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Alcoholic white trash Janeway! "Mercy" me!

The Borgified Corpse

The Borgified Corpse

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I needed something to kill time before Glee tonight. I settled on NBC's new medical drama Mercy. I usually can't stand medical dramas, but now I'll watch practically anything on NBC out of pity. (Although... the more their line up fails, the longer they keep renewing my precious Law & Order.:devil:)

Anyway, in the first scene, who should saunter in in a drunken stupor but Captain Janeway! She's three sheets to the wind and it looks like it's only 9 in the morning! It looks like she'll be a recurring fixture here as the main character's alcholic mother. I gotta say, this is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. That husky voice of hers seems far more suited to drunken rantings than to giving orders aboard a starship.

The rest of the show is kinda meh. Veronica is hot & sassy. Michelle Tractenberg reminds me why she was one of my least favorite characters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Overall, I'd say Mercy is like Scrubs except it's not pretending to be funny.
 
I watched the pilot. I won't be watching any more. They should have just named Trachtenberg's character Dawn Summers. It would have saved confusion.

As for the show, I HATE the trend of making adultery the sympathetic thread in a storyline, i.e., writing a show so you WANT the main character to end their marriage so they can get together with their TRUE love. Bah.
 
Sakrysta said:
I watched the pilot. I won't be watching any more. They should have just named Trachtenberg's character Dawn Summers. It would have saved confusion.

As for the show, I HATE the trend of making adultery the sympathetic thread in a storyline, i.e., writing a show so you WANT the main character to end their marriage so they can get together with their TRUE love. Bah.
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I saw the pilot of Showtime's nurse show. I got the feeling that their adulter didn't really love the boyfriend, she was just prostituting herself for drugs.
 
Ha ha, yeah it was definitely a shock seeing Mulgrew like that.

As for the show, I only watched the first 10 minutes or so, but it was just way too sleek and glossy and soap opera-y for my taste.
 
Sakrysta said:
As for the show, I HATE the trend of making adultery the sympathetic thread in a storyline, i.e., writing a show so you WANT the main character to end their marriage so they can get together with their TRUE love. Bah.
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That's why I don't watch Grey's Anatomy.

The lead in Mercy can't act. I turned it off after ten minutes because I couldn't stand her.
 
But dufus beardy doctor was great on Alley McBeal. If he's an ass in the pilot, odds are he's going to be an angel by the finale.

Dawny is a pale shadow of the girl they had playing the same cute as puke cut out template position in nurse jaquie...

This show seems about as fake as Army wives but with a little more teeth than greys anatomy.
 
Sakrysta said:
As for the show, I HATE the trend of making adultery the sympathetic thread in a storyline, i.e., writing a show so you WANT the main character to end their marriage so they can get together with their TRUE love. Bah.
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I don't mind that so much, although it is becoming an overused cliche. They're doing the same thing on Glee, although I'd say the husband on Mercy is far more sympathetic than the self-centered conniving wife on Glee. (Plus, it's hard to not-sympathize with a man if the woman he wants to cheat with is Jayma Mays.)

The other annoying thing about it is that my mother is divorced because my father was cheating on her with a co-worker. So every time one of these pro-adultery storylines comes up, talking to her about the show gets reeeeeeally uncomfortable.
 
The Borgified Corpse said:
Sakrysta said:
As for the show, I HATE the trend of making adultery the sympathetic thread in a storyline, i.e., writing a show so you WANT the main character to end their marriage so they can get together with their TRUE love. Bah.
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I don't mind that so much, although it is becoming an overused cliche. They're doing the same thing on Glee, although I'd say the husband on Mercy is far more sympathetic than the self-centered conniving wife on Glee.
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Which is one of the things that has bothered me about Glee as well. Turned that one off too.
 
Sakrysta said:
I watched the pilot. I won't be watching any more.
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Me too. It had its moments, but overall it didn't grab me enough to continue watching. After ER, I really don't have much interest in medical dramas anyway. Mulgrew was amusing though.
 
Kira's Mom said:
The Borgified Corpse said:
I'm thinking some kind of fusion between Voyager & The Graduate.
HARRY KIM: "Mrs. Janeway, you're trying to seduce me."
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I need brain soap now, thanks. :mad: :p :guffaw:
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