I'm addicted to ER

[rh71]

Caught a few early episodes on TNT and my fiancee bought me the season 1 DVD. I've managed to find 75% of the eps up to season 7 on BT and I watch about 4-5 eps a day - that's 4 hours ! This show was great back then... Carter was hilarious being a student of Benton's. I don't find myself liking the new eps of season 10 as much.

I think it would've been a bigger hit if it didn't have the 10pm timeslot.

 

[blackdogdeek]

bigger? i thought it rocked that timeslot didn't it? and i think the 10pm timeslot was directed toward more mature viewing audiences. it also followed friends and sienfeld iirc in the beginning. nbc used to own thursday nights.

but i agree with you, the earlier seasons were so much better than the current ones.

 

[rh71]

Of course it did own the slot, but 10pm is also when parents tuck their kids in and whatever other end-of-the-day activities take place... so they would've done much better at something like 9 or even smack in the middle of primetime hour. But yes, I'm sure they did it because of the gore... speaking of which... there wasn't as much in the early seasons...

 

[blackdogdeek]

yeah i seem to remember less gore too. i wonder if they need more of a draw now that the major actors have left.

i remember that show always being so captivating. especially when the ambulances would drop off a new patient and all the action would start.

 

[Ameesh]

yah its a good show, and carters new gf is uber hot!

 

[rh71]

She played Carter's gf in season 2 - another med student. She was 29 at the time and is 39 today. Hard to believe they passed her off as 21. I don't usually like blondes, but she wasn't bad at all...

 

[Parrotheader]

It still gets great ratings and is in the top 5/10 audience draw pretty much every week, but NBC is starting to lost its stranglehold on Thursday nights now that they've lost the Friends/Seinfeld lead-in it used to have (Will & Grace just isn't as strong a setup show) and that's only going to hurt ER's ratings. If CSI had better lead-in shows it could probably draw better if they went head-to-head, but by putting it an hour ahead of ER they're sucking a lot of the audience away instead. Smart move by CBS.

I watched it pretty faithfully for the first 5 years. After that, it seemed like the show turned into more of a soap opera about the characters than an exciting drama about all the endless stories they could pull from ER patients/visitors. It seems like they're going back to pushing the patient stories heavily again now, but it's just not quite the same.

 

[stormbv]

heh, I hate that show...I'll sit there the whole show worrying I'm going to get whatever illness they're talking in the episode.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: stormbv
heh, I hate that show...I'll sit there the whole show worrying I'm going to get whatever illness they're talking in the episode.

I think they have doctors for that. They may even make house-calls.

 

[Yossarian]

another ER addict, I'm glad to see it! I've been watching since it first aired 10 years ago and I still love it. of course the 'good ol days' of the show were better, with the friendship between Greene and Ross, Carter's bumblings, Ross and Carol's on/off/on, the hot hot Jeannie Boulet, but for the most part new characters have picked up the slack pretty well.

 

[GasX]

If you ever watch the show with a medical practitioner (Doctor, Nurse, PA, etc...) you will realize that ER is actually a comedy show.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
If you ever watch the show with a medical practitioner (Doctor, Nurse, PA, etc...) you will realize that ER is actually a comedy show.

It only takes a good punch sideways to stop that from happening.

Anyway, there's sites like these that explain the medical part too.

 

[rmrf]

Originally posted by: Parrotheader
I watched it pretty faithfully for the first 5 years. After that, it seemed like the show turned into more of a soap opera about the characters than an exciting drama about all the endless stories they could pull from ER patients/visitors. It seems like they're going back to pushing the patient stories heavily again now, but it's just not quite the same.

I completely agree with that. I especially didn't like when they started going out of the hospital into people homes, and I really hated that they brought the whole lesbian thing in with beaver, I meannnn weaver.

my $0.02, but it still gets watched in my house by my wife, so I usually sit through it anyways.

 

[Squisher]

My wife used to refuse to watch the show because she would end up holding her breath through the whole thing or gasping at the suspense.

 

[66FMC]

Join the club.

I was hooked about 2-3 years ago. Watching every rerun aired on TNT.

The shows not the same anymore, but I still watch it.

 

[RossMAN]

I miss a lot of the old cast members but it's still a good show.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I miss a lot of the old cast members but it's still a good show.

So that's how you got your name...

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Mwilding
If you ever watch the show with a medical practitioner (Doctor, Nurse, PA, etc...) you will realize that ER is actually a comedy show.

It only takes a good punch sideways to stop that from happening.

Anyway, there's sites like these that explain the medical part too.

I don't need the medical part explained to me. Watching it with someone in the business makes it a comedy because they constantly do things that are not medically sound, are illegal, harmful to the patient, etc....

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I miss a lot of the old cast members but it's still a good show.

So that's how you got your name...

Nope, my real first name is Ross.

Dr. Ross was awesome though.

 

[Ausm]

Maybe I should start watching that show. How does it compare to my favorites CSI and Cold Case?


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[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: rh71
Of course it did own the slot, but 10pm is also when parents tuck their kids in and whatever other end-of-the-day activities take place... so they would've done much better at something like 9 or even smack in the middle of primetime hour. But yes, I'm sure they did it because of the gore... speaking of which... there wasn't as much in the early seasons...

10 pm is pretty standard for 1 hour prime time shows.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: rh71
Of course it did own the slot, but 10pm is also when parents tuck their kids in and whatever other end-of-the-day activities take place... so they would've done much better at something like 9 or even smack in the middle of primetime hour. But yes, I'm sure they did it because of the gore... speaking of which... there wasn't as much in the early seasons...

10 pm is pretty standard for 1 hour prime time shows.