Subj : Re: What's happening?
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Ellen K Hursh
Date : Thu Oct 13 2005 23:15:09

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

Dropping The Helicopter wrote:
> Was I hit on the head and hallucinating, or did I just watch an actual
> *SOLID* episode of ER?
>
> ...oh.  I see.  One last gasp before the "Leguizamo Shitstorm".
>
> Welp, time for my bullet points:
>
> - Did anybody else notice the cameo by Screech from Saved By The Bell,
> as the psychologist Neela called in for Wall Crasher Woman?

Paul Myers has been with us, off and on, since S2.

> - And who is that intriguing new redheaded doctor?  The one with the
> crutch?  If TPTB play it right, she could become a solid character.
> Just a feeling I have.

<smirk>

> - Guess which two non-characters were (virtually) missing from this
> episode?  Yep, Drs. Doogie Hauser and Archibald Morris.  Well, to be
> fair, Morris did reprise his "falling on ass" role that he's famous for,
> but other than that, the episode was devoid of both of them and was
> immeasurably better for it.

Too bad Eve was kidding (?) about killing him with her middle finger -
or does she have to use the whole five-point-palm-exploding-heart
technique?

> - As creepy, icky, and hateful as Creepy Surgeon Guy is, they pulled off
> that coffee scene between Abby and him incredibly well.  "What about
> after?" "Yeah I'm going to have to pass on that too."  That's vintage ER
> right there.

Looked to me like Abby was regretting, right off the bat, inviting
"Lucian" to convo over coffee. ("Excuse me, I have to go give a sponge
bath to the burned guy from last week.") But at least she got him
hooked up (as it were) with the "satisfaction facilitator". (Did
anybody else - given Shawna's comments about also servicing women -
expect Heart Guy's wife to turn out to be another of her "clients"?)

> - The hair Abby had for the bulk of this episode is her Ultimate Hairdo.
>   It's the Do that takes her from semi-hot (bad hair) through medium-hot
> (normal Abby hair) all the way to MUCHO CALIENTE!  THAT'S ABBINESE FOR
> "SUPER-HOT"!

It was pretty cute... even though they seem to be letting her play with
the peroxide again. (Bad TPTB! No! Bad!)

> - Kubiak gets hit by lightning.  KA-LASSIC.  That is almost as good as
> Luka beating some punk to death.

"Here's your change." And I guess Weaver's forgotten that she once
banned the inappropriate use of personnel. (Maybe it's just me, but
sending someone out in a lightning storm to buy a freakin' *Care Bear*
sure seems to fall under the heading of "inappropriate use".)

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