Overly Analytical thoughts on Rizzoli & Isles 3x02

[rightonrighton]

I hate to be That Guy who whines endlessly about shows they proclaim to love. It’s annoying and buzz-killing, especially after an episode like last night’s which had so many things to squee in delight over

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[mscrazybird]

It's like you know my mind! This is exactly what I thought about the episode. And I have this horrible habit of looking at the time to see how much there is left of the show; it seriously was a let down to see that there was only 6 more minutes for it to all be over. :/

But you're right I loved every minute of it.

[baicancook]

I feel like I will be looking for that image MORE MOAR MOARRRR! in the next few episodes when our Doc/Det screen time will be cut down with new ~male romantic interests~.

:(

gosh i am such a party pooper i hate it.

[mscrazybird]

Yea, that is exactly how i feel too. And agent Dean wasn't even handsome :/ so i am glad that he is out of the picture.
You're not a party pooper; you're a realist.

[callme_jen]

Yes! That's what I did as well. I really thought it was going to be a two parter towards the end of the episode.

[lozzy]

I pretty much agree with everything you said! I like the idea of making it a two-part episode!

[ricciuta38]

I'm a nurse, and in no way, shape or form would Maura only spend a few hours in an ED with compartment syndrome and the resulting fasciotomy done in a FOREST with BROKEN, DIRTY glass by a cop. She would've been admitted and put on IV antibiotics to prevent infection. Of course, a person is allowed to leave AMA if they choose. And we are talking about a television show where everything can be made easier for plot reasons.

[cj2017]

ITA with everything you said. Please forward to Tamaro. For me, this entire episode could've started with the car crash. Hell, the plot was so incidental they could've wrapped it all up with Jane's little frog-march synopsis/chat and no one would've batted an eyelid.

I have no idea what they were going for with Maura's swacked-out delirium. Aside from the fact that the writers obviously decided carving into someone's leg just wasn't gigglesome enough. Hypovolaemic shock (which is kinda likely given an arterial bleed) does not make you feverish, or amusingly stoned, it makes your teeth chatter you feel so bloody cold, and it leaves you terrified - y'know, sense of impending doom and all that.

She would've been admitted and put on IV antibiotics to prevent infection.

Hell yes. I'm going to pretend they did that. And then, for some reason, decided to discharge her several days later wearing the same clothes...(Jane's bedside vigil had obviously rendered her unable to change clothing as well!)

[darkshines1984]

Does anyone say its a few hours later? I know its the presumption because they are wearing the same clothes etc but considering it was the middle of the night when it all happened and its now bright sunlight then it could still be 12 or so hours afterward by which time she could have been on a drip etc etc. I know my aunt who is a nurse managed to get herself discharged in at least half the time she should have been once because she played the 'I can look after myself because I am in the medical profession' card.
After just telling Vince very meaningfully she 'wouldn't leave her' Jane could hardly pop home to change. I could well see Jane sitting with her for half a day in hospital.

[cj2017]

Unless the director provides a few visual clues then we're pretty much left to assume that they've got home quite quickly. All it needed was to put Maura in a change of clothes - hell even a nice set of loaned scrubs - to indicate a little time had passed. As it was, they left her in her original outfit, which suggests - to me at least - she checked in, got stitched up and came out. Which is pretty rubbish from a realistic medical POV. Had they changed her outfit (this is the woman who dislikes working in a wrinkled dress after all!) then I could fanw*nk that Jane had sat there in the same clothing and Korsak had brought Maura spare clothes to bring her home in. But really, a pair of scrubs would have been ideal: cheap, easy to explain, shows that the writers are thinking...