ER - "And In The End..." - 4/2/09 - Series Finale
 

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SERIES Finale. 15 Seasons (1994-2009), 331 Episodes.



Rumored "Old" Cast Members Appearing:


8 PM - 9 PM: Retrospective
9 PM - 11 PM: Finale

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:sad:

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I haven't watched in years, except for the one a couple of weeks ago with Clooney....but I'll watch tonight.

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:(:(:(

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I've been watching ER since day one. I'm really going to miss the show. They have done a really good job with bringing back original cast members this season and Thursdays are never going to be the same again.

I grew up with ER. My grandma and I always watch it together. When the DVDs came out I watched them over and over. It's one of the greatest shows in the history of television and I don't think it can ever be replaced. This is going to be a sad night.

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I've seen most of the episodes (I sort of gave up around the end of last season), and I own the DVDs. This show was really something special, and it'll probably be remembered as one of the... if not THE greatest television drama of all-time. The cast has been all-star since day 1, the writing was amazing (well at least for the first 10 seasons or so), and the whole production design was so well done between the effects and the ridiculous steadycam shots they had in nearly every episode.

I'd say my top 5 moments, not in any particular order would be:
- Mark Greene's Death (really all of Orion In The Sky/The Letter/On The Beach)

- Carter/Lucy stabbing (All in the Family... as someone mentioned Benton coming to help Carter... what a moment)

- Greene's bathroom assault and subsequent freakouts

- Kovac's "confession" about his wife and daughter

- Love's Labour Lost (I think This article from the Boston Globe today says it best)

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I stopped watching about 5 years ago, but I'll tune in for this.

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Wow. Long overdue. Should I be surprised that NBC is devoting THREE HOURS to this tonight? They are really crying for ratings.

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The show ran for 15 years and had a loyal following. I think it deserves a 2 hour finale and an hour retrospective. According to Noah Wyle on "Jimmy Fallon" last night- the Finale will mirror the 2 hour Pilot in some ways. (wow, who could have predicted 15 years ago that John Carter would be appearing on "The Jimmy Fallon show"!)

I'm already sad, just thinking about never seeing a new episode of one of my favorite shows of all time.

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Love's Labour Lost - remember watching it with my fiancee (now wife). Wow did that hour hit us.....hard. We had just been talking about kids and long term plans prior to that episode and we sat in stunned silence for at least 15 minutes after the show not believing what occured.

I was able to sit through this episode once more and marveled at the pacing, writing and acting. The build up to the climax and subsuquent fallout has to be one of the most outstanding pieces of work in television history.

Unfortunately, the delivery of both of our children were very difficult and dangerous for my wife and don't think that that episode did not cross my mind. Luckily the outcome was much better for us x 2.

We have watched ER consistently since that time, being shocked/amused/horrified/ and hating the last few seasons but watching nonetheless simply because we feel a bond with the show since that episode.

It was both painful and joyful for us to see Mark Greene for that episode recently, because I still feel the pain of LLL and our own real history. Probably and especially because of the episodes subject matter.

Obviously, we will miss the show, but it is time to move on.

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I think what I appreciate most about the episode, when I went back and watched the first season again on DVD, Mark Greene really is like invincible the whole first half of that season. He never makes a mistake, he's always there to save someone else from screwing up, he's like the knight riding in on his horse most episodes... and then everything falls apart in that one episode.

Probably the most amazing thing to me, upon original viewing, was that feeling that he would figure it out. When she went into seizures it was like "woh, Greene really missed something there" and then by the time he started cutting into her for the c-section it was really like "What the hell is he doing?!?" And even despite all that I was still saying "well it probably was just something he couldn''t have fixed" and then we find out that he missed something huge on the ultrasound.

It was really unfathomable that he could fall from grace like that, and I think the entire audience was shook to its core upon the series of events, and the final shots of Greene speaking with the father and him breaking down on the train are still ingrained in my mind... and it was definitely with me when my son was born as well.

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That has always been my favorite episode of ER. However, My wife was pregnant at the time with our first child and let me tell you, I didn't sleep well for weeks afterwards.

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I watched the first 5 seasons or so, not really at all since. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but I graduated and went to college (in 2001), and didn't watch after that. But the years I watched it, it was always one of the few shows we sat down and watched as a family.

I'll record all 3 hours tonight for old time's sake.

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Well M*A*S*H had a THREE hour finale after only 11 years so no argument there. Just saying that it is so apparent that NBC is trying to milk every last ounce out of this series (see also all NBC talk show promotion, TODAY show spots, etc.).

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I mean, it's front page news here at least, it had half the cover of the Boston Metro this morning showing most of the major cast people from the past 15 years.

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San Francisco Chronicles take on ER.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DD0E16PKCC.DTL

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That's the whole reason why they did that episode. He was TOO perfect and they wanted to show he was as flawed as everyone else.

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While I think that no one would disagree ER overstayed it's welcome, it was never clear to me personally why it retained it's coveted 10 PM Thu slot (*cough*NBCidiots*cough*). I don't think it really tanked until early in season 10. The writer there writes it was all over by season 5, but I think seasons 6-8 were the "prime" years for this show, even without Clooney, every episode was a hit until Greene left.

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I never watched the show but it looked like a quality show compared to the crap on FOX and I respect what they did and it should be a big deal.

I remember it started when I left high school and started college around 1994 and it makes you feel old that now the show is ending.

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Old intro :thumbsup:

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I used to watch this show religiously years ago. I stopped watching at some point (it wasn't after the major cast changes, but at some point after that). I continued to watch it sporadically and in syndication on TNT/TBS. I am absolutely watching the Series Finale though. I just hope one day they release the complete series on DVD; would definitely pick that up as I'd like to revisit the episodes I saw and see some new episodes too.

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If they could have kept David Lyons (Simon) out of the opening intro, it would have been truly great. Lyons is the one that just didn't seen to fit with the rest of the cast.

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This is really dragging. Could have easily been a one-hour finale.

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This is a really dull finale. They're trying way too hard to sapp it up.

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I'm glad Rory Gilmore decided to give emergency medicine a try.

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Great last line :thumbsup: Did drag quite a bit though. Could have done without half those cases in the ER... the old couple was definitely the best one there.

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Yeah, this definitely could have been an hour long.

Good ending though

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Sure, it was a little overlong, but I enjoyed the time they took in wrapping up the current cast and their future prospects:

Carter stays at County General, plus runs the Carter Center. Kem is still a piece of work, though, but Carter will always want to be with her, even if they are an ocean apart.

Gates and Sam finally just give bonding a try, as Gates grows up and appears to be ready for a more committed relationship.

Really liked how they brought in Rachel as the next generation for ER.

Again, would not have minded it if the show went on with the new faces that appeared this season, and in this very episode. I can't believe how frikkin' blue Alexis Bledel's eyes are, you never really notice it on Gilmore Girls, but the lighting in the ER just made them pop.

Pratt would be proud of his little brother.

I still have no idea where Susan lives or works.

It's weird not seeing Weaver and her cane (since they fixed her hip late in her run on the show).

It's even weirder to see Peter so mellowed out, plus it was good to see him and Lizzie together as friends.

Plus, you get the idea that Lizzie never got over Mark, so she buried herself into her career at Duke.

Ratings-wise, perhaps the show was getting too expensive to keep on air, but I'd watch another season, but I guess I'll have to be happy for the 15 season we got.

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Ah, thank you. I knew that doctor was someone I knew, but I couldn't quite think of Alexis' name for some reason.

Yeah, it was a bit overlong at 2 hours, but it was pretty decent. It was pretty much what I was expecting (ie. A "life goes on"-style finale, rather than some huge, dramatic conclusion).

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the old couple story almost made me slit my wrists... good bye e.r. its been real

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I hadnt seen an episode in prolly 2 years. All i remember was Abby and Luka were together.

Was a good season finale, was nice to the homages to the Pilot. Having the old intro for the last time was great. I'll miss you ER :(

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Loved the retro intro. I would have liked more nostalgia and less of the normal cases, but overall :thumbsup:

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The episode did drag, especially when in comparison with the 'pilot' which it was suppose to be mirroring.

But, still I liked it. It was subtile kinda in a way that it had to be. Life at the ER continues...

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wow...15 years.

I really haven't watched in about 10 years, but this used to be my favorite show. I left for college and life got in the way, but maybe it's time to start netflixing these dvd's.

what season did Greene get beat up in the bathroom? That was around the time I stopped watching, I think.

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He got beat up at the end of Season 3

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ER is still on? Who knew.

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Loved the old school opening.

In the beginning of the episode, Lydia the nurse stuck her head in an exam room and woke up Morris, and all you could see of her was the shadow of her head on the wall, that was exactly the way she woke up Mark Greene in the beginning of the pilot episode. Nice!

Good seeing the old faces, and the slight awkwardness between Benton and Corday. Even Reese was there. And a new Dr. Greene. Maybe corny, but it was a satisfying finale. No gimmicks, no unlikely amounts of closure, just life goes on.

Hate to be morbid, but at the end when the entire team is waiting outside for the multiple traumas, I was half-expecting the fleet of ambulances to run them all down.

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Decent finale. Like most finales, a bit too long and too sentimental, but not a disaster like some ill-conceived finales (ex. Seinfeld and The X-Files). I really liked the opening with the doctor sleeping in the on-call bed being woken up by a nurse, just like in the pilot. That was a nice touch.

I'm also a former fan who eventually stopped watching the show, dropping it after they killed off Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) at the end of Season 8. Like a lot of others, I think the best single episode is "Love's Labor Lost" from Season 1 because that is the episode that got me hooked on the show in the first place. And I think that the show was great for the first 6 seasons, up until Nurse Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) left the show in the second-to-last episode of that season. After that, it gradually declined as more and more of the original characters left and the overall writing declined in quality. When this decline really caught my attention was while Season 8 was on its original broadcast. TNT (I think that was the channel) was showing reruns of early seasons and I was re-watching those at the same time as watching the "new" Season 8 episodes and the difference in quality and just how much the show had declined since the early seasons was painfully obvious. So once they killed off a favorite character in Dr. Greene, I was done and only checked out a few episodes here and there over the next 7 seasons as other original cast members left. And I don't regret leaving the show at all because I just want to remember the best years of the show.

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Definitely a satisfying finale IMO. Nice to see the previous members of the cast. I think they did a nice job weaving them in over the course of hte season.

Like others have said, I also liked the old school opening, and the theme music swelling up over the final scene as it faded out.

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They looked great! :thumbsup: