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« Reply #75 on: April 07, 2009, 08:27:04 pm » |
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I'm stuck on an acronym booboo in the middle of Act 3. It's HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.) Never mind that people who work in bloody hospitals and should know better because they've sat through interminable training sessions call it HIPPA; it's HIPAA.
The bit that got me stuck was the bit about early October days and Thanksgiving in the opening paragraphs. My instant reaction was, "Wait, Idlewood is in Canada?" ... Heh. Oops. Apologies, folks. It appears your writer's nationality was showing.  |
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« Reply #76 on: April 07, 2009, 08:30:10 pm » |
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I'm stuck on an acronym booboo in the middle of Act 3. It's HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.) Never mind that people who work in bloody hospitals and should know better because they've sat through interminable training sessions call it HIPPA; it's HIPAA.
The bit that got me stuck was the bit about early October days and Thanksgiving in the opening paragraphs. My instant reaction was, "Wait, Idlewood is in Canada?" ... Heh. Oops. Apologies, folks. It appears your writer's nationality was showing. I was about to ask if there were going to be corrections to the episode due to this and the correction previously made about Tashlich, but then I realized that the writers of the TV show probably messed up, and that's just how it is. *grin* |
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« Reply #77 on: April 07, 2009, 08:34:40 pm » |
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I was about to ask if there were going to be corrections to the episode due to this and the correction previously made about Tashlich, but then I realized that the writers of the TV show probably messed up, and that's just how it is. *grin*
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« Reply #78 on: April 07, 2009, 08:38:58 pm » |
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Oh, and she missed her period for four months after remission. (I think that was the implication?)
I read that more as Hafs missing her period when she was converting to beta. Why would she have had to hack her own medical records to hide it if was cancer-related? If it's due to the anomaly rearing its head, though.... The only oopsie I found - and that was on the third or fourth read - was a minor blocking issue. In the briefing room scene, Worth is first pacing, with all the chairs taken (Hafidha, Chaz, Todd, Brady, Reyes and Falkner), but then she's sitting, with no mention in between of anyone getting up or taking a seat. |
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« Reply #79 on: April 07, 2009, 09:36:17 pm » |
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Oh, and she missed her period for four months after remission. (I think that was the implication?)
I read that more as Hafs missing her period when she was converting to beta. Why would she have had to hack her own medical records to hide it if was cancer-related? If it's due to the anomaly rearing its head, though.... The only oopsie I found - and that was on the third or fourth read - was a minor blocking issue. In the briefing room scene, Worth is first pacing, with all the chairs taken (Hafidha, Chaz, Todd, Brady, Reyes and Falkner), but then she's sitting, with no mention in between of anyone getting up or taking a seat. I would peg the period-missing to extreme thin-ness. (Or maybe not that extreme. I've heard it happens with female runners, as well.) I don't think it's a direct result of Anomalous events, as much as a side effect resulting from feeding that much of an energy sink. As for the blocking, that will be dealt with in Season Two of The Animates Series, when they deal with the Time Travel Gamma. |
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« Reply #80 on: April 07, 2009, 10:18:09 pm » |
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As for the blocking, that will be dealt with in Season Two of The Animates Series, when they deal with the Time Travel Gamma.
And the Internet for Fan Spackling of Continuity and Plot Holes goes to...jimsmyth! *crowd goes wild*  Hey, don't give the Canadian all the credit for the Thanksgiving thing. The Amurricans were proofreeding, after all. (I just read that bit as saying Idlewood, in early October, is decked out in Thanksgiving symbolism, all plenty and harvest home and stuff. I forgot the date of Thanksgiving in Canada completely. I owe my in-laws in Edmonton an apology.  ) |
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Falkner to Worth: "'Competent'" is not an insult."
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« Reply #81 on: April 07, 2009, 10:22:24 pm » |
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Dude, I'm American, and it made perfect sense to me.
You people are so.... concrete.
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« Reply #82 on: April 07, 2009, 10:32:19 pm » |
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I personally celebrate Halloween for an entire month, and Thanksgiving for a whole season. Winter squash, apple harvest, om nom nom...
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Falkner to Worth: "'Competent'" is not an insult."
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« Reply #83 on: April 07, 2009, 10:37:04 pm » |
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I personally celebrate Halloween for an entire month, and Thanksgiving for a whole season. Winter squash, apple harvest, om nom nom...
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #84 on: April 07, 2009, 10:42:32 pm » |
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Around here, (eastern Pennsylvania) many places start decorating for Thanksgiving long before Halloween, i.e. in the middle of October. To me that didn't seem a problem.
I know the care facility my Mom lived in started putting up Thanksgiving stuff before Halloween. They seemed to decorate thinly for Halloween, almost to gloss over it. One could argue that they decorated for Fall rather than a specific holiday.
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« Reply #85 on: April 07, 2009, 10:46:23 pm » |
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Re: Thanksgiving: Yeah, I just read it as being fall, and with far more comforting imagery, than say, Halloween.
Another excellent episode full of miserable, well, everything. I really, really hope that at some point Susie's able to actually use her HS diploma.
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« Reply #86 on: April 07, 2009, 10:51:16 pm » |
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I personally celebrate Halloween for an entire month, and Thanksgiving for a whole season. Winter squash, apple harvest, om nom nom...
Well, now everybody knows where Chaz grew out of.... A cabbage leaf? |
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« Reply #87 on: April 08, 2009, 06:45:20 am » |
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Chaz is secretly a cabbage patch kid? Who grew up into My Buddy?
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« Reply #88 on: April 08, 2009, 07:13:48 am » |
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I wouldn't want a bunch of gammas to think too closely about Halloween. I assume the staff of Idlewood wouldn't either.
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« Reply #89 on: April 08, 2009, 07:17:03 am » |
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I wouldn't want a bunch of gammas to think too closely about Halloween. I assume the staff of Idlewood wouldn't either.
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
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