Palaest recommended

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

chriskoczka-64473 After a couple of episodes, the level of quack, quack supernatural / religious crap has this on my "Don't Bother" list. It also shows rather unprofessional behavior of the doctors.

darkavenger77 I started watching this after seeing a main actor (Dr. Miller) in another program. The first season got me hooked on the show. I really liked Charlie and Alex and was looking forward to see what happened.One of the huge plot holes that developed was the highly intelligent Alex blaming a curse on her and Charlie having problems. He was clearly the best man for her. Her casting him aside in later seasons was a real disappointment. Alex is proof of the Hot/Crazy scale created by Barney on How I Met Your Mother.Joel's death was poorly written and illogical. The round would not have exploded as it did, and why not just have him toss it since the blast zone was so small? Killing off a character is an extreme way to be done with them, and there are any number of other ways they can leave.As time went on, the LGBT advocacy got out of control. In the first 12 episodes of Season 5 I don't think there was one episode where either Shahir/Jonathan, Sydney/Maggie, or an LGBT patient was not featured. I looked up the data, and as of 2012 a pro-LGBT group estimated the Canadian population was 5% LGBT (other Canadian stats estimate under 2%). I then crossed over the characters that had been on 18 or more episodes (one season) and found there were 18. Of these, 4 were LGBT. 5% of 18 is .9, so there should have been at most 1 LGBT character. Of the 18 characters, 4 were LGBT, or 22%- over 4x as high as the actual number. This of course does not include the constant stream of patients that were LGBT and then there is the lengthy arc with Shahir and Jonathan trying to adopt a child.Good traditional marriages and families were rarely shown. The show also took a dig at religion via a chaplain that was never there, so a new-age minister was used. Alex and Charlie were getting married in the pilot, and 5 seasons and 2 kids later they still are not married. Dr. Miller, clearly another great guy (his making up names for other characters was always a hoot), was shown as being divorced and rarely ever able to spend time with his kids. I was glad to see him start dating Dawn, who changed for the better over time. As Alex got worse, Dawn got better. Her heartbreak about choosing career over family and getting passed over for the Chief job was a great episode.The medical emergencies on this show are akin to the fires on Backdraft or the car crashes on CHiPs- they just do not happen everyday like that in real life. It seemed at one point everyone turning up with a patient had either a medical emergency or a hidden medical condition.In another derailment, Charlie goes off the rails near the end of Season 5 and quits. At least the upside is he and Alex plan to get married and it finally takes place in the last episode- although they were magically immune from the mass casualty call up until they are on their way to their honeymoon. I'll just say the outcome of the finale sucked. Big time, but I suppose that was in keeping with the seasonal decline.My overall rating due to these derailments was a 3/10. Had the show continued on the original course I would have rated it 8/10.

housedet I watch a lot of TV mainly because I have a disability that keeps me horizontal for 18 hrs a day, so I would consider myself a pretty good judge of TV show quality. This show not only has a great cast, but the writing is above most other shows, whether they're medical or other variety. ER was always my bar to compare medical dramas, but since watching Saving Hope since the beginning, it has become my favorite program. The actors are so believable as doctors that I would almost trust them to treat my disorder, almost, wink wink. I really enjoy the afterlife touch with Charlie being able to talk to the unconscious/comatose patients, since I had such an experience and it really hits home with me. Just having the spiritual dynamic thrown into the script gives it the extra spark that most programs don't possess. I knew that NBC yanked it way to early, and thank you ION for seeing what a gem the show was.

Darrien Cr Watching Saving Hope's Season 3 Finale, left me with some thought of what will come next.First of all, Joel's death put a high amount of drama in the series. Now, his death shouldn't be connected with whether Alex would be better with him instead with Charlie. His death doesn't alone make Charlie a better husband for Alex. What might make Charlie better is that Alex actually chose him in the end and that was before she knew that Joel is dead.I think what bothered me most with Joel's death is that we won't get the chance to see Daniel Gilles around anymore (at least not often). Daniel was a great cast choice and he portrayed his character really well and i think his portrayal put more value in the character of Joel as one of the main characters of the show than it was initially anticipated.One thing that "bothered" me a lot was the coin flipping. The moment Joel wins and Charle says "My lucky day" i almost knew that something NOT good is coming to Joel. Also, there is Zach who actually had the idea and made the flipping and that could result in blaming himself. There's a high chance though that we continue to see Joel as a ghost interacting with Charlie but that would also mean unfinished business, right? And that's where the baby comes as well as the marriage. Joel said "Take care of them". I think it will turn out that Joel is the father of the baby and Charlie will have to accept it as his own. The baby will be named "Joel" and not "Luke" and Charlie will have to make a proposal to Alex giving her the ring that Joel bought for her. Next season could end with Charlie and Alex getting married and exchanging vows and Joel watching as ghost. Alex being happy and smiling as she is getting married to Charlie and his son being taken care of will be Joel's final moment before disappearing and dying in peace.One last thing about the coin: I can see a "What if" episode coming near during the next season (and i certainly hope so) where Charlie actually wins the coin flipping and goes with Zach instead of Joel.Perhaps the whole episode could be introduced as a dream of Charlie or Zach.Given these thoughts and theories of mine, i can see Season 4 as an epic last season of the show.