episode 9 spoilers

[tronella]

1. Ahhhh what a great episode! I loved it. Happy birthday Nino and thanks for your hard work ♥♥♥
2. Poor Miwa in this episode, everyone was so horrible to her.
3. But why did the head nurse put Miwa in charge of Iinuma? That seems like a terrible idea to me. Does she actively want Tokai to find out?
4. Kurosaki remains hilarious :D
5. When Takashina saw the video camera at the end I wanted to yell at my screen! Aah! It's so unrealistic that Takashina could get a paper published that fast but I don't even care, I loved it.
6. I especially had to not yell at this episode because my husband was gaming in the same room and hasn't seen episode 8 yet, what a fake fan lol
7. Sera was so sneaky this week! Using his crying powers with Ikenaga and then connecting the Caesars. Good work Sera.
8. THE RICE BAGS AS A PLOT POINT amazing
9. Takashina finally got with it this week, hooray. About time!
10. I hate Nishizaki and I hope someone poisons his sweets.
11. @ Tokai please eat a vegetable.

Edit:
12: The more I watch it the more I don't understand where Tokai was running after Saeki collapsed. Miwa tells him about what happened, he runs off and then next scene he's lurking in the corridor and Miwa runs past him from a different direction? Where did he go?
13. Does Nishizaki want to be boss surgeon or does he want to eradicate all scalpels from the face of the Earth? Did a scalpel kill his parents or something?
14. Is Tokai the only one who actually read the whole Caesar manual? I guess remote operation wouldn't seem useful to anyone else though. (Although probably Saeki read it too so he could film Tokai? Well, I'm not sure how far his predictions really went.)
15. Headcanon: The reason Nishizaki keeps sounding out Takashina's name is to mock him for getting annoyed at people calling him "Takashima" instead.
16. The scene with Kuro and Takashina was unexpectedly sweet. :(
17. Lol those two other residents who are like "by the way, we're also great at everything".
18. Poor Neko, Tokai left her out of the loop for a lot of this episode.
19. Why did Kurosaki make Sera and Miwa go out in the rain to finish hearing the story?
20. I accidentally wrote that Dr Saeki invited Tokai to his apartment instead of to his department... that is a different tale of bad workplace relationships :6
21. The head nurse threatening Miwa by saying she can get Sera fired ;___; POOR MIWA
22. Still hoping the next chair of the Surgeon's Society is some random neurosurgeon from a previously-unmentioned hospital.
23. Obviously the remote operation part does look like Nino gaming, but it really reminded me of the part in Galaxy Quest where the pilot relearns the controls for the ship.
24. It's weird/funny that Takashina didn't put Tokai's name as an author on that last paper, considering that it's literally... a paper about him operating on Saeki? With a video of him in it? But he's not listed under the surgery team acknowledgements, while Nekota and even Arai are. (And "Satoshi Ono" apparently helped to, haha.)

Comments

[mmestrange]

I enjoyed Tokai being a more tough-love-centric Yoda towards Sera.

I think people suppose because Miwa is so biddable and gentle so far that they assume she's a pushover. But she may have a bite if pushed too far. I hope she does. She's not going to last very long if she lets everyone ride roughshod over her. For all I know, head nurse's decision to let Miwa care for Iinuma is to get into trouble in some way, and Miwa could bite back or something, I hope. Or head nurse could be deciding to screw Saeki since she's fed up of kowtowing to Saeki. For all we know, Saeki might be holding some kind of sword of Damocles over head nurse's head.

Tokai taught Sera the importance of playing the fool (a la Lear's Fool) when surrounded by people puffed up with self-conceit don't think they need to cover up their arses.

I personally like to think Nishizaki's sweets have laxatives in them put there by somewhere, and he's in the loo purging his insides out when we don't see him posturing about on-screen. Perhaps he'll cackle whilst sucking his sweet and then choke on it, and no one comes to aid because he's such a twat.

Perhaps the non-eating of vegetables gives Tokai an edge in surliness, makes him more churlish from the lack of fibre and constipation. Who really knows?

Yes, why was Tokai running after Saeki collapsed? Did he badly need to pee? Steal an apple/pear from some rich patient's fruit basket? Get to a better place to gloat that Saeki had it coming? Secretly eat a vegetable (like a carrot) while everyone is gone so that no one sees him di it?

Nishizaki's hatred for scalpels could be due to his somewhat wanting skill with that, or that pointy things like scalpels bother him since he knows subconsciously that he did not cover his arse all that well in his scheming. For all we know, he once picked one up by the sharp end and has conceived a hatred for scalpels ever since.

Saeki could be playing a deep and long game. He may have thought about all the eventualities. He has to if he's adept at playing politics and screwing people over while appearing the decent fellow.

Now, I think Neko was kept out of the loop possibly because Tokai didn't want to involve her in his revenge plot or whatever he is.

Kurosaki may have brought Miwa and Sera out in the rain to see the old uni hospital building, or simply because he wants to look cool in the rain by using the rain as a symbolism of his tears of regret that such a heinous thing as medical malpractice occurred. Or he just thought he looks cool in the rain.

Like you, I hope the next Surgery Society Chair is someone we've not heard of, preferably someone from a small, obscure uni hospital

Perhaps Takashina offered to put Tokai's name in the paper, but Tokai refused. Who really knows what's up with that.

[tronella.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, it makes sense that Miwa would be easier to boss around into keeping things secret than some other nurses.

The idea of Tokai secretly eating a carrot really made me laugh XD Thanks!