| Wednesday, 7 February 2007 |
| a little bit of ER and Heroes |
Hoho! Life just got more interesting today!
I just discovered that cable's still showing the first few seasons of "ER" at 8pm every weekday! And I'm so hooked!
Looks like I'm never ever going to get much work done anymore. "ER"'s so addictive, and its literally a medical student's fantasy. It has so much exciting medical cases, so much cool scenes of gore and blood, floating organs, fascinating surgeries... its probably one of the most technical medical dramas out there (even more so than "Grey's")
I guess "Grey's" is more of the human, emotional and ethical drama between doctors, whereas while "ER" also has its fair share of these tantalizing bits, it tends to be more focused on the medicine behind it. The heck, both are amazing serials anyway.
Looks like my 8 o'clocks will never be free again. =p
Its interesting to note that I first caught "ER" when I was upper primary, in an attempt to be sophisticated. Of course I didn't understand anything that was going on or being said in it: all the technical jargon just sounded like gibberish crap. But I still watched on anyway, because it would have been so embarrassing to give up halfway and watch some low grade cartoon instead.
However, when I watch it now, everything just clicks! (the jargon makes sense, the procedures are not so ailen, the situations so realistic cause... well, you are studying about it every single day!) And everything that happens in the show, serves to excite me.
And the strange thing was, I remember being freaked out by the scenes of blood and gore then, and that "ER" was the series that convinced a ten year old me, that I will never ever be a doctor. And look where I am now? Look at what happened to me over ten years.
I have choosen to be in a profession that I had, just a decade ago, sworn to avoid for the rest of my life. And instead of being freaked out by bloody, messy scenes of injuries and surgeries, I get a kick out of seeing them.
Times have changed indeed.
And if you thought that I would have been satisfied with rediscovering an old addiction , I shall also take the opportuntiy to officially announce that I'm addicted to 'Heroes' as well.
Damn. I caught the first episode last week, and boy was it a bore. But the second episode that aired just a few hours ago was so thrilling and intriguing, that I immediately got hooked.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that it features, like any brilliant medical drama, scenes of extreme gore as well (victims of a serial killer with their skull caps cut, bodies in various states of decomposition), I dunno, but it sure is great entertainment. Another series to go wild and obsessive over.
With "Grey's", "ER" and now "Heroes", I have loads of keeping up to do. And ff this goes on any longer, I might have to get a shrink. (or I could just wish that I had Hiro-san's power to manipulate the space time continuum, and teleport "like star-treku"! Then I'll just keep re-visiting certain days and keep watching them over and over again.)
So many amazing shows, so little time.
Such, is the greatness, of American Televison.Labels: tv |
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