Awesome thread.

December 11, 2003 4:53 PM

Great thread, people. Keep it coming.
posted by Yelling At Nothing to MetaFilter-Related at 4:53 PM (12 comments total)

This is the sort of thread that I skip over sometimes, but this one turned out to be really in-depth and interesting. I guess I thought it needed a shout.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 4:54 PM on December 11, 2003

I was surprised, because I saw Michael Crichton's name at the top. Guess that shows me that not everything bearing his name is total shit.
posted by rocketman at 7:16 PM on December 11, 2003

C'mon everybody, ER is Must See TV!!
...he PepsiBlued.
posted by wendell at 7:45 PM on December 11, 2003

Keep it coming.

Did you mean to link to this thread?
posted by homunculus at 7:45 PM on December 11, 2003

I gotta say that Michael Crichton, while perhaps a bit formulaic, is not that bad a writer. He shouldn't be judged on ER alone, which isn't really that bad a show, IMO.

Oh, and agreed, it is a good thread.
posted by ashbury at 10:32 PM on December 11, 2003

Oh, look, now we can all start a new MeTalk thread for every FPP thread we like. This ought to be fun. ;-P
posted by mischief at 11:39 PM on December 11, 2003

We had to do something here now that all the serious fun's over in AskMetafilter.
posted by soyjoy at 6:45 AM on December 12, 2003

I dunno, but I think I just wrote that thread's epitaph - in the form of a bad joke.

"magullo - did you hear about the new sci-fi coming out? - It concerns a project - to extract the DNA of huge, fossilized pickles and use it to rebuild a population of the huge vegetables (which have not lived on earth for over 20 million years). The project, of course, goes horribly amok during an inaugural visit by a small group who are being given a personal tour by the scientific genius behind the project. In the end, everyone dies in various horrible ways - except for a nubile starlet and Harrison Ford. It's called Vlassic Park."
posted by troutfishing at 9:06 AM on December 12, 2003

Michael Crichton ... shouldn't be judged on ER alone

True -- you should also include Twister.
posted by kindall at 11:12 AM on December 12, 2003

*beams*
posted by leotrotsky at 1:55 PM on December 12, 2003

careful now, leo - you know what the ancient greeks would say...
posted by troutfishing at 7:17 PM on December 12, 2003

But the keyword there is excessive, m'kay?
posted by troutfishing at 7:20 PM on December 12, 2003