Rickman (was Re: Spin-Offs)

[potioncat]

> Doddie here:
> 
>   Erm...sorry but John's Hopkins is an EAST COAST Hospital...Via 
the 
> state of Maryland if I'm not mistaken...this is what makes so many 
> moments of the story so much more poignant..

Potioncat:
Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon Line. It was a Southern, slave 
state before the Civil War. Although Maryland did not leave the Union 
and was not a Confederate state. 

The racial issues I saw in the movie were very consitent with what 
I've seen in Maryland---although I've never lived there.

But what I was really talking about was the look of the place. The 
feel of the building. I've been a couple of old Southern hospitals---
very nice modern complexes---but if you wander far enough you come to 
a portion of the original building and it's like you stepped into a 
time portal. I grew up in a Southern city and remember the hospital 
from before the renovatins began. I don't know if it's a regional 
architecture, or if all hospitals from a certain era looked the same.

Potioncat, out of curiosity, wondering where Doddie lives?---in a 
general sense.