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Subj : Re: Canon City
To   : alt.tv.er
From : galt_57@hotmail.com
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 12:01:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> So. It's a new season. And ER definitely has a different feel. That was
> the main thing that struck me about the eppy -- it didn't 'feel' like
> any previous season;

You mean the creepy "You set the tone Morris" feel where you pity the
arriving patients?

> I found the Sam/Luka storyline very watchable (or, maybe it was just
> that Luka was exceptionally watchable...), though it did peter out at
> the end.

I could drop a helicopter onto Sam and Alex with no regrets. How did
they ever escape life in the trailer park where they obviously came
from?

> And, of course, they never explained a few rather important points
> ... like how Alex made it all the way to Colorado without anyone
> wondering who this kid was.

Difficult to know how often he climbed in and out of a truck within
sight of someone.

> Rather scuzzy of her to dump Luka like that at the end though.

A giant favor.

> I noted that, in the 'previously on ER', they reshot the 'Alex
> hitchhiking' scene with the new kid.

Did they really?

> Could he really have ended up in a diabetic coma THAT fast? He
> left the previous evening; it's now early the next morning.

Seemed absurd to me for Sam to need to race there and go running in the
door like a nut.

> Along with recasting Alex, they also aged him a bit.

Seemed odd to me that they couldn't find a closer age match.

> While I liked Luka's little anecdote about Marko

On a crowded beach where they barely "found a spare inch" Luka leaves a
tiny kid at the waters edge to go retrieve a toy shovel? Are you
kidding?

> But I loved Sam's line about "There are beaches in Croatia?"

Yes, that was a nice touch.

> I think the new season has promise, but the jury is definitely still
> out.

Especially if Sam and Luka break up.

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