Anyone ever watch the 90s TV series "ER"?

samusaran253

I'm about to start watching the pilot (first episode) of the first season of that. Is it any good? I really love Jurassic Park, and it was created by the same guy who created Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) so I imagine it should be good. Discuss.

tightropetom

LOL - 90s show! :-) Ok, I know it started in the 90s but it was still running until 2009!!! :-) The way you described it, you'd think nobody would know of it!

Seriously though, very good show. Defo worth watching

samusaran253

I surprisingly like the show, it's really good and hasn't aged all that bad for being 17 years old. And it has the best opening TV theme ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ATwnLDgfs

Basq

samusaran253 wrote: »

I'm about to start watching the pilot (first episode) of the first season of that. Is it any good? I really love Jurassic Park, and it was created by the same guy who created Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) so I imagine it should be good. Discuss.

If there's one thing ER needed, it was more dinosaurs!

:pac:

Rasmus

Haha, yep a lot of people watched this 90's series! Hardly a retro show. I still call Grey's Anatomy 'ER' by accident. A hospital show where the staff drop like spies.

rebel girl 15

very good show! Loved it when it was on - George Clooney was the draw for a lot of people! Some great storylines in it as well

Some of the staff did drop off like spies alright - and might reappear in a few episodes. I don't think it had ages much at all either!

Dull and Boring

Great show, wasn't as good in the later years though

Elmo

Dull and Boring wrote: »

Great show, wasn't as good in the later years though

Unfortunately having to compete with Grey's Anatomy the storylines became more and more soap like

Julianne Margulies can be seen in The Good Wife.

I still call Grey's Anatomy 'ER' by accident.

Blasphemy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZtUc2H2i9Q

RIP Michael Crichton 23/10/1942 - 04/11/08

SarahBeep!

Best medical drama EVER!!

The Black Oil

Although this show has obvious positive qualities, I don't really understand some of the super high praise it gets. Some of its writing seems incredibly convenient and a bit silly.

We have Dr. Ross screwing up, effectively losing his job, when what do we have a few minutes later? A crash involving bus load of school kids, he's told not to go, does anyway and ends up in a car crash with Jeanie. Now maybe it was simply a launchpad to further some of her storyline, but... Then we have the episode where Benton visits a redneck backwater, saves the day, of course.

I think they'd get away with this if it was another type of show, not even a procedural...I don't know. This is supposed to be high calibre drama and these type of antics seem to happen a fair bit in the show.

Elmo

The Black Oil wrote: »

Although this show has obvious positive qualities, I don't really understand some of the super high praise it gets. Some of its writing seems incredibly convenient and a bit silly.

We have Dr. Ross screwing up, effectively losing his job, when what do we have a few minutes later? A crash involving bus load of school kids, he's told not to go, does anyway and ends up in a car crash with Jeanie. Now maybe it was simply a launchpad to further some of her storyline, but... Then we have the episode where Benton visits a redneck backwater, saves the day, of course.

I think they'd get away with this if it was another type of show, not even a procedural...I don't know. This is supposed to be high calibre drama and these type of antics seem to happen a fair bit in the show.

Your always going to have bad episodes from time to time in even the best TV dramas. ER was more constant then most, if you want to pick you can. The series had 20 to 25 episodes each year for 15 seasons.

Romeo and Juliet, wasn't it convenient that the monk sent to Romeo with a message from Juliet ends up in quarantine? Just saying.

The Black Oil

Understood, however, I've noticed this is a bit of a pattern rather than being confined to occasional substandard episodes, particularly in the first couple of years when the show is supposedly at its strongest.

Elmo

The Black Oil wrote: »

Understood, however, I've noticed this is a bit of a pattern rather than being confined to occasional substandard episodes, particularly in the first couple of years when the show is supposedly at its strongest.

I would say it was strong from season 3 to 9 or there abouts. I think you also have to remember that what they did in 1994 was groundbreaking and would prob at this stage be considered tame.

Which new medical dramas are you basing your criticism on????

The Black Oil

First show to make us of the walk and talk style? It's mainly the train of coincidences things like I've alluded to above or

Greene and Corday going out to get coffee and witnessing a car accident outside the hospital, another episode the building loses power, Benton finds Reese and later we see him working in trauma room with Reese on his back.

Maybe I'm being picky, but I find some of these antics a little silly/gimmicky, as a viewer I find that they undermine things a bit for me.

Basing the criticism on? Certainly not comparing it to House as they're different shows, happy to criticise it, particularly nowadays.

Elmo

The Black Oil wrote: »

First show to make us of the walk and talk style? It's mainly the train of coincidences things like I've alluded to above or

Greene and Corday going out to get coffee and witnessing a car accident outside the hospital, another episode the building loses power, Benton finds Reese and later we see him working in trauma room with Reese on his back.

Maybe I'm being picky, but I find some of these antics a little silly/gimmicky, as a viewer I find that they undermine things a bit for me.

Basing the criticism on? Certainly not comparing it to House as they're different shows, happy to criticise it, particularly nowadays.

Well take a look at casualty set up. Character drives car, is drinking coffee and talking on phone. Truck has turn over up ahead. Character spills coffee, swiffers but regains control and then trys to pick up coffee, handset falls also now looking for hand sets, oh look truck, breaks and now further injures. Casualty and Holby City are particularly bad at their set ups.

House is different but is basically CSI in a hospital, it was original for about 10 episode then it began to become contrived.

Yes there are contrived plots in ER, one criticism is that they always need a big explosive plots involving nurses or doctors at least once a season.

x_Ellie_x

tightropetom wrote: »

LOL - 90s show! :-) Ok, I know it started in the 90s but it was still running until 2009!!! :-) The way you described it, you'd think nobody would know of it!

Seriously though, very good show. Defo worth watching

I agree. It was one of my all time favourite tv shows! I managed to get all the 15 seasons for €50 when Golden Disc was closing down.

Marty McFly

Used to love ER in the early years when the like of George Clooney and Noah Wyle and Anthony Edwards were in it, in the later years i did stop watching I dont think it was that the show dipped just that the characters id known and like had left so id lost interest in it.

CorkBabe33

I loved the earlier seasons of ER, it just ran for too many years and lost its spark. I still remember being completely shocked at the episode where

Lucy and Carter were stabbed

. And Romano was just hilarious until his last season when the writers totally ruined the character :mad: