It was just another 24 hours in the ER of Chicago’s County Hospital. I had expected the roof to cave-in, the ER to close because of the financial crisis (or the opening of the Carter Center), or at least for John Carter and his wife to get back together. The one thing I really liked was the pan-out at the end showing the hospital (complete with its neon sign and the EL going around it) and the staff responding to yet another large catastrophe.
It was an okay sendoff, but I wish everybody had come back for the finale. At least we got to see them in the retrospective hour before the finale and in some of the episodes this last year. I will definitely miss ER, but as one of the cast members said about the soundstage/set: “It is not the Berlin Wall, it is only a TV show.” Even so, it touched my life along with thousands, maybe millions of other viewers. It was something to look forward to. It took me out of my own problems. ER will be missed.
Tell me what you thought of the finale or why no show can really replace ER. (Of course, that’s what I thought about St. Elsewhere when it ended after only five seasons in the 1980s!)
P.S. Thank goodness for reruns and Tivo!!
