Wow, here I am joining a thread about ER… who’d’ve thunk it?
Why do I watch that show? I work with medical researchers all day, why would I watch a show about medical professionals…?
Anyhow - sometimes they go overboard with the soap opera aspects. Yes, I do watch for the oogy accidents and weird diseases and stuff
Because I seem to have missed all of last year’s episodes, I’m not entirely sure how Romano wound up in the ER subordinate to what’s her face, the harpy with a crutch (Loved that bit where Romano was telling her that if she fired him he’d scream discrimination of cripples and she said that wouldn’t be an issue twixt her and him). Fact is never liked either of the characters but do like the way they stir things up in the story lines. (Yes, I know he had an argument with a tail-rotor. Kind of wish in a perverse way I had seen that scene, last time I saw something involving ER and a helicoptor - involved Dr. Greene I think, so you know it was awhile ago - did NOT seem at all convincing to me. Wonder if they did the meat-slicer incident any better)
Anyhow, who doesn’t enjoy seeing Romano get his come-uppance? He’s no longer a hot-shot surgeon. There are high odds he will never work as a surgeon again. Mr. Full-of-Himself who clearly enjoyed his share of the ladies is now damaged goods and will find it VERY hard to get laid in the future. He’s no longer the boss - he’s working under someone who used to work for him. HE is now the bitching, whining, moaning sort of patient he used to hate.
And yes, if he wants his myoelectric Utah arm he’s going to have to pay for it himself - that’s the way the world REALLY works. (Actually, Monday if I remember I’m going to look up the official policy on that sort of thing from my Very Large Employer’s Medical Policy Manual - wonder if there are any circumstances they would find justifies a myoelectric limb?)
Yeah, Romano is such a jerk I want to see him break down and cry. Yes, I’m a sick puppy. But I don’t want to see him have a “life change” and become some sort of redeemed saint - leave him the bitter, nasty bastard he is, he’s so much more interesting that way. And let’s face it, having some horrific thing like that happen to you almost never really changes a person’s basic personality 180 degrees.
Let’s see… Yes, Abby’s “I’m miserable, I’m unhappy”, etc, etc sets my teeth on edge. GET OVER IT. Gah! You’d think no one else had ever had a difficult job, a boyfriend dump her, whatever. And she is WAY out of line “getting ahead of the doctors”. She is NOT a doctor. It is fine to anticipate, but she is skirting the line (and occassionally going over it).
And no, she should NOT have told that girl her diagnosis against the wishes of her parents.
Corday and Mr. Ego? Yeah, it makes TV sense. Corday is rather full of herself - but hey, she’s a doctor, and they are often enough like that.
New med student Neela? Cute, character has potential.
Carter was getting way too overplayed - think that’s one of the reasons I took a year off from the show.
Maybe I’m just weird, but I don’t care much for the going-far-afield storylines - I think there’s plenty of fodder in just a big-city ER. Certainly, I never lack for entertainment listening to the medical personal I know from Chicago. And ER’s really are the twilight zone.
That’s enough rambling for now.
:eek: What show were you watching? He gave Luka the note, told him to tell her (Abby) that he was lost but that he’d “found himself” and then was watching Luka’s plane take off with the Indian doctor from the clinic and the Red Cross worker. That last shot was of him and the Red Cross worker (with whom he’d had a little flirtation) getting in the truck to go back to the clinic. They were discussing his apparent dislike of (and her love for) the Dixie Chicks. No shot of him in bed with a man.