What are people's thoughts on how the Dr. Pat storyline was supposed to go? I do think she was supposed to go in this slot--but they changed the way it was supposed to happen.

I think they decided that they wanted tonight's eviction to be "nice" in response to the emotional once of Earl leaving. That and Matt giving Dr. Pat the pampering prize gave them an easy out.

What was it originally supposed to be? Hutch gets voted out and Dr. Pat leaves for him in a dramatic "But I love him!" speech? Dr. Pat refuses an offer to leave, but gets voted out anyway?
They set up the Hutch-Dr. Pat story but never really resolved it.

• RE: What was the original Dr. Pat storyline?,Jpod5, 07:07 PM, 09-25-03
• RE: Dr. Pat: Redundant; Brian will now "counsel",grubbmeister, 07:51 AM, 09-26-03

I was wondering if they did it because of the 'accident'. Even when she came back she seemed a little fuzzy in the eyes. If she wasn't next, she would've been leaving soon. I think most of what she had to offer the house had been used up. You gotta keep kip around, he's classic. Hutch of course is providing some tension. The love triangle seems to have another joke or two left. Brian is the only other one I wouldn't mind going without...one 'bare knuckle' incident is enough, eh?

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Now that you ask, I would speculate she was to be available to counsel Matt any time he started getting suspicious. I think Brian has been running scared to him after every eviction ceremony, and since becoming a big buddy to him, Dr. Pat has become redundant and useless for anything other than being Hutch's supposed slut. I think she actually lost Matt's confidence in her therapeutic abilities when she "laid it all out there" during the talent show. Next she lost his respect with the charade about Hutch. If they did plan to dump her, it was interesting they "used" her first, but enough about that.
I mentioned parallels between "The Joe Schmo Show" and "The Waterboy" yesterday in the "Matt is Cool" forum (after others have pointed out how the actors are acting like the "in" crowd manipulating the "out" guy), but I guess we all know it is more like "The Truman Show." Remember the scene where Truman (played by Jim Carey) starts getting suspicious and tells his big buddy, "I feel like the whole world revolves around me."? Well, truthfully, Dr. Pat doesn't have enough of a rapport with Matt to talk him out of such "delusions", but Brian does (or did before he ripped off his drawers, dangled around his "bag of mouse parts (a Dave Barry phrase)", and then jumped on Matt's back.
BTW, in that debate, weren't the ones "blocking" supposed to refrain from (physically) hurting each other? Emotional damage aside, what good did it do that Brian jumped on Matt? I was kind of waiting for Matt to flip Brian flat on his back, he was in position, and he was a prime candidate for it. Stop here or...SPOILER MESSAGE in
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To further back up Brian's position, some have noted that final pics of the show reveal only Brian, Hutch, and Matt in the last Episode, but the link no longer works to view it. So, I looks like Brian will stay around. Dr. Pat was no longer critical to the mission, nor was she truly ever.