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  1. Hi Modomum! Glad to have you here, too! When the show returns, I’m ready to have their regular type of episode return as well. Poor Shaun! The stimulus overload (and that stupid light) was just too much for him. When you say you want Shaun and Claire’s friendship to last as long as possible, do you mean as opposed to them becoming a couple or just in general, don’t drift apart, terms?

    I find myself on the fence about Lim and Melendez. My first urge is to ship them, but that’s not who Lim is at all, as you rightly point out. But then keeping them as FWBs doesn’t seem to be who Melendez is. I’m curious as to where this story line goes.

  2. Glad to find some people with whom to discuss this episode. This episode was like none other in this series, and it gave me an unsettling *what-is-happening-here* vibe. No one gets a happy ending! Including the Dad who, for lack of good directions, stumbled into the ER by mistake, thus rendering the marrow transplant moot…maybe. Shaun is impotent to the point of fetal position by episode end. I felt the same. Don’t kill Dr. Glassman off, please! Keep Lim and explore her random hookup mode…why women who succeed at high pressure levels sometimes sacrifice the “only one man for me” image. No one questions powerful men and their dalliances. Morgan gets a lesson in empathy, after deriding Claire for her natural inclination toward the same. They had to fast forward the Morgan romance, “One Way Passage” style (1930’s movie), and I liked it. Keep Lim and Melendez as FWBs, until Melendez finds The One…and maybe he and Lim continue their thing in time….you know, like real life. And can’t someone just untwist the fluorescent and get Shaun back on track? And finally, I want the Shaun and Claire friendship to last as long as possible.

  3. I think this is the first time I disagree with most of what you have written. I like Drs. Lim and Melendez together. And of course it’s much better then Claire and Dr. Melendez. Also, I really like Dr. Lim and I don’t feel she is expendable. I like her interactions with Shaun and when she is working with Shaun, and I would feel very sad if she died. (Side note: I was also sad when Jared left.)

    I never watched ER or Grey’s Anatomy, but it seemed from the commercials that every 5th episode had some major calamity happening (i.e. a bomb goes off in the hospital, a helicopter explodes on the roof, a bus runs into the hospital, etc.). This is the first of that type of episode for The Good Doctor. It was different; it was strange; but it was very suspenseful and action-packed! As long as this kind of episode is limited to no more then once per season (and hopefully less then that), I’m o.k. with it because it was quite a ride!!

    1. My issue is, we’re a season and a half in and a lot of the characters still feel underdeveloped. So with this viral outbreak storyline, it almost seems like a means to trigger either discard some characters or else make it so people feel pushed to take life more seriously. Like, for Morgan, losing Tyler could be considered a major turning point for her character. Dr. Melendez losing Dr. Lim, or her life being threatened, could mean him getting back in the dating game again.

      And I think another reason for the expendable comment comes from shedding Jessica and Jared. They were on the show from the beginning and Jessica had ties to Dr. Glassman and his daughter, Dr. Melendez too, but was abruptly cut out of the show. Then with Jared, he did leave, with giving us closure, but considering how we got to know his whole backstory, it leads you to question what is this show trying to do?

      Is it trying to shake things up, since the show has kind of gotten into a episode to episode routine? Or could it be that show wants to keep things realistic. That is in noting that sometimes people die suddenly, leave suddenly, and closure isn’t always something that can be delivered? Much less, just because someone has been there since the pilot, or in the first season, it doesn’t mean they’ll be on the show all the way until the series finale.

      So maybe expendable was a bit harsh, but I do feel a slight Game of Thrones vibe being pushed that no character should be seen as permanent.

      1. Starting with Jessica and Jared, I have wondered why the show cut Jared loose, too. It’s not like Claire has dated anyone else, but then maybe the writers liked having two interns per doctor. I don’t know. But with Jessica, I’m pretty sure they wanted to go in another direction with Dr. Glassman and his illness, from having Maddie appear for a whole episode to Shaun and Lea driving him to appointments. None of that is as easily done with Jessica there.

        I thought this episode was their version of “the major calamity episode”, but maybe you’re right, and it is a quick way to shake things up and/or push things along. Or maybe it was meant to be both. Whatever the reason, it doesn’t bother me because 1) I really enjoyed the episode and 2) I don’t think any major character will die. Dr. Lim is the only one in jeopardy, but I think the CDC gets there in time and she is saved. Yes, Morgan will probably take life more seriously because of Tyler dying. But to me, Dr. Melendez was already dating because he slept with Dr. Lim, and I think he wanted to date her before he saw her sick but went along with her in the beginning of the episode when she first said that the sex was a mistake.

        So after the quarantine is fixed and all of those story lines are taken care of, I can easily see the show getting pretty much back to the way it was.

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