Though I love the show in general, I cannot stand the contrived scenes writers feel compelled to put in this show and so many others. In this episode there is a scene in which Dr. Richmond lays into Dr. Tyler for supposedly encouraging this blond haired woman to believe that her son had been reincarnated into the body of another woman's son who was in the hospital for a valve replacement surgery. Dr. Richmond fails to elicit the facts (this is unprofessional and unlikely to occur)and instead angrily accuses her of things she did not do. That the head of the surgery department would behave like a petulant child having a tantrum, and would assume as true the impression of the angry mother without first confirming the facts by questioning the surgeon involved is unrealistic in the extreme. In fact Dr. Tyler regularly told the blond haired lady that there was no evidence or proof that her son had reincarnated into the other boy's body. She also had a legitimate reason for ordering the test which showed the epstein barr virus.
The writers purposely had Dr. Tyler fail to present the true facts. (An accomplished surgeon is typically a confident person and has the discipline to report events as they actually happened.) They did this in order to build tension in the audience, and to contrive a big emotional outburst. I understand that they want the audience to become emotionally involved. But they can still do this without creating these unrealistic, contrived situations. The audience is aware that the scenes are implausible and unrealistic and feels cheated, and insulted. The writers evidently believe that we the viewers are too dim witted to catch them at this. It is harder work perhaps to create the emotionally charged scenes they feel they need to create in a realistic and believable manner, but the quality of the show would be better if they would do the honest work.
It should be easy enough to write scenes with enough emotional content to satisfy the writers' needs without creating such unrealistic contrived situations. Though the story line is fictional, aren't we supposed to believe the characters are medical professionals?
The writers purposely had Dr. Tyler fail to present the true facts. (An accomplished surgeon is typically a confident person and has the discipline to report events as they actually happened.) They did this in order to build tension in the audience, and to contrive a big emotional outburst. I understand that they want the audience to become emotionally involved. But they can still do this without creating these unrealistic, contrived situations. The audience is aware that the scenes are implausible and unrealistic and feels cheated, and insulted. The writers evidently believe that we the viewers are too dim witted to catch them at this. It is harder work perhaps to create the emotionally charged scenes they feel they need to create in a realistic and believable manner, but the quality of the show would be better if they would do the honest work.
It should be easy enough to write scenes with enough emotional content to satisfy the writers' needs without creating such unrealistic contrived situations. Though the story line is fictional, aren't we supposed to believe the characters are medical professionals?
