In my last post I declared that ER is a better show than Torchwood. After saying so something odd happened: I started thinking about ER. Quite a bit.

The show launched in 1994. On April 2, 2008, NBC announced that ER’s next season- its 15th- will be the final season.

I used to watch this show back in the day. There used to be something on in the time slot before ER that I watched (it might have been WWE Smackdown) and, as I had no life, I would stay up an extra hour to watch my look-alike George Clooney. This was circa seasons 4-6. I didn’t watch every episode and I was never a die hard ER head, but the truth is that those years really were better than Torchwood.

Top four reasons why ER Seasons 4-6 are better than Torchwood.

4. Ground Breaking Action Scenes. In 1994 we had never seen hospital scenes as emotionally charged or sickeningly graphic. There was debate at the time about censoring those scenes because TV viewers weren’t prepared for them. In Torchwood, sometimes they drive over the speed limit.

3. ER Science Is Believable And Consistent. I know that Torchwood is scifi, but if Owen the Dr. spends a series of episodes failing and barely succeeding in getting alien technology to work but Ryes can do it first try, I call shenanigans.

2. Rich And Powerful Character Development. ER had a huge cast of I-don’t-know-how-many. Maybe you didn’t know a lot about some of the orderlies or nurses, but the ones you knew were not just standing there operating, they were living, breathing people that had fully developed lives outside of work. Torchwood is full of episodes where nothing and no one changes.

1. George Clooney Has A Secret Crush On Me. It’s true. Even though neither of us is gay and although he left the show is season 5, Clooney continues to send me autographed nudes of himself. It used to be cute, now it’s old.

I promise, no more posts about Torchwood.