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DMANN Has Seen Benton Exit ER!!

ER sucks anymore by twan_deeth_ree	Dec 13th, 2001 03:50:59 PM
I used to love this show. I gave up on it last year at the beginning of the season because it was becoming more and more a prime time soap opera. I remember when there was humor and joy in this show, lately it justs seems painful and depressing to watch. I caught an episode for the first time in a long while a couple of weeks ago (during sweeps, no less) and I just wanted to fucking kill myself afterward. Too bad. They need to make this the final season and just shoot the dead horse already. Peace out beatches. Oh, and FRODO RULES, MUTHAFUCKA!!!! (had to bring in LotR somehow).
I remember when ER was good by Parable	Dec 13th, 2001 03:51:43 PM
Ahhhh nostalgia.....
first by Portnoy	Dec 13th, 2001 03:52:01 PM
why is this show still on? GIdeon's Crossing was twice the show ER is.
Yeah, that's why I liked that episode "The Storm" earlier th by Stephen Dedalus	Dec 13th, 2001 04:05:50 PM
Remember, where the pregnant mother was caught in an ambulance in the middle of a lightning storm? Sure, it was a repeat of one or two previous episodes, but it sure as hell felt like something they would have shown in the first four seasons. Ah, those first four seasons, when ER was the BEST show on television, bar none. Then they started adding characters, Lydia Woodward was given too much power, and then came Kellie Martin... ugh. But the show seems to be getting better, and replacing Martin with with Maura Tierney was a stroke of genius- damn good character, damn good actress. Sally Field is also notable as her mother. ONe problem with "The Storm," though... all the patients lived in the end. In the first four seasons, at least one would be dead.
Euro-Clooney! by Lady Hero	Dec 13th, 2001 04:58:43 PM
Euro-Clooney! That's hilarious! I'm about peeing in my pants right now. You're right, he is SO the Euro-Clooney!
ER is in serious LA Law territory now by DyslexicHeart	Dec 13th, 2001 05:22:01 PM
Remember just how bad "LA Law" got in the final years after the most popular and interesting characters started to leave. Dr.Benton has been the strongest of the original characters the last several seasons. Even Clooney's last season was subpar for him. Dr.Greene is on the same level as Dylan McDermott's Bobby on The Practice, a character that was deep and passionate and now has been reduced to a clown with very little sympathy. I wish Eriq La Salle all the best, I think he's a talented actor and director and will hopefully not disappear.
Noah was on Family ties once! by holidill	Dec 13th, 2001 05:32:17 PM
I was watching the repeats of Family Ties on Nick at nite a few weeks ago, and it was a story about Jennifer bating up a bully who was picking on her boyfriend. When I saw the boyfriend I told my girlfriend that it was Noah Wylie. So I watched the whole show and saw in the credits that the actors first name was Noah, but the last name was different. I'm wondering if Noah changed his name. Also I know she wasn't in the original 5-7 episodes, but Laura Innes Weaver was a supporting cast member in season one, and turned into a regular cast member in season 2. Plus I think it was in a previous ER talkback, but the show is about Carter. When Noah decides to leave, the show is over!
Dr Weaver has a beer and cheets on her dyke! by damn_freemasons	Dec 13th, 2001 05:50:28 PM
There. I've put a new spin on a tired line. :-)
Clooney by azwica	Dec 13th, 2001 08:54:36 PM
does anyone else think that Joshua Jackson (Pacey on Dawson's Creek) looks like a younger version of George Clooney?
milk it boys, milk it by jethroc	Dec 13th, 2001 11:17:50 PM
Hurray! Benton's gone. He was always such a downer. They sure milked his last walk out though, didn't they? Sheesh that was pitiful. He's never been a guy that it's been easy to feel sorry for. This was just such heavy handed drivel I couldn't take it and drove my wife crazy yelling back at the TV. Just let him go alright? And you can take Kovach with you. He was fine as the dark unknown foreign guy, but now he's just another depressed slob. I miss Mulan and Dr. Malachi. Why is Mulan still in the credits anyways? And about Carrie Weber; She's a villain okay! So I don't want to watch her love life! If someone had to be a lesbian it should have been Jeannie! I miss her too. She at least tried to upbeat throughout all the crap she was given. Now watching her die of AIDS would have been worth some melodrama. Instead they shower the tears on Benton of all people. What a waste.
Pedestrian by No. 41	Dec 14th, 2001 12:00:20 AM
What, no mention of Carter being saved from drug addiction by Benton? No mention of him taking the plane from Chi to ATL (home field SHOUT OUT!) with Carter? Nothing more than an awkward hug, and we get a shot of him running by the camera (not even seeing him running into the distance...cripes, that was an obvious shot for even a first-year film student)? Just get rid of Anthony Edwards now so I can officially stop caring about this show. "ER" and "X-Files" must die so I can stop watching everything but SportsCenter and "24," the only show worth watching anymore...and only because of its fast pace, not because of the fairly standard-issue plot.

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