When Kerry first appeared on the show she was hard in a sense that she had her own very clear ideas and principles and she was very precise. She was not making an effort to be liked but she clearly was hurt when she walked into Doug -asshole- Ross making fun of her limp, that was the first time everyone could really tell that yeah she was human too. To me she was not a bitch, that is not what I saw. I saw whiny bratty doctors like Mark Green and Doug Ross, who could not stand the idea of being outnumbered and outclassed by one strong willed and very skilled woman.
I remember that thing she pulled on Mark Green and it seemed very much out of character to me. I am not sure she did that after she had started her relationship with Kim or before, but I remember that as soon as she became a lesbian she suddenly seemed to have lost her backbone. To me she was never a bitch though, never, she was a skilled doctor, a good person, it was clear except to the oldies who had sprouted roots in that ER and who could not handle new ideas and who therefore labeled her a bitch.
In any case, what she did to Mark Green does not even come close to all the back stabbing he has done over the years, and he has stabbed a few backs, he broke a few rules, he maltreated more than a few patients, he lied, he whined and he got away with it all because he was Mark Green, he was a nice guy with brown puppy eyes, just like Doug Ross. Kerry always clearly had a good heart and was an honest no nonsense woman, but she became a rather scared and worried about her career kind of woman when she became a lesbian.
I don't think it could be bad to have the person that she was be a lesbian, but the person she became was far less endearing to me. I do not know what she is like now, we are like two seasons behind. It stopped after Kim disappeared (yet another lovely example of the way ER treats it's gay characters). ER has a shitty track record LGBT wise.
regulars:
-Maggie Doyle = gone poof
-Kim = gone poof
-nice gay paramedic guy = burned to death
one timers:
-evil gay man tries to infect his willing desperate for love young lover with HIV
-MTF jumps off a roof after being treated like shit by Carter who of course gets away with that because he is a nice guy with sweet brown eyes as well
-crazy lesbian girls kills dozens of people in failed suicide attempt and accuses Kim of sexual harassment
There are more examples but I have forgotten them, I honestly can't remember any positive ones.
I don't know what Kerry and Sandy are like now, I have yet to see them in action. Still despite all that ER is probably one of the good shows gay content wise, which is depressing enough to contemplate. I miss Kerry, but I can never hate her the way I do some of the other characters. I hope that she will regain some of her former courage in the seasons I have yet to see, not to mention good storylines.
Edited by: DrG at: 12/23/03 7:49 am
The look on his face, priceless. The best thing, no one noticed he was missing. 
And that's how it ended. 
at: 12/5/03 11:56 am
DUDE! 
There's something about women and accents.
I liked Carol Hathaway most of the time, I never did get her and Doug Ross. She was far too good for him and he was not nearly so special that a woman could not get over him permanently. Anyway, didn't Julianna Marguiles play a lesbian in something, or maybe she was going to? I think I read that somewhere on the Kitten a while back. Probably in this thread, heh, I'd better reread it. 
I knew I read that somewhere. 
