Subj : Re: Season 12: Are you spoiled or not? Why?
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Rhino
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 17:45:00

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


"Barrnabas Collins" <BarnabasCollinsonSFNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ip22g1h1dant3beaf4p93o44of6crcqa60@4ax.com...
> I've tried it both ways, going in spoiled as well as going in
> unspoiled, and you know what?  I like it better being spoiled.
>
> One thing I found being unspoiled is I can see the train
> wreck a mile down the road.   And sure enough, the
> writers would write that train wreck into the episode.
>
> I'm older than dirt and it this point in my life
> I can watch a 30 second trailer and what
> will unfold in that one hour episode will
> be painfully obvious.  Chalk it up to
> writers in Hollywood who haven't had an
> original thought in many years.
>
> Between ER, St. Elsewhere,
> Emergency, Dr. Welby, and other
> medical shows over the years as
> well as lots of shows featuring various
> couples IMHO Hollywood  writers
> (this includes YOU ER) ran out
> of original ideas many years ago.
>
> Every episode of ER has
> one thing in common.....been
> there, done that.

Have you ever seen Nip/Tuck? That's a medical show that has the power to
surprise *me* fairly regularly.

Rhino

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