As I may have mentioned before, I like to watch my TV shows in season long increments on DVD in about a week. One of my more recent forays was watching the first ten seasons (all that's been released on DVD) of ER. ER is ending it's 15 year run tonight and despite the fact I'm still 5 season back I'll be watching it tonight (and possibly getting quite emotional).
ER is an amazing show and it will be sad to see it go. I remember watching it a bit when I was younger but I never really followed it. To be fair, the show started when I was 10 and I doubt my parents wanted to discuss with me why Carol Hathaway tried to kill herself in the pilot. But it was always there. Always on at 10pm Thursdays on NBC.
I loved the way the show started out with a bang, never stopping to fully explain the medical jargon they were throwing your way. A show that assumed the viewer was smart enough to follow what was going on and be pulled into these characters lives. And pulled we were. Drs. Ross, Carter, Benton, Weaver, Romano - you say these names and people know them. And if you know a person who can legitimately tell you that they did not cry when Mark Greene died they are a dirty liar and/or Satan has a special place in hell for their soulless husks.
I'm not showing the show was perfect, cause it wasn't. I'm at a part at season 10 where it's swinging towards the weaker end (A helicopter crash? Onto the guy afraid of helicopters? Come on!) but I don't care. From beginning to end it feels great.
So set your DVRs and turn get in front of your TVs at 8pm for a look back and then watch one more story be told from the halls of County General.
DK
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