<p>Yes, I picked that up as soon as I saw her!</p>
<p>Let’s see if this works:
[As</a> ‘ER’ winds down, an episode lingers - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/04/02/as_er_winds_down_an_episode_lingers/]As”>http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/04/02/as_er_winds_down_an_episode_lingers/)</p>
<p>Thanks! ^^^</p>
<p>Eeek! I am retraumatized!</p>
<p>OK - the bride and MIL fighting over the groom was pretty hilarious</p>
<p>I love Valerie Harper.</p>
<p>Marilu Henner! Right? Not Valerie Harper, or am I totally losing it?</p>
<p>I thought it was Marilu Henner. No?</p>
<p>cross post. We may both be losing it!</p>
<p>Ooops! Son was talking to me at the same time so I didn’t get as close a look, I guess. I was thinking, “Valerie Harper looks great!” Hmmm, just like Marilu Henner, huh?</p>
<p>ER, I’m gonna miss it. Sniffle. Wipes tears.</p>
<p>[Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen the episode yet.]</p>
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<p>I remember the Love’s Labor Lost episode. Vividly. I guess it’s probably no coincidence that one of the story lines tonight also involved a woman dying in childbirth. Some of the specific camera angles looked extremely familiar to me. At least this one happened offscreen, but the gallons of blood pouring out of her onto the floor had me curled up on the sofa covering my face. </p>
<p>Other than that, I really enjoyed seeing all the old cast members. (I stopped watching it regularly a couple of years ago.) I especially liked seeing Rachel Greene again (it certainly looked like the same actress, all grown up). And Peter Benton. (He’s working at County again?) And Susan Lewis, whom I used to hope was going to end up with Mark Greene because they so clearly had feelings for each other. And the way that Archie(?) was woken up at the beginning by what looked like the very same nurse who woke up Greene, in the very same way, at the beginning of ER’s very first episode. And the way, at the very end, that it seems that Carter is going to start working at County again. Wow. I used to watch that show when my son was 4 years old. Time passes, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I’m sorry that Abby and Luka weren’t in the episode. I always liked both of them a lot, and don’t really know exactly what happened to their characters. Did they end up together? (The only episode I’ve seen this season, or for most of last season, was the one in which George Clooney and Julianna Margulies return. I watched it online.)</p>
<p>Did my eyes deceive me, or was that Ernest Borgnine playing the elderly man whose wife dies? If so, he must be over 90. He still looks like himself, though.</p>
<p>Just finished watching it; can’t count how many times my ears teared up.</p>
<p>It was also nice to see the basketball hoop in use again.</p>
<p>I also thought Alexis Bledel did a terrific job. Haven’t seen her around in a while.</p>
<p>I also watched it blubbering the whole time, despite having drifted away from ER years ago. (it was never the same show after Mark died.) I think I may have been lamenting my lost youth as much as the end of the show–I was sure a lot younger during ER’s heyday!</p>
<p>I loved that they used the original credits and actual footage from the original credits spliced in with new footage. And I like the way the last scene pulled to that wide shot with the train going by. It’s really the end of an era. Anyone remember when Love’s Labor’s Lost aired? My son is 14 1/2 now and I am wondering if I was pregnant then. Tonight I looked at him and said, “Wow, this show has been on for your entire life. That’s a long time.”</p>
<p>Yes, DonnaL, that was Ernest Borgnine-he’s 92. He was in an earlier episode this year with his “wife.” There were a number of story lines last night which paralleled the earliest story lines. I felt that they did a wonderful job with this last show.</p>
<p>This last episode isn’t at all what I expected; but I really liked it. I liked that they didn’t just wrap up all story lines and that it wasn’t all “happily ever after”. It would have been cliche if Gates and Taggart ended up engaged, Banfield adopted her son, Kem and Carter reunited, no one died, etc. I also liked that it was also like “life goes on” with all the new characters last night. </p>
<p>This show has addressed many important issues over the years; mental illness, Darfur, homosexuality, budget problems vs. patient care, African American culture of not going to doctors, etc. I will miss ER.</p>
<p>“Love’s Labor Lost” first aired March 9, 1995. Ds2 was born the next week. Thankfully, I was at lamaze class and had taped the episode. My SIL called me when we got home and said, “DON’T watch that episode.” So I didn’t. I finally saw it years later.</p>
<p>I also was pregnant when that episode aired. My daughter was born in April (my baby is almost 14!) and I remember that episode vividly. I remember being so thankful that it was not my first pregnancy or I would have been terrified going in to childbirth. </p>
<p>I wish last night during the retrospective when they were reminiscing about Mark Greene’s death and the trip to Hawaii, they would have played some of Over the Rainbow by IZ. Sales of that CD went through the roof after that episode. We own that CD, we also used to live in Hawaii so were familiar with the artist. </p>
<p>I was struck again last night by how beautiful I’ve always found Alex Kingston. My husband never agreed with me, though.</p>
<p>I’m a former ER addict–I didn’t watch last night’s episode, because I don’t know so many of the newer characters, but maybe I will after reading here. I did watch the retrospective, and teared up a bunch of times–Mark’s death and Benton’s nephew dying especially.</p>
<p>Love’s Labor Lost–my kids were already born when that aired, so I didn’t have that sense of fear. But the article posted above about it standing for the unknown bad stuff lurking in front of each of us captures how I felt when I watched it. The way that nothing can turn into everything in the turn of a moment…wrenching.</p>
<p>My H had worked in a similar kind of ER as a med student, resident, and for some years after that. He generally avoided medical shows (inaccuracies drove him nuts) but he ended up drifting into the room and watching it with me. He said–that captured what it felt like as nothing else he’d ever seen did.</p>
<p>After that, he sometimes avoided the show not because it wasn’t accurate, but because it was too much so. It was difficult enough to be there; he didn’t want to relive it on TV.</p>
<p>I found myself crying in the recap show prior to the finale, when they talked about Mark Greene’s death and Carol saying to Doug I don’t want to wake up alone tomorrow.</p>
<p>The only thing that bothered me is Neela on the webcam saying hi to Carter, but when she met Doug, she forgets to mention Carter.</p>
<p>I loved how they showed Rachel and Elizabeth together as a family still. BTW it is th same actress, and if she looks familiar to you, she also played Harms adopted/guardian daughter on JAG</p>