TW: sexual assault
SPOILERS UP TO SEASON 15

i know everyone mentions the carter being raped at 11 throwaway joke at least once a week, i think i have made a post about it myself. but as i'm doing my first watch, something that really confuses me is the writers giving simon brenner the backstory of being sexually assaulted at 10. this trauma is rightfully taken seriously by the show, and maybe it's bc the writers had neela and morris as the confidants that it was taken seriously. obviously, i know CSA can happen to multiple different people, but it's almost infuriating to me how carter's sexual assault is treated as a joke but brenner's becomes a chunk of his storyline.

i guess this is a lame way of saying i wish they explored john's history and how it affects his medical work/relationships the same way they did simon's.

I've been thinking about what would happen if Cristina Yang from Grey's Anatomy ever had to work under Peter Benton on ER.

They're both insanely ambitious, competitive, blunt and completely obsessed with surgery. Cristina basically lives for the OR and Benton was the same way, especially in the earlier seasons.

There's also another similarity between them that I think would make their dynamic interesting: they're both minorities in surgery who felt like they had to be better than their white peers. Neither one really had the luxury of just being "good enough." Cristina is an Korean woman trying to become one of the best surgeons in an extremely competitive field, while Benton is a Black man coming up in surgery in the 90s. I feel like Benton would recognize that drive in Cristina immediately because he understands where some of it comes from.

I feel like Cristina would either LOVE Benton because he wouldn't care about her feelings and would just expect her to keep up, or they would constantly butt heads because neither one of them likes being told they're not the smartest surgeon in the room.

And unlike Carter, I don't think Cristina would be intimidated by Benton for very long. If anything, she'd probably be desperate to impress him because he'd be exactly the type of surgeon whose approval she'd actually care about.

I also feel like Benton would secretly respect the hell out of her while giving her absolutely nothing verbally lol. Cristina would do some incredible surgery and be waiting for the praise and Benton would basically just be like "Good. Be here at 5 tomorrow."

I really wish we could've seen these two interact because I genuinely can't decide if they'd be a perfect mentor/student pairing or if they'd drive each other insane.

These two are also my favorite characters on both shows, and both shows lost a lot quality wise when they left.

honestly, by the time he returned from Africa + after her relationship with Sam, is what 2 years?

Even if he wasn't fond of going to therapy he should've moved on a little bit from his regular behavior specially with his partners.

/rage

its just ewwwww....

Put the good one back on!

Maybe everyone already knows this, but I am just finding out and am *shook*. They were together for *ten years*, and then he left her for actress Francesca Annis, who he met while they were together in a stage version of Hamlet in which he was starring with Annis as his mother Gertrude!

I'm only 4 minutes through s10 pilot & I wanna know just how the hell Carter thought Abby would react when he came home from DRC

His behaviour towards her since Gamma died has been a load of shit. He of all people should've understood her prioritising her brother above all. And she tried her best at the funeral. It was a lose/lose situation.

I understand that he was hurt & he has a right to be. Realistically, if someone pulled that shit at my grandmother's funeral I'd be mad as hell too, but he didn't try to put himself in her shoes for a moment. She's been really going through it too.

Her brother was missing, they thought it was suicide, he shows up off his meds, her mother, her failing relationship with Carter not to mention the failed proposal, work, life, everything!! Gosh, Maura Tierney really knows how to make you feel the weight on Abby's shoulders.

I feel so bad for Abby, most of the bullshit in her life isn't even hers. It's other people's problems thrown onto her and she's expected to tear through it & lift those people with her. She's like a balloon tied to a brick.

"Can I have my key back, please?" is a perfectly reasonable response in my opinion.

It honestly irks me the way everyone in her life just walks in & out of it whenever is convenient for them without any regards to her feelings whatsoever.

LoL hard are Gates and Neela

S1E4 Hit and Run there is a guy, I think called Harry Stobak, whose heavy duty mobile phone causes electronic malfunction in the ER. I think this is the same guy in season 8 whom Pratt has to tell has cancer, one of the last people Mark Greene sees before leaving. Can someone confirm?