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Post by Tara on Jan 18, 2011 11:35:14 GMT 10
I'm not crazy about the packaging being thinner than all the previous seasons. I'm a little OCD when it comes to my dvd collection and that thin box doesn't look as nice on my shelf next to all the other ERs, LOL.
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Post by sallins on Jan 18, 2011 12:53:56 GMT 10
It took me some time to find the DVD at my Best Buy, I was looking and I found "Family Guy" so I knew "ER" was near by and around the time an employee asked me if I needed help I found it so he did a good job. The thin box was the reason I couldn't find it right away, then I remembered it was the strike shortened season so they saved some space. But really, if any show needed a writers strike it was ER, so they could think about what they did to us Lubys.
Larue, where do you get your DVDs? I think the insert has been used since season 10; a plastic box with the insert for the episode discription. Unless that has been that way for the sets sent to Best Buy.
I watched "Gravity" last night, I forgot how good that one was and the super cute Grady's crush on Abby is adorable.
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laura2005
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Post by laura2005 on Jan 18, 2011 12:57:56 GMT 10
I just got season 14 at Barnes & Noble tonight. They have higher prices on them so I don't normally buy them there but I was buying News Radio & Hot in Cleveland...and they had a special where you buy 2 and get 1 free. I have so many random seasons....hopefully someday I'll have them all!
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Post by sallins on Jan 19, 2011 0:28:05 GMT 10
Watch the sales fliers, you can find some super cheep, like $20 or less. Since season 4, I have been buying the seasons as soon as it is released or it goes on my christmas or birhtday list.
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Post by sallins on Jan 23, 2011 7:24:37 GMT 10
So... I worked up the stones to watch blackout, and It was one of Maura's best performances and it is an easier pill to swallow when we all know it turned out OK for Luka and Abby. The performance was like one part Chelsea Handler 2 parts gut-wrenching.
That final moment when the power goes out and Abby just looses it really got me. I think I was busy pouting the first time I saw it and missed that part.
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laura2005
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Post by laura2005 on Jan 23, 2011 8:20:28 GMT 10
That ep is on my list to watch soon...Maura has some awesome acting in season 14, that being one of my favorites!
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Post by Dianne on Jan 23, 2011 11:04:26 GMT 10
I've watched blackout so many times, I can almost dream it! It's the best epi there is! I looove the scene with her and Greg when she answers Pratt with "was it mii...??" It's amazing! And how she acts when they're outside..... awh see the master perform....
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Post by kathy on Feb 7, 2011 11:02:09 GMT 10
Just watched "Blackout" for the first time since it aired on NBC. Gosh it was hard to watch, Abby just sinking further and further into dispair. I can't say it enough, Maura is an awesome actress!
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Post by givelovesolong on Feb 7, 2011 16:09:24 GMT 10
You know, I've had my S14 DVD's for just over a year now, and I have only watched "Blackout" once in that entire time (making it three times in total since my initial viewing in 2009 -- to be fair, though, one was a TV viewing; I can't not watch an episode if I know it's going to be broadcast).
I know Maura is incredible in it, and I know that it's an extraordinary episode, but I really just can't stomach what happens. Like, really, really can't.
I've been working my way through the entire series, and I've just begun S13 and I really do hesitate to move through the episodes because of how I feel about S14. I mean, I cried last night just thinking about it -- even though I was reading an old episode review of "I Don't". And again today -- mowing the lawns. [/obsession]
For Abby to lose control that badly, I just... -- yeah. Don't deal with it very well.
I think if it had just been the drinking, it would be a whole lot easier to get through and to accept and you know, to forgive. I love Abby -- and there is absolutely no doubt that she is my favourite character -- but there's a part of me that hates her for what she did.
Even more than that, though, I'm a Luka/Abby fan -- and that's why S14 hurts so much.
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Post by Tara on Feb 8, 2011 12:26:58 GMT 10
It really was an extremely painful storyline. Even though Abby was my favorite, it broke my heart for Luka that he almost lost a second family because of her actions. He wasn't 100% blameless in their problems, but still....if he had decided that what she'd done was unforgivable and he had to leave for good, he would've had every right. Thank god he didn't though, I couldn't have survived an unhappy ending for our beautiful Luby!
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Post by givelovesolong on Feb 8, 2011 13:15:02 GMT 10
I was going to delve into the fact that I know Luka wasn't completely blameless in the whole situation, but I thought I should probably refrain from writing an essay.
I was reading old posts over at FanForum or TWoP the other day, and I was totally bewildered by people's reactions to Luka deciding to move out. I'm with you Tara -- he had every right in the world to leave. After finding out your wife had not only fallen back into a drunken stupor, but also put your child in danger and drunk at work and was unfaithful, I don't know how anything less could be accepted.
Okay, yes -- in a perfect world, we'd like to think that Luka would stick around to support Abby, but if that's how it had happened, and everything between them had been fixed with a click of the fingers, I think then there would have been backlash for "sweeping it under the rug".
I can understand how people would be pissed at Luka for leaving after Abby had -- in what was absolutely one of her bravest moments -- asked him for help, but for him to find out all that he did, I think he needed to have that space while he figured out what his next move would be. Coburn told Abby that it was up to Luka what happened next, and she needed to wait and let him do that. She'd had the luxury of time to really let her actions sink in and understand what the repercussions might be. Luka though -- from what I gathered from some of those posts -- was expected to just accept what had happened and tell Abby that they would just move on from there, without letting him deal with it or understand it at all. Something that could just never have happened.
I do hate that Luka had to leave, but I think it was completely necessary. Besides, I don't believe he ever intended for it to be permanent anyway.
I couldn't imagine him with anyone else, and I don't think he could either.
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Post by Tara on Feb 9, 2011 8:42:39 GMT 10
Beautifully said, Bree!
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Post by sallins on Feb 9, 2011 9:12:04 GMT 10
Like Luka said at the end of that ep "I have to move out." he need time by himself to decide if he wanted his life with or without Abby as his wife. she would not be out of his life completely because of Joe. I think part of the reason Luka could forgive Abby is it was a drunken three hour stand not an ongoing affair and we all know Abby would not touch Moretti stone cold sober and Luka found that out too. I think had Luka not lost his first family the way he did, he probably would have divorced Abby, but he knew he was lucky to love so fully twice in his life and Abby was worth fighting for and staying together. I just loved the fact that he punched Moretti, a kick to the stones would have been great too.
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Post by givelovesolong on Feb 10, 2011 4:16:16 GMT 10
That's exactly right, Sallins -- Luka needed that time and space to figure out what he was thinking and feeling about the whole situation. And of course, because of Joe, he would forever be tied to Abby, no matter what he ended up deciding.
Certainly part of the reason Luka could forgive Abby was because of the circumstances surrounding the affair. You're right in saying that the knowledge that it was absolutely a one-time thing -- a sure mistake -- would of had to have been factored into Luka's reasoning and understanding of the situation. Of course, that nowhere near excuses or makes what she did any easier to stomach. But it didn't mean she didn't love him. It makes me sick to think about what happened, and just as Luka said -- he felt like a part of him had died after she told him, and I can totally understand that devastation on his behalf; what that must have felt like.
I believe wholeheartedly that Abby would never -- not ever, in this world or any other -- have been tempted to do something like that, and at least in that, we know it was without a doubt because of the alcohol and the disease, and her utter inability to control what she was doing or what was going on that night.
It's hard to imagine that it got that bad for her, and that she could do what she did -- and I don't just mean the affair, but putting Joe in danger or even threatening her career (willingly, or not) -- but I don't know that Luka, without having lost his family, would have ever left Abby either. From what's been demonstrated on the show -- and I'm going to borrow words here* -- but from what we've seen, Luka has this incredible capacity to love, and he has always fiercely protected Abby -- and eventually Joe -- and you know, fought for them. And while it might be more accentuated for him as a character because of what he has lost, I still think those qualities would have been a distinct part of who he was even before all the tragedy.
But you know, maybe that's the romantic coming out in me, and the part that fiercely loves who Abby and Luka are -- especially with each other.
*Pandorama's, "Full of Grace". Seriously -- read it.
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Post by sallins on Feb 10, 2011 6:42:32 GMT 10
Ditto. She really fills in what the episodes failed to cover.
One of several things that bugged me about Moretti is in the finale he tells Abby he didn't know about her and Luka. BS!! When he first meets her he says "I'll be replacing your husband as cheif." So it is obvious that he knows they're married, he must just have no respect for their marriage or during Abby's drunken stooper she gave him an indication that they are seperated. Even if she did, Moretti should have done the honerable thing and not take advatage of a drunk married woman.
Of course it could simply be another writers screw up.
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