New Amsterdam - 4/7 episode

[MarleysGh0st]

Spoiler

What's the significance of Amsterdam surviving this shooting? Is the doctor really not The One? Is she The One but have they just not completed bonding their two souls into one? Or did modern medicine simply pull his now-mortal body back from the brink? We specifically did not see any scene of a doctor pronouncing him dead and wheeling him into the morgue, this time!

And if Amsterdam was angry about what 9/11 did to "his city." wouldn't it have made more sense to sign up for another hitch in the military than to become a police detective? The latter wasn't going to catch bin Laden.

[silverscreenselect]

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My gut feeling is that the doctor isn't "the one," and he's going to figure this out if the show lasts long enough, and that he will spend time trying to figure out who else in the subway station that day might actually be "the one." I also have a feeling that he's going to start wondering if his partner or his new sergeant (who seems to have a healthy interest in him) might be "the one."

But if ratings for this show don't improve, all this speculation might be a moot point.

[MarleysGh0st]

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BTW, can one really get promoted right to detective, no matter how brilliantly one does in the police academy?

[earendel]

Spoiler

What's the significance of Amsterdam surviving this shooting? Is the doctor really not The One? Is she The One but have they just not completed bonding their two souls into one? Or did modern medicine simply pull his now-mortal body back from the brink? We specifically did not see any scene of a doctor pronouncing him dead and wheeling him into the morgue, this time!

And if Amsterdam was angry about what 9/11 did to "his city." wouldn't it have made more sense to sign up for another hitch in the military than to become a police detective? The latter wasn't going to catch bin Laden.

Spoiler

I wondered about that myself - my speculation is that she isn't "the one" and that there was someone else in the subway that was. OTOH with this show anything's possible - modern science may have brought John back even if the doctor lady is "the one". Or maybe the writers are just messing with us.

As to the other question, they wouldn't have much of a show if Amsterdam had joined the military. Maybe his motivation was based on the heroism of the NYPD and FDNY rather than out of a sense of vengeance.

[MarleysGh0st]

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This whole concept of "the one" is very awkward for Amsterdam, as that scene a few episodes back with Omar illustrated, "If she's the one, what does that make my mother?" Amsterdam patched that over with the inscription he had placed in that book to her, but the same problem exists for every relationship he's ever been in. Either his love has been true for each of them or it's been false or maybe just provisional, depending on whether each one succeeds in bringing him a gray hair.

It's hard to see how that's what the shaman wanted to "bless" him with.

[earendel]

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This whole concept of "the one" is very awkward for Amsterdam, as that scene a few episodes back with Omar illustrated, "If she's the one, what does that make my mother?" Amsterdam patched that over with the inscription he had placed in that book to her, but the same problem exists for every relationship he's ever been in. Either his love has been true for each of them or it's been false or maybe just provisional, depending on whether each one succeeds in bringing him a gray hair.

It's hard to see how that's what the shaman wanted to "bless" him with.

Taking this out of spoiler because it's a discussion of general background for the show...

I have the feeling that Amsterdam truly loved at least some of the women he was with at the time, even though they weren't "the one". I can also imagine a certain sadness in his heart knowing that he would have to leave each one as they grew older.

[silverscreenselect]

Spoiler

I have had a thought that it's possible that "the one" might be a female version of himself, i.e. a woman who never ages until she meets "the one." In which case, the two of them would find that they were able to grow old together, bringing some type of appropriate cloture to the show.

[tanstaafl2]

Spoiler

My gut feeling is that the doctor isn't "the one," and he's going to figure this out if the show lasts long enough, and that he will spend time trying to figure out who else in the subway station that day might actually be "the one." I also have a feeling that he's going to start wondering if his partner or his new sergeant (who seems to have a healthy interest in him) might be "the one."

But if ratings for this show don't improve, all this speculation might be a moot point.

At least they are still advertising next week as the "season" finale, not that that counts for much. I doubt they would say it was the series finale as that would likely kill off any meager audience they had managed to collect.

We probably won't know until May unless other networks follow the lead of NBC and announce relatively early the plans for next season. Perhaps it will end up being a late season replacement show or one that is planned to start next January as some shows are nowadays.

[eyégor]

Spoiler

My gut feeling is that the doctor isn't "the one," and he's going to figure this out if the show lasts long enough, and that he will spend time trying to figure out who else in the subway station that day might actually be "the one." I also have a feeling that he's going to start wondering if his partner or his new sergeant (who seems to have a healthy interest in him) might be "the one."

But if ratings for this show don't improve, all this speculation might be a moot point.

At least they are still advertising next week as the "season" finale, not that that counts for much. I doubt they would say it was the series finale as that would likely kill off any meager audience they had managed to collect.

We probably won't know until May unless other networks follow the lead of NBC and announce relatively early the plans for next season. Perhaps it will end up being a late season replacement show or one that is planned to start next January as some shows are nowadays.

Well, the ratings don't look quite as dire as they could. There are several promising signs, if FOX cares to look.

New Amsterdam has been on Mondays for 5 weeks now. The first 2 weeks, it built significantly out of it's lead in, Canterbury's Law. The first week, it built on viewership by 1.16 million and, more importantlyto advertisers, it increased the 18-49 demographic by 47% Week 2 saw an increase of 1.64 million and an increase of 35% in the demo.

Week 3 saw Fox lead in with a House rerun. House is a network powerhouse, especially with the key demo. This was the week New Amsterdam took a hit, dropping a million viewers and a 9% drop in the demo from the previous week. House had improved almost 2 million viewers over Canterbury's Law.

Week 4 saw House doing better again, but it suffered an erosion of 100,000 viewers and lost ground in the demo. Meanwhile, New Amsterdam recovered 340,000 of the lost viewers and held stedy in the demo.

Last night saw house have its total viewership and demo figures continue to erode, while New Amsterdam picked up 900,000 viewers, giving it its best week since the premiere in the timeslot. It actually had 270,000 more viewers than House, and recovered the lose in the key demo it lost in week 3, this when up demo monster, the NCAA championship

There is definite potential here, if the show is allowed to survive. But, given that production was arbitrarily halted last fall, and the order size reduced, there may be items not related to ratings at play as well.