With Allies Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

I have resisted the urge for the last several weeks to comment any further on the abomination that is Robin's "PPD" storyline.  This is mainly because the current portrayal of Scrubs is making me long for the glory-days of blog-wars and that is not a good thing.  I look back now with rose-colored glasses and realize how naive I was at the time to imagine that things couldn't possibly get any worse.  In Guza-land, things can always get worse.

Over the past few months (possibly eons) since this "Post Partum Depression" story started, I have considered ranting on numerous topics. 

I thought about covering Patrick and his apparent inability to keep his mouth shut around anyone and everyone when it comes to Robin's issues.  I thought about covering Elizabeth and Matt and their butt-insky status - - why don't these characters have storylines of their own?  I thought about complaining that the only time we see Mac anymore is when he's arguing with Patrick about what's best for Robin (*another example of Guza's women as chattel mentality btw*).

I thought about covering Robin's therapist and how she is the queen of smug-town and how her high-handed superiority can not possibly be conducive to healing a mental health issue.  This character is the reason why people are hesitant to embrace therapy in the real world - - - she is rude, condescending, judgmental, and she thinks she knows it all  - - the very things that hinder healing and prevent the establishment of trust in a psychiatric setting.  Clearly, Guza did as much research into psychiatry as he did into Post Partum Depression itself.

I also thought about doing a screencap retrospective with my imaginings of Jason Thompson's thoughts upon reading his latest scripts, akin to the one I did for Kimberly McCullough last month.  However, that was before things got truly awful.  Now, only one picture I've found perfectly encapsulates what I imagine to be his reaction to the current CF of a storyline:

Accurate, but limited in its scope.  (Besides, what's the point of a Jason Thompson screencap-a-palooza without numerous pictures of him in various states of hotness? No point, obviously.)

So instead, I decided to leave terrible-enough alone and forgo further commentary, hoping that this storyline would eventually pass.  I had hoped not to further encourage Guza with my continued vocal outrage - - I'm convinced he targets me on a personal level, sometimes.

I was firm in my resolve, until this Friday's credulity-defying episode - - - who in the flying fudgecicles argues with a woman pushing a stroller next to a staircase?!? 

Dr. Kelly Lee, that's who. 

Kelly compliments Robin on how well she's doing at getting her life back together and working through her "PPD", and when Robin informs Kelly that she's making all this progress on her own terms without taking medication, Kelly becomes confrontational and starts berating her - that's some great friend, right there. 

I love my girl Robin, and I am aware that her behavior has been totally irrational for the last few months (feels like eons), however, my objection to this exchange is the whole pot/kettle issue.  Dr. Kelly Lee, the sexual compulsive, has the nerve to lecture Robin about how "irresponsible" she's being?

Seriously?

The writers clearly meant for that to be ironic, and therefore humorous, right?  Viewers weren't actually supposed to take Kelly seriously, were we?  Her opinion wasn't meant to add credibility to the storyline, was it?

That would be like expecting viewers to interpret Jason lecturing Michael on the danger of handguns as anything but laughable.  It would be right up there on the irony-o-meter with Sonny encouraging his kids never to J-walk or Carly having the nerve to call anyone a manipulative whore. 

No one would expect viewers to take those situations seriously, right? 

I mean, otherwise,  

Comments

[Ann Marie]

Does KMC have picture of you are something? Buttinskis - what sort of people don't say anything when a woman is leaving her child around like a pair of gloves and sticking her in a tree? What kind of MOTHER is carless with an infant around a staircase. Robin is in dire need of therapy but you need it more.

[B]

I love this blog. I also don't care for the therapist. And seriously, what was with her telling Patrick about Robin's attitude during therapy. Isn't that supposed to stay in therapy? This woman has no respect for her client, and Robin's friends and family don't have any respect for her as a person the way they talk about her and treat her. This should be written as a manual for how NOT to act when someone has a mental illness.