^^ Kerry's leg has been explained years ago. She had hip replacement, so she didn't require the cane anymore for her last season or two on the show.
E.R. Finale Tonight
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It's been years since I last watched ER, it was good to see many of the old characters back for the final.
Ah...thanks for the explaination. Again I stopped watching after a while so I wouldn't have known that! It was nice to see Alexis Bledel in E.R. and I thought I recogniized the actress who played Rachel Green from Flight 29 Down or whatever, that Disney Channel show about high school students whose plane crashes on a desserted island...sort of like a kids version of Lost. I saw the credits sequence on You Tube and yes it was nice to see them again, in the few episodes that I've seen on and off I did notice that they had gone. What happend to Pratt? Did he leave the ER last season or something? The last time I saw an episode with him in it Pratt was having some problems with a friend of his or family member...can't remember.
Died in the season premiere.
Good finale; between this and The West Wing, John Wells has the whole "understated/respectful drawing-down" down. The return of all the old characters for the Carter Center was well-handled, and I especially liked the return of Rachel Green (the look on everybody's faces when she ordered a margarita: classic). Plus, Alexis Bledel's one-episode doc did a fantastic job of seeming like she belonged there.
Ernest Borgnine had better get an Emmy nomination for that performance; damn, he was good.
Also liked how they used the episodes leading up to this to give other characters updates/finales so as not to leave things too crowded; on another show, you might have had Clooney, et al. squeezed in here too.
The final moments were a great way to end; Carter's "suiting up" one more time was the sort of "back in action" moment that shows like this with long histories can draw on so well.
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Right. Laura Innes was having back problems from using that crutch so much so that's why they wrote the storyline.
That was a good scene. I especially liked Frank's reaction...the actor absolutely nailed that little moment.
I liked Bledel too. It's a shame she hadn't been apart of the show sooner.
Agreed, Ernest Borgnine's performacne was spectacular. My questions, since I regularly stopped watching the show several seasons ago:
1) But how did Pratt die?
2) And how did Carter's baby die?
3) What happened to Debbie Chen?
I loved the ending scene. It's the first time I have seen the exterior of the hospital. Really gives us the sense of the urban area the hospital is in.
An ambulance exploded for the season 14 finale cliffhanger (but I don't know why since I wasn't watching). Pratt was fine at first, but it turned out he suffered some serious damage and died before the end of the season 15 premiere.
I think Carter's baby died at birth, but I don't remember.
Chen had the second-worst character write-off since Lewis's second departure. She had a really stupid storyline with trying to care for her ailing father and how it conflicted with work. Then she quit and you never saw her again.
I think Carter's baby died at birth, but I don't remember.
Chen had the second-worst character write-off since Lewis's second departure. She had a really stupid storyline with trying to care for her ailing father and how it conflicted with work. Then she quit and you never saw her again.
Well, the ambulance blew up because it carried a former mob boss (played by Steve Buscemi) on his way to his testimony in a trial after being treated at County. A bomb was planted in the ambulance.
Carter's baby was stillborn in the episode "Midnight" in Season 10. A very powerful episode, and one of Noah Wyle's best performances. Carter and Kem split up shortly after this, got married anyway as we learned recently, but apparently still couldn't work out this painful event.
And I personally didn't mind how Chen was written out. At least they gave her an exit arc, unlike Alex Kingston just a few episodes earlier, who I felt was unceremoniously dumped. Which also made me all the happier to see her again in not just one, but two episodes this season.
Carter's baby was stillborn in the episode "Midnight" in Season 10. A very powerful episode, and one of Noah Wyle's best performances. Carter and Kem split up shortly after this, got married anyway as we learned recently, but apparently still couldn't work out this painful event.
And I personally didn't mind how Chen was written out. At least they gave her an exit arc, unlike Alex Kingston just a few episodes earlier, who I felt was unceremoniously dumped. Which also made me all the happier to see her again in not just one, but two episodes this season.
I'm fairly new to ER but the finale and Clooney coming back sparked my interest. I thought the retrospective was great. Morris already seems like a fun character
I've been watching youtube clips(the first 11 minutes of the pilot, Carter losing his baby, some departures,Romano's death, Greene's death etc, Carter's first IV on Frank)
Some questions. Did Rachael Greene order her margarita like her Dad?
Has the subway line been destroyed and rebuilt in a previous storyline? because I would think having the subway car crash down would make an excellent season finale.
Also i'd hate to be assigned to a room next to a rumbling subway car
Also i'd hate to be assigned to a room next to a rumbling subway car
I used to live a block over and 20 floors up from an El station, and the announcer's voice was much worse than the train itself. I still have dreams where I hear, "Attention custmers: This is Roosevelt. Transfer to Orange and Red Line trains at Roosevelt. This is a Green Line train towards the Loop. In the direction of travel, doors open on the left."
Well they did a lot of disaster stories over the years, a plane crash, a derailed train, a schoolbus literally "cliff-hanging", even a tank running amok in the city , but no never anything with the subway. Except for a notable suicide happening there.
And no, Mark Greene wasn't famous for drinking margaritas. In the early seasons, Susan Lewis and some others sometimes went out for margaritas, but Greene wasn't a part of that. (At least I think so.) I think the point of the scene was to show the characters' surprise at how Rachel had grown up. Last time they saw her, she was a rebellious teenager who got into A LOT of trouble for allowing her baby sister to swallow ecstasy that she brought into the house.
If you liked what you saw in those last few episodes, you should check out previous seasons on DVD. I have in the last few years, and realized that many of them were lots better than I had remembered them. The characters always worked, the new ones as well as the old ones.
That's a shame cause it looks like the rail line right outside the ambulance bay could potentially crash down. Maybe it can happen after the series finale.
I hope to get the dvd's.
And so ER ends - but my family back home watch Casualty (23 years and counting!) and Holby City anyway, so I doubt they'd notice.
I kind of enjoyed it, though - well, save for feeling quite uncomfortable when the twins' birth led to... complications.
I kind of enjoyed it, though - well, save for feeling quite uncomfortable when the twins' birth led to... complications.
Don´t forget the episode where Romano was smashed by a falling helicopter.
Don´t forget the episode where Romano was smashed by a falling helicopter.
Yes, of course, the infamous "Freefall". Actually kind of spectacular, even though I never really forgave the writers for killing off Romano just as he was starting to become a truly three-dimensional character.
In Season 10, they kind of wanted to slim down the cast, at least that's how it seemed. Get rid of everyone who wasn't contributinng much anymore (although of course it was the writers' job to come up with ways): Romano, Gallant, and early in Season 11, Corday and Chen... They wanted to move on to their new cast additions.
I believe in most of those cases it was the actors who wanted to leave, not the writers writing them out.
That's right. And Romano too. Same reason.
Sharif Atkins wanted to leave because he got his own show, which quickly failed however. In the case of Ming-Na, I don't know, but it would with the earlier departures that she was written out because they didn't know what to do with her anymore instead of her wanting to leave.
Sharif Atkins wanted to leave because he got his own show, which quickly failed however. In the case of Ming-Na, I don't know, but it would with the earlier departures that she was written out because they didn't know what to do with her anymore instead of her wanting to leave.
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