ER - The Complete First Season

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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!
Review: I LOVE THIS SHOW ESPECIALLY GEORGE CLOONEY. GLAD THEY FINALLY
DECIDE TO RELEASE THE SEASONS, CAN'T WAIT TO COLLECT THEM ALL. SO
I CAN CATCH UP ON THE SHOW.

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Summary: er
Review: First Season is one of the best. Double sided discs are a bad idea. Anybody who wants to call and complain to them can call [phone] or [phone]. If enough of us complain maybe they will change the format and give er the respect and quality it deserves.

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Summary: Fun to see how things started out!
Review: I have to admit the first 2 episodes didn't do anything for me. The third I recognized what makes me love this fictional, fast paced drama! George Clooney,Anthony Edwards, Eriq LaSalle,Julianna Marguilles, Sherry Stringfield, Noah Wylie all make this show so watchable. I do realize that the show has made a lot of changes since it's beginnings but it is still great! I think this show is a definate best buy of 2003. The episodes are all interesting and have there own magic to them and and strong and realistic stories as well that can almost make you think the people are perhaps someone you know or might have known in your life at some point. A Great! buy and definetly worth your time! I do hope the rest of the series comes along on dvd as well SOON!

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Summary: Good Show But Disappointed That DVD's are Flippers!
Review: I love this show and was excited when I read it was coming on DVD but when I just read the reviews and found out that they cut corners and the DVDs are flippers where there are episodes on both sides of each DVD I was very disappointed, first of all flippesr are easy to scratch and doesn't a show like ER which is going to go down in histery as a classic deserve better treatment? There are other one hour shows on DVD that the episodes have about 4 to 6 episodes on each disc and are the same price or cheaper then this ER set. Buffy the Vampire Slayer for example is just an example of what I'm talking about. I think I will try to see if I can rent ER and hopefully the rest of the seasons won't have flipper DVDs and hopefully someday they will rerelease the first season with non flipper DVDs.

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Summary: "Fantastic Television!!"
Review: I already have every episode of "E.R." on video, taped from television ( Channel Four, England ), but imagine my glee when it was announced that the first season was going to be released on DVD?! For my money, along with "Hill Street Blues", this show for the past nine years has produced some of the most exhilirating, thought-provoking, scary, funny and heart-warming moments seen on television. Who can forget "Love's Labour Lost", "The Healers", "Random Acts" and more recently "Lockdown", "Chaos Theory" ( I won't be looking at helicopters in the same way again! ) and the 200th episode "When Night Meets Day" ( at one point using split-screens as an exciting storytelling device ).

It's always a worry when production / distribution companies don't give ground-breaking cinema and television due care and attention when assembling DVD sets such as these, so I was glad when I saw a fairly extensive, but quality-rich, extras list to be included alongside the episodes themselves. The documentaries are very good, showing the origins of "E.R.", from it's inception as a 70's film script to it's development as a T.V. series in the mid-90's ( One can only imagine how heart-stopping "E.R." would have been if directed by as a film by Steven Spielberg. Instead he went on to direct "Jurassic Park" ). The commentaries are good as well, although I felt that "Love's Labour Lost" was slightly sidetracked by a bit too much self-congratulatory, back-slapping ( deserved by the eventual quality of the end product, but I know how good the episode was - tell me more of how and why you did it! ).

My biggest gripe with the set appears to be the quality of the transfers of the episodes. For me it's a bit distracting to be watching a 'pristine' digital presentation of a film or T.V. series, only to see what appears to be 'print damage' on screen. As this could, in some quarters, be seen as a potential archive of this show, it would have been nice if the obvious care for "E.R." had been extended to this aspect.

Overall, a five-star presentation for a five-star series. It bodes well for the ( assumed! ) release of the next eight series of what for me ( along with "24" ) is 'must see' television.

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Summary: A few digital hiccups don't detract from the amazing show.
Review: I remember almost 10 years ago when I sat down to watch this show I'd seen a preview for...and was instantly hooked. Now it's on DVD, in digital quality, and I can't tell you how happy I am to have it.

Yes, there are the few digital hiccups that make a few people snort and say "oh come on, they could have done that better." But I dare you - I DARE you - to watch this show and find yourself paying attention to the digital quality when the writing, the acting, the production, the editing, and everything else is so superb. It's impossible to NOT get caught up in the content, the characterization, and the frenetic pace of the show itself.

The first, second, third, and fourth seasons of ER were absolutely flawless television in every respect. It remained a nail-biter of a show until the end of the sixth season, when Julianna Margulies finally left. I for one am totally thrilled that the first season is out on DVD. My one question is: So Warner Bros., when can you send me the second season? :-D

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Summary: No corner was left uncut
Review: Plenty of other reviewers have addressed the show itself, so I will limit this review to that which motivated me to write it: the quality of the DVD set. Or more accurately, the lack of quality.

First of all, to save a few cents on disks and packaging, they made the DVDs 2-sided, so they have no labels, you have to flip them over, and it is very hard to tell which side is which.

All the disks have the same menu even though only disk 4 has the "bonus" materials. Why taunt us with menu items that lead to messages saying there is nothing on this disk?

Most annoying, though, is the lack of captions for the hearing impaired -- they must have actually removed them to save space since the broadcasts had them. The only spoken language available is English, the only subtitles are French. What were they thinking? Let me guess: they were thinking they could get away with one minimalist release for both the US and Canada.

This show deserved better -- especially considering it's price. If future seasons are this cheaply done, I won't be buying them.

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Summary: I will absolutely buy it.
Review: I heard a lot of good things about ER, but I haven't had any chance to watch it. After renting the first Disc. from NetFlix and watching the pilot, I couldn't stop watching the whole DVD. I will not rent the second DVD, but I surely will buy the complete seasons.

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Summary: Worth Owning
Review: Great show, Great first season and worth buying. The only downside is that it comes with 4 "flip disc" which makes it hard to keep from scratching or damaging(especially with the packaging). I would've been willing to pay a little extra if they just put all the episodes on 1 side of I would assume 6 disc(instead of 4 flip disc). To make it more annoying, each disc does NOT tell you which side is "A" and which side is "B" that would helped a little. I hope they fix these annoyances on future ER DVDs.

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Summary: Finally ER on DVD!
Review: I'm so glad they finally put ER on DVD! I love to watch it all the time. I must say Noah Wyle is super sexy! Now, if only they start putting the other seasons out on DVD, too. That would be way cool! I never get tired of watching this show. Thanks!!!