TV renewals that were a disaster

[scnj]

Firefly. Some of the decisions in later seasons were horrible. Like, after Book died and they revealed that his big secret was that he was God's brother. I hung around and kept watching, but when he kept appearing to the crew as a floating head in space was ridiculous.

Great reference.

(I think he was God's cousin)

Yeah, my sister pointed that out to me shortly after I posted it.

 

[cultcross]

If you have the power to save someone, but do nothing, and the patient dies, you are therefore the ultimate cause of the patient's death. The shooter only wounded the victim; death only occurred because of Greene's inaction. Therefore Greene essentially killed him.

What a load of nonsense. A shooter only 'wounds' you while a doctor who fails to save you 'essentially killed' you? What a bizarre approach to life. So if you're stabbed and dying in the street, someone who walks past instead of helping you 'killed you'?

Greene, as a doctor, is NOT ALLOWED to make judgments like this. He is obligated to save all patients. Whether they be saints or criminals.

This, I agree with. Greene acted wrongly and unethically. But this:

Therefore in this instance, Greene WAS a killer.

Is nonsense. Failing to save someone is not the same as killing them. Either legally or ethically. He let them die. He didn't cause them to die.

 

[JoeZhang]

Eh?

I assume the reference is to the scene where Greene is alone in the lift with a patient who was some criminal or something, I forget precisely what; said patient crashed and Greene discharged the defibrillator into the air to make it look like he was attempting resuscitation. "cold blooded killer" is a tad strong. Malpractice, certainly, but the person who shot the patient killed him. Greene simply didn't save him.

But surely since Greene is a doctor, he has the duty to save a patient - ANY patient? If you have the power to save someone, but do nothing, and the patient dies, you are therefore the ultimate cause of the patient's death. The shooter only wounded the victim; death only occurred because of Greene's inaction. Therefore Greene essentially killed him. Greene, as a doctor, is NOT ALLOWED to make judgments like this. He is obligated to save all patients. Whether they be saints or criminals. Therefore in this instance, Greene WAS a killer.

This was a man who was trying to murder everyone who was involved in taking his child. He had already killed the social worker (and I think her family) and then tried to kill Mark's family. Mark starts the treatment and then decides against it...

I can't blame him...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Well of course Greene's reaction is understandable, but he's still a murderer. In the end, his position as a doctor means he is NOT ALLOWED to choose in that way. He has an obligation to save everyone. If Osama Bin Laden, for example, turns up in a hospital, the doctors would be just as required to save him as anyone else. (American doctors would, anyway.)

 

[Captaindemotion]

^HE's not a murderer but he's in breach of the Hippocratic Oath and would probably be struck off from practicing by his professional body. He'd also probably be successfully sued by the deceased's estate.

 

[Aeon]

The third season of Millennium was pretty bad.