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Steve's father's hospital scene...Question!

posted 10 years ago by rebecca-1960
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I really hope someone can help me with this: I watched an episode where the character Steve's father is in hospital and dying. Steve asks him "Why do you hate me?". The father replies (and I swear this is how it sounded ) he replies "I never graded you"
I replayed the scene three times to see if he was actually saying I never HATED you, but it absolutely sounds like he's saying "GRADED". Of course that makes no sense but that's what I heard and whatever he said, Steve looked very surprised by it.
Help!!!

[–] SPfromOZ 10 years ago

I think he says 'I never rated you son, never'. Which isn't that far off from 'graded', I guess he means that he never thought much of Steve.

[–] rebecca-1960 10 years ago

Ah, okay thanks. If so, that's a horrible thing to say to him.

[–] LCella9370 10 years ago

Which explains Steve's and his sister's hatred of their father.

[–] slainzcasl 10 years ago

Certainly the father did not seem a very nice man. Maybe he disapproved of Steve joining the police. it does happen in real life.

[–] fanaticita 9 years ago

Yes, he said "I never rated you. Never!" I looked this up in the dictionary because I wasn't sure what he meant. This is what I found:

rated: to express reproof; berate, to find fault with.

So, to me it says that the father didn't really hate him, he just had a strange way (or no way) to express a father's love.

[–] Marlburian 9 years ago

My Oxford Dictionary gives a further definition: "estimate the worth or value of", and I've no doubt that this is what was meant in this context.