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geebsWatching a House marathon right now, which reminds me of medical drama rule #62. Several patients are suffering from the same infection, and they think it might be one of two things. So they treat them for both, but one of them is causing kidney shutdown, and they can't tell which. So they have to take them off one of them, but if its the wrong one, the infection will take over and kill them. So they decide to take one patient off one, and another patient off the other. That will possibly kill one or the other. And it does. However, since they basically flipped a coin and condemned one of them to die to save the others, and that's a pretty heavy thing that would have them wracked with guilt for months. Thus, what ends up happening is that neither thing they thought what it was is what it was, so the patient would have died either way and the characters don't have to feel as bad.
What's with the confusing US Open scheduling? There were no new Burn Notices for the past two weeks, so I assumed there were no new Monks or Psychs either. But apparently not! Good thing they repeat them a jillion times over the weekend.
If last night's Swingtown is the last one ever, I will be sorely disappointed. Its good as a season finale, but there are too many questions left open as a series finale. And I thought the creators said it would work as a series finale?! Let's start with the kids first. So Doug leaves for Guatemala to help out after the big earthquake and Laurie was going to insanely join him?! Yeah, she's technically able to graduate right now, but just cause she's practically done with high school doesn't mean she should run off to Guatemala and help the needy. Noble, I guess, but she's just a child! And a suburbanite! I'd like to see the princess' face when she would have first gotten there. Luckily, Doug realizes she's a crazy person and takes off without her. But she does get his apartment for the next year. Which is a good deal I think! A teen getting their own place to hang?
So Sam's aunt sends Gail to rehab and takes Sam for the next 6 weeks. But the night Sam leaves, BJ sees Gail back at home, having broken out of rehab, doing drugs with two men! BJ can only manage to look crushed, but if I were him, I'd be pissed! I mean, if my cute little girlfriend had to leave for six weeks while her mother gets better, and I think I'd just have to wait six weeks, but then her mom ditched rehab and thus changing the next time I'd see her from six weeks to indefinite, I woulda been cursing her out, or chucking that CB radio through the window to peg her in her stupid whore-y druggy head with it!
Things are at least going well for Tom and Trina. She was gonna originally get rid of the baby after Tom's reaction last week, but her friends tell her she needs to let him know for reals. She's all, "I know we said we're not ready for kids" but asks if there is room to discuss this and he says there is.
As for the other couples? Janet gets the column, but has to turn it down because of the news of Roger's job offer and their move to Cincinnati. Trina is all, this is the 70s, you can talk to Roger about this, its not automagically him over her. But when she does, he's uncharacteristically non-wishy-washy and all, "You may be the heart of the family, but I'm the head, so we're moving to Cincinnati!" Wonder if he'd be that adamant if not for Susan blowing him off? But Henry ends up un-turning her down for the column, and it gets run in the paper, which of course gets scrap-booked. I do find it interesting that she's changed from thinking that Roger getting a job will fix things, to being really sad that she wouldn't be "growing old together" with Susan, not being there to see Trina have her baby, etc. Given that speech though, I'm surprised Susan ends up doing what she did.
So speaking of Susan, she's been all passive aggressive ever since Bruce's little indiscretion. She goes to see Melinda who's all, they didn't do anything, but they have an emotional connection. So Bruce didn't cheat on her physically, but he does feel a better connection with Melinda than her. Which is of course what Roger said about Susan when he went to Susan rather than Janet when he lost his job. Anyways, it all blows up at the Decker's end of summer clam bake/key party. After having a big fight over Melinda, Susan grabs a key and runs off with some guy. But that obviously doesn't take, because she's at home at the end of the ep, to answer the phone when Roger calls saying he didn't get on the plane to Cincinnati to go house hunting, and invites her to the airport motel he's staying at. And she joins him! Yeah, the heart loves who it loves, and she's distraught over the whole Melinda thing, but its still kinda messed up she'd screw over Janet like that, especially after her whole growing old together speech. Bruce, for his part, angry/upset about Susan running off with some guy (I wonder if he'd feel better if she dumped said guy for Roger?) goes off to find Melinda and kisses her.
Actually, I want this series to continue just to see Laurie and BJ's reaction. They're already both upset that their bfs/gfs had to go away, and what will they find the next morning? That their parents are prolly getting divorced after both having affairs. I guess its worse for Bruce junior, because his mom had an affair with his best friend's dad, and they're friendship is already tenuous over Sam. So it kinda sucks if we don't see any resolution to all these hanging threads.
What's with the confusing US Open scheduling? There were no new Burn Notices for the past two weeks, so I assumed there were no new Monks or Psychs either. But apparently not! Good thing they repeat them a jillion times over the weekend.
If last night's Swingtown is the last one ever, I will be sorely disappointed. Its good as a season finale, but there are too many questions left open as a series finale. And I thought the creators said it would work as a series finale?! Let's start with the kids first. So Doug leaves for Guatemala to help out after the big earthquake and Laurie was going to insanely join him?! Yeah, she's technically able to graduate right now, but just cause she's practically done with high school doesn't mean she should run off to Guatemala and help the needy. Noble, I guess, but she's just a child! And a suburbanite! I'd like to see the princess' face when she would have first gotten there. Luckily, Doug realizes she's a crazy person and takes off without her. But she does get his apartment for the next year. Which is a good deal I think! A teen getting their own place to hang?
So Sam's aunt sends Gail to rehab and takes Sam for the next 6 weeks. But the night Sam leaves, BJ sees Gail back at home, having broken out of rehab, doing drugs with two men! BJ can only manage to look crushed, but if I were him, I'd be pissed! I mean, if my cute little girlfriend had to leave for six weeks while her mother gets better, and I think I'd just have to wait six weeks, but then her mom ditched rehab and thus changing the next time I'd see her from six weeks to indefinite, I woulda been cursing her out, or chucking that CB radio through the window to peg her in her stupid whore-y druggy head with it!
Things are at least going well for Tom and Trina. She was gonna originally get rid of the baby after Tom's reaction last week, but her friends tell her she needs to let him know for reals. She's all, "I know we said we're not ready for kids" but asks if there is room to discuss this and he says there is.
As for the other couples? Janet gets the column, but has to turn it down because of the news of Roger's job offer and their move to Cincinnati. Trina is all, this is the 70s, you can talk to Roger about this, its not automagically him over her. But when she does, he's uncharacteristically non-wishy-washy and all, "You may be the heart of the family, but I'm the head, so we're moving to Cincinnati!" Wonder if he'd be that adamant if not for Susan blowing him off? But Henry ends up un-turning her down for the column, and it gets run in the paper, which of course gets scrap-booked. I do find it interesting that she's changed from thinking that Roger getting a job will fix things, to being really sad that she wouldn't be "growing old together" with Susan, not being there to see Trina have her baby, etc. Given that speech though, I'm surprised Susan ends up doing what she did.
So speaking of Susan, she's been all passive aggressive ever since Bruce's little indiscretion. She goes to see Melinda who's all, they didn't do anything, but they have an emotional connection. So Bruce didn't cheat on her physically, but he does feel a better connection with Melinda than her. Which is of course what Roger said about Susan when he went to Susan rather than Janet when he lost his job. Anyways, it all blows up at the Decker's end of summer clam bake/key party. After having a big fight over Melinda, Susan grabs a key and runs off with some guy. But that obviously doesn't take, because she's at home at the end of the ep, to answer the phone when Roger calls saying he didn't get on the plane to Cincinnati to go house hunting, and invites her to the airport motel he's staying at. And she joins him! Yeah, the heart loves who it loves, and she's distraught over the whole Melinda thing, but its still kinda messed up she'd screw over Janet like that, especially after her whole growing old together speech. Bruce, for his part, angry/upset about Susan running off with some guy (I wonder if he'd feel better if she dumped said guy for Roger?) goes off to find Melinda and kisses her.
Actually, I want this series to continue just to see Laurie and BJ's reaction. They're already both upset that their bfs/gfs had to go away, and what will they find the next morning? That their parents are prolly getting divorced after both having affairs. I guess its worse for Bruce junior, because his mom had an affair with his best friend's dad, and they're friendship is already tenuous over Sam. So it kinda sucks if we don't see any resolution to all these hanging threads.
