In case anyone is still keeping tabs on the show…
The ER is a bloody mess, Jerry will probably die, since he’s on another series now, and Alex and Sam are off to Canada. (Abducted? My memory is blurry on this point.)
So I’ve never watched ER, ever, but I’m posting in response to your OP because yesterday at work two long time devotees of the series confidently told me that it was cancelled, and was no longer on the air. And I find that vaguely interesting.
Not only is it not cancelled, but NBC has already renewed it through 2008.
I’m gonna watch again. Paula Malcomson from Deadwood is supposed to be on. I don’t know if it’s a one-shot or she’ll be a regular, but I want to see how she does in another role.
I was disenchanted with the show last season, all the recycled stories, but I like the characters and I’ve missed them.
Perhaps they meant it in the “It’s dead to me” metaphorical sense. In which case, there are a lot of people who agree with them.
Since the show started just three minutes ago, I don’t have anything to reveal yet. But I can say one thing for damn sure…
Every time Kerrie walks into the ER, she discovers another member of the staff who’s been shot, stabbed, beaten, run over by a tank or crushed by a helicopter.
I think she’d be happier as a hands-off type administrator.
Crap. I didn’t know it was on and missed the first 17 minutes.
Go Sam!!! :d
OK that was shocking! And about time!
Well damn. That was her second idea?
Shoulda drove the van over his bullet-riddled body a few times, just to be sure.
Anyway, I hope they’ll get back to basing stories around, y’know, the patients.
And I thought last season’s finale was bad.
This was bad beyond words. This was so incredibly bad that the government of China ordered multiple copies made so that they might use it to torture political prisons. Amnesty International is even as we speak preparing a brief to present to the US Congress, President Bush, Kofi Annan, and God protesting the abuse of the airwaves.
Remember when ER wasn’t stupid?
I miss those days.
I rented the first season of this show through Netflix over the summer, and the difference is amazing. It was actually interesting back then. Now, they’re just going through the motions.
I was positive that the season finale promos last year promised that somebody wouldn’t survive the night, so I kept waiting and waiting and…nobody died. WTF?
And hey, you whiners complaining about how there wasn’t even a single patient in this episode, just count yourself lucky that it was at least set in the friggin’ hospital. Well, most of it, anyway. Better than that Darfur sucktitude.
Speaking of the widely-hated Africa episodes, was the problem there that they did more than one? It seems to me that the Benton episode down on the Bayou got a pass simply for being part of the earlier non-sucky seasons. Unless I’m just forgeting and it was reviled as well.
In case the sarcasm isn’t clear, I agree with all the complaints. The appeal of the show has always been the normal trials and tribulations of an ER. I’m having trouble remembering the last time we got a normal day at the hospital type episode.
Between this, and Seventh Heaven, I’m now convinced that Satan is in charge of network programming.
Skald the Rhymer said it brilliantly. That was one of the sorriest pieces of television I’ve ever had the misfortune of watching. I’m definitely not coming back next week. Or am I? Damn it, but I want to know what happens to the baby. They’d better let him live since they ripped out Abby’s uterus. Maybe I can just read the thread here after the show to catch up on what’s going on.
I think the series should end with the ER being shut down on the basis of too many violent activities taking place there. And if I were a woman working there, I sure as hell wouldn’t get pregnant. And if I were a man working there I sure as hell wouldn’t get my wife or girlfriend pregnant. That always ends badly.
Sorry for posting again so soon but I just had a lightbulb moment. Somebody did die, and that person was Steve. And those other two criminals that Steve shot.
Yeah, I’ve watched since season one and I was convinced before LAST season that it finally had been cancelled.
The best part was that huge blob they removed from her uterus. The doc didn’t look fazed at all to be hauling out a cantelope-sized blood clot. Luka can’t lose another family so chances are baby Joe will be fine.
And I had thought 7th Heaven was definitely over. How disappointed I was to see it back on the air, but I think it’s on the CW which I don’t think I get.
[egotistical jerk]
Isn’t that adverb redundant?
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I don’t think Sam will be able to return to her job as a nurse. Could you go back to work in the same place, after your presence there had caused so much death and destruction? Could you ever work alongside someone like Sam, knowing that she was the cause of you losing body parts and your fertility? Even though the threat of Steve is now gone, could you ever feel comfortable working with her again?