People,

Do any of you loyal readers by any chance still watch ER? I mean, I know I shouldn't, but somehow I got sucked in this season and I find myself on the couch each thursday.

Anywho, even if we shouldn't watch it, can we agree that it and shows like it (i.e. based on dramatic trauma situations) are getting out of control? Every week the ER preview ads begin with something like "This thursday the unthinkable happens. A shocking new ER..." The lengths they'll go to avoid having actual character interaction are just silly. This week a helicopter airlift goes horribly wrong, causing the chopper to explode and crash into the ambulance area of the hospital, killing a doctor who last season lost his arm....in a helicopter accident. I mean, come on.

How stupid do TV programmers think we are that they think we need constant upping of the shock and violence? I mean, some of us do need that, but there's lots of people who don't. It's boring. And where can they really gofrom there? I feel like next week ER is going to be about how Jesus comes back and although he can heal people, he's a meth addict who makes scalpels fly around the hospital, killing hundreds when he can't get his fix. Then Hitler shows up and they do battle until the Taliban drops a nuclear bomb on the city of Chicago and ends the whole thing. Actually, I'd probably watch that one....