Chicago Fire - Yes it is bad

[Just Plain Ruff]

I just finished Chicago Fire this morning on ON-demand and it didn't fail to disappoint

Yes it is as bad as I thought it would be but YES I do understand that it's hollywood and it's entertainment only.

1. I did notice that there are no fat firefighters - only buff sexy chicks and studs

2. Not one firefighter was seen sitting around the television in a recliner

3. The female paramedic is quite cute

4. The same female paramedic did a pericardiocentisis which is out of protocol/scope for her and at the end of the episode she was told on a phone call that she is being investigated(rock on)

5. Every call was a spectacular call. NO run of the mill granny runs for this show

6. The generic angst and relationship problems inherent in every television show.

7. NO SEX on this first episode. AMAZING just amazing

8. no one got admitted to the code 1 club

9. Both patients in the trauma (one being the one getting the pericardiocentesis) were removed from the car without spinal precautions

10. floor collapse, one firefighter has a collapsed lung, same paramedic who did the procedure in number 9 also got to needle the chest.

Wow, two life saving procedures that many of us have never done in the field, this medic got to do in one shift. I wonder when she will get to amputate a leg or do field surgery to close off an artery.

AS for next week, the calls just seem to get better and better. It seems like that they are taking all the most spectacular calls (true to life though) and are going to use them for their episodes. One in particular is a out of control warehouse fire and there is a man inside. They go into attack mode and leave him inside. How does the new probie deal with it.

Now this is all hollywood but seriously, how many times do producers and networks have to use the same formula and see the same types of shows only last one season. I don't give this show much chance either.

I don't see the producers having learned from the past.

Edited October 11, 2012 by Captain ToHellWithItAll

[Guest ~~~]

Hmm.. Figured.

Thanks for saving me the pain!

[Bieber]

Watched it. Awful. So awful.

[Kiwiology]

Yeah, cos we all do pericardiocentesis on a patient who we supposedly have on a non-rebreathing mask that has a deflated reservoir bag and is being monitored in 2012 with a Lifepak 10 cos you know that "bag" around the heart might be full

Whatever, waste of bandwidth, wasted 15 minutes of my life I can't get back and could have spent cranking out a good shooter to an awesome lesbo porno or something instead of making me want to bleed vomit from my eyes ....

I'm going back to forum retirement ...

[Chris Smith]

It's TV, you all expect every emergency show to be 100% realistic. Who would write a prime time drama showing Medics going to medical alarm calls?

[Bieber]

It actually wasn't the medical procedures or necessarily the call types that ruined it for me. It was the uber hero complexes and the incredible amount of angst that made it unbearable. I felt like at any moment someone was going to grab an American flag, run up onto the top of a ladder truck's ladder, and swing it around while they blast "Proud to be an American" to the backdrop of explosions roaring in the background, and end it all with a single tear drop falling down the supermodel firefighter's cheek.

Edited October 13, 2012 by Bieber