This is why I'm calling it Run, Eliza, Run. The only reason I can see that they made her a track star is so that we could have lots of running. Otherwise, she'd drive a freakin' car.

That being said, wouldn't you think she'd wear a sports bra if she's going to run everywhere? Not that I'm complaining, mind you, just curious.

This is why I'm calling it Run, Eliza, Run.

The scratch track for the unaired pilot used the "Lola Running" track from the RLR soundtrack for all those scenes. It was quite amusing.

It did strike me as a lot like "Run, Lola, Run" - though what bugged me was that she was just delaying long-term problems. They did show that her sister was fully capable of finding other sources of drugs, and helping her brother win a game isn't going to get him to stop gambling - if anything she reinforced it. With the Rebecca plot line, I wanted it to be that every time Tru tried to "fix" something, remove a cause of death, fate tossed another one in until they got to suicide - and any ME worth his latex could quickly tell an entrance wound from an exit wound, especially at such a close range. And one pep talk - that's only enough on a family sitcom. If Tru had hauled Rebecca's ass into the hospital, said she'd tried to kill herself and got her held there until she could get counseling, then I might have thought of her as actually helpful.

any ME worth his latex could quickly tell an entrance wound from an exit wound, especially at such a close range.

But the ME never saw the wound, only had it described to him by her.

any ME worth his latex

Y'know, I jumped to Mutant Enemy (writer), not CSI-like stuff, then it went all downhill from there.

You know, I just couldn't watch it. I couldn't. Eliza running? I have Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I can just skip to her parts.

I watched S2 Coupling instead.

I thought they had a shot of him looking at an X-Ray, and he pointed to the mouth on it to show Tru where he thought the bullet had entered. Plus the angle of the shot looked strange for having come from a gun in the mouth - even a gun that small. Oh, and examing the mouth is one of the first things done, right along with looking over the body for bruises, other injuries, etc. I was thinking they might play with the idea of distance of the shot - that maybe it wasn't such a small gun, but that someone had shot her from another building.

I thought they had a shot of him looking at an X-Ray, and he pointed to the mouth on it to show Tru where he thought the bullet had entered.

No, that was just a diagram he'd worked up. He couldn't have been looking at an x-ray, because she hadn't died yet.

We didn't get to see any professionals looking at the body, right? Just Tru and the guy that wheeled her in?

I like the bits with ED running. And copping attitude at people. I like the kernel of characterization she's got going. And I actually sort of liked that she didn't spend the whole time hovering at her brother's side, trying to convince him of something crazy, just found the one thing that would actually work. Mind you, not long-run helpful, but neither (as we saw) was dumping her sister's stuff. It appealed to me because she gave the impression of a person who knows good and well she can't change the people she loves, and investing in it every time they fall will only break her heart more often, but who tries to do what she can when she can.

At least I thought that's what they were trying to do. And I kind of like the Mom backstory (okay, not so much the part she told DanceTeacherWoman, but the hearing voices part). A quibble, though: what's up with the boyfriend? Was he just there so we'd get confirmation as soon as she woke up that the day was repeating? Especially if next week's preview was as it appeared to be... why was EthicsViolationInstructor even there?

(ETA: And I thought only suspicious deaths went there. Why the cancer thing?)