The scene where Rusty is, once again, totally self-absorbed. Also, I didn't get why Rusty wouldn't tell Gus that Dr. Joe was still alive. Gus' reaction to Rusty's apparent indifference to his friend and counselor's fate was very understandable. Tell him, Rusty! It isn't like Gus is going to blab it to the Nazis. Frankly, I don't get why Gus stays with Rusty. He could do much better.
shareFrankly, I don't get why Gus stays with Rusty. He could do much better.
I agree...I am anti-Rusty and would LOVE to see him off the show...he drags down every scene he's in ..Gus is much more interesting
meanwhile my first love was standing first in line Goapele
I thought it was just me but Rusty has become a total *beep* since coming out.
I was thinking they ought to write him out but would miss Gus.
What does coming out have to do with it? His character has had much the same behaviors all along. If anything, he's gotten better, but they write him doing things poorly as a way of merging his story with the squad's. For example, using tip line background checks to check out Gus related to the Mariana story. He's also young and enthusiastic and relatively inexperienced with the fine points of the law, so he makes mistakes. Considering his childhood and birth mother, he's got a tendency to keep people at a distance or even push them away. That's an instinct he's got to work through to sustain any relationship.
"The men people admire are daring liars; those they most detest are men who speak the truth"
Also, I didn't get why Rusty wouldn't tell Gus that Dr. Joe was still alive
He already got in trouble w/Sharon abt abusing the access he was given earlier. So, he's being careful not to break her confidence in him again.
shareI didn't get why Rusty wouldn't tell Gus that Dr. Joe was still alive. Gus' reaction to Rusty's apparent indifference to his friend and counselor's fate was very understandable. Tell him, Rusty! It isn't like Gus is going to blab it to the Nazis. Frankly, I don't get why Gus stays with Rusty. He could do much better.He doesn't have a right to tell Gus anything about Dr. Joe. share
Rusty can't tell Gus that Dr Joe is still alive. It is very confidential information and he just can't do it, and he doesn't want Sharon not to trust him with confidential information.
You know, I think that the OP would've bashed Rusty no matter what. If he had told Gus, OP would be blabbing about how Rusty can't be trusted and is immature etc etc etc. Rusty can simply do no right in a lot of people's eyes
Dozens of people already know Dr. Joe is alive. Cops, doctors, nurses, hospital janitors, other hospital staff, they all know. What's one more? If Rusty had bothered to ask Sharon to make an exception for Gus, who could be trusted to remain silent, she would have probably said yes.
shareMost of those people likely do not know who Dr. Joe is. The whole idea is to keep it a secret. If it was likely that "dozens of people" where going to know, what is the likelihood that that secret could ever be kept?
shareThey might not know who he is, but he has a 24/7 armed guard in his room...
shareSo, other words, you're saying that the act of keeping an injured person's survival secret is inherently doomed, so anyone who does know can and should spread that information around to anyone they know, or who knows the injured person, to reassure them that they are ok; thereby completely destroying the intent of keeping their survival secret.
We should all make a note that you are never to be entrusted with any confidential information since you see no issue with revealing it on any "emotional" context.
Rusty IS the exception. Telling him was already breaking the rule.
shareYou could have stopped at annoying Rusty - enough said.
Gus doesn't bother me so much but he could do so much better than whiny Rusty. He must be a glutton for punishment because Rusty is such a dark cloud.
I thought the whole scene was stupid because Gus has seemed like a sensitive enough person to know that people grieve in their own way, and to not be judgmental about it. His annoyance at Rusty being glued to his computer was certainly believable, but I don't buy that he would be bothered because Rusty wasn't falling apart about Dr. Joe. It just felt like an out-of-character contrivance to get some sort of weak conflict going between them and to once again try to give Rusty some kind of storyline, however lame and tangential, to justify his (IMO increasingly ridiculous) presence on this show.
Bits like having him watching the interrogation and saying "Go Buzz!" and "Get him!" are just cringeworthy. I can't think of the last time I've despised a TV character so much - lol.
Agreed that the whole scene is stupid, though this isn't the first time Gus has challenged Rusty rather harshly over how Rusty 'seems' to be feeling about something. Everyone has their issues, and Gus has been written a bit oddly since his intro episode where he refused to cooperate with the police and even a deputy DA when they were just trying to understand why his sister ran away from him in Vegas before agreeing to help find his other sister.
They seem to do a lot of poorly contrived behavior for the sake of telling personal stories in the show, though I still enjoy it overall. Since they earlier had Buzz chastising Rusty over not taking an interest in the squad personally, the "Go Buzz!" and all is probably written to show Rusty caring about Buzz. Still, it does come off poorly.
Speaking of Gus and insensitivity. The movie he wanted to show Rusty, shortly after several people were killed including, from what he knew, Rusty's therapist and friend... Die Hard. Die Hard is good, but it isn't just violent, it is told largely as a terrorist story with multiple executions of innocent people. Why pick that time to watch that movie?!
"The men people admire are daring liars; those they most detest are men who speak the truth"
The whole scene was totally pointless and I hated it. They just wanted to add in Rusty/Gus drama to heighten tension.
I agree that it was very odd that Gus wanted Rusty to watch a violent terrorist movie with him right after the attack in the courtroom killing several people including, as far as Gus knew, Dr Joe. I thought that that was insensitive and surprising on Gus's part to want to watch that particular movie right after what had just happened.
Gus is way too good for Rusty and deserves better. I don't get why he stays,there are NO redeeming qualities to Rusty...and he looks like a ferret.
shareRusty is, once again, totally self-absorbedRemember that the Rusty character is actually a Mary-Sue. The show's producer said he wrote himself into "Rusty". So but of course he's self-absorbed.
I understand that Rusty's world revolves around himself - kinda socially inept from his time and the street and having to put himself first yadda yadda yadda - but SERIOUSLY it is beginning to get on my tits!!
If he hasn't learned anything after so long then PLEASE let someone kill him or wound him seriously, so that he will grow TF up!!
It's getting sorta old!!