Carrie on ER (the doctor with the walking stick)
she seems to be pushing for a friendship with her lesbian friend. On Sunday her lesbian friend told her that she wants to have a “relationship” with Carrie and she leans in and gives her a great kiss. Carrie pulls away but seems to regret it.
Are you from another country that’s showing eps several seasons behind in the U.S.?
Are you watching repeats?
Are you posting from several years in the past?
There’s a definate answer to your question, but do you really wanna know it? However you’re watching the show, just watch it. You’ll find out.
As I recall, somewhere around two or three seasons ago they established pretty firmly that Carrie’s a lesbian, but struggling with her sexuality and conflicted.
I’m a bit surprised that they’re harping on it again, I thought they played this card already.
She is a lesbian?!?! Oh gawd! I knew she regretted that great kiss.
How is she dealing with her struggle as a lesbian? Come on now…don’t hold back! give me the lowdown!
I am watching reruns. I don’t know what season I am watching.
What time does ER come on during the weekday like 10? I think that is past my bedtime.
Isabelle has to be watching repeats. The matter of Kerry (no C’s or IE’s here, please) Weaver’s sexuality was laid to rest in episode 158 (7.22) “Rampage” which originally aired in May, 2001, and was the Season 7 closer. (We are about to begin season 10, for reference.)
Spoiler (from TVTome):
[spoiler]Dr. Kim Legaspi, chief of the Psychiatry department and Kerry’s former lover has been accused of “inappropriate touching” by a suicidal lesbian teenager who was brought into the hospital in the previous episode, after her attempt to commit suicide resulted in a cataclysmic train accident.
Romano, who has previously shown to have something against lesbians with his harassment of intern Maggie Doyle, has pressed to have Legaspi fired, and despite Kerry’s objections, he and Anspaugh agree that Legaspi should go. Kerry is livid and follows Romano into the men’s room where they have this exchange:
Romano: You had better choose your battles very carefully, Kerry. You are the Chief of Emergency Medicine. Not the County’s lesbian advocate.
Weaver: That’s where you are wrong, Robert. I am the Chief of Emergency Medicine and I am a lesbian. And if you pursue this matter any further I’ll take it to the County Board of Supervisors, the ACLU, the press and anyone else who cares to listen. So I suggest that you choose your battles very carefully.[/spoiler]
I should add that:
[spoiler]In Season 9, Kerry got involved with firefighter Sandy Lopez, who wanted to date Kerry but didn’t want to try to work around the fact that Weaver was still in the closet to everyone but Romano and Luka Kovac. (Luka found out by overhearing a conversation between Kerry & Kim Legaspi.)
Sandy ended up outing Kerry to the entire ER staff by coming and confronting Kerry about “being real” and then grabbing her and laying a passionate kiss on her right in front of the admit desk where the entire ER could see. Kerry was turned upside down in anger and later went to the firehouse were Sandy, pulling out on an engine on her way to a fire scene, told Kerry that she would one day appreciate that Sandy had dragged her into reality.
Eventually, we learn that Kerry did forgive Sandy and they’re living together. In Season 9, Kerry conceived a baby by artiicial insemination. She later miscarried, and she and Sandy disagreed over trying again, because Kerry wanted Sandy to carry the next baby and Sandy adamantly refused. This was the last we saw of the couple; we can only presume that they’re going to still be together as Season 10 starts in three days.[/spoiler]
I know far too much about this television show, darnit.
Am I the only one who saw the title of this thread and thought it referred to Carrie from Sex and the City?
slaps forehead Sorry, I didn’t think about someone watching reruns. I also forgot that new episodes don’t start airing until next week.
Forgive me, I had to get up 90 minutes early today.
Not that it’ll help much, as I’ve already given most of it away, but…
… Carrie had an ongoing relationship with a rescue worked for a while, which fizzled because Carrie wasn’t comfortable with being open about her sexuality. A few weeks (I think) after that relationship ended, in a heated moment she basically announced to everyone in the ER that she was a lesbian… I forget what predicated that outburst. Then Romano (always the classy one) starting flipping her shit about it, and Carrie tried to rekindle the relationship with the rescue worker. Last I saw, it was too little too late, as the other woman wasn’t interested. There was also an odd episode in which Carrie was stuck in an airport and being hit on by a pretty nice guy. She wound up rebuffing him gently, but she seemed sort of hesitant to do so. Who knows, maybe she is bi…
I missed most of last season, so I’m not sure where it’s gone from there.
On preview: TeaElle’s summary is much more complete than mine, and likely more correct.
Since I am watching reruns and have obviously missed Seasons 7-9 will I be totally clueless if I start taping the show now?
Well, you mean aside from missing:
- Kerry being a lesbian
- The permanent return of two major characters from the early seasons
- and The death of a key member of the ensemble?
No, not at all. 
Smart alleck!
I just found out that Mark died from a brain tumor. In the episode I am watching he is just being operated on. I’m sad now. I wanted him and Elizabeth to raise the baby together.
I really like ER!
Once again, I clicked submit then remembered something – you’ve also missed the exit of two other major cast members and the entrance of a cast member who has gone right to the forefront of major storylines in recent episodes.
However, all is not lost! If you get the cable network TNT, you can catch up quickly because they run two back-to-back, in sequence episodes of ER every weekday morning at 10 a.m. (eastern time).
By your description, Isabelle, you were watching an early Season 7 episode, and that season should start to re-air on TNT on Tuesday, October 7, barring preemptions for some unknown reason. You might want to tape the TNT reruns and the new NBC episodes concurrently until you’re all caught up, because there has been a lot that’s been building up to what’s going to be happening, especially in the early episodes of the new season.
I thought I had missed something in the work by Stephen King.
Darn it! I don’t get TNT or cable. I saw that ER just came out on a DVD set. I don’t know what the cost would be. I saw the DVD for CSI Season 1 was $70.
I am watching back-to-back episodes on NBC (I think) on Sunday mornings.
Maybe, but I thought it was about the blood soaked prom queen…
Wait, what do you mean by “two”? Or am I completely blocking out a doctor other than Susan Lewis leaving and returning? Because I can only think of one other character who ever returned, but then seemed to leave again. or I’ve just not noticed Dr. Chen in several episodes…
Hmm… Vague topic heading, mis-spelt character name, a question from a TV season that is 3 years old, and general confusion about repeats vs. current show. Does this garner any responses? Nope. It’s just a typical Isabelle post. Or spam rather.
As a hijack, why don’t we consider whether Stephen King’s Carrie could be bi-sexual?
Ugh, replace garner with deserve!
I thought it was Stephen Kings Carrie first, but then my hopes rose as it crossed my mind that it might be Carrie-Ann Moss.
We need a “roawrrrr!” smiley.
That’s why I originally clicked on the thread as well. I was actually thinking “hmmmm…” before I saw what it was really about.
As for ER, one other change Isabelle might notice is something that happened to one of the main characters a season or two ago. Specifically…
Romano losing an arm in a helicopter rotor blade.
It’s the kind of thing that might come up later. 