black pean #1 spoilers

[tronella]

So I still feel like yelling about this episode, but I guess it's still to early to post spoilers on twitter, so I'll post my important drama feelings under a cut here. Please talk to me about it too :?


1) Nekota is awesome, I hope she gets more to do than run around after Tokai in future episodes though.
2) Miwa didn't get much to do! Actually I barely noticed her when watching it live, but after subbing it I realised she does talk with Sera a lot.
3) There are really a lot of different male doctors in this show, how am I supposed to tell them all apart? Especially when they are wearing face masks half the time???
4) The scene with Tokai talking to his mother on the phone!!! "why don't you have 5 girlfriends" really made me laugh a lot. Also... yet another Nino character with father issues, what a surprise. I'm looking forward to more backstory!
5) Competent Nino is ... so hot ♥
6) I don't think this part was supposed to be funny, but Minagawa's face when Sera was like "I worked out that you like this one tree" was HILARIOUS to me. Her eyes bugged right out.
7) In the meeting about using the snipe on Minagawa, when the director says that Saeki is the chair of the ethics committee, I genuinely gasped in horror, haha. Since I always translate stuff about ethics committees at work, it really amuses me that ethics committee membership was such a point of drama XD
8) Do you think Takashina actually did know about the aneurysm? Is he 100% evil or is he just being used by Nishizaki and/or Saeki?
9) lol Tokai slicing his food really thinly at the "study group".
10) I don't understand why Saeki thinks Tokai cares about not being allowed to use his fancy black pean. Like who cares about that? Well, clearly a lot of people, but it's stupid >:(
11) I'm sort of annoyed that I have to write SNIPE in capitals all the time, but that's how it's written in the unpublished paper that they got from the trial coordinator.
12) My final QC check was to search the whole sub file for the word "spine" just in case I wrote that instead of "snipe"... amazingly, I had not.

Comments

[irene-purin.livejournal.com]

1. But based on the first ep, it appeared to me that during operation, Nekota and Sera could be given the same task to assist Tokai-sensei. Though I’m not really sure how it really works XD

5. I K R XDD
Lab coat is one thing, but looking cool while sewing stitches is a completely different level XD
I saw a clip on the BTS and apparently, Nino also familiarize himself with the stitching method + utility by sewing something during the break? Haven’t watched it though XD

10. From everyone’s PoV, I think they’re impresed bc using Black Pean implies that the operation is successful. Like one of the girl said: “it’s like a ritual”
And afaik, the only person who kept mentioning Black Pean is Saeki-sensei himself, mostly in front of Tokai. So I’d guess that the only two who make a big fuss over the Black Pean are those 2 XD

+ I completely agree, but I could see how they ended up that way. The higher ups don’t directly get involved with the patient, and from the 2 universities there, the higher ups take role on pulling the strings instead of being on the set, if that makes sense?
From what I see, as they’re not the ones directly responsible for the patient’s life, they consider the patients as a stepping stone (or perhaps, a mere “tool”) to their own ambission, and that’s how the competition turned out that way imo. Yes, it really is an unhealthy competition >:(

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!! I’ll prob watch ep 2 on Tuesday the fastes since I have 2 exams on Monday, but still really looking forward to it!!!

[irene-purin.livejournal.com]

I agree. Saeki definitely is aware that Tokai has that x-ray and that he is looking into something beyond the value of the Black Pean itself. Which is why, as what I mentioned on my first comment, my thought is that there's a possibility that Tokai's dad owned the Black Pean before Saeki and there was an accident/he was framed for the accident causing that x-ray result itself, given that the doctor in charge of that patient was Tokai's Dad. This resonates with Saeki's constant statement on "There is only one person who can own the Black Pean" IF that pean on the x-ray is indeed the Black Pean.

But well, we know too little to take a conclusion on anything yet~ I guess we'll know more next ep~