Isn't this the show that brags about how unready and unqualified (read: incompetent) everyone on it is, particularly the highest-ranked medical-trained person? I could be misremembering, but that detail was one of the many specific reasons I wasn't interested in it.
I have to wonder if they think they're offering the "darker, edgier" version of the Homicide: Life on the Street episode in which Vincent D'Onofrio's character was crush-trapped by a subway train. That case had the medical rescue personnel spending all the episode's time trying to find a way to lever the train away from him, knowing that the degree of crushing would send him into ... hypovolemic shock rapidly followed by death, I think, because his entire lower half was crushed and that's not really a tourniquet situation. Even knowing that, they tried.
That was actual quality television, though, as opposed to Our Flawed Characters and Can't-Do Attitude Make Us Deep television.
(Is there any way in which the "darker, edgier" content and "sexual exploration" of SGU is anything less trite than a college freshman discovering how prudish his own upbringing has been and thinking that the very concept of sex somehow confers Deep Meaning?)
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I have to wonder if they think they're offering the "darker, edgier" version of the Homicide: Life on the Street episode in which Vincent D'Onofrio's character was crush-trapped by a subway train. That case had the medical rescue personnel spending all the episode's time trying to find a way to lever the train away from him, knowing that the degree of crushing would send him into ... hypovolemic shock rapidly followed by death, I think, because his entire lower half was crushed and that's not really a tourniquet situation. Even knowing that, they tried.
That was actual quality television, though, as opposed to Our Flawed Characters and Can't-Do Attitude Make Us Deep television.
(Is there any way in which the "darker, edgier" content and "sexual exploration" of SGU is anything less trite than a college freshman discovering how prudish his own upbringing has been and thinking that the very concept of sex somehow confers Deep Meaning?)