So... back last summer, when I watched a bunch of early previews of fall TV shows, one of the ones I really beat on was Pushing Daisies. I thought the narration was just completely over the top, and that the show itself was too precious for words. And not in a good way.
But you know, it's not like there's a lot to watch right now. So I decided to watch the whole (so far) season of Pushing Daisies. And... while I don't see it as the second coming of Wonderfalls, or anything, it's kind of cute. It grows on you. Like... a fungus, I guess.
I could still do without the constant enumeration of years, months, weeks, days and minutes, but I don't feel like it's going to make me develop diabetes. At least not immediately.
That said, the idea that this show is still going strong while things like Journeyman bite the dust seems at the very least unjust.
And as long as I'm talking about newish TV shows, I want to raise an issue about this past week's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. So a guy is coughing up blood and needs a transfusion. And he has type AB blood. So Sarah says she's type O, the universal donor. But the guy working on bleeding dude says no, he needs AB blood. First of all, isn't that what "universal" means in "universal donor"? But okay, maybe there's some issue there that I'm unaware of. So John Connor, our hero demands to be tested (knowing that bleeding guy is his uncle). Turns out he's AB as well.
Now... I was a high school sophomore when I took biology, but if you're type AB, is it possible for your mother to be type O?
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Am I wrong about the universal donor thing? Is there some reason (other than rh factor, which they didn't mention) why a type O donor wouldn't be able to give to a type AB recipient?
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: I could still do without the constant enumeration of years, months, weeks, days and minutes, but I don't feel like it's going to make me develop diabetes. At least not immediately.
I wholeheartedly agree. It was kind of cute at first, but it gets old real fast.
I still have mixed feelings about Pushing Daisies. It's promising, but there's a lot about the show that annoys me—particularly Chuck's and Ned's inability to be honest and up-front with each other.
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It is less dramatic. For something like a heart, there needs to be more match up, but blood shouldn't be an issue. I learned universal donor as O-, universal acceptor as AB+ (so, included the rh factor in the definition).
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I thought AB was a universal recipient, and O is a universal donor. Someone maybe got it backwards?
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O negative is a universal donor. That's me, and I just returned from the bi-monthly blood drive. I even have the bandage around my arm still.
AB positive is, indeed, the universal recipient.
I know you're just supposed to repeat to yourself "it's just a show" and relax, but that kind of inaccuracy drives me nuts! It's really not THAT hard to get it right.
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yeah, I'm reasonably certain that someone just goofed and reversed the two when it came to the actual script writing... now it's unfortunate that the quality-control was loose enough to let it through. though the Jon vs Mom issue would be a problem even if they had just reversed the O and AB... so yeah...
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You guys keep forgetting about the time travel issue. When someone from the future travels back in time, his sperm becomes super dominant, thereby allowing him to pass on multiple alleles, knocking out the mother's contribution.
edit to add- maybe this setup for discovering that the boy is not actually Jon Conner, but instead an imposter!
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: I honestly started yelling at the TV when I saw that.
I own a book that I really enjoy . . . up until about the last few pages, when the pivotal plot point is resolved to tell us that a mom with type O blood has an AB baby. At that point, I have to throw the book across the room.
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quote: Though Sarah Connor is blood type O- (known as the “universal donor”) she cannot donate blood to Derek because this is a whole blood transfusion. In a normal transfusion, just the red blood cells are transfused, but in a whole blood transfusion both the blood cells and blood plasma (i.e. the “whole blood”) are used. The blood cells carry the proteins that determine a person’s blood type, but the plasma carries antibodies that react against other blood types. Because a whole blood transfusion deals with both blood cells and plasma (and proteins and antibodies), the donor and recipient blood types need to match exactly or there will be a nasty transfusion reaction. ... The most important aspect of the transfusion seems to have been entirely missed by the writers: since Sarah has blood type O-, that means that she cannot be John’s mother. John gave Derek a transfusion so he must be AB-. That means that he inherited an A gene from one parent and a B gene from the other (A + B =AB). Sarah is blood type O which means that she has neither an A nor a B gene to pass on to John. Blood type O parents can only have A, B, or O children, depending on the blood type of the other parent. They can never have AB children*.
So in regards to the OP concerns, one hit (turns out there is somewhat of a valid reason to insist on specifically an AB donor) and one miss (the inherited blood types are wrong)
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