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Medium: Nose about transparency ("Doctor's Orders" spoilers)
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Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:05:34 -0600
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Ken from Chicago...
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Yet another good turn, altho this season seems to be focusing on the
negative side of Allison's "gift", and Joe, seemed oddly (one might say
"Scully") dismissive, when he could simply focus on Allison not jumping the
gun too fast.
However, the highlight has to be yet another great performance by Sofia
Vassilieva who plays the Dubois' eldest daughter, "Ariel", who's 11 or
12--and included an amazing but subtle fx shot that was crucial to the
James Gassaway...
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She had a drinking problem in the first episode. She had apparently been
drinking heavily for a couple of decades trying to drown out her visions.
(Which inevitably leads the discussion to how quickly and totally she has
apparently turned around to embrace them.)
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James Gassaway...
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His father doesn't seem to have been a paragon of virtue, but I'm not sure
that means that he was abused. Grey area IMHO.
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James Gassaway...
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He does try to help, he just uses logic and common sense. It doesn't help
that either she or whatever sends her visions seem to go out of their way to
go against his advice. My favorite example is when she dreamed about
hitting a girl with her car on a residential street near a particular
hospital. After confirming that she has no reason to be on said street, he
James Gassaway...
advises her to just avoid it. Yet she ends up driving down that street
several times for no reason other than "I had a vision of killing someone on
this street!". *rolls eyes*
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episode but was brilliantly pulled off with her running into a glass door
causing a nosebleed.
Once again, like BABYLON 5 before it, MEDIUM has kids but not merely to be
cute, precocious or to save the day from totally brain-dead adults. Kids are
kids, not tiny adults--even in ... extreme ... environments (unless they
Ken from Chicago...
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Precisely. I loved that scene. There he was acting logically or the one when
Ariel saw a little girl was sick and in ICU and he wanted to warn the
parents to have their daughter medically examined while Allison wanted to
remain quiet--to protect her daughter from ridicule and isolation ... akin
to what Allison experienced growing up.
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Ken from Chicago...
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But his dimissal of it as merely "projections" of her fears was a bit too
sweeping. It's one thing to tell Ally to calm down, slow down and think and
plan out her actions before acting.
Ken from Chicago...
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Allison has a vision of 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42?
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Obveeus...
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Exactly. He should have been trying to get her to think calmly about what
her dreams were telling her. Even if she was 'projecting' the doctors face
onto some other 'bad guy' situation, her husband should be aware enough of
her visions to understand that he needs to help her sort out the real face
she should be seeing rather than dismissing the whole thing as imaginary.
Sometimes he is logical (like telling her not to drive down a certain street
at night after her vision that she would run over someone on that street),
but more often than should be the case: he is overly dismissive of her
feelings.
Ken from Chicago...
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I blame differing writers and directors.
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*are* adults, that is, telepaths, ghosts or aliens masquerading as kids,
but, hmmph, that's different).
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