I’d like to see season 3 focus on the night shift. Some of the characters from that we’ve already met. Maybe do New Year’s Eve.
I’ll have to find the source, but I understand that the show is only advancing about four months for season 3. Taking place in early November.
EDIT: Noah Wyle and some other cast members held a panel at this past Sunday’s PaleyFest. Wyle himself addressed Season 3’s in-story time frame. Filming for Season 3 starts in June.
The one thing I still don’t think was ever explained was, why is Digby living on the streets when he owns a house that his daughter is living in?
I thought it was pretty apparent that he was on the street due to mental health issues.
I agree this season was not as good as the first, but that was a very high bar to clear. There was no way to top the mass shooting event for drama, and we knew about the characters, so you didn’t have the slow development that made the first season outstanding.
As for speculation, it seems logical that Robbie takes care of the baby, at least on a temporary basis until it can be adopted. Yes, in normal times he wouldn’t be able to do it while running the ER, but he’s on a three-month sabbatical, so he could devote his time to the baby. It will certainly give him something to concentrate on and to take his mind off the pressure.
I’ve seen people complain elsewhere that Robbie swaddles the baby incorrectly. That’s the point: he’s never dealt with an infant before and never learned how.
There are some loose ends I’d like to see addressed. Does Oglivie quit? Will Joy suffer consequences for her “No overtime” attitude, or will others realize it does help you deal with the pressure?
As for the November time frame for next season, there’s no reason there can’t be a blizzard in November and I think a storm like that would be a perfect background for drama: bringing in patients on slick roads sure could be a problem.
That’s one of the things I read, the other was that Robby does take his sabbatical. And of course Mohan isn’t coming back…seems like geriatrics might be a better option there.
I do wonder if Ogilvie will come back. He did kinda grow on me.
She is a medical student. Worst consequence is a less glowing evaluation. And given her knowledge base, her skill, her having used her eidetic memory to recall the board and really pull their collective ass out of the fire, dinging her on that she didn’t stay longer than her shift would be a bad look.
You don’t have to a kiss ass on rotations. Doesn’t stop many from being that, true. FWIW on surgery rotation as a third years we were told that there were rounds on Sundays. I asked if our attendance was required. The resident answered no but that it might reflect in our review. My response was that I was planning on Peds and as long as I passed a bad surgery review would probably endear me during ped residency interviews! I think I still got an adequate evaluation.
My daughter noted that Abbott told Robbie to “find someone to dance in the dark with,” which is exactly what Robbie is doing in that final scene.
“Could you get the lights on the way out?”
It was the punchline of the joke, as it were. Doesn’t really matter how it actually got there. 
Yeah, but if he has a house and has family living there, why aren’t they letting him stay there? Seems kinda assholish to move into your dad’s house then kick him out. (Maybe we’ll learn more about Digby’s family situation next season?)
He never said he got kicked out. It’s pretty clear he wants to be on the street, he says as much. Remember that he was going to be admitted upstairs where he could have a nice bed and good for awhile, and he chooses to leave.
Digby’s free, on a spiritual quest, nothing tying him down… remind you of anyone?
When Santos mentioned karaoke, I instantly thought “I bet she’d like Alanis Morissette”, but I dismissed the idea. Glad to see I was wrong!
Nothing was said about him being kicked out. Seemed pretty obvious it was mental/drug issues and he chooses to live on the street.
I’ve dealt with so many people in my life like Digby that it didn’t occur to me to look at it deeper. It’s a pretty common story.
It’s not as though I require every little thing to be resolved clearly and definitively in a TV season to be satisfied with its overall resolution. But I do take pleasure in seeing how cleverly the writers can tie up loose plot strings, and doubly so if they can get two (or three!) unconnected strands to tie up in unexpected ways.
Often, the writers have some strands hanging out there, with no clear idea of their exact resolution, but they figure “We’ll find a way to resolve this by season’s end,” but when they don’t (as the writers claimed in a podcast) it just reflects real life and how we all know that things don’t tie up neatly, esoecually within a single day.
But that’s a fallback excuse, I think. They try to resolve all the plot strands, and when they can’t, they fall back on “Well, life is like that.”
In this particular show, I don’t think that’s a fallback excuse. I think it’s specifically designed that way. Have plenty of patients for instance that leave the ER and we don’t hear what happens to them. It’s over the course of one shift so it would be very unrealistic to have everything tied up by the end.
Yeah, remember the young woman from last season that was in the employ of a strange businesswoman and seemed like something was up like she was being held against her will? Never heard from again after they left. Now that’s an unresolved storyline. Not “How did Digby pick up a badge that was dropped on the floor?”
I just finished the final episode and got caught up on the thread. About this:
The impression I got was not that Robby objected but that he didn’t think it was realistic. Given what we saw in season one with hospital’s financial situation, maybe Robby doesn’t think there’s anyway the administration would go for that.
Nice to see the sepsis amputation at least led to survival, but Langdon did miss it initially, didn’t he? It was Robbie who caught it and was pissed off at him.
I read it that Robbie could take the baby in the end. He needed something. How practical that was wasn’t the question. It was something like that or throwing himself off a cliff in Canada.