I have 2 friends who are ER docs, and they are VERY attractive men.
One of them swears he's going to write a book called "Stuff I Pulled Out of People's Asses." I told him I'd edit it.
Saffron: He's my husband. Mal: Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2005 11:13:01 am PST #1764 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jesse - Jan 28, 2005 11:14:43 am PST #1765 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, and the most entertainment I've had in the real ER is running into people I know. Again, bad tv.
Nutty - Jan 28, 2005 11:16:41 am PST #1766 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I would suggest that early and mid-L&O did have ongoing stuff, but it was waaay in the background most of the time, because the show was about the job rather than about the personal life. And then, every once in a while, Mike Logan would totally go bananas over a case, and we'd be reminded, Oh yes, this fellow has issues about kid victims. For example.
WAT is similarly a show about the job -- but the personal stuff is closer to the fore. Months before that Christmas episode in which Malone basically owned up to having attempted suicide when he was younger, I knew and most of the characters had vaguely guessed that he was a functioning depressive.
Now CSI, that is a show that can't make up its mind from year to year whether its characters have continuous personalities or not.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2005 11:21:27 am PST #1767 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The most entertainment I've had in the ER is being on morphine and running into (well, adjacenting into) a FoaF.
Jesse - Jan 28, 2005 11:22:50 am PST #1768 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But the plot of the episodes is almost never about the main characters. Sure, there was Lennie Briscoe's daughter, but that kind of thing only happens once a season, if that, on any of these shows. To me it's not about there not being ongoing character development and exploration, but more what is the A plot of the episode?
msbelle - Jan 28, 2005 11:23:50 am PST #1769 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ERs suck ass. never had anything close to entertainment happen in one.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2005 11:25:23 am PST #1770 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That WaT episode where they brought that custody thing to the foreground bored and irritated me. Hell, I even get itchy when a character starts resonating with the A plot.
NoiseDesign - Jan 28, 2005 11:25:48 am PST #1771 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
I got rushed to the front of the line when I went into one complaining about chest pains.
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2005 11:26:17 am PST #1772 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Did someone already post this? Dick Cheney mistakes Holocaust memorial ceremony for meeting of ski club.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2005 11:30:38 am PST #1773 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got rushed to the front of the line when I went into one complaining about chest pains.
They didn't rush me, but hey! Morphine. Enough that I was turning the stuff down.