On Dec 8, 9:18 am, "sharon" <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > So what was Abby supposed to do given the situation? Go to Croatia
> > with him, drink behind his back at the funeral, and generally try to
> > hide her problems for another few months/years until Luka is feeling
> > better about the loss of his Dad? She's admitted she needs help. She
> > can't stop drinking without the help.
>
> Well, in real life, she'd be waiting weeks for a bed to open in rehab,
so it
> wouldn't matter if she went to Croatia or not.
THere are private treatment centers that tend to have beds available.
(THey have good insurance, so she doens't need to wait for a bed to
open at County.) And you'll recall that Carter got a bed at a rehab
place with just a few hours notice.
She could've told him, gone
> to Croatia for a couple of days to make an appearance at the funeral and
> then gone; but that would've made sense, so it didn't happen.
And if she had gone, and been drunk at the funeral (very likely, since
she can't stop drinking), you would have suggested that she went to
the funeral just to embarrass Luka, and she SHOULD have stayed home/
checked herself into rehab.
>
> Abby has never been one to sympathize with anyone else, it would be out
of
> character in some ways for her to be invested in how Luka is feeling,
how
> his father's illness and death have affected him.
She often sympathizes with others. But right now, the bottle is
trumping everything else.
Similar to the death of
> Carter's gamma, she doesn't really notice other people's misery except
for
> any direct effects on her own misery. Considering Luka's father was
sick
> and dying for many months and we got not a single word of concern from
Abby
> to Luka about it, it would be out of character for Abby to give a cr**
about
> it now. The fact that her parents are still alive and she really
doesn't
> like either one of them should not even be part of the equation. I've
never
> been married and yet I feel sad for my medical assistant whose husband
is
> dying of cancer at age 44 and am trying to sup****t her as best I can.
Weird
> that Abby, who is so self involved, chose a career in medicine.
And even weirder, that Abby, who you claim never cares about anyone
else, OFTEN shows concern for her patients, her friends, and others
when they are dealing with problems. Just this moment, however, she
is not capable of caring about anything but where her next drink is
coming from. Alcoholism being like that.
>
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> > Were Luka and his father 'close?' They have lived several thousand
> > miles apart (with only infrequent visits) for at least the past 9-10
> > years. Yes, it's always hard losing a parent, but people DO react in
> > a variety of different ways, depending on their particular
> > relation****p, the suddenness, and other factors.
>
> We know his father was the first one he told about Abby's pregnancy.
Luka
> mentioned his father fairly frequently on the show, at least compared to
> other characters. Then, when his father was sick, he rushed to be with
him.
> I think that qualifies as 'close'. Just because he lived on another
> continent doesn't mean they weren't in contact and weren't close.
I think there is a wide range of relation****ps that parents and adult
children can have. They certainly aren't estranged or distant, and
yes, they are in touch, but no, I never got the idea that they were
extremely close. The simple fact that, until Tata got sick, Luka
clearly HADN'T been back to Croatia in several years (he'd never
brought Abby or Joe to meet his family), indicates that they aren't
terribly close.
>
> Luka's face at the end of the scene in their apartment seemed to
indicate
> that he has very mixed feelings and is uncertain what he wants to do.
The
> fact that he agreed to take Joe and leave her alone to go to rehab
without a
> single word of protest (this is the guy who wanted to go with her when
she
> had the abortion he didn't want her to have)
HE has to go to the funeral. Abby can't go.
indicated to me that he is
> unsure what he wants to happen. There were lots of alternatives to the
plan
> Abby suggested, there is no reason for him to stay in Croatia for months
> after the funeral, but he does.
Well, they have to write him out of the show. But I think, at this
particular moment, the characters don't know what's in store.
Naomi
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