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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 600960" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>ER is alot like Babylon 5 or Farscape, it is a show that builds on you getting to know the characters and it tells the story of their lives, the same people don't role in on the ambulances every show but they do have plots that run through the shows. Yes Farscape and Babalyon 5 were more in depth plot wise but the fact that they were more in depth doesn't make them different just more in depth. In general Science Fiction shows are more in depth, even the Hercules and Zena shows had a depth to the plots in them, Andromeda has a underlying plot that is hard to follow if you just occasionally watch, but Hill Street Blues had a underlying storyline too that was hard to follow it was just not the only thing going on in the show. Try watching the X-Files movie if your not a X-Files fan, but you can watch a episode of the X-Files and get it, even the ones that dealt with a ongoing plotline. Science Fiction shows get a little more in depth but that's normally what fans want, they don't like shows that are watered down for the masses, but the formula is basically the same for the layout of a one hour drama. That's why shows start out with little blurbs like "previously on ________", so people can get enough information to keep up  even if they didn't see the last episode.</p></blockquote><p></p>