Fall TV--Scrubs Season Premiere

Scrubs has been one of my favorite TV shows since it began in October of 2001. I'm so glad that it's back for a final season, but I will really miss it when it's over. Of course I often watch the reruns that are on a million times a day on various channels.

The final episode of last season ended, you may recall, with JD (Zach Braff) and Elliott (Sarah Chalke) leaning in for a kiss. Do they actually go for it? No! Elliott pulls away at the last second. Elliott is about to marry Keith. JD and his girlfriend Kim are having a baby.

But Elliott realizes, as she tells Carla and Turk later, that she really doesn't want to marry Keith. So only a few days before the wedding and with the vast majority of the hospital watching, Elliott tells Keith the bad news and gives him back his ring. We don't hear what she's saying during the actual breakup (we only get to watch, like the hospital staff). However, from his subsequent behavior, we realize that he is taking it rather badly. This is completely understandable, but Elliott is devastated by his negative reaction, especially since it doesn't exactly make it easy to work with him. She tries to talk to him about it, but they end up sleeping together. So she has to break up with him all over again.

JD comes to the realization (not for the first time) that he sabotages himself, not just in relationships, but in everything (though since he's a doctor, I don't see how he can be sabotaging himself in his career that badly). By the end of the show, he comes to a realization about his first realization. He realizes that he wasn't trying to sabotage himself in his relationship with Kim when he nearly kissed Elliott. He was wanting to escape the relationship. Kim got pregnant on their first date, he doesn't have strong feelings for her, and they are only still together because there's a baby on the way.

Elliott realizes she is just going to have to let Keith be mad at her for awhile. In his inner monologue at the end of the show, JD tells himself that he is going to have to stay with Kim forever because of the baby.

I didn't see Keith and Elliott together somehow in the long run, so I wasn't surprised when Elliott broke up with him. Despite JD's assertion that he is going to stay with Kim forever, I predict that he and Elliott will end up together. I thought it was horrible for Kim to pretend that she'd had a miscarriage last season. I still don't think that was the right thing to do, but now I see why she did it. Obviously she was right to be worried that JD would want to stay with her just because of the baby. This show can be so funny, silly even, but somehow there is a lot of drama as well.