Bye bye, ER!

[Mama~Love]

The very last episode is airing this Thursday . I've watched it since the beginning, 15 years ago already, when my oldest was just a baby.

I'm sad that it's ending, but at the same time, it seems like they drug it out long enough.

Dr. Carter better not be dying, or I'll be very upset. And they better not blow the place up too, or I'll be very pi$$ed!

[Ceinwen]

I am going to miss this show horribly! Fifteen years ago, I was just a teen myself and this show is actually part of what propelled me into the medical field! I've barely watched this season, it's too painful... lol Holy overdramatic!

[JesiLynne]

I too have watched from the begining, expect when John Leguizamo came on, I found the story lines far too aggravating.
I think this season has been incredible though, I really wish they would keep the show going.
Side note, I hate Kem. I so think Carter would have been better off with someone else.

[hopefulfaith]

I watched it from the beginning, when I was in nursing school. I already knew then that I wanted to be an ER nurse...

I quit watching when I actually became an ER nurse, and a few years had gone by and they started killing people/blowing up stuff every episode. I suppose you have to do something to keep it interesting (nobody would really want to watch what goes on in an actual ER...we aren't as gorgeous as they are!), but it was too over the top for me.

Nevertheless, I'm nostalgic and will probably tune in tomorrow night.

[jeliphish]

OMG 15 years!!??? I feel sooo old! I love ER even though I haven't been watching it as often as I used to, I still have such a soft place in my heart for it. The Dr. Greene years will always be with me

[holyhelianthus]

Originally Posted by jeliphish

OMG 15 years!!??? I feel sooo old! I love ER even though I haven't been watching it as often as I used to, I still have such a soft place in my heart for it. The Dr. Greene years will always be with me

Ok so I am totally telling my age here but I remember watching episode 1 with my mom and aunt and if 15 years was right than I was only 8! Holy cow! I so thought I was older.

I stopped watching when it got so over dramatic. But I have checked in from time to time and I have DVR'd the finale. I can't not watch!

[Mama~Love]

Originally Posted by JesiLynne

I too have watched from the begining, expect when John Leguizamo came on, I found the story lines far too aggravating.
I think this season has been incredible though, I really wish they would keep the show going.
Side note, I hate Kem. I so think Carter would have been better off with someone else.

Originally Posted by jeliphish

OMG 15 years!!??? I feel sooo old! I love ER even though I haven't been watching it as often as I used to, I still have such a soft place in my heart for it. The Dr. Greene years will always be with me

Ugh, Kem. I think she's a little UAV. Carter could've done MUCH better.

Dr. Greene was always my favorite too . It was never the same without him .

[bigeyes]

My friends and I all got p!$$ed and stopped watching after the night they had nurse Hathaway go chasing after Dr. Ross and dump Dr. Kovac.

Yeah, right.

They'd already killed Kellie Martin and made Dr. Carter an addict, phooey.

But I'll watch tonight.

[BookGoddess]

I can't believe it's been 15 years.

I can't believe it's coming to an end.

I used to watch ER faithfully for many seasons but stopped. It got to be too much all the addictions, bed hopping, and drama. The last three seasons I've only watched it if I happened to be flipping channels at the same time it was on.

I won't forget Dr. Greene or Kellie Martin's character. Their deaths were so sad. Dr. Greene was one of my favorite characters. He's the kind of doctor you hope to meet at an ER.

I'll watch tonight.

[Ceinwen]

Originally Posted by jeliphish

OMG 15 years!!??? I feel sooo old! I love ER even though I haven't been watching it as often as I used to, I still have such a soft place in my heart for it. The Dr. Greene years will always be with me

Those were my favorite seasons too - and with Benson. When they killed off Kellie Martin's character, I actually had nightmares. There was something about that episode that was scary...

hopefulfaith - I'm not an ER nurse, but I'm an ICU nurse! Do you ever chuckle at some of the terminology? It sounds good on TV when they're shouting it out, but it's so off kilter!

[TearyCloud]

Woah, sherri stringfield looks *bad*

This is kinda depressing. I had stopped watching for about 5 years and I caught that one cliffhanger where Sam's husband shot up the whole ER and I was hooked again after that.

All the actors are talking about how real it is and how that's how it would be in a real life situation, and god, from what I understand, none of these shows are remotely like RL.

[bigeyes]

I stopped watching before they killed of Dr. Greene. How did he die?

[Verity]

I'm not a huge ER fan. I got tired of having to keep switching the channel when they brought a child in, because that was way too intense for me as a new mom. (My oldest was just a few months old when it premiered.)

I can't say anything about Sherry Stringfield's appearance because I'm not watching, but does anyone else remember her from Guiding Light? What a shock that GL was cancelled!

[ErikaG]

Originally Posted by bigeyes

I stopped watching before they killed of Dr. Greene. How did he die?

Brain tumor. Six or so years ago.

[holyhelianthus]

ER and their birth scenes :

[Drummer's Wife]

Originally Posted by magstphil

ER and their birth scenes :

yeah. I was bawling. I guessed it after the first baby was born, so at least I knew it was coming...

[Debstmomy]

Sigh, it is over. I am a bit

BTW, I thought Sherry Stringfield looked good. What did you think was bad??

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

Dr Green died of a brain tumor.

I had tears in my eyes as it went off. :

I love how Dr. Green's daughter is going to be a Dr. but I hate the loose end with Carter and his wife.

I am gonna miss ER so badly I have stuck with it through the entire 15 years. I have only missed a hand full of episodes in all that time.

No idea now what I am going to watch on Thursday night.

[Mama~Love]

Originally Posted by BookGoddess

I can't believe it's been 15 years.

I can't believe it's coming to an end.

I used to watch ER faithfully for many seasons but stopped. It got to be too much all the addictions, bed hopping, and drama. The last three seasons I've only watched it if I happened to be flipping channels at the same time it was on.

I won't forget Dr. Greene or Kellie Martin's character. Their deaths were so sad. Dr. Greene was one of my favorite characters. He's the kind of doctor you hope to meet at an ER.

I'll watch tonight.

Yeah, I know. Dr. Greene was my favorite.

Originally Posted by magstphil

ER and their birth scenes :

And DH looked at me & said "That's why you don't have babies at home" : .

Originally Posted by MCatLvrMom2A&X

Dr Green died of a brain tumor.

I had tears in my eyes as it went off. :

I love how Dr. Green's daughter is going to be a Dr. but I hate the loose end with Carter and his wife.

I am gonna miss ER so badly I have stuck with it through the entire 15 years. I have only missed a hand full of episodes in all that time.

No idea now what I am going to watch on Thursday night.

I thought that was very neat that Rachel wants to be a doctor. She has a lot of work to live up to her father's reputation.

And Carter & Kem - hope they split up. It never seemed right to begin with.

[hopefulfaith]

Originally Posted by Ceinwen

hopefulfaith - I'm not an ER nurse, but I'm an ICU nurse! Do you ever chuckle at some of the terminology? It sounds good on TV when they're shouting it out, but it's so off kilter!

In the first five minutes, when one of the traumas came into the trauma room and the nurse, who was holding a thermometer and standing at the head of the bed, verbalized that the core temp was such-and-such.... I was amused - oh, yeah? How'd you get that? Standing at her head while she was fully dressed, huh?

I've always thought their orders and stuff were kind of funny. I mean, they have the right list and everything but I kind of roll my eyes when the physicians yell out a list of orders for the trauma patients. First, who ever yells orders? And second, when you're working with a good nurse...you know, chances are, the orders are already in before you have to verbalize them.

I was pretty nostalgic last night. When Dr. Greene's daughter was standing there, all starry-eyed and when Carter called her in at the end...when Benton was signing to his son (remember when he was born?)... and at the end, when the line was simply "This is the fun part.", after all of the madness of the shift (PV guy, etc.) -- they did get that right. It made me miss working in a trauma center!