But Neela didn’t know the “medicine” the old man was talking about was marijuana.
Damn, I"m gonna miss Romano. Those writer assholes piss me off with their meddlin’.
Naw, I’ve just seen actual Really Bad Stuff in real life a few times.
One long-standing quibble I’ve had with ER is that they only go into the gore and blood and horror up to a point then come to a screeching halt. Like that suicidal mother who doused herself with charcol lighter than set herself on fire just outside the ER - she looked too good for someone who was actually crispy-crittered like that, IMHO. There’s an evil side of me that wants to see them go all the way and show how really nasty some of this stuff looks.
But, it is prime time TV, so I guess there are limits (not that you would think so with some shows.)
The show already gets complaints about realism, so don’t hold your breath for any more gore.
The SUV crispy-critter mom looked pretty damn disgusting to me, but the majority of her burns weren’t to her face, though half of it was gone, they were to her body which we didn’t really see. (Thank heavens.) Remember that she mainly doused her lap and her torso, then dropped the match (or was it a lighter?) on her legs. The flames only got to her face in the moments before she was pulled out of the car.
We should be free of Dr. Dork soon, as he should be moving on to another rotation and he hasn’t been made a part of the regular cast, unlike Gallant and Neela, who will defy all medical training conventions by being in the ER far longer and more frequently than medical students ought to, following in the grand tradition of Harper Tracy, Lucy Knight and everybody’s favorite, John Truman Carter.
Re: the helicopter bursting into flames.
As a medical helicopter, is it not safe to assume that there might be an oxygen tank on board? If there was, and the crash on the roof caused it to break/spark, then that could definitely set fire to the rest of the chopper.
By the way, is it just me, or has Gallant just vanished as a character recently?
They made Romano into an unloveable prick. I miss the Romano that spoke sign language to Benton’s kid. I miss the Romano that had a crush on Corday. I miss the Romano who could actually give a compliment here and again. I miss the Romano that actually evoked sympathy when his arm was chopped off.
The Romano that died was not that Romano. I was satisfied, not saddened, when they took him out. His time had come.
Gallant and Kerry are both non-existant characters. Frank had more lines that Kerry this past episode.
I was glad to see Ansbaugh, whose presence lends some degree of constancy in spite of ER’s revolving cast. His positive treatment of the beleagued Pratt was also refreshing. With Romano, Kerry, and Kovish constantly digging up his ass, I’m glad someone admitted that the kid is a good doctor. I was starting to feel like maybe I was the only one who thought so.
I like Neela, and hope Abby and her continue to be friends.
Naw, Max. He’s the Bearded Black guy in the back ground.
And speaking of Beards, who hasn’t grown a beard on that show? And I hope Carter’s Beard Version 2 turns out better then V1 did.
I too am going to miss The Rocket. He was much more fair then Weaver, he didn’t play favorites and was generaly fair and woudn’t let his people get screwed over from the outside. (He prefered to do that himself ;)) The helicopter crash was a cheesy send off for the #1 antagonist on The show. Not cool at all.
Actually, it’s pretty common to find oxygen bottles on just about any unpressurized aircraft. The place I rent planes from also rents the oxy gear because just about everything that flies has the potential to get into thin enough air that you might need it.
The oxy bottles are pretty darn tough, though - they have to be, to hold pressurized gas. And oxy bottles and equipment have to be made of non-sparking materials for obvious reasons.
But, sure, if such a bottle was punctured it sure could make a small fire into a big one in a hurry.
But if it hadn’t exploded on the way down, they couldn’t have had that storyline (which everyone seems to have ignored) where Kovac ironically puts his ER patient in peril by taking him to another floor and handcuffing him to the wall, making it impossible to move him when the fire started. And without the explosion, they wouldn’t have had all that wonderful filler, what with that storyline, and the one about the other patient on the same floor inhaling a melted portion of her breathing tube. It’s not easy padding these things out to 44 minutes.