And in the End...

Am truly feeling bereaved after watching the end of this beautiful series. It was lovely to see all the old characters come back for the opening of the Carter Centre, with their new lives. And the writers still enabled me to continue to hate the dreadful Kem who turned up just long enough to break Carter's heart once more, but always keeps him on a string so he cannot make a new life. I even forgave Rachel, who was a horrible child, because she redeems herself by following in her father's footsteps (thanks to Elizabeth's influence).

I wept buckets as the credits went up, feeling the loss of dear friends.

Beautifully constructed and performed. A unique gem of a programme.

In many ways this is a typical episode of ER, showing a cross-section of stories and how the usual cast members are affected while further developing the background stories of each series character. There are nice (even if sad) wrap ups to some ongoing story arcs, but more than anything else, as the episode comes to an end one is reminded that this show reflects real life so well, and that while you may be looking at a snapshot of a period of time in the ER, the real story will keep going even after you are not watching. And in that sense, this typical episode is such an excellent close to this series. Some more cynical than I am might suggest that this leaves the producers an opportunity to bring back future episodes (1 year after ER closes! Guest appearance by George Clooney!!) but I hope that that kind of thing won't happen. The ER series wasn't perfect by any means, and although I watched it religiously at the beginning, I admit my attention wavered at times for months as the cast or focus of the show changed, or as my own real-life interfered with my TV viewing. I didn't necessarily get all my questions answered about what happened to X (insert a cast member's name here)? but overall, a very satisfying end to a remarkable series.

Such a fantastic series, such a fantastic finale.

The series never really recovered when Anthony Edwards left. But...bringing back Rachel as a med student was such an incredible way to bring the entire series full circle, just spectacular and so effective. Mark Greene was ER, he was the most important character over the series run, and now his daughter continues his legacy. Unbelievably satisfying storyline.

The entire episode was great, really felt like an episode from the first 5-10 seasons, the dialog and camera work, everything. Not a lot of focus was put on the "new" regular cast, but even they were less annoying than usual. Alexis Bledel was excellent as Julia Wise, she would have been a great regular cast member. My only knock, Carter/Kem storyline felt completely unnecessary, it added nothing to the episode and offered no closure. The final scene was absolutely splendid

There will never be another ER, even when it wasn't great it was still better than nearly every other drama on television.

E.R was a fantastic show, for an incredible fifteen year span. It had excitement, suspense, pathos, despair...all the human emotions. This last series finale episode not withstanding. It went through cast changes many over the years,but it never failed to deliver competent, relevant drama. John Carter (Noah Wyle)started out as a resident student and finished as a wiser, been through the mill human being. E.R. had a wonderful human element. the scripts, acting, production values made it one of the finest prime time dramas ever. This final episode was a changing of the guard of sorts with some old regulars sprinkled in there as Cook County's Carter Center opened. It suffered a little in the early 2000's with so many characters being damaged goods somewhat. But it bounced back and became the grand drama it's always been. It was an incredible show, it'll be missed.

I thought it was quietly brilliant, I agree with some of the other comments, the message at the end was life will go on but the camera's not watching anymore....which is a huge shame, because I think ER was one of the best series ever, and the writing second to none for a TV show. The show boasted believable, flawed characters, compelling story lines and exciting camera work. What I loved about ER was that, despite the big, dramatic events that happened from time to time, often there were very real, quiet, human, affecting moments. I'm going to have to buy all the series on DVD because television is not going to be the same without ER. Congratulations on all that worked on ER for a quite brilliant achievement. The show deserves a place in TV history.