ER ended as it began, 15 years ago, with a big-scale medical emergency, ambulances roaring up to County General, and doctors rushing out to help Read the full post.
Apr 3
2009
03:47 AM ET
'ER' ends: Gracefully, urgently
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Zzzzzzz. A show about the personal lives of doctors. Yawn.
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ER finale sucked. The working in of the previous docs was really forced. I would have rather them spent 5-10 minutes going around the U.S. or world showing what everyone was doing with their lives…then coming back to County to finish up.
i am another person who never missed an episode in 15 years. i loved the show and all the characters. i think carter is one of the best tv characters ever. he continued to change and grow throughout the show and was always so captivating. im going to miss this show so much
I loved how they worked points in from the first episode into the last one. How in the first episode Carter got sick (i believe from a burn victim)& Mark Greene gave him the speech that Dr. Brenner give the new intern (the new Carter). Several of the plots from this episode paid tribute to the premier as well as the rest of the show (love’s labore lost for example) but that’s what this show did best. Unfortunately it lost it’s way for a while but it really ended strongly the entire season starting w/Pratt’s death all the way to the end. They also had to wrap up some storylines like what happened so some of the people who left (Doug, Carol, Susan, Kerrie, Kem). I was very sad to see it go but happy at how they ended it (rather then a St. Elsewhere ending where it was all in the head of an autistic child). Great job to all
The wife has me watching all the old episodes to catch me up to this point.
I enjoyed the finale, but I wouldn’t put it on par with something like M*A*S*H’s “Farewell, Goodbye and Amen” which has a tribute DVD of its own.
I was disappointed that the nurses didn’t get to take a bow themselves, and Wendy’s return would have been nice, but then it’s always been about the doctors.
It was good to see Carter come full circle as the series has always been wrapped around his character, much like the Star Wars saga is based around R2-D2 and C3PO. Chrichton created an excellent doppleganger in him.
Ernest Borgnine (http://www.airwolf.tv) was an outstanding choice for the finale, a sub-plot which thank goodness they didn’t leave hanging from George Clooney’s episode.
But NBC did it again – drove me away from a new series. Just like “Heroes,” I’m not going to start watching “Southland” because they promoted it to the point of nausea and I’m sick of being hit over the head.
Goodbye, ER. Now TV Execs: Can we please have a moratorium on the “It’s a show about young doctors in a teaching hospital” show pitch? Didn’t Scrubs’ perfect send up of the genre kill it? Grey’s Anatomy says no.
nice that you reviewed it. I must say that I was disappointed that EW, the country’s only really serious mass market entertainment publication, covered the ending of this series so lackadaisically–even though it went on for several seasons past its prime, it was groundbreaking and influential television for many seasons and an essay in the print version, with possibly a listing of key episodes would have been more appropriate.
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my parents watched EVERY episode since the premire! it premired the same year i was born and i have also watched every episode that i can remember! we were really sad to see that this was the last season but it was a great final season!
I was sad to see ER finish up after all these years. I have watched for many of the 15 years, and loved (and hated) so many characters. I think they wrapped it up pretty well, but it could have gone on for many more episodes. Great characters, great writing (for most story arcs)…. I will miss it on Thursday nights.
i loved it..nothing over the top..nothing crazy or predictable fireworks…it ended as it began..new young doctors doubtingg themselves, older cast members celebrating an old coworkers accomplishment…it was nice to see rachel greene having reformed herself. if the series finale had been to crazy, everyone wouldve comlaned about that..just because the show ended, should they have blown up county general as well? theoretically, the ER goes on, we will miss it..it ended gracefully, i think, i didnt know what to expect, but the only thing that couldve been better is if they dais “suprise! were gonna do another season!” but that didnt happen so it happened the second best way it could have.
It’s now two weeks since the final show aired in the UK. I’ve been a devotee for a long time. As the camera panned across the cast as they waited for ambulances to arrive at the Casualty (ER) Department there wasn’t one pair not teary. I’ll certainly miss ER.
While I enjoyed it, I feel the real ending was weeks ago when the man who revolutionised ER medicine was admitted and passed away in the ER