[Discussion] Code Blue

Poor Aizawa, he couldnt hold it, but it's better to cry and let your feelings out..
i cried with him too what a sad episode. i think it deserved a higher rating

the end of ep6 made my heart broke poor Aizawa T.T

It's another heart-wrenching episode. (T_T)

It was definitely another emotional episode, although it seemed like it concentrated a lot on Seijima (I'm sure I got that name wrong), rather than on Aizawa and his Grandmother (except for the last scene which was, once again, completely heartbreaking). I can't speak Japanese at all, so at first I was worried they were starting to go the Seijima/Aizawa direction, instead of Aizawa/Shiraishi, but then I saw something that made me think that Seijima already has a boyfriend?

Anyways, I thought Yamapi did a really good job, again, at the end of the episode, in the scene with his grandmother. It was sweet, but so sad, when he grabbed a piece of food from her plate, and smiles at him.

He basically says: "I'm an egoist. Yes I am. Sometimes I'm wondering if I should be. But then I think that I want to stay an egoist and ride the heli". And then the nurse begins to cry...For what? Maybe it's just an interpretation problem from my side, but the whole deal seems...Nothing to cry about and just a reassurance of how cold life as a docter is. Is that why she's crying? 'Cause they looked more like comfort tears than anything else. Meh, I just didn't get that scene.

Saejima felt horrible for having chosen her own life over taking care of the man she loves (loved?) and Aizawa, instead of telling her a little white lie which could make her feel better, told her that he was the same and this reality check was what made Saejima burst into tears: the realisation that in order to be top-notch, one has to be super-selfish and concentrate in oneself is harsh enough to make anyone cry, methinks.

Now, I found Aizawa a little bit insensitive when he closed the heli's door but, at the same time, he was just being coherent with his own words: after what he said to her, if he had gone to comfort her, he would have sent her the wrong message so he did the only thing he saw fit: leaving her to cry till she got rid of all the stress and pain, the same thing he had done at the minimarket when his granma remembered him as a little boy.

I'm seriously getting mad at Shiraishi: come on, she needs to get her act together a little more. Even Fujikawa's got it more together than she does lately. I completely understand her panic having had that premonitory nightmare earlier on but, seriously, she's not raising to the standards I was expecting from her.

Also....unless I've misunderstood the whole thing badly, at the preview of episode 9, was Aizawa flying to the airport to go and rescue Kuroda-sensei's son??? I think that's what will happen!!! And that commission-thingy, I hope that they aren't trying to ban the whole Doctor Heli programme. But maybe it's just some sort of committee to examine what happened during the whole Kuroda/Shiraishi incident....

One super-cute thing was seeing Aizawa giving that golfish to the little girl. It was super sweet of him and it was really nice seeing him dealing the little girl who, being the same age as he was when he lost his mum, it reminded him so much of himself...it was beyond touching.

And poor Morimoto-sensei!! The way he got turned down by the heli officer: aah...it can't be helped if she's got an American boyfriend, can it? :p

I'll finish off by saying that I'm glad that the show's writers are making Yamapi's character so multidimensional. It's great seeing him pulling off such a difficult role.

Same goes for Erika Toda, the way she's playing Hiyama is making me like the character quite a lot. Even whenever she behaves like the spoilt little girl she really is, when it comes to being a doctor, only Aizawa is better than she is.

In life, all/most of us would like to think we're good people who want to help and care for others, but in the end, a lot of us are selfish. I think this episode shows that [being selfish sometimes] doesn't always make someone a bad person, but that we're all human and not all of us can sacrifice ourselves for another person.
And I really loved the scene with the nurse and Aizawa. It made sense to me that the nurse cried. She was holding a lot of guilt for being selfish, and if you noticed, there were various times in the episode when she was on the edge of tears. When Aizawa told her "But I'll still ride the Heli tommorow," I felt like he was telling her that in this kind of job, you can't worry about being a good person. You just have to save lives. And that's why she finally broke down after holding everything in.