Well, basically they're webisodes of Erica using a webcam. I don't think they're all that important. You can find them on Youtube, I think.
Being Erica - Season 4
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I never meant to suggest that the only way Sam could ever get her life back was if it was given to her by Josh.
Josh is being bad and I just wanted to call him a douche.
Really didn't expect to get raked over the coals (of an exploding TARDIS) for it either.
Edit: Just watched Episode 2x08 and it looks like Sam finally started asking herself the hard questions. I'm starting to wonder if Josh will ever come clean with her though.
I was just hinting at what was going to happen without it sounding like a spoiler :P Unfortunately, we don't really hear much about Josh after season 2.
No worries, it's got to be difficult answering questions and discussing the show while tiptoeing around certain details in an effort to avoid spoiling the show.
I appreciate the effort.
I appreciate the effort.
Yup, you're about to watch some of the best Being Erica episodes. We'ld love to hear your opinion on them.
For a second I thought you guys were talking about Kai. I love Kai and his story is a fascinating one. But yeah, I'm not too fond of Ethan either, especially after the season 2 finale.
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There's also a webisode series that ran during season 3 called The Road Less Travelled. You can see it here.
^Thanks for that.
So stayed up late last night at watched some more Being Erica.
The Season 2 conclusion was really juicy. Almost an entire episode devoted to Dr. Tom's life was a welcome plus and it gave shades of a deeper relationship between Erica & Dr. Tom that they seem to feel but Tom can't really acknowledge even to himself as her therapist.
He sees Erica in some strange sense as almost a second daughter in many ways. Not a replacement, but more as another chance to do right what he did wrong before with his own daughter. He still wants to be her therapist but they're going to have to be aware.
I get the feeling that he'll struggle to maintain professional distance and not cross any lines as we progress... Dr. Nadia obviously senses something she's worried about or she wouldn't be intervening.
Also, I was geeking out when Dr. Tom started drawing a Chalk door on the brick wall. I knew something different was happening, and while I understand the hesitancy to explain "the magic" I really like it when we get a deeper peak inside the world and story of The Doctors.
In addition, they've been foreshadowing it from as early as season 1, but Erica is on a journey to become a Doctor. All the talk about what happens next, and where it all leads, It just makes sense.
I about jumped out of my skin when Erica sat Kai down across from her desk and he called her Dr. Erica. I'm guessing that the Doors in the Wall, will lead Erica to proto-office space. But that's just a guess. Mostly because while Erica has grown, she's still not there just yet.
The whole show is a journey of Self-Actualization along the lines of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and one I'm still enjoying very much.
The only thing I'm pissed about is that I have to wait for season 4 like the rest of you yahoos.
Oh well.
So stayed up late last night at watched some more Being Erica.
The Season 2 conclusion was really juicy. Almost an entire episode devoted to Dr. Tom's life was a welcome plus and it gave shades of a deeper relationship between Erica & Dr. Tom that they seem to feel but Tom can't really acknowledge even to himself as her therapist.
He sees Erica in some strange sense as almost a second daughter in many ways. Not a replacement, but more as another chance to do right what he did wrong before with his own daughter. He still wants to be her therapist but they're going to have to be aware.
I get the feeling that he'll struggle to maintain professional distance and not cross any lines as we progress... Dr. Nadia obviously senses something she's worried about or she wouldn't be intervening.
Also, I was geeking out when Dr. Tom started drawing a Chalk door on the brick wall. I knew something different was happening, and while I understand the hesitancy to explain "the magic" I really like it when we get a deeper peak inside the world and story of The Doctors.
In addition, they've been foreshadowing it from as early as season 1, but Erica is on a journey to become a Doctor. All the talk about what happens next, and where it all leads, It just makes sense.
I about jumped out of my skin when Erica sat Kai down across from her desk and he called her Dr. Erica. I'm guessing that the Doors in the Wall, will lead Erica to proto-office space. But that's just a guess. Mostly because while Erica has grown, she's still not there just yet.
The whole show is a journey of Self-Actualization along the lines of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and one I'm still enjoying very much.
The only thing I'm pissed about is that I have to wait for season 4 like the rest of you yahoos.
Oh well.
Don't get overly excited. In my opinion season 2 is the best season thus far and there is a little dip in the quality of season 3. The show is still good, but season 3 feels somewhat like a filler stuffed in before the final arc of Erica's journey begins.
Agreed - season 3 is clearly not as good as season 2. Except I don't see it as filler before Erica's final arc - I see it as more probably what it really is: a permanent dip in quality. The show's peak was season 2. It's all downhill from here, because the creators seem to have largely run out of steam (and refuse, for some reason, to focus on the Doctors and what they're in it for, the only really fascinating question the show has left.)
Just finished up Episode 3x06.
Seems like I was spot on in most of what's been happening thus far. I really haven't noticed a dip in quality, but then again I've been having the benefit of marathoning the season all at once and that tends to smooth out most series pacing problems by itself.
I'm still hoping to see more of the Doctors storyline examined if not outright explained and surprisingly I've enjoyed the "group dynamic" but I feel like they haven't done a great job of integrating the other 3 group members into the character dynamic. They're kind of just there.
Seems like I was spot on in most of what's been happening thus far. I really haven't noticed a dip in quality, but then again I've been having the benefit of marathoning the season all at once and that tends to smooth out most series pacing problems by itself.
I'm still hoping to see more of the Doctors storyline examined if not outright explained and surprisingly I've enjoyed the "group dynamic" but I feel like they haven't done a great job of integrating the other 3 group members into the character dynamic. They're kind of just there.
There's no major drop in quality, its just that the group therapy thing felt tacked on and was never fully utilized. As you've said, the other 3 group members are just there and not used much for the entire season. I've said it before in another thread and I'll say it here again, the writers could have gone straight from Erica choosing a door to Doctor Erica instead of the group therapy thing.
That, and I didn't like the way Doctor Tom was playing matchmaker with Erica and Adam, especially with that "Survivor" episode . He's done everything short of physically pushing them together.
That, and I didn't like the way Doctor Tom was playing matchmaker with Erica and Adam, especially with that "Survivor" episode . He's done everything short of physically pushing them together.
Yeah, exactly. It's one of my disappointments about the season in general. They had characters in group therapy that they could have used, but didn't. I think that woman only got used in an adventure with Erica once, and that was it. It seems like they created the group therapy as a set piece rather than a scenario piece, because they could have done some amazing things if they'd have taken turns with the different characters in group therapy. Also, one thing I disliked a lot was the fact that it seemed like Erica was being picked on all the time, as if any of the others didn't have problems of their own, so it made the group therapy feel rather one-dimensional. I kind of thought that the whole point of group therapy was to learn about each of their problems in order to help each other.
I don't think that season 3 was a decline in quality either. I think it had some great episodes that were just as good as anything the show has ever done. I also agree that group therapy and Adam were the only real problems of the season. Adam wasn't a good fit for Erica, and as for the group therapy, I tend to believe that there are rarely bad ideas, just poor execution, but this is one of the rare occasions where I think the idea itself was bad. I was never too keen on group therapy and I'm not sure there was much they could have done to make it something I'd have wanted to see.
Yes, group therapy and Erica's relationship with Adam are two plotlines that simply did not work - but they, together, take up much of the screen time, and that explains why we feel there was a drop in quality.
But it's not just that. They also finished (or abandoned) the best, most intense plot threads from the previous seasons - the mystery surrounding Erica's brother's death was dealt with. The tension around Sam's marriage to that asshole - finished. The extremely well-done tension surrounding Erica's love for Kai - abandoned. The question of why Erica doesn't seem to be around during Kai's timeline, and the mystery surrounding the "disaster" that befalls Toronto - barely touched upon.
And why? Basically, to give more screen time to a love story for Erica and Adam, which, I don't know how else to say it, just doesn't work. Not with Kai out there, Kai who is infinitely a better and more interesting character, and with a more compelling plot surrounding him.
No, the third season was definitely more hollow, less tense, less compelling. Frankly, I fear for the last season (unless they decide to go for it, and deal with the motivation and identity of the Doctors, with Kai, with the future disaster, and all that fascinating stuff. I suspect, though, that she showrunners have no interest in those plots, which is, in my opinion, extremely misguided.)
But it's not just that. They also finished (or abandoned) the best, most intense plot threads from the previous seasons - the mystery surrounding Erica's brother's death was dealt with. The tension around Sam's marriage to that asshole - finished. The extremely well-done tension surrounding Erica's love for Kai - abandoned. The question of why Erica doesn't seem to be around during Kai's timeline, and the mystery surrounding the "disaster" that befalls Toronto - barely touched upon.
And why? Basically, to give more screen time to a love story for Erica and Adam, which, I don't know how else to say it, just doesn't work. Not with Kai out there, Kai who is infinitely a better and more interesting character, and with a more compelling plot surrounding him.
No, the third season was definitely more hollow, less tense, less compelling. Frankly, I fear for the last season (unless they decide to go for it, and deal with the motivation and identity of the Doctors, with Kai, with the future disaster, and all that fascinating stuff. I suspect, though, that she showrunners have no interest in those plots, which is, in my opinion, extremely misguided.)
As a scifi aficionado, I would enjoy seeing Erica and Kai together.
However, I understand the writers wanting Erica to remain grounded as an ordinary woman that the audience can relate to. I am pretty sure many young women look towards Erica as a role model. Giving Erica a boyfriend from the future may be pushing the non-scifi audience's suspension of belief, and risks turning Erica into some kind of super heroine. In fact, this is part of the reason why I suspect Erica will ultimately abandon being a Doctor in favor of putting all her efforts into her family and 50/50.
I also suspect we won't know what that future disaster is. However, I do hope the producers do answer why Doctor Nadiaa keeps trying to interfere in Erica's therapy, and how Doctor Arthur fits into the whole scheme of things.
However, I understand the writers wanting Erica to remain grounded as an ordinary woman that the audience can relate to. I am pretty sure many young women look towards Erica as a role model. Giving Erica a boyfriend from the future may be pushing the non-scifi audience's suspension of belief, and risks turning Erica into some kind of super heroine. In fact, this is part of the reason why I suspect Erica will ultimately abandon being a Doctor in favor of putting all her efforts into her family and 50/50.
I also suspect we won't know what that future disaster is. However, I do hope the producers do answer why Doctor Nadiaa keeps trying to interfere in Erica's therapy, and how Doctor Arthur fits into the whole scheme of things.
I don't like that they abandoned Sam's bad marriage either, but the rest, I think they'll deal with to some degree. Season 3 seemed like it was more about hinting at what was yet to come rather than avoiding anything.
I'm affraid that they're going to go this route too. I don't want to see her give up being a doctor because what they can do seems way too cool to give up on.
If they do go that route, it'll have to seem like the better move and be very well done for me to accept it.See, here's the thing: a story's direction should never be determined by the artist's perception of what the assumed demographic may want. What, women supposedly don't like sci-fi? Then don't write a sci-fi show for them! A story has to go where a story wants to go, and clearly Being Erica's most fascinating, most compelling, and most unexplored plotlines at the moment are precisely those sci-fi questions that the show itself did indeed bring up. Everything else now is done. Erica is a healthy human being. She has dealt with her regrets. She has gained confidence in her abilities. That plotline is finished. It just is. They finished it.
Now, the macrocosm is left. There's a disaster coming up. Do I believe that Erica could just forget she knows she may be dead in 10 years? Not in this universe. No way. It should be foremost on her mind. Also foremost on her mind should be the question: why me? Why anyone? Why are the Doctors doing this? What's the catch? What's in it for them? She would no longer be satisfied with evasive answers. The show has asked compelling questions. It has one season to answer them.
And if the writers choose not to go where the show is naturally and inevitably leaning, then they will create bad television. I dearly hope the writers understand what they've created, and have the courage to go for it.
It could be that Kai and Erica were meant to be together. There's that one episode where he returns to tell her about something that happens in the future, so I still think we'll see him in Season 3.
Now, here's a theory. All throughout the series, one constant is that Dr Tom tells her she's got to make her own decisions. I've been getting thoughts that the reason Dr Tom has been pushing Erica and Adam together is for her to realize that the two of them are wrong for each other, and then possibly make a decision to be with Kai when he supposedly comes back. Maybe it's wishful thinking, or maybe it isn't, but my gut tells me that Dr Tom knew she was attracted to Adam ever since she laid eyes on him, and so it became the elephant in the room, so to speak and the only way to have her realize they aren't meant to be together is to have Dr Tom let them have a go with each other, to more or less get it over and done with and prepare her for the next big decision in her life.
Now, here's a theory. All throughout the series, one constant is that Dr Tom tells her she's got to make her own decisions. I've been getting thoughts that the reason Dr Tom has been pushing Erica and Adam together is for her to realize that the two of them are wrong for each other, and then possibly make a decision to be with Kai when he supposedly comes back. Maybe it's wishful thinking, or maybe it isn't, but my gut tells me that Dr Tom knew she was attracted to Adam ever since she laid eyes on him, and so it became the elephant in the room, so to speak and the only way to have her realize they aren't meant to be together is to have Dr Tom let them have a go with each other, to more or less get it over and done with and prepare her for the next big decision in her life.
Maybe it's just me, but the second I heard Kai say that he couldn't find her in 2019 I thought to myself...
"She's probably a Doctor now and living outside of time in the conventional sense."
The other thing I keep coming back to is... Dr. Tom jumped off that ledge. As far as I can imagine it, the Doctors are not dead per se, but no longer a part of the mortal world.
"She's probably a Doctor now and living outside of time in the conventional sense."
The other thing I keep coming back to is... Dr. Tom jumped off that ledge. As far as I can imagine it, the Doctors are not dead per se, but no longer a part of the mortal world.
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