I’ve missed a lot of ER lately.
What’s up with Dr. Weaver? Why do we not see her much anymore?
Also, how did Dr. Corday leave the show?
(Oh, and who is that new guy - surgeon? - who was talking about the oxygen atom last night?)
We never see Weaver any more because I like her, and TPTB never, ever give us anything I like. That is also why we never see Susan, but we get to see Chuck’s pendulous man-breasts.
As for Lizzie, Carter talked her into doing an illegal transplant on two AIDS patients. (You can’t transplant organs from someone who’s HIV+, even into another HIV+ patient, but that law is on the verge of being repealed in Illinois.) She got hauled before the medical ethics board, and they agreed to let her stay, but demoted her. She said fuck it, there’s nothing and no one left for me here any longer, I’m getting the hell out of Dodge. There were more nuances, of course, but you’d just have to see the episodes.
I have a question about last night’s show; I guess this is as good a place as any to ask:
What was Ray (rock-star wanna-be doc) drinking from the cans that grossed out Abby and Neela? I thought it was maybe some sort of protein drink, but couldn’t see the label. But when they both saw it, they were both offended and acted like they couldn’t believe he was drinking it. He drank one can midway through the shift and then two cans later on.
What was it?
Near as I could tell, they were cans og baby formula.
Ray was drinking a supplement drink along the lines of Ensure from the hospital stash. Free protein, he said. And he’s right, though it seems highly skeevy – no matter how poorly he’s paid – for an intern to be using up products that are meant for patients who are incapable of eating enough solid food to adequately nourish themselves.
Since I have dairy issues, I lived on the soy-based version of the stuff for a couple of days after dental surgery. It’s not bad if you get a good flavor. (Vanilla is good, chocolate’s better, strawberry is putrid.)
I don’t know the docs name (the O2 atom guy) but he was also the sex offender (with the spiky strap-on) in Seven.
Makes you look at him differently, doesn’t it?
And now, all of a sudden, we’ve got Roseanne’s daughter Darlene on the show. Why doesn’t she look any older than she did then?
And the gal who played Shelley on Twin Peaks is playing the social worker. She looks different.
Weaver is supposedly busy raising baby Henry, whom she finally got back from her dead wife’s parents after a bitter dispute. I think she’s also busy doing more administrative hospitalish things these days.
Doesn’t Weaver now have the deceased one armed homophobe’s job? Dang, what was his name? So it’s much more administrative, and we’re seeing about as much of her as we did of him when he wasn’t crucial to the storyline.
We don’t see Dr. Weaver much because Laura Innes does a lot of directing now. And they just don’t need her around to yell all the time.
As for Madchen Amick, who is the new social worker, she probably looks different because Twin Peaks was on a really long time ago. She’s 34 now. She was around 20 when she did Twin Peaks.
Can’t figure out Sara Gilbert however. She’s 29 now.
She does direct occasionally (3 episodes of The West Wing and 5 of ER and she’d undoubtedly do Third Watch eps if they were shot in LA, but alas) but she’s also working highly modified hours (like Noah Wyle, Ming Na and Sherry Stringfield did last season and will continue to do in this) in order to spend more time with her young child. (In Innes’s case, a 3 year old girl named Mia, adopted from China and really beautiful.)
Dr. Romano.
Oh, and thanks for answering my question about what Ray was drinking.