For People Dazzled By Explosions , Gunfire, and Characters Jumping Out of Helicopters
As far as I'm concerned, a medical drama has two main points of focus. The main characters who are usually doctors and nurses. And the 'cases of the week' - patients who are often injured in dramatic, heightened, and forgivably unrealistic ways. I found this series to be a failure on both counts.
Our hero is just that. Nothing more than a one-note hero who never makes mistakes and is never wrong. Egotistical to a fault (like many real and fictional doctors - I grant you), but never humbled by the narrative or faced with any hubris. He is the ONLY one who knows what's best and he breaks the rules constantly because he's better than safety procedures and protocols. I can't help but compare him to character like House, for example, who is constantly checked by other characters and forced to face his own god complex often.
Our other core characters are just as underdeveloped and one dimensional. No complexity, no layers, no internal lives. Our villains are laughable in their greed, also one note with no redeeming qualities at all. Not a whiff of nuance to be found.
And then we have the medical cases. For some reason, the patients are all but irrelevant on this series. We don't know them, we're not asked to care about them. We're only asked to care about whether our hero is 'right' in whatever dangerous decision he makes to save them. And of course he always is. It's boring, repetitive, and utterly unengaging.
If you're dazzled by explosions and gunfire and characters jumping out of helicopters then perhaps this show is for you. But if character and story matter to you at all, this show does not deliver.
Our hero is just that. Nothing more than a one-note hero who never makes mistakes and is never wrong. Egotistical to a fault (like many real and fictional doctors - I grant you), but never humbled by the narrative or faced with any hubris. He is the ONLY one who knows what's best and he breaks the rules constantly because he's better than safety procedures and protocols. I can't help but compare him to character like House, for example, who is constantly checked by other characters and forced to face his own god complex often.
Our other core characters are just as underdeveloped and one dimensional. No complexity, no layers, no internal lives. Our villains are laughable in their greed, also one note with no redeeming qualities at all. Not a whiff of nuance to be found.
And then we have the medical cases. For some reason, the patients are all but irrelevant on this series. We don't know them, we're not asked to care about them. We're only asked to care about whether our hero is 'right' in whatever dangerous decision he makes to save them. And of course he always is. It's boring, repetitive, and utterly unengaging.
If you're dazzled by explosions and gunfire and characters jumping out of helicopters then perhaps this show is for you. But if character and story matter to you at all, this show does not deliver.
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