I have to feel a bit sorry for the Doctors here. I never thought I would say anything close to that but, there is a large, new and half empty Orthopedic hospital here and I'm sure this is going to cause a slowdown in the plans to make this a big ortho medical center. More interviews on the news with at least a halfway decent rebuttal by one of the doctors. Somehow a superimposed image of a PVC pipe beside a cadaver leg bone made a very bad impression. They also followed it up with another patient interview and the husband of the the patient saying he didn't expect it would affect the kids much but he might get something from her and he wouldn't stand for that. I have to admit my mouth is still hanging open for that one. I think I give the doc about a 75 to 80% credit on this one. It's obvious when my surgery was discussed, they knew about the 'problem'. They made sure vat grown was said several times but the reason for vat grown was not mentioned unless the pain blocked out my memory of it and I don't think it did. I'd give them a lot more credit if they had gone into the reason. On the other hand, I was hanging onto my crutches with white knuckles demanding to know what the delay was all about. That may have given them a bad impression of my reasoning abilities. Sandy

I think I will start watching it without the sound. It is still gorgeous but it sure has become dumb. And i never like a plot twist that was driven by contracts. It has always been about Mary and Matthew, and without tension it does not work. I also think that Fellowes was very self-indulgent with the Barrows story line. We get it. Sexual orientation doesn't matter. It's 2013, we know this. It was totally unrealistic to write a storyline where the staff and family were so tolerant and understanding in the environment where homosexuality was illegal! I think he made an improbable story line for the era, to make a point in 2013. It did not ring true. Plus I think acting like it was tolerated then actually does a disservice! How vulnerable are people whose relationships court criminality? The biggest problem with the show is that requited love (MnM) is boring. "l love you more each passing day"? Is that Fellowes, or Hallmark?

That's a sad story. I'm glad they finally caught the killer. Hope it brings her family some peace. There was a guy who went to my high school, he killed a girl whose car had broke down. The case went unsolved for over 15 years before they matched his DNA. He used to be friends with my best girlfriend and her DH back at the time when the murder had took place. He was at their house many times that year. Creepy. Here is a link that might be useful: Hogland murder

It's also very odd that this guy is always wrongfully convicted. Not when it's many of the same people involved. They set him up for the wrongful sexual assault conviction, it seems based on the fact he was a bad apple, there was a huge law suit pending when he was charged with murder (which brought the whole thing to an abrupt end.)The sheriff and da were well aware of the other suspect (who's dna was eventually matched to the crime), but did nothing to prevent the wrongful conviction, in fact others in the sheriff's dept were also aware, so I think he had a very strong case that this was not just a mistake on their part, they actively avoided investigating the person who turned out to be the true offender. I think there was more behind a reason to frame him though for the murder and there were other things they didn't want to come out. If Avery won his lawsuit, I think it would have opened the gates for all of those sexual assault victims who were attacked after Avery was locked up to also have good grounds to sue due to the misconduct. The sexual assault victim in the case became openly critical of the sheriff's dept at this time too, once she realized they put away the wrong person, she was personally told by the sheriff to ignore the information she received about the other suspect in her case before Avery was even found guilty of her sexual assault. There is something very wrong in this sheriff's dept imo. They seem to be fine with coverups and a code of silence when it suits them when they should be holding themselves to high standards. I get the temptation to think he was a lowlife who tortured a cat, so lock him up anyway, but once you give LE a pass on ethics, protocol, conduct, they can target anyone. Not all wrongfully convicted are going to be as squeaky clean as Ryan Ferguson, but the law should be above those types of judgements when convicting people. Lastly he wasn't always wrongfully convicted, he was convicted for what he did to the cat and went to prison for it, I don't think anyone would say that was wrong at all but particularly in a murder trial, a person should expect a fair process even if they are guilty then no one will turn around 10 yrs later and question anything.