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E.R. Finale Tonight

They sure blew off Lucy, Gallant and Jeanie in the retrospective. And Maria Bello sure got a lot of interview time.

Also, who was the hot blonde doctor that was gone by the 15 minute mark?
 
I thought it was really good. It's gonna be weird not watching new episodes anymore. I've been watching it since around the 2nd season when I was 8 or 9.
 
I realized that the most unfortunate dangling thread is that we Carter and Kem still seem as if they're pretty estranged. I'm glad they resolved Gates and Sam but I was hoping for a bit more closure with Carter too. Looks as if he'll be sticking around County though.
 
I liked it.

I am very happy they used the god damn credits and theme again after all these years! That alone made it worth while.

It was great to see old faces. I was glad they did something with Rachel Greene, and that it seems Carter will now friend-mentor her in the way Greene did him while he was butting heads with his boss-mentor of Benton.

The parallels between finale and pilot where many, which was neat. The whole 24-hour clock thing was in the pilot, the scene with Greene/Morris being woken up, the "I can't do this/yes you can" speech between the med student and the veteran, the crisis at the end of the episode. I'm sure there where a few other moments too.
 
I loved the references to past episodes. Especially the famous "rain/flood" episode when Clooney tried to save the guy stuck in the drain grade.

I also liked just the slight glimmer of hope for Carter's marriage. Anything more would have been too much.

Ernest Borgnine's still got it, too.

And Elizabeth driving a Hummer was TOO funny.

Very nice sendoff. Not overly sensationalized nor sentimentalized.

I'll miss the show.

BTW, I LOVED the helicopter crashing onto Paul Crane's character! One of the most unexpected and hysterically funny moments of the series. And the irony was infinite.

Another touchstone now relegated to DVD's.

--Ted
 
Shoulda ended with force-ghosts of Mark Green, Pratt and Romano.

Screw Lucy. Gant's death had more of an impact then hers did and he was only on for like half a season.
 
I loved the references to past episodes.

I still haven't decided if I liked the reference to "Love's Labor Lost" or not. How many new mothers does this hospital lose to DIC? The reason the first episode resonated so much with me was that it was almost exactly like a case we had in the first hospital I worked in. I haven't seen another in 30 years.

The first episode was so powerful. It didn't need the reference back.
 
I've never watched the show but I'm curious, how did it end? What was the final scene?

Pretty much business as usual. Some big thing in Chicago blew up and the folks at County plus Carter and Rachel Greene saddle up for some good old fashioned triage.
 
This may sound stupid but isn't Rachel Greene the Jennifer Aniston character from Friends? Who the ER doctors crossed over with in that one episode!
 
This may sound stupid but isn't Rachel Greene the Jennifer Aniston character from Friends? Who the ER doctors crossed over with in that one episode!

I wouldn't know; I've never seen Friends. *whistles innocently*
 
It was nice to finally see the hospital, if not entirely but almost. With a fake subway between, but what the hell.

I too only watched the last episodes after I left the series for good when Maria Bello left (whenever that was).

It was nice seeing old faces, but it seemed forced to me.
 
This may sound stupid but isn't Rachel Greene the Jennifer Aniston character from Friends? Who the ER doctors crossed over with in that one episode!

Clooney and Wylie were on Friends, but they were playing different characters. I do believe they actually made references to things they did on ER, but I don't remember.
 
I loved the references to past episodes.

I still haven't decided if I liked the reference to "Love's Labor Lost" or not. How many new mothers does this hospital lose to DIC? The reason the first episode resonated so much with me was that it was almost exactly like a case we had in the first hospital I worked in. I haven't seen another in 30 years.

The first episode was so powerful. It didn't need the reference back.
I don't think a hospital having two cases of DIC in fifteen years is pushing it.
 
Something that puzzled me was why after following a set of med students all year did we have a whole group of different ones for the finale?
 
I hadn't watched this show regularly in years and years, so I didn't really know who most of these characters were. Still, it was a solid episode, and I enjoyed cameo appearances by old characters.
 
I can't believe it's actually over. 15 years is a really long time, and there's always been new ER every fall. So that's weird. But it was again how they brought back some old favorites, and that didn't feel "series-finale-forced" because they'd been bringing veterans back all season. So, like most of the things they've done on ER over the years, it felt natural.

I might have hoped for an ending a little more definite than that, but in the end, the show has always done it like that: A doctor's work is never done... And character arcs most often were resolved in giving just a hint of how their story might continue after their exit. So they did it here as well. Nice seeing Kem again, and it's left to the viewer's imagination how things between Carter and her turn out.

Best things: The return of the opening credits. It never felt right when they did away with them, and to hear that classic theme once more, made tears of joy shoot in my eyes like a fountain.

Worst thing: No Abby and Luka. They could've easily put them in somewhere, and they were pretty important to the show. Neela had a cameo, why couldn't they?
 
Well I missed the first fifty minutes of the first hour...but caught the second hour and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I missed the Clooney episode, was Juliana Marguilies in it as well? I know they are still married and responsible for the kidney that Carter got (Wikipedia is your friend, youtube is your second best friend :) . It was good to see most of the cast back, did they explain Keary's leg? She didn't have her cane with her and she wasn't limping as much. Susan, Benton, Corday, good to see all of them back. Also Rachel Green returning was fun. I loved the final scene...sad that Carter and Kem seem to be on the outs. I wonder if John is planning on giving Rachel her father's stethoscope since he "inherited" it from Mark after his death. Hard to belive it's been fifteen years already.
 
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