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Post by Raffy on Feb 27, 2009 0:51:33 GMT -5
Sorry, gusy. I forgot to open the new thread. But I got flu! Let's discuss here
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Post by claired80 on Feb 27, 2009 3:26:05 GMT -5
As I said on LJ, I found it good but not extra good.
I really liked seeing the reflexion of Carter in the water pond in the ambulance bay, and that he looked happy to be back. I liked Chuny's comment "Good job today! It's like you never left..." and him answering "almost...".
I didn't like that we didn't learn more about him, his getting sick, how long he's been back in Chicago, what's with Kem. We just know he's been in a hospital for a week in Nairobi, and he came back to be on the list for a kidney transplant. I'd have liked to know if he asked his parents to donate, if they are not compatible or too old maybe, how and when he was told that his condition was permanent. Well, I found it really "Carter-like" when he explained that he had first the idea that it would 'magically disappeared'. But there are many things that I feel like will never be explained. A few episodes for such a story arc are just too little... And why on earth does he not wear his wedding ring anymore now?
I liked that it was Noah's voice for the "previously on ER" ;D.
I didn't know how to feel at first that he seemed almost arrogant about his way of practicing medicine, but actually, he just seems very confident in his skills, and both Banfield and Dubenko backed him up, Gates also seemed to admire him.
I still wonder what he meant in his little talking with Sam, when she was talking about her mom. She said "how do you get from there to here?" while talking about her mom's aging, and he answers "that's the million dollar question". That could have sounded like he was thinking about himself when he said so. How did he get from there to here?
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Post by Raffy on Feb 27, 2009 12:49:23 GMT -5
I'm still waiting that d**n dowload ends.....
Anyway ratings for this one start to improve....
It got 8,512,000 for the first half hour and 8,942,000 for the second one.
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Post by claired80 on Feb 27, 2009 13:13:52 GMT -5
That's good! I guess the cliffhanger in the last episode may have worked. People wanted to know what was going on with Carter maybe. I wonder if they'll reach 10,000,000 by the end of the season. That seems reachable.
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Post by Raffy on Feb 27, 2009 13:27:38 GMT -5
10 millions will be a good number for the series finale and it's reachable if the ratings continue to improve.
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Post by Raffy on Mar 5, 2009 9:23:59 GMT -5
I think he was forced to prove his skills, seeing that Banfield was so worry about it And Neela really annoyed me with her attitude. She's a doctor but she's not Mark Greene. She has very little of experience as surgeon but acts like she's a Mr Clever. She should listen more and stop to complain.
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Post by claired80 on Mar 5, 2009 10:39:03 GMT -5
I think he was forced to prove his skills, seeing that Banfield was so worry about it And Neela really annoyed me with her attitude. She's a doctor but she's not Mark Greene. She has very little of experience as surgeon but acts like she's a Mr Clever. She should listen more and stop to complain. I don't think he consciously wanted to prove anything, but he was just very sure that he was making the right decision. Like for the woman he decided to operate directly in the ER, telling Banfield that at the camp he was working in, surgeons weren't around a lot, and he was often on his own. I really liked that plot. That was showing that Carter became an even better doctor while working in Darfur. He probably performed surgeries and things he wasn't doing in the ER. And I think that having done a year as an intern in surgery was probably useful for him working in Africa. I liked that it was used here and there over the years that Carter had a bit of experience as a surgeon (like in season 7, when he amputated a guy on the field, or in "Lockdown", when he does a tracheotomy on the boy with small pox). I really like that they never forgot about that and used it in his story. I would really like him to discuss that with Benton. Not for long, but just thanking Benton for what he taught him and explaining him it was really useful for working in Africa. And Neela's reaction was indeed really annoying! It's funny to think that the paths of Carter and Neela were really quite opposite: he left surgery because he wanted to be closer to patients, and she left the ER because she wasn't good at dealing with patients. That tells quite a lot about the two characters ...
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Post by Raffy on Mar 5, 2009 15:21:00 GMT -5
All the stuff about he being "rusty" was proved totally wrong. Probably Gates is more update than Carter but that dosen't make him a better doctor. NO WAY Two sides of the same coin. And Carter is the good one ;D
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