When I saw the woman doc sick, I figured, ‘pregnant - yawn’.
The the man doc is sick TOO, and I think - ‘cool! they have some dreaded disease! Like the Plague!!’
Man was I disappointed.
And the two black doctors…zzzzzzz…wake me for the next scene! They suck together. OK writers, we see the token black woman! Now you can move along…
Give her a story for petes sake! All she is now is an almost black woman for Benton to be a jerk to.
I gotta give thumbs up to Sally Feild though. Great work - totally Emmy-winning stuff there.
Pretty good summary - especially of the criticisms. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought both Corday and Green had some intestinal bug or something - but then I guess I’m predisposed right now?
The other thing that’s been bugging me is how incredibly bad they’ve been hyping the episodes. I mean the shows are okay, but the ads for them sound like the coming of the end of the world, each time. Then last night the show was way over the top. It’s beginning to wear me out.
No, no, no. The previews clearly state that the end of the world only comes if you miss an episode of ER.
Every single episode this season has been “a very special episode you can’t afford to miss.”
I loved the “terror at 1150 feet” with the whispered echoing voiceover “I love you.” That took up the entire preview, but only ended up being 30 seconds of the episode.
I watched the show for the first time last night and I thought it was too subtle for my taste.
Example: a man walks in with a turkey. This is Thanksgiving for crying out loud! They should have had a turkey delivery truck driver go crazy with PCP and unload a whole flock of turkeys in the ER room. Now that would have been fuunny.
Example: explosion because a man is smoking in the hospital. Smoking cigarettes? How boring! They should have shown him having a reefer party in his room, and the explosion happens just before a group of SWAT/DEA hybrids bursts into the room, guns blazing, while a bunch of army guys are rapelling down the walls of the hospital and “hut-hutting” à la Blues Brothers.
Example: lady finds out she’s pregnant. Why can’t they make it siamese babies that she doesn’t want to have separated because of her religious beliefs? Maybe that will come later.
Example: father of afore-mentioned babies finds out that he has a brain tumor. So why can’t they find a make-up artist to make his forehead bulge out over his eyebrows? How is the audience next week supposed to remember that Dr. X has a brain tumor?
I think the writers are severly overrating the intelligence of the audience and myself in particular.
