Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - Soldier's Heart - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

Ian J. Ball <iball@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Mar 12, 10:29 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > "Ian J. Ball" <ib...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On Mar 11, 10:17 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> It wouldn't surprise me at all if he eventually finds out that she
was
> > >> not the one.  Right now, she is just a healthy (or unhealthy)
> > >> distraction for
> > >> him.
> >
> > > I thought that too, until I realized that the Doc is in the main
> > > (credited) cast.
> >
> > > That clinches it for me - either the Doc., or his cop partner, are
> > > "The One". Otherwise, I will feel extremely, *extremely* cheated if
> > > this show pulls an "How I Met Your Mother" and magically produces a
> > > previously unseen guest star as "The One" in the series finale.
> >
> > > So, it's the Doc, his partner, or "Bust" for this viewer.
> >
> > > Ian  (I really hope they don't try and cheat us like that...)
> >
> > What if the show runs on TV for the next 10 years, but 'the one' isn't
> > introduced until season 3?  Are you still going to whine and cry
because the
> > solution wasn't handed to you on a silver platter in episode #1?
> 
> Yes. Because it'd be a "cheat".
> (And this is one viewer that is very, very hostile to "cheats" like
> that...)

Would it be fair if she is "The One" for this season so it comes to an
end, but turns out not to be if it gets renewed? Just because she is in
the core cast this season doesn't mean she always will be. 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was written so that the first season was a
complete story with an end.
> 
> > Honestly,
> > we are 3 episodes in and the doc has had about a dozen lines of dialog
> > total.  Who cares if she is 'the one' at this point?
> 
> That's why it's called "character development".
> 
> You "dance with the one that brung you". These are the characters they
> introduced to us (as credited cast), from Day One.
> 
> So the writers are going to have to make it work with either the Doc,
> or his partner. Anything else would be a massive cheat, and would
> destroy my confidence in the show.

Maybe she's still in the raw cookie-dough stage, married but not living
with her husband and looking for a little Amsterdam on the side. Maybe
she's the One, or maybe she's who the One was a couple of years ago.