ER - Episode Discussion: 15.5 "Haunted" {October 30, 2008} - Page 4

Hell on Heels · 11-01-2008, 10:55 AM

This episode was kind of boring. Couple episodes usually are when you've never watched the couple before and they dedicate so much of the time to that couple. Shane West is so cute, though.

I can't believe that mother of the two boys who sleeps around with boys they go to school with. She's a horrible mother.

Sandalwood · 11-01-2008, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by henia77 (View Post)

Sandalwood the video on you tube is great, but forgot a scene that I thought was very sweet. When Neela started to help that patients tubes and ray was staring and smiling at her. She was actually blushing during that whole scene.

I didn't forget, guys, but I couldn't fit it all in a 10-minute vid (the max that youtube allows me). Sorry.

Trust me, I wanted to put everything in (including Ray's conversation with Morris), so had to pick and choose -- so hard! So I tried sticking to key ones that were just them. But I heard the whole epi was up in parts on youtube so you can catch it there. If you guys want me to make another one with the Ray scenes I missed, I can.

ETA: Here's the link for the second set of Roomie clips: YouTube - ER Haunted: Ray/Reela Part Two

bigred08 · 11-01-2008, 09:24 PM

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Does anyone know who played Scott (the older brother)? he looked familiar...

And yes, excellent roomies

According to ERHeadquarters Scott was played by Patric Knutsson. IMDB hasn't updated to include who was on ER, so it doesn't list ER in his filmography, but I think it tends to take them a few days to update that.

Hope that helps...

nzhome · 11-02-2008, 02:15 AM

Regarding the brother I thought he looked really familiar too. Then I twigged. Separated at birth.....

Hilary Swank - Boys don't cry.

Go and check the photos and tell me it's not!!!

GooGooGaGa · 11-02-2008, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by nzhome (View Post)

Regarding the brother I thought he looked really familiar too. Then I twigged. Separated at birth.....

Hilary Swank - Boys don't cry.

Go and check the photos and tell me it's not!!!

I think he looked like Prince William of England and Hilary Swank together!!

DaveAbbyLuver · 11-04-2008, 11:07 AM

Unsticking this to make room for the new thread. Feel free to continue discussing here.

~Ash

bryangreenbergfan · 02-07-2009, 03:28 PM

just seen the episode in the UK and words fail me at the moment!!!! fantastic to have roomies back on our sceen! the looks between ray and neela were just perfect!

lovebird · 02-07-2009, 04:01 PM

I thinkthis is the right thread for post it

British fans only this week watched this episode
This is a UK Review:

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ER: Season 15 - Haunted (Review)
ER, Neela

Review by Jack Foley

IndieLondon Rating: 4 out of 5

INDIELONDON singles out notable episodes from our favourite television series for stand-alone reviews. On this occasion we’ve decided to take a look at each episode of the 15th and final season of ER. On this occasion, it’s the fifth episode, entitled Haunted.

What’s the story? It’s Halloween night, and the interns continue to be paired with the residents. Gates’ (John Stamos) teaching methods with Daria, and her responses, belittle Sam (Linda Cardellini). A school fight results in a stabbing and a nose that won’t stop bleeding, with Brenner (David Lyons) treating the victims and being deeply affected by the truth behind their confrontation. The staff, especially Neela (Parminder Nagra), are enthusiastic about a surprise visitor.

Why so good? (SPOILER WARNING) Don’t read on if you don’t want to find out the identity of the surprise visitor in this episode!!

Episode five of the 15th and final season of ER, appropriately entitled Haunted in honour of its Halloween theme, had all the usual patient dilemmas and involving character arcs, but was notable for the return of one character – Dr. Ray Barnett (Shane West).

Last seen in a hospital bed having lost both of his legs following an accident, Ray returned in a Frankenstein mask to surprise the ER staff and, in particular, former roomie and frustrated love interest Neela.

Their reunion was typically touching. At first, it was all smiles, for both characters and viewers, as two old friends were reunited for the first time in a while. Then came the awkwardness, as each tip-toed around the other over the issue of feelings and the events that led up to Ray’s accident.

Ray, however, was in a good place mentally. Now walking with the aid of prosthetics, he had come to terms with his injuries and seemed to be on top of his feelings for Neela.

Neela, on the other hand, still had to deal with the guilt she felt over her part in Ray’s accident, not to mention the feelings she still clearly held for him. The big question, therefore, was whether they’d get together at the end of the episode.

The resolution was surprisingly poignant, complicated – as ever – by the continued presence of Australian doc Brenner, who harbours his own feelings for Neela, and who found himself surprisingly emotionally affected by the case he was treating.

Neela and Ray are no strangers to love triangles, of course… it was, after all, one involving the two of them and Gates that contributed to Ray’s accident. But on this occasion, Neela wanted to let Ray back into her life, and the final moments between them as they lingered over a kiss, had you praying that Ray would stay.

He didn’t… admirably walking away and casting one last glance in Neela’s direction as he got into his car to drive away. But will he return? And have the foundations been put in place for Neela’s happy ending to the show? Maybe… the hopeless romantic in me writes.

Needless to say, the episode belonged to Shane West and he was terrific as Ray… reminding us of why he was one of the show’s popular characters, and why his exit was quite so shocking.

But Neela, too, impressed as she juggled some complicated emotions, and the ever-improving Brenner (David Lyons) continued to show hitherto untapped emotional depths.

His reactions to a case involving a bullied schoolboy and his wreck of a mum (played by Michelle Pfeiffer’s sister, Dedee), were a salient reminder of how ER has always been able to mix interesing medical cases with involving personal stories over the course of an episode (something that Grey’s Anatomy has seldom been able to do).

Of note, too, was a shooting involving a police officer and a Halloween reveller, that afforded Gregg Henry a strong extended cameo as the guilt-stricken officer responsible for accidentally discharging his weapon. His scenes with Angela Bassett’s Dr Banfield were particularly strong.

And Gates (John Stamos) mixed some touching bonding scenes between himself and a young patient with some inadvertently chauvanistic comments at the expense of love interest Sam Taggart. There was definitely a touch of Clooney’s Dr Ross about him throughout this episode.

All in all, then, another outstanding episode that marked the welcome return of another past favourite.

SOURCE:IndieLondon: ER: Season 15 - Haunted (Review) - Your London Reviews

Remember the UK fans saw this episode for the first time this week

What can I say?

Love you british fans!


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