Terminated: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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Last night I watched the most recent episode on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  I've been giving the show a lot of slack regarding basic things like their own internal consistency, because I really wanted it to get better.  Last night, I decided that it won't.

Allow me to paraphrase the scene that did me in:

Set Up:  Derek Reese, brother of

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Even if that's too much to expect from today's public education, why in the name of all that is cute and fuzzy didn't the writers call in a science consultant when they were writing about something that they clearly didn't understand?

As our esteemed VP said, there are things that people don't know they don't know. I'm guessing said writers (are these scab writers or is the strike over or was this filmed before the strike?) didn't really know the details of the ABO system; they knew A, B, AB and O and didn't know the rest. So they wouldn't even consider hiring a science consultant because they had no clue they needed one. I doubt most people would even catch the "O can donate to AB" problem, let alone the "O cannot give birth to AB" one.

I am very sorry that this show sucked so much; despite my belief it would suck, I wanted it to be good.

Also, the pink-on-brown colour scheme is really hard to read

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The thing that's really too bad about this show it that it was almost good, but it just didn't pull together.

Also, the pink-on-brown colour scheme is really hard to read

Yeah, I'm gonna about to change that. Sorry all.

I stand corrected...a little

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I've been thinking about the "exact match" issue (like I don't have anything else to do at work) and realized something.

Usually, when talking about transfusions, the assumption is that it's only red blood cells being transfused, all of the antibody-containing plasma has been removed. In a rbc transfusion, the only issue is 'Will the recipient's antibodies recognize the cells as foreign?'

However in this case they were transfusing whole blood. With a whole blood transfusion, there is the additional question 'Will the donor's antibodies recognize the recipient's cells as foreign?' So in the case of whole blood, so an exact match WOULD be necessary.

I hadn't considered that angle, since hospitals don't do whole blood transfusions.

All the genetics stuff still stands, though.