"Were you wearing protection?"
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
aurelia - Nov 05, 2012 8:04:40 pm PST #9412 of 11831
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
-t - Nov 05, 2012 9:31:37 pm PST #9413 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Shiny!
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2012 7:55:49 am PST #9414 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But morphine's just not a good sedative drug for chronic use
But sedation's not the point with addicts, is it? Excuses are the point. Whether or not Holmes would call him on it is one thing, but an addict lying about why they're taking their drug--isn't that Every Day Every Where?
P.M. Marc - Nov 06, 2012 9:17:45 am PST #9415 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
But sedation's not the point with addicts, is it? Excuses are the point. Whether or not Holmes would call him on it is one thing, but an addict lying about why they're taking their drug--isn't that Every Day Every Where?
It's just a really unbelievable writing choice for an addiction for a medical resident. It fit their plot, but not their character, and caused acute suspension of disbelief issues. (Statistically, I believe actually they're only more prone to abuse alcohol if anything, but I'd have to check the papers on it again.)
Ginger - Nov 06, 2012 9:45:51 am PST #9416 of 11831
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The bigger question I have is "wouldn't a doctor know of a less complicated and error-prone method of making it look like she died of a heart attack or other natural causes?" They don't generally perform autopsies on attended deaths.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2012 11:01:27 am PST #9417 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's just a really unbelievable writing choice for an addiction for a medical resident
I may be revealing too much about family and friends to say--it's definitely not unbelievable. Maybe it's unlikely, but it's not unbelievable.
P.M. Marc - Nov 06, 2012 2:08:31 pm PST #9418 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Unsuspensionofdisbelievable, then. For me. Your Family and Friends in Medicine May Vary, naturally.
(And, of course, what's available readily varies by country, so my expectations of what, other than alcohol, would be likely is influenced by that.)
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2012 3:10:19 pm PST #9419 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am talking about Americans, FTR.
P.M. Marc - Nov 06, 2012 4:07:33 pm PST #9420 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am talking about Americans, FTR.
Huh. (I know that some of the things easily obtained in the US aren't in Canada, and vice versa, and that some of my pop-like-candy meds are hard to get in the UK.)
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2012 6:32:56 pm PST #9421 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think any of the Jamaican doctors I know would be bothered to get addicted to anything requiring a prescription. Weed is so easy to get all you do is walk down the street and ask the first person with good dreads, and you might not need to pay him. Uh, don't tell anyone I said that. None of them are substance abusers.
American doctors--I know some with some pressing self-medication requirements and an interesting plethora of approaches to said issues. Amazing lack of anti-depressants too.
Okay--I just watched H5-O this week, and not only was the A-plot hysterical in the broad cartoony strokes of the whole thing (is it twist time yet? how many twist options do we have? okey dokey, then...) but they committed 150%, so that was good.
However, I'm sure lots of devoted shippers will be cropping the right side out of that final frame.