Penultimate
06-09-04, 11:39 PM
Does anybody else watch the show Scrubs? Tonight they replayed a great episode. (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-3613/epid-301762/) Ben (Brendan Fraser) returns after two years of traveling the world. (In a previous episode Ben was diagnosed with Leukemia.) Throughout the show Dr. Cox and Ben reminisced about old times and generally had a good time. At the end Dr. Cox is joking with Ben as they (apparently) go to Cox’s son’s birthday party. Then they cut back and you realize that they are at Ben’s funeral.
The focus of the episode was forgiveness. Cox had to learn to forgive people. In one scene Ben told him to forgive another doctor for making a medical mistake. As he is sitting at the funeral staring at Ben’s coffin you realize that he still has to forgive himself for not being able to save his best friend.
Watching the episode for the second time I realized that Ben was dead the whole time. He was a figment of Dr. Cox’s imagination. I haven’t seen a moving show like that in years, maybe ever. I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD.
The focus of the episode was forgiveness. Cox had to learn to forgive people. In one scene Ben told him to forgive another doctor for making a medical mistake. As he is sitting at the funeral staring at Ben’s coffin you realize that he still has to forgive himself for not being able to save his best friend.
Watching the episode for the second time I realized that Ben was dead the whole time. He was a figment of Dr. Cox’s imagination. I haven’t seen a moving show like that in years, maybe ever. I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD.