People who make higher mates than roommates are sitcom gold. (Does anybody bear in mind The Odd Couple?)
The Good Doctor is not a sitcom, however a brand new main story goes in that path.
The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 12 spoilers have Glassman transferring in with Shaun and Lea. There’s even a foolish clip involving Lea strolling in on Glassman within the bathe. How is that this going to work out?
Hopefully, the Glassman stuff will not take up extra of the hour than it deserves. This form of foolish scenario is suitable as a facet plot, however as the principle story of the hour, it would fall flat.
Too many awkward conditions with Glassman and his new roommates will make the episode overly lighthearted. Even if there are some critical medical tales, it will not be sufficient to revive the stability.
Glassman has all the time been a surrogate father to Shaun, a lot in order that Lea advised Glassman to “make up with his son” when he and Shaun had been preventing over the Lim scenario.
But they’ve by no means lived collectively earlier than, and Glassman transferring in. regardless of how non permanent it’s, will considerably change the dynamics of their relationship. Glassman tends to be inflexible and does not tolerate dissent in his private life, which killed his marriage to Debbie.
Shaun additionally refuses to provide an inch and might be unimaginable to reside with
The two of them sharing the identical house, even when just for just a few days, just isn’t going to be fairly.
And is not Lea purported to be decreasing her stress all through the rest of her being pregnant? This looks as if the alternative of low-stress dwelling!
Fortunately, there is a bona fide medical storyline to counteract this nonsense. According to a clip within the spoiler video, Shaun will get into a major disagreement with Jordan over a thirteen-year-old affected person.
The affected person has a tumor brought on by a mutation in a fertilized egg. This wasn’t on my checklist of “things that can go wrong with a young teenage pregnancy,” however right here we’re.
Jordan thinks that this can be a necessary reporting scenario since 13 is beneath the age of consent. However, the daddy of this kid’s child seems to be not more than 13 or fourteen himself, so Shaun does not see a problem.
This feels like a compelling controversy.
Shaun is a by-the-book form of man, due to his Autism. So so far as he is involved, if the legislation says that two thirteen-year-olds having intercourse is not an issue, then that is the top of the story.
Jordan will suppose in any other case — in her thoughts, these kids are nonetheless kids, and somebody did one thing inappropriate.
Shaun’s place is smart from the restricted info within the promo. There’s an enormous distinction between two thirteen-year-olds having intercourse and an grownup molesting a younger teen.
If the staff studies this, it may destroy the boyfriend’s life for no good cause. Should a thirteen-year-old who received his girlfriend pregnant be required to be on a intercourse offender registry for all times as a result of they had been each underage?
Quite a bit relies on the precise circumstances. It is feasible that the boy compelled or coerced the lady. That’s nonetheless sexual assault, even when the children are underage.
It’s additionally attainable that he is solely pretending to be the daddy and that an grownup had intercourse with the lady, which falls into the mandatory-reporting column.
Jordan will in all probability body this as Shaun not understanding how critical the problem of sexual assault is. If she does, is that truthful?
Granted, Shaun’s strongest mentor is Glassman, who tends in the direction of sexist attitudes. Lea’s had phrases with Glassman over his outdated beliefs greater than as soon as.
Still, sexual assault just isn’t the identical as two youngsters experimenting with intercourse whereas they’re nonetheless kids and are not able to take care of the results.
If Jordan pushes to report a 13 or fourteen-year-old boy for having consensual intercourse, she might cross the road into interfering with different folks’s lives.
That may very well be problematic, particularly if the children’ mother and father do not agree with Jordan’s choices.
Where are the mother and father, anyway? Are these thirteen-year-olds emancipated? If they are not, then their mother and father ought to have one thing to say concerning the care the lady is getting on the hospital and the problem of her having had intercourse at 13.
Although it is not talked about within the video, one other spoiler is that Morgan has to decide that impacts her life and profession.
She already turned down the celebrated fellowship in New York, so it is unlikely she’ll get a second likelihood at that. If she does, she ought to take it — however she in all probability will not now that she and Park are in a good place.
She lately tried to have IVF to have a child and grow to be a single mom, solely to study that the implantation did not take. Instead, she had what seemed like a chemical being pregnant the place she was pregnant after which she wasn’t.
Whatever massive choice she has to make doubtless has to do together with her dream of turning into a mom.
She might need the chance to undertake a toddler or endure an experimental process to get pregnant.
She may additionally be supplied a brand new position throughout the hospital that will take plenty of time and be incompatible together with her goals of motherhood, leaving her to make a heartwrenching choice.
What do you suppose Morgan’s choice will entail? Who do you suppose will probably be proper about whether or not this younger lady’s intercourse life must be reported to social providers?
And will Glassman transferring in with Shaun and Lea be a enjoyable story or over-the-top foolish?
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