Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Telly addicts

Related: Film discussion forum.

Original poster

ER's Abby - what kind of mother do you think...

84 replies

emkana · 27/01/2007 21:02

... she makes?

I thought she came across horribly in the last episode on Thu, first laying into that woman at the baby group, then letting her son who must still be tiny cry on his own in the cot...

I knew Luka should have had babies with me instead

OP posts:
lulumama · 27/01/2007 21:03

oh n emkana.luka will be having babies with me !

lulu & luka, sounds right you see !

tribpot · 27/01/2007 21:05

Yes but women in baby group basically attacked her (verbally) for using a Baby Björn - (a) I'm sure no baby group would do that even if they disapproved and (b) you would quite rightly be forced to play the "I am a doctor, get stuffed" card if someone did.

I do agree about the leaving him to cry, but let's face it, the script was probably written by a man, and the actress may not have children of her own (and probably isn't allowed to change the script simply because she disagrees with it).

Mumatuks · 27/01/2007 21:05

Oh I thought she was fab at the mother and baby group.

I think she'll be great, if not a little neurotic.

I said no more babies (we have 3) but I'll reconsider if Luka ever dropped by, you know, like he does and all that.

Twiglett · 27/01/2007 21:12

I thought the baby group people were rude and obnoxious and unwelcoming and judgemental and deserved everything they got
I'm stunned you think she was wrong to lay into them

Mumatuks · 27/01/2007 21:14

Agree with Misdee.

Infact, I was miffed I can never think of anything to reply with so quickly at those cliquey M&B groups!

Mumatuks · 27/01/2007 21:15

Misdee? I mean Twiglet! God where am I tonight?!

Freckle · 27/01/2007 22:02

Also, don't think the baby is that newborn now. They seem to jump several months on occasions.

expatinscotland · 27/01/2007 22:03

A freak.

She's an uptight, simpering, whingy harpie. She must be able to suck the chrome off a Cadillac for Luka to stay with her.

And step off!

Luka was mine llllooonnnggg ago.

franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:07

she was great at the baby group. great with the nannies. she might have just put the baby down for sleep.
and luka is mine, we are going camping in hvar

Gingerbear · 27/01/2007 22:08

expat, you have used the 'suck the chrome off a Cadillac' phrase before, and I collapse every time you do

I think she was right to tell the women at the lentil weavers group where to go.
I do think that she will be neurotic mother though, as Joe will be her one and only son.

expatinscotland · 27/01/2007 22:09

She's a head case.

Most men would run a mile.

Imagine trying ot love someone who makes everything SOOOOO complex.

Gawd all that melodrama would get so tiresome.

She's wound up like a spring.

franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:12

agree, she's not my fav character, a bit of a pita, but I thought she ws great in the last episode

franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:12

although to think about it many women characters in er are a bit of a pita

expatinscotland · 27/01/2007 22:13

I think Neela's character is just an idiot when it comes to men.

MerryMarigold · 27/01/2007 22:15

i wanted to call my baby luka. didn't go with our surname...

franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:18

I would have liked her for her to go out with what's his name, her friend, her housemate?
I also couldn't stand dr greene's wife

Original poster
emkana · 27/01/2007 22:22

I thought both sides didn't look too good at the M & B group.

The women should have been more welcoming to Abby, but then again she went straight into full-on attack, which I wouldn't have done.

Baby Bjorns are said to be bad for hip development btw.

And doctors certainly don't know everything about what's best for babies, see threads on breastfeeding etc.!

OP posts:
franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:26

I thought it was the programme's subtle taking the piss of examples of extreme motherhood

Firepile · 27/01/2007 22:27

I like ER very much, but I think that the overwhelming whiff of male scriptwriters / directors leaps from the screen every time they try and tackle anything to do with babies and childbirth...

I have never come across a mother and babygroup that would attack a newbie in the way that was protrayed in the last episode. And all births are really medicalised - there was one epidode last series where a woman wanted to make her own decisions on the birth and the baby ended up dying because she wouldn't do as she was told and have a section. I know it's only telly, but they're much better on other issues (eg gay rights, unfairness of insurance, race, poverty, Iraq, international issues etc) that it is a disappointment when they stuff up maternity.

I quite miss Carter, but my heart really belongs to the late Mark Greene.

ruty · 27/01/2007 22:30

hang on a minute ladies i have to clear up some confusion. Luka, or Goran if you must know, was mine looong before you ever even knew he existed. Welcome to Sarajevo anyone? A bit part in The Peacemaker? The weird film with Tilda Swinton? He's mine i tell you. Mine [resolves to become a stalker]

franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:31

he was mine since he was in that madonna's video

expatinscotland · 27/01/2007 22:31

Carter was a twat.

A ponce and one of those weak, lilly-livered excuses for a man.

I've met little girls who had more of pair than he had.

What I hate about ER is how everyone seems to live in a VERY dark flat.

ruty · 27/01/2007 22:32

when was that then? must seek it out.

expatinscotland · 27/01/2007 22:33

Oh, yes, 'Orlando' was the film.

He made me yearn for him even then.

Soooooooo fine.

Those eyes.

That lanky body.

franca70 · 27/01/2007 22:34

I didn't like carter's girlfriend at all. didn't mind carter. it's true, the flats are always so dark? why is that? never been to chicago, really

Swipe left for the next trending thread