#luka kovac

[cameronhcwes]

ER (1994-2009) 12.09 — I Do

[addictedtostorytelling]

[sculien]

Abby Lockhart & Luka Kovac E.R 12.12 – "If Not Now"

[ineffablecabbage]

dude you're so right. luka/carter romance when?

WHEN INDEED.

The whole sword fighting, love triangle nonsense is very 90s-2000s television, I know this, but god, I hate it. And it is an entirely different hing when I am watching, say, SMALLVILLE WHICH TAKES PLACE IN A HIGH SCHOOL, versus when I am supposed to be watching two grown ass doctors fight over a grown ass woman.

With swords, for fuck's sake.

BUT when they stop doing that, when the show lets them be friends, oh. Oh. It was a gazillion missed opportunities. This was what they could have been giving us INSTEAD OF FUCKING SWORD FIGHTS. WHY COULD I NOT HAVE THIS LUKA INSTEAD?????? WHY COULD I NOT HAVE THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CARTER AND LUKA? Why is the world cruel and unkind????

Anyway, let's imagine a kindler, gentler, more evolved world in which Luka/Carter happened instead of the triangle.

Their traumas match better and make more sense to bond over than any other sides of the triangle, tbh. Both lost women they cared for/loved, through mistakes, imagined or otherwise, that they will feel guilt about for the rest of their lives.

Both have deep, deep PTSD that makes them act out in ways that often make them unplesant for others to be around.

Loyalty is a kink they both deeply have. To their core.

Both of them sometimes act irrationally and say things they probably should think through first.

... Look, I'm just saying that Luka did not hesitate to kiss Carter.

... Look, I'm just saying that Carter has a praise kink and Luka would not hesitate to take advantage of it.

... I'm just saying that Luka wants to have a family and so did Carter, and adoptive families are just as valid as biological ones.

[onionjulius]

Alright so, ER rewatch is happening, but I'm swamped with work and so I'll have to wait for episode posts. For now, an initial inventory of my remembrance of the main characters/my opinion of them:

Love: Carol Hathaway, Mark Greene, Susan Lewis, Kerry Weaver, Abby Lockhart, Luka Kovač

Really like: John Carter, Doug Ross, Peter Benton, Elizabeth Corday, Lucy Knight, Jing-Mei Chen, Greg Pratt

Like: Jeanie Boulet*, Cleo Finch, Michael Gallant

Unlikeable but not devoid of complexity: Robert Romano, Dave Malucci

I remember your existence: Neela Rasgotra, Anna Del Amico

I don't remember your existence: Sam Taggert, Ray Barnett, Archie Morris, Tony Gates, Simon Brenner, Cate Banfield

*Jeanie's on the cusp between Like and Really like.

I'll be curious to see if my opinions change much watching this show 15-30 years after it initially aired. No doubt there will be cringe "Oh wow that aged poorly" moments, but hopefully also some that hold up well. It'll also be interesting to watch a pre-Prestige TV critical hit post-Prestige TV (and yeah, nostalgic, I'm getting quite nostalgic in my old age). And I'm wondering how my impressions of the characters will hold up in a close watch; I think I'm much more analytical now, and I'm pretty sure my opinions reflect the characters at their best without necessarily accounting for them at their worst. Although maybe that's not a bad thing as long as it's consistent.

More character recollections, some quite spoilery:

Mark's death slew me. It was so protracted too, he was suffering so much and his family was fraying at the seams and I just remember him trying so hard to handle things the best he could with that understated irony of his and just feeling so terribly for him. There was that thing with the guy in the elevator that he just let die, I don't remember what became of that ...

I love so much that Mark is really just Some Guy trying to do his job well while having normal Some Guy things like a wife and kids and basketball breaks. He's smart, decisive, dedicated, compassionate, a good teacher, and truly a deserving leader.

I know that Jeanie had at least one great story, which of course is the HIV story. I'm actually struggling to recall much before that, so that'll be fun.

I just ... I remember having such complex reactions to Kerry, and all these years later that has registered in my memory as love. I love Kerry, warts and all. You could feel so bad for her while simultaneously hate what she was saying or doing, and I do think she learned things over time. She was an outsider, a party pooper, ambitious and career-driven, a disabled lesbian, oil to Doug Ross' water. She was not easy to love, and so I loved her. Also, she was ER Mom. Love you, Mom!

I also loved Kim/Kerry. They felt so real and human and not simply an "issues" story. I find myself not recalling much of her relationship afterward, so looking forward to seeing if it is a worthy follow-up.

I loved Mark/Susan. They were such easy friends, so natural and believable together, so bright and breezy and (mostly) supportive and wonderful. I think they would have made a fine endgame, it was so easy to want good things for each of them, and what an unforgettable, lovely and bittersweet moment when she left Chicago on that train.

For all that though, I liked Mark with Elizabeth. It's true there wasn't the same will-they-won't they (and I remember feeling like her thing with Peter ended rather abruptly) but their domesticity was very sweet and she was a kick-ass character, strong and funny.

Romano was ... Problematic ... but his bond of some sort with Elizabeth was probably the best thing about his character.

I remember feeling that Peter was shafted, but that said he did last 8 years and I remember some good stories with his mother and sister, work vs parenthood, the custody battle, and of course (of course) his evolving dynamic with Carter.

Seriously though. Benton/Carter.

And on the topic of BroTPs: Mark/Doug!

There's something about the two most ambitious characters being Peter, a black man, and Kerry, a woman, that I kinda love.

Upon reflection, it seems to me that at least some of my affinity for Susan and Abby have to do with their family stories--particularly, having to deal with flawed family members, walking the line between loving and enabling, battling the desire to hope because of the need to protect against disappointment. It's ... interesting? ... because I don't have any deadbeat family members or family members who refuse to take responsibility for their illnesses, but something about how they use sarcasm to deal with life resonates with me, even though Susan in my head was a sunny character while Abby was a little black raincloud.

I loved Abby. Abby was a hot mess, a human disaster, a trashfire. Abby was strong, but also a coward. Abby was full of contradictions, Abby mistook self-abnegation for independence, Abby was only happy when it rained. Abby was hard to love, and so I loved her.

There was something about Abby/Luka that I found compulsively watchable. Something probably having to do with being really messed up and dysfunctional and full of maladaptive habits, but nevertheless wanting love like any other human being. There was a brooding intensity and understatedness to them that I remember just eating up. I was an undercover emo kid, what can I say.

That said, there was a phase in which he was truly insufferable (which I know was them taking a page out of the Doug Ross book ... but he isn't Doug Ross, even though he was brought on as a direct replacement). I'm curious if, on my rewatch, it will feel like an organic arc given how sweet, patient, gentlemanly and sensitive I recall him being at the start. Oh tragic little meow meow.

The final scene between Carol and Luka is so etched in my brain. "Because I'm still in love with him. I've been in love with him since I was 23 years old. He's everything to me. I feel complete when I'm with him and I feel empty when we're apart. He's the father of my children, and he's my soulmate." Yes, Doug was a manbaby and yes I was so hurt on Carol's behalf that he left her for Seattle, but really Doug/Carol were the Truth. You bought their connection so thoroughly and George Clooney's chemistry with Juliana Margulies was critical to that.

I remember thinking that Peter/Cleo's chemistry was nothing in particular to write home about (you know, not bad, but not special) ... but hell if they weren't beautiful together. Michael Michelle was just so stunning.

I really thought that they were heading for a lot of yummy Carter-denying-his-feelings-for-med-student-Lucy angst, which I was so there for. But I can't deny that what ended up happening (you know ...) was unforgettable television.

On that note, Carter was never the same after That. There's such a sad lost innocence about his character, given how earnest and caring and even hapless he was at the start. That's not necessarily a bad direction to go, narratively speaking, but one would hope for some eventual hard-won optimism for him all the same.

And yeah, at some point ER became darker and soapier, but I honestly have good memories of a few of those years, before becoming bored.

Like, another scene seared into my brain is Maggie Wyczenski turning on a dime and going postal right in the middle of the ER, screaming "I'm leaving! I'm leaving! I'm leaving! Iiii'm leaving!" and "You're my daughter you bitch!". God did Sally Field earn that Emmy or did she earn that Emmy. I wouldn't want to have missed out on that story, for all that it was such a downer.

Apparently Sam, Ray, Archie, and Tony came on more or less when Neela did, but she's the only one I remember. How'd that happen? Though I can't say I remember her stories, so there is that.

I remember watching with my sophomore year roommate the night that Romano freaking lost his arm to a helicopter. It was crazy. And I really thought it couldn't get any crazier, but then, as you know ...

The look of the show really changed from beginning to end, which, given that it lasted fifteen years, is probably to be expected. But I remember most the constantly moving camera in so many of the medical emergency scenes, and I hope that doesn't go away.

Mark's daughter and Peter's son were impossibly cute. Impossibly cute. So so cute. So so so so so cute.

Speaking of Chicago in the 90s, goddamn do y'all remember how incredible the Bulls were? I don't know why I'm putting that in this post, but I guess I am.

Carter/Jing Mei were such great friends, they never stopped being competitive with each other but they nevertheless grew up together and I love that the show never hooked them up.

I don't recall quite why but I feel like Doug and his dad were reminiscent of Riker and his dad from Star Trek. I don't know.

Okay yeah that's all for now.

[patientlibrarian]

Wednesday October 30 - Wellness Wednesday with our favourite doctor

Hello everyone, everywhere, hope your day goes as you would wish it to.

I post every day, usually before 10am GMT (UK time) so please join me again. Find me on AO3 for all my stories.

New story coming soon

[goranvisnjicdaily]

Good Evening! So sorry, I haven't posted yesterday! I was quite exhausted from my day ahahha! AND, my new car was on the way to the dealership, so I was pretty excited, I'm going to get it tomorrow, so to say that I'm excited is an understatement ahhaha! I don't know know how I will do to sleep tonight LOL!

I also started working out more, so I'm less online, but no worries, I still want to publish daily stuff about Goran ;)

I know, I was supposed to finish screencapping "Timeless" But I found out I had bought "Dollface" in HD from Youtube like months ago and I decided to watch it! So here are some Screencaps of Goran as Colin from "Dollface" Season 1

📷 335 Screencaps from "Dollface" S1.E5 Beauty Queen have been added in the Gallery 👈

Did you know that Michael Angarano, the actor portraying Steve (The Stripper) in that episode, played alongside Goran as well in E.R. S10 EP6 in 2003 ? haha! ;)

On this, have a good night everyone and see ya tomorrow, for more "Dollface" Screencaps :)

[malfoys-demigod]

there's barely any luka kovac fics here!

i may or may not have started taking interest in watching ER. i have so much other tv shows on my list, but i might have to bump it up after seeing some edits of luka kovac out of NOWHERE, floating on my tiktok which made me go crazy over him already. and i discover that there are barely any fics about him here! someone, please! make some fics on that gorgeous man!

[gaygalsworld]

I feel like no one talks about these photos of Laura Innes and we need too

[mauratierney-love]

[leveragedlibrarians]

So no one was gonna tell me that Moreau's actor also played an absolute manwhore of a doctor on ER?

[cameronhcwes]

ABBY/LUKA + idioms

[addictedtostorytelling]

luka kovač in episode 07x04 "benton backwards"

[sculien]

ER 13.19

[ineffablecabbage]

Watching Season 7 "Rain Showers" of ER, and man. I hate how people try to reduce everything about Luka and Carter's fussiness to Abby.

I mean, the show wants it to be, BUT WHY.

Look, let's look at Carter's POV, shall we?

He:

Is still dealing with massive PTSD from the stabbing

Is recovering from addicton

Mark and Kerry are being pretty harsh about his addiction

(Like at one point, Susan comes back and Mark is all bitchy about what a shitty doctor Carter is literally because of his addiction. Maybe it's a brain tumor, but maybe that doesn't matter too much when your support system is ass.)

He literally is going to lose the Chief Resident position that he frankly deserved because of his *past addiction* which is arguably not even fucking legal, but he's too nice to sue the fuck out of his hospital, unlike Chen (who brings lawyers when they deserveit, as she SHOULD. After Season 6's stabbing, this fucking hospital should be remained the Carter-Knight Memorial Hospital.)

His entire support structure in the emergency department* is now gone and now Chen, who was his friend is his superior, and there's some resentment he doesn't want to deal with acknowledging there.

AND NOW ENTER LUKA. Luka, who wasn't there for all the formative important years like the Mark, Kerry, etcs. were. Luka, who Carter doesn't have to give a fuck about disappointing, like he has everyone else.

Luka who Carter still has to treat like a "superior." Because he's an attending.

And everybody thinks Luka is the bestest. Kerry thinks Luka is the bestest. Mark thinks Luka is the bestest. The woman who saved Carter's life thinks Luka is the bestest. Chen has no issues with Luka.

Even Lucy liked Luka.

RESENTMENT. A perfect target for all of Carter's issues.

Now the show wants me to believe that all this should be boiled down to "lulz, they both want to fuck Abby."

HOW FUCKING BORING, SHOW.

(Note: none of this is Luka's fault, nor is it particuarly Carter's fault. But MESSY IS GOOD AND MORE INTERESTING THAN LOVE TRIANGLES.)

*We are not ignoring Benton. But he's in surgery.

[michellesmusing]

In the serene yet quaint town of Elko, Nevada, Dr. Luka Kovac seeks a fresh start after his tumultuous divorce. Embracing his new role as the Chief of Staff in the E.R. at Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital, Luka immerses himself in the demands of his profession, hoping to leave his past behind. However, one case profoundly impacts him: Charlie Levinson, a troubled 16-year-old girl who arrives at the E.R. with self-inflicted wounds on her wrists, a heartbreaking manifestation of her inner turmoil. As Luka navigates the challenges of his demanding job and the complexities of Charlie's situation, he finds himself drawn to her plight. Will Luka be able to break through Charlie's barriers and help her find hope, or will the shadows of their pasts prove too difficult to escape?

Stay Tuned for more ;)