So I'm not shy about being a HUGE Leo fan and being so sad and shocked when he died. But it seemed like i mourned his death more than April did and then it was back to dominic. Maybe I'm wrong in my thinking here. But still
shareHer and Dominic never got back together, so I dont feel that way at all. I feel that she simply needed him as a friend to help her grieve
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by cardinal42 » 2 hours ago (Mon Sep 5 2016 18:51:02)
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The creator can say ALL He wants that she and Dominic were not getting back together. But that is not what I saw on my screen. She told her mother that Leo was NOT her first love. She was jealous he was with another woman even though he really wasn't . She told her mot her she wanted him to wait for her. AND she told Dominic she still had feelings for him. No way can they just stay "Friends" after that. People DO move on after a spouse dies. They don't all stay single the rest of their lives.
If that is how you chose to finish the story in your head, bravo. It is plausible enough. I won't shoot it down for you. Now, maybe can we move on?
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A year has gone by, what is more plausible is that April is dead.
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Given what a crappy patient she has been, April dead seems the most plausible finish to the show to me.
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Don't you mean Patrick Sean Smith? I don't know why Sean Smith, the Cornerback with the Oakland Raiders, or Sean Smith, the Diplomat who died in 2012, would ever comment on Chasing Life.
Just for the record, here is the interview:
http://www.ibtimes.com/chasing-life-season-2-finale-cliffhangers-answered-showrunner-reveals-aprils-fate-2141599
In it he said:
“We always knew that someone would come to Italy and talk some sense into April,” he dished, revealing that it would have either been Sara (Mary Page Keller) or an apparition of Leo (Scott Michael Foster). “Either way, she would get back to Boston and go through with the transplant. We’d probably have to do a time jump from that, and we would see that it’s successful.”
However, just because Smith planned on April surviving the Season 2 finale cliffhanger didn’t mean she was out of the woods just yet.
“I don’t know if we were really all on the same page about how the series would end,” he began. “I don’t think we knew whether it would end with her living or dying, but we all knew she would die — whether that’s in a year or in 50 years. We’re all going to die, so we should push ourselves to live like that, and that’s what we really wanted to say with the series.”
They seemed, to me anyway, to have been doing a better job researching the disease and treatments in the first part of season 1. While April was not being a good patient at first, they acknowledged that fact, and people worked hard to make her face up to what she needed to do if she wanted to stay alive. But, for some reason they decided to throw all that away. I'm less concerned that April was drinking lots of alcohol, flying on planes (exposing herself to concentrated germs), taking extasy, etc. than I am that the writers more or less started writing like it was no big deal that she was doing those things.
shareTerry, recently I went back and rewatched Season 2, before I deleted it from my DVR. This time I was a little more emotionally capable of watching it than I was last year. You and many others know why,
I just found myself getting angrier and angrier as I rewatched the season. The first season sent such a great message out to everyone, especially those who have Leukemia, but the Second Season, was just a thousand ways of being wrong with a disease that a lot is known about.
I'm less concerned that April was drinking lots of alcohol, flying on planes (exposing herself to concentrated germs), taking extasy, etc. than I am that the writers more or less started writing like it was no big deal that she was doing those things.
I think her relapse would have played a lot more believable if the Doctor told her it was probably because she was such a poor patient. What did she expect? If you want to get better, you follow instructions. This isn't playground misbehaving where if you disobey you get sent to the principle. You mess up you die.
Maybe, she could also have warned April that the doctors running trials will refuse to take her if they can't trust her to follow orders. They won't want to risk her messing up the trial data for one thing. And, if they take her they might have to reject someone else who actually takes it seriously just to take her when she doesn't.
Don't let it get you too angry. The show stopped being realistic and went off message, and look what happened. Call it television's version of natural selection.
TV Darwinism...I love it.
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by cardinal42 » 3 hours ago (Sun Sep 18 2016 15:00:21)
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Um you get that it was a TV SHOW...right? If you want realism you are looking in the WRONG place! I still say they should have killed off Leo when they had originally planned. He was a VERY bad influence on her the way he told the world to "F" off. They should have let him die and then let Dominic and her family and friends knock sense into her. They were so focused on the Love triangle in season 2 that any sense went out of the window in regards to treatment. How he thinks she would get the transplant when she was not in remission is beyond me.You can't get a transplant if you still have cancer. Not that I know of. I get she was supposed to be in denial and all but seriously?
How he thinks she would get the transplant when she was not in remission is beyond me.You can't get a transplant if you still have cancer. Not that I know of. I get she was supposed to be in denial and all but seriously?
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A bone marrow transplant is a stem cell transplant.
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Bone marrow transplants are just a certain type of stem cells that are transplanted.
A part of your bones called “bone marrow” makes blood cells. Marrow is the soft, spongy tissue inside bones. It contains cells called “hematopoietic” stem cells (pronounced he-mah-tuh-poy-ET-ick). These cells can turn into several other types of cells. They can turn into more bone marrow cells. Or they can turn into any type of blood cell.
Certain cancers and other diseases keep hematopoietic stem cells from developing normally. If they are not normal, neither are the blood cells that they make. A stem cell transplant gives you new stem cells. The new stem cells can make new, healthy blood cells
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Rude? I acknowledged that your view of what would happen was perfectly valid, despite whatever the producer said, and you call me rude? You seriously need to look up the definition of rude.
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Dish what out? What are you talking about? What are you replying to? It's almost as if you aren't actually reading the posts and replying to your own imagination. You seem to want argument where there is none. - Moving on.
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by cardinal4 » 3 hours ago (Sun Sep 18 2016 14:54:29)
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So you are calling the man a liar? It's a TV show. They take liberties with things. If you want reality? Then go to the hospital. How do you know she would be dead by now? They left it up to your imagination. They said she would die EVENTUALLY but then said "We all die". People get transplants all the time and live good long lives!
They were not given a CHANCE to look up those things because the show was cancelled idiot.