’s like he did a Jekyll and Hyde (or the writers did.) I saw nothing established in his previous character that would lead him to be such a jerk. For crying out loud, he was a virgin on his wedding night!
I think the ER writers are just trying to add tension ala Doug Ross. I think they could do a much better job with Pratt. He’s pretty much established as a jerk already.
I think the nurses brought a complaint against him for sexual harrassment.
The only thing in the past that might have foreshadowed this was when he and Abby got mugged and he beat the guy so bad that he killed him. But even then, he wasn’t a jerk, just a guy with a really bad temper. I suppose they could be planning to make him a victim of post-traumatic stress syndrome, because of the war in Bosnia. Otherwise, I don’t know why he should suddenly become such a jerk.
I think he still has a thing for Abby, and he thinks that by banging every other nurse in the department that he will impress her.
Hey, it’s no more unrealistic then having an entire season of Dallas be a dream.
Oh, yeah, he definitely still has a thing for Abby.
And I think she still has a thing for him.
Abby and Carter have NO chemistry on screen, IMHO. I don’t lk,e them as a couple.
Real Luka-spoiler for a later episode, don’t click if you don’t want to know:
Luka and the new female med student (I forget her name, the dark-haired one that waited all day for Carter) get in a car accident in his Penis-mobile Viper and she is seriously injured , or possibly killed.
what’s up with luka?
i heard she lives on the second floor.
badum-bum…
come on, you knew it was coming.
Oh man, if you watched tonight’s episode…they are completely destroying this character.
No kidding! I can’t believe he did what he did at the end! I thought for sure he was going to decline the offer.
Aurgh - I’m getting to where I just can’t stand him anymore. I liked him when he was vulnerable AND a good doctor, but now - I didn’t even like what he did in the MIDDLE of the episode, let alone at the end, and that was for a patient! What, Peter’s not around and Romano’s up in the air, so Luka’s elected to be the ER Jerk? They’ve got a couple of runners-up in Pratt and the new guy with Parkinson’s, too.
I still watch devotedly, though. 
And I LIKE Abby and Carter - I’m just afraid she’s going to really mess him up.
I like Abby and Carter, too. I think they do have chemistry – not like hot-n-sexy chemistry, but they seem to really care about each other. They were very sweet at the end of the episode. As for Luka “becoming” a jerk – I don’t see it. I think the jerk potential has always been there. Surely the impulse control problem has always been there. He beat up the guy who hit Abby, he’s also (I believe) hit a couple of people in the ER and he beat the mugger to death… He was also pretty self-centered in his relationship with Abby and he was downright cruel when they split up (“You’re not that pretty and you’re not that special.”) Here’s my take on Luka: He met and fell in love with his wife when they were very young. She was religious and so they didn’t have sex until the wedding night. She dies (along with their children) and Luka is too grief stricken (and too busy getting out of his war-torn country) to think much about sex. Once he was here he kinda-sorta fell for Carol. I think he was trying to duplicate his old situation with Carol – a ready made family and all of that. Anyway, nothing came of it. Then , Abby pursued him and he allowed himself to be caught. IMO, at that point his relationship with Abby was all about sex. In fact, I would consider his relationship with Abby to be the beginning of his current horn-dog stage, rather than proof against his horn-dogginess – he was using her for sex. Then, while he was dating Abby he worked through the worst of his grief and pain over his wife’s death (the story arc with the bishop). After he and Abby broke up he immediately moved on to someone else (the sticky-fingered waitress), and then someone else and someone else… He’s a gorgeous guy – I hardly think it revolutionary to say that many gorgeous guys use their looks to get sex. Luke didn’t when he was married and he didn’t when he was mourning, but now he’s neither and he’s on the loose. Last of all, the hooker. Frankly, I saw him going with her as an un-horn-doggy move on Luka’s part. He wasn’t using his looks and great accent to get her into bed regardless of her potential feelings for him and possible future heartbreak – it was a business transaction plain and simple. Just my two cents.
Jess
Ok, since I missed last night’s episode, anyone want to spoil it for me?
I’ll do it… an interesting moment.
Luka’s in a bar, and an attractive woman sidles up to him and starts coming on to him. They agree to go somewhere else, and she says “It’s 300 an hour, 2000 for the whole night.” He looks shocked, gets up, drains his drink… and then replies “Well, are you coming?”
I sort of saw it coming… I’m starting not to buy the character shift in him. I could accept some changes, but this is really starting to seem like too much.
That, and driving his snazzy sports car onto the golf course to kidnap the ophthamologist so he could perform emergency surgery. The most compelling story going last night was Susan’s reaction to losing three patients in a day. And Nathan is really starting to piss me off.
I think they’re trying for a post-traumatic stress/midlife crisis sort of thing (though he’s a bit young for a midlife crisis), rather than true descent into jerkhood. I’m guessing within a few eps we’ll have some sort of cathartic/bottoming-out experience and Luka will recover to his old self, maybe with the help of A Good Woman[sup]TM[/sup] (not the med student, I hope, she’s a ditz).
Definitely. His little “oh, you’re not suffering that bad, there’s always another treatment” schtick is getting old fast. It seems a falling-out with Corday is imminent though.
It almost seems like they’re stepping up the situations in each one. The first one was kind of an “oh, I can see where that could go either way - it would be what the patient decides to do.” I didn’t agree with the “hold on for stem cells” argument, but I could see the point.
The second one, IMO, was MUCH less of a balancing act - the man was tired. He had an incurable illness. He wanted to go. His wife was dead. He was too old and frail for the surgery. Corday may be cold sometimes, but she’s realistic. Nathan drags in the psych guy to “reason with him.” Ugh and TOTALLY out of line.
I think next week’s going to be a kicker, though - I saw the preview and an “agonizing decision” and Nathan screaming “Do you realize what you just did?” (or words to that effect.)
Matt Roush discusses the change in Luka’s character in his latest online TV Guide column
I hope they’re going for a big event, and not just turning him into Doug Ross in reverse-who started out as a womanizer, and ended up as a jerk.
Let’s hope this is some kind of leading up to thing, and not just completely jerking this guy around.