On Dec 9, 6:18 pm, "sharon" <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
.. So
> > she dealt with the most pressing crisis, (which, at that point, WAS
> > Eric) then made it back as soon as she could to deal with the next
> > one. (Help Carter with the arrangements, and offer moral sup****t.)
>
> When did she help Carter with arrangements? What show were you
watching?
> What moral sup****t did she give him? The only thing we saw her do was
show
> up at the funeral and let her mentally ill brother cause a scene. No
> sup****t at all.
There was roughly a week of unseen time (between the trip to Iowa and
the funeral), during which we didn't see ANYTHING. We didn't know for
sure that she 'helped' but neither do we know for sure that she
didn't. Nothing was ever said either way.
>. She was neither warm, nor
> sympathetic and Carter saw it immediately, don't know how you missed it.
It's been a while since I've watched the eppy, but I'm sure it can be,
and IS interpreted in different ways, depending on the POV of the
viewer. If I think about it I'll watch again tonight.
> > Absolutely correct. I was just thinking earlier today that, with the
> > odds of the show being renewed roughly equal to that of a snowball
> > surviving 6 months hours in hell ... it should have been possible to
> > write around Luka's absence without necessitating a long sojourn in
> > Croatia for him. We're already halfway through the season.
>
> > Naomi
>
> I am very afraid that a prolonged writer's strike would cause NBC to
> consider a 15th season to give ER a longer sendoff. Chulack and Wells
are
> both campaigning for it big time.
And.... if MP and LC and GV are gone ... who will be left? (Unless
they start a new show "ER -The Next Generation.")
I dunno. The more I think about it, the clearer it has become that
(among many other problems, of course) TPTB simply wrote themselves
into a corner with this storyline. Long before they filmed the
wedding, they KNEW that GV planned to leave at the end of the season.
So the idea that they would write the wedding, and then have to figure
out a way to split them up again within a few episodes set them up for
a challenge they simply don't have the skills to cope with.
They really shouldof/couldof done one of the two things. 1. Skip the
wedding. Have Abby decide that she just can't marry him (this without
the 'suprise wedding' storyline), and Luka, who has already quit as
department head, decides to leave County and get a job elsewhere. (And
his few appearences this season would revolve around his visits to his
young son.) 2. Kill him off. Lots of ways they could have done
this. Work it in together with SW's departure. (Luka tries to save
Ray and is killed himself.) Or a reworking of the mugger story --
make Luka and Abby's relation****p a full-circle. In either case it,
rather than the stampede, would have served admirably as the now-
standard sturm-und-drang season finale/cliffhanger, AND, if the
writers were set on having the Abby Falls off the Wagon storyline, it
would have made her fall much easier to believe than the "Oh, Joe fell
down and went boom and I can't deal with the strain --- Luka has gone
off to Croatia and isn't even sufficiently in touch to wonder about
the financial implications of having the primary breadwinner on unpaid
leave for six months" crap we're being expected to swallow.
Naomi
>
> Sharon
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