Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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John Aloysius Farrell

ER Ends Its 15-year Run on TV. Good Riddance

March 31, 2009 11:30 AM ET | John Aloysius Farrell | Permanent Link | Print

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LOVE ER

For those of you who have to make negative comments have obviously not been a faithful viewer, so why now do you feel the need to comment on it.... I thought it was great and i'm going to miss it, I have been watching since day one!!

what a jerk

what a jerk this author is

i love ER, and if you haven't watched it and understood it, too bad

i cannot believe this jerk gets paid to write this garbage....this is like an 8th grader writing a book report on something they never read

fire him

You're not a meteorologist either, but I guess you can report on the weather

How can you even feign a dignified opinion on a show you admittedly never watched once? Why not give me your weather forecast? After all, you're not a meteorologist! You have just proven again that 99.9% of all bloggers are simply a waste of internet space and kilobytes. Thank goodness it's a big Web.

-Jim in Phoenix

You've seen one Soap Opera...

You've seen them all.

I didn't really like ER and only watched it a few times.

General Hospital was better.

ER

I haven't watched "ER" since that pretentious "live" episode. That was so long ago that Clooney was still on! That show got old and repetitive fast.

I also quit watching "CSI" after only a few episodes. I am not a faithful watcher of any show anymore. I'd rather spend time with my kids. Unfortunately, that means watching more "Sponge Bob" and "Hannah Montana" than I care for!

Agreed with the first commenter

Yes I agree. You've not seen a single episode of this show and you're getting paid to opine on it? What kind of a world do we live in. YOU SIR, in these tough economic times, have NOT earned your paycheck. We can't wait for you to become another closed newspaper layoff anyway. Loser.

What a load of crap

You say you've never seen a single episode. That's fine, your choice. But then you say it doesn't rock, there is no connection, blah blah blah.

ER isn't a "reality show", which you'd know if you'd ever seen it.

If you're going to provide an opinion on something, at least opine of something you can have a reasonable conversation about.

ER is a reasonably good drama. Great acting, great production, some tense moments with excellent charter development.

But then again you'd know that had you bothered to view even one episode before slamming it and comparing it to Dancing with the Stars and Deal or No Deal.

I've got no issue with someone watching a show and saying "I think this show sucks". But to say (in effect) "this show sucks" having not watched a moment of it is utterly ridiculous.

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John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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