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Post by Christabelle on Apr 4, 2009 3:37:53 GMT 10
I feel drained................and not because I have cried that much........... It's just that I am aware that it's the last time I am gonna post about a new ER epi....JOHN WELLS WROTE A PERFECT ENDING................... Totally in the spirit of OLD ER...The restrospective was so well done.............and I am amazed to see how well I remembered EVERYTHING... And, like Christabelle, I loved that the last day was so normal, with big traumas coming, docs and nurses running everywhere, nothing grandiloquent and over the top. The best parts:- Of course, when LYDIA ( who had been MIA for ages) walks into the on call room and wakes MORRIS up.... Had been expecting this to happen as a tribute to MARK but had a large grin on my face. - Loved to see all the nurses. Thank you to MALIK, LILY, CHUNY and especially HALEH........... - Loved CHAZ as a first year student ( ? ) showing the ER to the bunch of newbies... - What moved me most was FRANK's face when RACHEL introduced herself to him...TROY EVANS's face was incredible...........like when he said goodbye to PRATT. - I also loved that all the stories with the current cast weren't all wrapped up....even though SAM and GATES will probably make out like crazy in the Mustang. About the old cast: I LOVED EVERYTHING.The small details which made me melt: -Seeing REESE with his Dad, and the fact that MATTHEW WATKINS was still playing the role. - SUSAN was so beautiful. If ER was a fairy tale, she and CARTER would hook up....( he is no more snotty and smug and loaded.............and doesn't look like her baby brother anymore as in season 1 when he had a huge crush on her. ) And I really hated KEM today. Why the hell did she come ? Apart from the fact that she is still grieving JOSHUA so much, she obviously has nothing anymore in common with CARTER. She was cold and distant and the poor guy broke my heart with his sad eyes. If ER was a fairy tale, ELIZABETH and BENTON would be together now.............and CLEO who had only one facial expression during 3 seasons, would be completely forgotten........as she was for the majority of us. If ER was MY FAIRY TALE, LUKA and ABBY would have been drinking with their friends at the bar , remembering the good ol' days.......... but they are happy in Boston with JOEJOE and it's all the best. I only started crying when CARTER said to RACHEL: Are you coming Dr Greene ? "........ I am a sentimental sap and was seeing MARK watching " OVER THE RAINBOW. "And I really bawled like a baby with the return of the theme song , the zoom to show the whole COUNTY HOSPITAL and the EL passing by. END OF AN ERA..............GOOD BYE OLD FRIEND..........Zelda, you saw the final episode exactly the way i did!! It just was the PERFECT ending. I will never forget the look on Frank's face when Rachel said who she was. It was so heartbreaking. And the scene towards the end, when Brennar walks in and the new girl doctor says, 'i don't think i can do this', i was half expecting the, Green/Carter and Carter/Gallant speech about, 'there are two kinds of doctors', but it never happened. But I do think that this episode should have been entitled 'everything old is new again', the same as back from the season 1's finale. That what it felt like to me, especially with new interns, med students and feel to the show. But the rating, how about that?? We haven't seen them like that for many years. ER you did good If only these were the rating all the time and we wouldn't have had to say goodbye.....
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Post by marioh on Apr 4, 2009 7:06:14 GMT 10
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Post by genna on Apr 4, 2009 7:25:33 GMT 10
Hey Marion, you can find it here www.megavideo.com/?c=search&sort=date&s=erI can't begin to sum up all i felt and the best bit from this ep. I think i need to re-watch it to digest it all. But the tone was absolutely perfect. It was like John Wells said in one of his interviews that in a way he didn't care what ppl thought, he was just having fun directing his friends. You truly got the feeling he cared about this project (despite wandering away from it at times!) and he jsut wanted to do right by it in its final ep. It was just brilliant. Whoever could have expected them to draw together the old and the new so perfectly? Kind of made all the other mew episodes from this season make sense too. I can't believe after all I said I was ridiculously pleased to see Gates and Sam reconnect. TPTB are just so good at getting u to warm to characters, no matter how stubbornly you try not to! Favourite parts?! gosh. Kem coming back was really touching. Benton giving Carter a hug was so sweet. The way Corday cares for Rachel. Morris being woken up like Dr Green. The scene with whoever the new intern is and Bremner-really sums up the work of a doctor- u wake up and hope u can save someone the next day- I mean that's exactly what its about! Having Rachel and Chaz in was a streak of genious...although it didn't really feel right that she was grinning away at the end at the thought of someone with 90 degree burns...Dr Green would never do that! Gosh life without ER is going to be really strange. I feel like its been around forever- for me personally as well. I remember how excited I used to be when I watched when I was deciding to study medicine, thinking that might be me one day, how I gradually understood it more and more through my years at medical school and when I graduate in two months time I guess it really will be (although I would be lucky to ever know that much...and unlucky to see that much action!) Anyway. This board has been great. Thanks all you guys for sharing your thoughts about the episodes, for helping out to see the episodes, for keeping in touch with Maura and Goran news. Take care everyone
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Post by genna on Apr 4, 2009 8:02:03 GMT 10
p.s. can't believe in the retrospect they didnt have any flash backs to Abby's bloody hand in the window, Luka watching on as she slides to the floor. Most. Harrowing. ER moment. Ever!
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Post by larue on Apr 4, 2009 8:11:20 GMT 10
Well....here is how I think it's going to go. Kem leaves Carter forever when he realizes that they can't reconcile their different reactions to moving on past Joshua. He mentors Rachel through med school, internship and then finally marries her when she begins her residency. Not kinky at all. Benton and Lizzie are destined to hook up as well. Could actually see the writing on the wall. Heh.
On another note, I had watched the premiere just a couple of days before the finale aired. I am going to watch them back to back sometime soon. There were a LOT of similarites...beginning with the fact that Mark Greene was the one to show newbie Carter how to put an IV in....exactly the way Carter showed Rachel. Carter was a fresh face in the hall watching as the baby was born in the premiere and the old hand in the dleivery in the finale. And the 'Are you coming?' happened with Greene and Carter as well. And even though their future was essentially sealed in 'I Feel Good'...I would have MUCH MUCH rathered have more Archie/Claudia that Sam/Gates last night. In my VHO Scott Grimes has carried the show quite ably in the past few appearances. They should have had him mature much earlier and saved themselves Stamos' huge contract. Luby aside, I am going to miss seeing him most of all, I think.
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Post by noekii on Apr 4, 2009 9:28:22 GMT 10
Oh, wow, this was such an amazing episode. So true to the show, just another day at County. Loved the way some of the old cast was integrated and how everyone came along. Loved the references to old times, the parallels. The final Dr. Greene line was just great. Loved the pace and the stories featured and how we got some resolutions but not everything was completely wrapped up. And it was totally amazing to see the old credits back. Maybe more thoughts later, but I am gonna join genna in thanking you all for the great time I have had until now on this board (and with the series). What a great ending of the show.
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Post by abby_road on Apr 4, 2009 11:24:49 GMT 10
Found links of the retrospective! I'll post them if anybosy is interested. I still can't watch it, I'm afraid I'm gonna cry
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Post by PiperxoxLeo on Apr 4, 2009 11:40:36 GMT 10
I'm interested!
I am currently watching the last episode...OLD CREDITS! I almost died when I saw them.
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Post by marie on Apr 4, 2009 18:11:48 GMT 10
i'm interested too ! :-)
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Post by luby4eva06 on Apr 4, 2009 18:53:54 GMT 10
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Post by Rach :) on Apr 4, 2009 19:17:25 GMT 10
Im interested, i cant seem to find any links that work! Also im not acutally sure what it is so... EDIT: Got it! Thanksssss xox _______________________________________ Okay, OMG, its over
I think i could possibly be in denial...Thoughts on the last episode.- I absolutely loved the 'wake up Morris' part like the very first episode. It really made me want to go back and watch it again haha .- I missed the presence of Abby and Luka. I didnt think they would be in it, but i hoped for at least Abby, a little gutted there - Last line "Dr Greene" i loved it, perfect for the end. I always felt that it was Mark Greene that was ER. He was never my favourite, but i did like him, he was the main guy at the begining after all.- I missed the Morris and Claudia thing, they are so sweet, even one little moment would have been nice.- Okay i love Gates and Sam, what can i say, i thought it was sweet, the car thing was nice, her face was priceless when they said it was hers. - Susan Lewis, aww i missed her! Her line when she and Kerrie are being shown around the Carter Centre, when she says something like "Carter I knew you were rich i didnt know you were this rich!" Reminded me of one of my favourite episodes ever, Secrets And Lies. - Wow to the atmosphere around Corday and Benton. Just wow!- Nice to see Kerry, she didnt say much though, didnt really find out what she had been up to.- And a Gilmore Girl! haha She was a nice touch...- Neela wasnt really in it much, a tiny bit gutted but didnt miss her too much.- I missed surgery though, where has Lucian gone? He is still there right??? - Carter showing Rachel how to do the IV was sweet.. - OLD CREDITSSSSSSSSSSSSSS - At first i wasnt sure about the end, but then i realised, it shows that life still goes on, and i like it, i really do, and im sad that its over, i dont know what to do with myself. ER started when i was 2, my mum always watched it. When she watched it i did. I has been part of my whole life! Seriously! I remember when i was, hmmm, 10 i think, watched Mark die, and going to the toilet and crying, 10 years old and i was already right into it. Well its not finished here in the UK yet, so its not over watching it with my mum, but it is over for me, i think im going to need to start watching for the begining again haha!Bye Bye ER
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Post by reachthestars on Apr 5, 2009 11:00:39 GMT 10
Is anyone else watching it again right now? My brother missed it Thursday night, so we're watching it . It's great having the chance to watch it again, I'm seeing things I missed the first time around.
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Post by jennifer on Apr 6, 2009 8:02:00 GMT 10
What to say? I loved it! I loved Finale, Retrospective, entire show.. I was totally wasted in the end, when everybody got out to ambulance bay, with the ER theme song in the background.. that fact, that I wasnt going to see them saving those victims of the accident... anymore.. btw, am I the only one who thinks that the scene when Chaz was showing the place to new students was like the one from Pilot? (Benton - Carter) I need to rewatch it... And I loved the beginning of the Retrospetcive, it was really moving.. Seeing empty ER reminded me the scene when Mark died.. ER is over... And now what???
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Post by loopyallie on Apr 6, 2009 8:32:27 GMT 10
Just finally watch the finale after a hectic weekend - I need to watch it again to get that poignant feeling as I kept getting the anti-climax as kept getting disturbed by friends and family - coming round and phoning which left me not enjoying the episode...(Why tonight of all nights? its usually my peaceful night) The only thing I was high on was seeing Susan and Kerry again and how grown up Rachel was... Susan was hot as ever! I will be back again with a review... I'm just annoyed with the interruptions I kept getting, I could have easily told everyone to f**k OFF!!!!!!
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Post by abby_road on Apr 6, 2009 10:42:03 GMT 10
Just finally watch the finale after a hectic weekend - I need to watch it again to get that poignant feeling as I kept getting the anti-climax as kept getting disturbed by friends and family - coming round and phoning which left me not enjoying the episode...(Why tonight of all nights? its usually my peaceful night) The only thing I was high on was seeing Susan and Kerry again and how grown up Rachel was... Susan was hot as ever! I will be back again with a review... I'm just annoyed with the interruptions I kept getting, I could have easily told everyone to f**k OFF!!!!!! Hey! If you're going to put it under the spoiler thingy, you could at least not "bleep" it! I love a good curse on an appropriate moment Just kidding. Man, I'm on a weird mood lately
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