And what about Six-Year-Coma Girl? Will she ever wake up again?
Eh, I didn’t particularly like this week’s episode. I thought it was too over the top–how many plane crashes like that happen? On the other hand, next week Neela and Gallant get married!!!. Just the teaser made me tear up.
Okay, I’m so happy with this thread - our satellite went out this week, and we’re waiting to get it fixed on Sunday - so I had no idea if Neela actually lived - and I’ve been waiting for my best friend to watch it and tell me (my mom taped it for me, but I won’t get to see it until Thanksgiving weekend). Neela’s my favorite character, so I’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out what happened to her.
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Didn’t show previews mention someone paying “the ultimate price” or something like that? I expected one of the regulars or semi-regulars to die. I’m glad nobody did, but who exactly paid “the ultimate price”?
I think they weaseled that teaser by saying that someone might pay the ultimate price. In general, those teasers are really misleading, for ER and other NBC shows such as Law & Order. I don’t know if the other networks are as guilty of this as NBC is.
I liked it, but I agree about it being unrealistic.
During the episode I was wondering if the airspace over County General is cursed…a surgeon loses an arm to a helicopter’s tail rotor, then later dies when the helicopter falls off the roof and explodes on him. Now we’ve got a mid-air collision? Involving a commercial jet?!
Tell me, in the entire history of Chicago, how many aircraft (fixed wing and rotor) have crashed within city limits? One? (Didn’t an old plane crash into the Sears Tower back in the 40s, or was that the Empire State Building?)
And the flip side of the suspension of disbelief, how many commercial airliners have ever been involved in a midair collision with another plane where it didn’t involve terrorism?
It appears to me that the writers on ER have never heard of “big sky” theory.
On an unrelated note, I noticed last week that the TNT 2-a-days had gotten back to what I consider the best seasons of ER. My personal “golden age” for the show would be the period from just before that blonde doctor was stabbed to death to just before Kovac (and then Carter) went to Africa. Hands down that is my favorite era, and I can watch just about any of those episodes anytime I notice they’re on.
The one that caught my eye last week was the Hawaii episode when Greene died. God damn that episode leaves me feeling emotionally wasted every time!
There was a fake-out teaser like that a few years ago, when Mark Green was still on the show. He was on a helicopter run with a critically ill patient and they had engine trouble and had to land unexpectedly. The only “bad part” was not being able to get the patient to the hospital as quickly as needed.
The previews implied the helicopter was going to crash. IIRC, Elizabeth was on the radio with him and knew they were going down, and we were supposed to assume the worst, but when the show actually aired it was no big deal.
“Hey, we’ve got engine trouble. We’re gonna land here and get an ambulance.”
“Okey-dokey!”
:rolleyes:
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. When I saw the helicopter take off, knowing that there was supposed to be a plane crash in the episode, I was thinking, “They better not have the helicopter crash into the plane. That would be way too much.”
It was the Empire State Building.
Oh, this has happened more than a few times. It’s a big sky, but it’s crowded around airports. In 1978 there were not one, but TWO major mid-air collisions disasters in the USA, one of which over San Diego was creepily similar to the “ER” disaster; a Boeing 727 was struck by a little Cessna, killing everyone aboard both planes and also killing thirteen people on the ground when the plane crashed in to the city.
In 1986 an Aeromexico DC-9 was hit by a small plane over Cerritos, CA. Everyone aboad both planes died, and then 18 more on the ground were killed by the falling airliner.
There’a a bunch more. Of course there was the Tenerife disaster too, but that was different, sort of.
See, once every 5 or 6 years isn’t “lots” to me. I wish they would stick to medical stories. I don’t like the freaky disaster plots.
Dr. Green’s death was the death of ER. It just hasn’t fallen down and started to decay yet.
As construction of the Sears Tower began in 1970, and was completed in 1974, I suspect it must have been the Empire State Building.
- An American bomber went of course and crashed into the Empire State Building in the last months of the war. Of course there were rumours that it was the Japanese or Germans.