Oct. 7th, 2010

next_to_normal: (Erica and Kai)
Haha, I feel like this week's Being Erica deserves a serious write-up (oh, Leo...), but then Erica opened the door and I was way too excited to care about anything else. Eeeeeeee!!! I am so excited for next week. I don't think I can wait a whole week. (Except it's not a whole week because it's Thursday already and it airs on Tuesdays. Yay! Need Kai now!)

I will say that this episode seemed particularly preachy for some reason. I mean, I know Erica always learns a lesson, but this one seemed to hit the moral especially hard. (Or maybe it's just because I disagree with it. Violence is always the answer. *g*)

Now that we're a few episodes in, some thoughts on how the group therapy is working:
  • Whenever Erica gets whisked into a session, everyone already knows what's just happened to her. How does this work, exactly? Dr. Tom always knew, but I assumed that omniscient knowledge of your patient's life was part of the time travel therapy package. So is he just gathering everyone and briefing them on what's happening before he pulls Erica in? That seems awfully sketchy, considering they'd be judging Erica based on Dr. Tom's interpretation rather than seeing things for themselves - and Dr. Tom is clearly not the most objective person when it comes to Erica. (Does anyone think it's a coincidence that he came down on her so hard for something that he himself struggles with? Not a chance.) Do they get to watch it on some kind of magic surveillance feed or something? Or do they have omniscient knowledge, too?

  • Along the same lines, will we ever see Erica getting pulled into someone else's session (which would answer the question of how they know what to talk about), or are all these people just there to serve Erica's mental health needs?

  • On a completely frivolous note, I loved everyone showing up in their pajamas last week. :)

  • I want to see more done with the group dynamic. So far, it seems like Adam is the only one who gets to do anything with Erica, and the rest of the group is just there to give Erica a reason to interact with Adam. And I'm not a fan of Irish!Kai - he's a poor replacement, and I'm not ready to see Erica in a relationship with a new guy yet, so I don't like the hints of where that might be going.

  • When they time travel in pairs, how does it work with the second person? Like, in this episode, obviously Erica goes back into her own body like always, but Adam just appears out of thin air? Doesn't anyone notice? And then at the end, did he just disappear? Didn't Leo wonder where Erica's weird older guy went? Or, for that matter, their cabbie? And would present!Erica even know what happened? Would she remember that Adam was there, and if so, how on earth would she rationalize that?
Maybe I am thinking too much, lol.
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