Gossip for the week of 09-Dec-2013
by Carol Banks Weber
Patrick and Robin will give Scrubs fans some love with their brief reunion. But it doesnt look like these two will stay together. Look for December 19th to be the date Patrick chooses the woman in his life. According to Daytime Dishs HNY December 5: I heard RC's main focus was on Robin's long journey home and Robin's follow-up story would be short-changed. I have been not so gently warning Robin fans for months to expect RC to gloss over her captivity and the mob war umbrella story to expand and eat this show next
Robin and Patrick will be drawn into that umbrella story, but as far as I heard, they are not main players. Robins cure will be a factor in the new year, however, it sounds like more of a mini-arc to me. I wish I could tell you there is another big Robin/Patrick story coming up, but I simply do not have that. Not yet at least.
Ive been Teresa Castillos (Sabrina) worst critic since she was given the delicious role of Ugly Betty (a truly beautiful girl who overcomes her awkwardness) after Scrubs was unceremoniously decimated by Guza & Co. with the lab explosion, killing Patrick Drakes Robin. IMHO, Castillo and the writers didnt do enough to portray the backstory explaining why this nursing student was so awkward, living in her dream world and her work instead of living. Even worse, they seemed more enamored of giving Sabrina the Cliff Notes Disney version of a princess title through character propping, instead of letting her earn the insta-heroine status a common mistake in the quick-fix world of soaps.
That all changed this past week when Robin returned from the dead, at Patrick and Sabrinas wedding. For this to work, all three major points of light Kimberly McCullough, Jason Thompson, and Teresa Castillo had to bring everything to their roles and with each other. Castillo had it much harder. This soap newcomer had to rise to the occasion with two major, Emmy-caliber actors whove worked together for years and already developed that trust.
In pivotal scenes with a brilliantly raw Thompson, Castillo finally turned up the volume in her formerly one-note role and gave a multi-faceted performance that surpassed soap opera material, rising from the pages of her script, and hitting the faces of the stunned audience with bracing, conflicting, noble and hurt reality. Castillo actually showed the emotional struggle within Sabrina in physically wrought detail, to do the right thing against her love-struck will, while helplessly lashing out in bursts of resentment, impatience, and incredibly heartfelt anguish. She also generously gave Thompson the weight of those scenes as the truly grief-stricken, blindsided groom, which validated Scrubs in a way neither Patrick or Robin could on their own.
For all the fan backlash this young actress has quietly endured, she did an enormous favor to the vocal and sometimes mean-spirited Scrubs fan base by heightening Patrick and Robins reunion with priceless tension and raising the stakes of an outcome that is most definitely not assured, and making this triangle love story truly something dramatically special. She lifted fiction into the hemisphere of reality, as a collective experience for everyone whos ever experienced the wounds of rejection and dazzling splinters of hope.
If Teresa Castillo, Jason Thompson, Kimberly McCullough, and head writer Ron Carlivati dont earn Emmys for their show next year, itll be a travesty.
With all this talk of Lily, Sonnys Clink-Boom dead wife, might Carlos be a relation? Cody Murphy who spoke with the 1990s portrayer, Lilly Melgar seems to think so. Read his December 5, 2013 Murphys Musings, Two (or several) wrongs don't make a right. Or maybe Lily is Sabrinas mom, which makes her Sonnys daughter.
To all of your post. And where the heck is Joslyn? Carly, be at home with your kid. You can get your freak on in the day time, but spending the night. Of course the next time we see Joslyn, she will be coming home from boarding school or she will be a teen. 
