# E.R. - September 26

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-r-september-26/129861>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-r-september-26/129861 "2002-09-27T12:41:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-r-september-26/129861/41 "2002-09-29T22:50:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TheeGrumpy \*  
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> Plus, the argument with Luka was pretty trivial, a classic misdirection as to the intention of a scene.
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I disagree about its being a dramatic misdirection. Instead, I feel it was an accurate portrayal of how an accident happens. The doctors were arguing about who rides in the helicopter; the chopper pilot is distracted by the orbiting news helicopter; the chopper’s ground man is distracted while on the radio arranging ground transportation for one of the patients; Lewis is tending to a patient’s poor attitude; Romano is distracted by the argument and the blowing paperwork. All-in-all, no one is paying attention to what is really important: the idling helicopter. As a result, Romano bumps into the tail rotor.

The audience was misdirected to the same extent as the characters. I felt it was an effectively played scene.

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-r-september-26/129861/42 "2002-09-30T00:02:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Stoid \*  
> \*\*You still won’t “get it” in the same way that the rest of us did, because you are expecting it. 75% of the reaction was due to the surprise factor, it was the definition of “coming out of left field”. You’ll just find it icky. \*\*

I don’t agree. I saw a spoiler for this episode weeks ago and knew that it was going to happen. So did my husband and my mom, who called me while she watched for the first time while I watched my TiVoed episode for the second time. We were all as taken by the awful reality of it, which couldn’t be described in the mere words “Romano has his arm taken off by a helicopter rotor.”

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> \*Originally posted by WSLer \*
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> Dr. Weaver gets pregnant, I haven’t heard who the father is yet.

Not going to happen. Laura Innes nixed the idea, probably because of her own recent fertility battles. I don’t blame her. That would be altogether too far-fetched.

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> \*Originally posted by WSLer \*
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> Luka starts banging all of the nurses and ends up with a sexual harassment complaint being filed against him.

I don’t know about the second part of that prediction, but the first half is accurate, and confirmed by the actor himself. He said “Think Season One, and the character my character was meant to replace in the viewers’ minds.” Oh oh.

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