Goodbye "ER"

Tonight I watched the last episode of ER.

15 years is a long time. I'm really going to miss it. I liked the finale. I laughed, I cried, and I chuckled that when I started watching 15 years ago I barely could work my VCR and if I missed an ep, there was no watching it online, downloading on iTunes, Fancast or Hulu. Now I was watching on my TiVo and could fast forward through commercials.

ER does mean something in my life. It was the first "grown up" show I was allowed to watch. I felt independence watching it since my parents did not. I went off to college and it became a social event - ER parties in Kira's room. It was an escape, it was dramatic, it was funny, it covered so many stages and issues. The filming of it was revolutionary for TV. Sometimes we averted our eyes and were SHOCKED at the medical injuries they showed, other times we sobbed at the passing of characters and patients we became attached to. We pined for George Clooney, loved Anthony Edward, cheered for Noah Wiley. The years came and went, cell phones appeared, relationships ebbed and flowed, we learned the nurses were the true bosses and don't cross them, and new doctors and characters (loved Archie and Neela! And guest star Sally Field was GENIUS) appeared that captured our hearts and imaginations.

I really liked this show. I enjoyed it (ok, I loved it), and I WILL thoroughly miss my traditional Thursday night escape. I'll always watch a rerun.

Cheers ER!!! You had a FANTASTIC run! I'll miss you!!!