#robert romano

[addictedtostorytelling]

#nbc er #er #eredit #elizabeth corday #alex kingston #robert romano #paul mccrane #shirley #dinah lenney #** #my gifs #ep06x13

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

Mark, genuinely touched: you think I’m nice?

Kerry: that’s not what I said.

#tv: er #Robert Romano #Kerry Weaver #Mark Greene #scribble comic #forgot I never posted this and made myself laugh with it again fhsdlkgjsdf

[muldxr]

You're the Chief of Emergency Medicine, not the County's lesbian advocate! That's where you're wrong, Robert.

#eredit #nbc er #userlgbtq #tvedit #kerry weaver #robert romano #LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND FRIENDS.... HER!!! #kerry weaver apologist™ #of course this is the first real gif that i ever make #this scene was so emotional to me! #i'm in pieces after watching it a few days ago #also very. very yellow. difficult to get the colors Normal-Ish #edit

[irenespring]

Rewatching both House and ER and I have been thinking about why I find House to be a far more sympathetic character than Robert Romano.

To be clear: I know House's behavior is horrible. He should have been fired. There is no moral justification for his actions. However, as my favorite history professor constantly says: "context is not justification."

Words vs. deeds: House says a lot of terrible things, but his actions paint a different picture. He says antisemitic nonsense, but it never alters his attitudes towards Taub, Wilson, and Cuddy. He says he will sexually harass Cameron and Chase, and definitely does sexually harass Cuddy--but he never touches them without permission, and doesn't want to date an employee even when Cameron really wants to date him. Romano, on the hand, engages in verbal sexual harassment, and then does act on it. He tries to get Elizabeth deported because she won't sleep with him. He tries to get any out lesbian fired.

Backstory: House is the main character of the show titled House. As such, though we don't learn a lot about him, we are provided insights into his past. A big part of helping viewers empathize with a character is helping them understand why he is like this. You get a sense of House's tragic backstory, and how that backstory forged him into the kind of person he is. Romano, on the hand, is never fully expanded on. All we really know about him is that he has a good relationship with his mother. There isn't enough data to understand, and thus connect, with his overall character. He was intended to be a villain, rather than an anti-hero.

Self-reflection: House is a terrible person, and he knows it. He hates it. When he talks about the world with patients (I've noticed this particularly in season 1) he sounds really fucking sad. He wants the world to be better, he wants to be better, but this is how the world works and therefore he can only present himself one way and stay safe. This self-knowledge makes him a more conflicted character, and shows he has empathy. He wants to change, but doesn't think he can. On the other hand, Romano is deeply arrogant, not superficially arrogant. He thinks he's the shit. He truly believes he is the world's greatest man and entitled to act however he wants to the "little people" as he calls them. This removes a certain depth from his character.

Show tone: House is a show about terrible people. Everyone is crazy in their own unique ways. The show is about looking at the good in those terrible people. In order to enjoy the show, you have to stop yourself from analyzing the morality of the characters' actions. ER, on the other hand, is at least supposed to be about good people (don't get me started about how the protagonists treat Kerry, and whether that actually makes them good people). People are supposed to be heroic. The characters face deep ethical dilemmas the audience is supposed to consider. This makes Romano's heinous actions stand out and force the viewer to analyze them.

Pain: House is in pain. He is in pain all the fucking time. When people are in pain, they are less patient, more likely to snap. There's a standard view that when people are in a huge amount of pain, they say things they don't mean. They try to hit people where it hurts because of how much they hurt. This doesn't excuse his actions, but does create further separation between House's words and his innate character.

Anyway both ER and House are good shows, but suffer from being from the early 2000s (or mid-late 1990s in ER's case). You should watch them! But yeah, Romano bothers me way more than House, who I think would be an interesting foil for Kerry.

#house md #hatecrimes md #er tv show #er #gregory house #robert romano #character analysis #television analysis #character comparison #This is not to say anyone who likes Romano should feel bad about it #People are allowed to like immoral characters!!! #I know he has a following of people who sometimes find him amusing and that's all good #He definitely has his moments #I always laugh when Dr Greene gets into a fistfight and Romano enters and addresses him with “The lean Greene fighting machine!!!” #I'm just analyzing my personal character feelings

[sonchus-arvensis]

ER was so good, they had an important lesbian, the guy from fame (1980) and river song

#my childhood #kerry weaver was my first gay awakening probably #er nbc #nbc er #kerry weaver #laura innes #robert romano #paul mccrane #alex kingston #elizabeth corday #m

[artificialconditions]

It's Lucy.

#i can’t even skim through this episode without crying #tw death #tw blood #er #nbc er #john carter #noah wyle #peter benton #mark greene #anthony edwards #kerry weaver #laura innes #elizabeth corday #alex kingston #robert romano #lucy knight #kellie martin #*gifs #er nbc #eredit

[wonderofasunrise]

ER Text Posts, Part IV

I | II | III

#back on my bullshit #*heads to bunker* #er text posts #luka kovač #abby lockhart #robert romano #kerry weaver #victor clemente #nbc er #er #goran višnjić #maura tierney #paul mccrane #laura innes #john leguizamo

[er-139]

Romano: The only way to defeat a bully is to stand up to them!

…

Romano: Trust me, I have bullied a lot of people.

#nbc er #er nbc #er #er incorrect quotes #er memes #Romano #robert romano #e.r. #john carter #peter benton #mark greene #carol hathaway #doug ross #susan lewis #kerry weaver #elizabeth corday #source: The Office

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

just in case you’re not.

#tv: ER #eredit #Elizabeth Corday #Robert Romano #sunflower surgeon #brotp: I'll be there #parallels that smash my heart wide open!!!!!!! #literally cannot think about one of these scenes without also thinking of the other I just can't #edit tag

[almostpleasantrebel]

ma’am

Ma’am

MA’AM

#alex kingston #elizabeth corday #er show #er fandom #er nbc #mark greene #nbc er #anthony edwards #john carter #robert romano #paul mccrane #kerry weaver #noah wyle #abby lockhart #carol hathaway #doug ross #john truman carter iii

[sapphicsandscience]

er character alignment chart

#er tv series #meme layout credit to u/anders_123 #Er meme #kerry weaver #peter Benton #Jerry Markovic #Susan lewis #Robert romano #John Carter #luka kovač #mark Greene #Er fandom #tv show er #eredit

[addictedtostorytelling]

"i don't want to thin her blood if we don't have to"

#nbc er #er #eredit #lucy knight #kellie martin #robert romano #paul mccrane #elizabeth corday #alex kingston #** #my gifs #ep06x11 #ep06x14 #dmp

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

commission for @blackmonitor who wanted to see Romano showing off his silly Christmas tie and suspenders! he's COOL he's STYLISH. wouldn't you want to go to a holiday party with him...

#tv: ER #Robert Romano #Fanart #Comms #got to draw my TERRIBLE SON... with a big smile!! <3 #thanks so much again for commissioning me!!

[guestiguess]

Romano from ER for @blackmonitor because she's weird but I support her 👋✨ (also the fandom is almost dead soooooo)

#ER #er fanart #robert romano #sry not star wars #it was fun

[amythenortherner]

Okay so I’ve been thinking about this for a while and the more I rewatch ER the more it formulates in my mind and infuriates me that the writers didn’t do more with it. After Dr. Greene dies and Romano has the accident with his arm we end up with Dr. Corday and Dr. Romano with sort of stale plot lines, and I think there was an obvious solution. One thing that always made me kind of mad in the show is I refuse to believe that Elizabeth wouldn’t get on the first plane back to America the instance she finds out about Robert’s accident. While Robert infuriated her sometimes, I think she was one of the only people that truly cared about him.

To me, the combination of Dr. Greene’s death and Robert’s accident was the perfect opportunity to have Robert and Elizabeth grow close and grieve together, Elizabeth her husband, and Robert his arm. I think this also could have been a great way to redeem Robert’s character. The accident, while I think is a great plot line, becomes kind of stale due to Robert’s inability to operate, hence the terrible way of killing him off with the helicopter crash later on. Elizabeth is one of the only people who sees the good in Robert.

After realizing he needs to amputate his arm, Robert’s confidence plummets as he begins to realize and feel that his career as a surgeon was all that he was. He’d never been self conscious before because he had always been good at what he was but now that was all gone and he was feeling like he had nothing and no one. He even confesses to Elizabeth in 9X05 that most people really don’t like him, but that he’s good at what he does, and that he has nothing if not that. We were so close to the implied confession from Elizabeth of that “no Robert, most people don’t like you, but I do”.

I think taking Robert’s confidence away from him via his ability to operate and perform as a surgeon was a perfect way for him to realize that he needed to start being a better person in order for his life to have purpose again. Elizabeth could have and should have been able to do that. I think throughout the rest of the time the both of them spend in the series, they could have grieved together and grown together. Elizabeth could have helped him find the good in him, and find purpose again in his life. I think this also would have been a happier ending for Elizabeth.

#nbc er #er tv series #er show #tv: er #robert romano #elizabeth corday #cordamo #abby lockhart #luka kovac #john carter #kerry weaver #carol hathaway #doug ross

[jetaimedarling]

Ur telling me the bitch who played Robert Romano in ER plays a doctor in X-Files? Damn

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AND THE FUCKING REASON SCULLY FINDS OUT SHE HAS CANCER EXCUSE ME

#robert romano #er #x files