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DaveAbbyLuver · 02-01-2008, 02:20 AM

He did say he'd started recording again, but he didn't choose music over medicine. To have him do so would have gone back on all the progress and growth he'd made as a character. The band kicking him out was given as an example that he'd already been more serious about the medicine. His focus on the doctor thing was why they kicked him out. And he was genuinely upset that Weaver took it as him 'quitting' in "If Not Now", even before the band kicked him out and he had nothing to fall back on.

And the coma plot may be within the realm of possibility, but it has been done to death on every major soap opera. ER has enough soapy elements without adding prolonged coma plots to the mix. He could not be kept at County more than a few weeks before he'd be shipped off to a facility of some sort until he woke up. And if he didn't return, we'd be left to wonder whether he ever woke up or his mother just decided to pull the plug after 20 years. At least with what we got, we know that he's planning to be fitted with prosthetics, so presumably it will happen, and he will be able to live a pretty full life, including having a relationship with Neela if that's what the two of them decide. The last we see of him if he doesn't return is the bitter man that left in THO. But the last we hear of him if he doesn't return is that he doesn't blame Neela for what happened, which paves the way for them to work things out and have the kind of ending we want for them. I wasn't thrilled with the way they decided to do it when I found out what happened to Ray (and I knew well before the spoilers hit the net) - I'm still not thrilled with it - but I have grown to like the fact that doing it this way really drives home the truth of the relationship. Ray's missing part of his legs, and Neela has her own physical scars, but none of that matters to the other. She still finds him desirable and vice versa, and they're not any less of a man or a woman to each other; it's more than the physical. It always has been. I think that they've stayed the truest to the ship with that notion.

~Ash