It's sad when you fall out of love with a programme. I missed the classic early years of ER, and joined it in around Season Four or Five, and I absolutely loved it. One of my earliest memories was of Lucy being stabbed to death :-o
My Monday, and then Wednesday, nights all revolved around ER. Everything stopped for it - it was great. And then, suddenly I realised that I wasn't enjoying it any more, and that nothing actually had seemed to happen for the past five or six years. It annoyed me how most of the characters in the opening credits barely seemed to pop up and actually do anything (Dr Chen, Alex Kingston, Sherry Stringfield). And it got even worse when I started to realise that I was actually starting to HATE Abbie and Neela - formerly two of my favourite characters. They just went from being flawed and likeable, to irritating and know-it-all and men-hating and stroppy.
Even Dr Weaver - once such an unbelievably amazing, well-written character - was sidelined and went up into management. She's back now, but she's lost the old magic.
I think the final straw was when they 'jumped the shark', when speccy Dr Debenko turned up to work as a robot (no word of a lie) as he was recovering from cancer.
So no, I can't face Morris any more (a two-episode character at best), whatserface the nurse (who played velma in the Scooby Doo movie) is unbearable, and I know where the off switch is!
Still better than Grey's though.
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"Still better than Grey's though."
Oooh, b*tch! :-)
So if your bosses offered you the editorship of a GA magazine, you'd say no, would you?
i would probably get into the show if i sat down to watch it properly. it's just the goddamn irritating music throughout that i hate (they seem to have the same musician on ugly betty and desperate housewives). aaargh
S'funny: I watch both Grey's and Ugly Betty, and I couldn't tell you a thing about the music on either show. I think it must be an immersion thing -- I'm so caught up in what it being said and done that the background stuff passes me by. Meanwhile, I was so put-off by the lame dialogue in the first episode of Lost that I never did get into the show.
Tsk!
This from a man who wrote: "What happened to [Lost]? It used to be so cool, and now it's just weak. No one tells anyone anything. Nothing happens any more. They pretend to give answers but they never do. It's silly."
It's there in print -- you can't take it back now! :-)
hello, that wasn't me, it was Molly.
And who put the words in her mouth? Go on, admit it, you hate Lost.
It has been...lacking of late...
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