Anyone watch ER last night?

I have generally been disappointed by the final season of ER. I have been watching for the entire 15 years and therefor invested WAY TOO MUCH in a TV show - but thats the way it is.

It was great to see LaSalle, Clooney, and Margolies again. I thought it was a pretty good episode that reflected in a small degree the realities of life. Most work friends don't get together again for a grand finale in the same place! People drift off to different lives. In this episode the lives of Carter and the rest mentioned above intertwined in an unexpected way. Nice show.

I have not watched it in years but I was an adict back in the late 90's. I watched last night though. It was well done. I liked the music they played during the episode too.

ER has been one of my favourite shows since it began. I really enjoyed last night's episode, seeing old and familiar faces returning. I will miss the series next year.

Dori

I have been watching ER since the beginning too. I will be sad to see it go. My husband's been totally into this year's season which I find funny. I liked how they tied it all together and even sent Carter to Northwestern instead of him staying at County General.

What will really drive me crazy is if the Angela Basset character (what's her screen name?) ends up with that baby...as a person that has had to wait and wait and go through lots of red tape for a social service adoption, that would be TOTALLY unrealistic!

I'll be sad the last episode. Anyone know when that is?

Spoiler Alert if you haven't watched it yet

Was that "it" for the returning stars, or will they see it through til the end of the series, I wonder? I can't believe they will leave it with Carol not knowing it was Carter who received the kidney.

Unfortunately, I was dealing with some teen drama (not even my kid, lol) so I wasn't as focused as I wanted to be on the episode. Will have to see if I can watch it again online.

My friend thinks Carter will reject the kidney, die, and they will all reunite at the funeral. I hope she's wrong!

I think that was it for for Doug Ross and Carol Hathway. I think I read that they had filmed one episode only. I have heard how the show is going to end, and kind of come full circle, but I won't post it in case anyone wants to be surprised. But, I read it in an article, so it sounds like it's not being kept a big secret.

Noah Wylie was supposed to be in 5 episodes. I haven't been keeping count to know if that was the last one he was going to be in or not. And I didn't see the previews for next week.

I've watched it from the beginning, also, and love this show. I believe they mentioned there are three more episodes.

ctreelmom said:

Was that "it" for the returning stars, or will they see it through til the end of the series, I wonder? I can't believe they will leave it with Carol not knowing it was Carter who received the kidney.

Unfortunately, I was dealing with some teen drama (not even my kid, lol) so I wasn't as focused as I wanted to be on the episode. Will have to see if I can watch it again online.

My friend thinks Carter will reject the kidney, die, and they will all reunite at the funeral. I hope she's wrong!

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I don't think rejection of transplants is much of a problem anymore. At any rate, Carter dying would be a horrible ending and hurt further disribution in re-runs.

pgnewarkboy said:

I don't think rejection of transplants is much of a problem anymore. At any rate, Carter dying would be a horrible ending and hurt further disribution in re-runs.

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You don't see many of these one hour drama shows in reruns. Sure sometimes they carry them on TBS or USA, but the true sindication money is in the half hour sitcoms that air between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.

ER is Probably the Last Show Depicting Human Beings

I think your right on the syndication! I thinks most long-running sitcoms are already syndicated before the end of their original run. For example, "The Simpsons", "Friends", and a few others.

I suppose when people get home from a hard days work, or school, between 6 and 8 pm most people want big yucks and lots of commercials in a short time before, during, and after "eating" - not dinner. Nobody eats dinner anymore. Dinner requires at least "eating" with another "person" that you may "look at" or even "talk to".

All that personal contact can be disorienting and humanizing. Your much better office "watching something" alone or "listening to something" alone while sending text messages, and twitters alone to various other people who are alone doing the same thing as you.

I can understand why even speaking to people on a cell phone is so twentieth century. You actually have to hear their strangely odd human voices.

What does this rant have to do with ER? ER is probably the last show of its kind where real human beings are depicted suffering from the tragedy of being live human people. We are much better off coldly and non-caringly watching the dismembering of corpses on CSI and BONES and every other show. No need to speak to the living. We can learn more from people when they are dead and don't have to put up with their emotions and lying and distortions and memory failures.

Maybe the perfect show would be a cross between the "Ghost Whisperer" and "CSI'. The crack criminal forensic expert could send text messages to the dead victims before dimembering them.