Well there goes that wish. I enjoyed his character because he was so far out of the mainstream.
Thanks for the information everyone.
I was trying to figure out if anyone ever called her father’s nurse or whether he ended up left at home alone while she’s in the hospital.
I thought that Pratt and the others were a little too calm, cool, and, collected. I know they are emergency docs, but still!!!
Re: Kerry and the custody battle, Brother Eduardo was trying to get ahold of Kerry to let her know that the grandparents had decided not to pursue the suit. They realized they were too old and tired to completely start the parenting gig anew, and there were intimations that they felt guilty about what they were doing to Kerry. They all worked it out, the grandparents are going to provide daily child care while Kerry works and Henry will be around for family holidays but he’s being rightfully returned to Kerry. They claimed they never wanted to hurt her, but were just afraid Henry wouldn’t be a part of their lives and didn’t want to lose a grandson in addition to a daughter.
IMO? ER writers realized they needed to back the heck up offa that limb and not get all West Wing preachy and write an actual courtroom decision. It would have been controversial either way and not their fight, so they went for the graceful sidestep.
StGermain has it spot on regarding Neela, I think they were setting this up ages ago with her being conflicted about missing some important family ceremony that would have meant leaving Chicago and missing too much time. Remember her being drunk in the bar and ranting about family expectations and community expectations? “Oooh, she’s Indian, she’ll be smart and deferential. Oooh, she’s British, she’ll be this and that. Why can’t I just be me, why does my family expect XYZ? etc” Abby was there as well, giving a big “well, no actually” answer to all Neela’s questions about family expectations. I think she’ll figure out that whether she was pushed into medicine by her family or not, it’s where she ultimately wants to be and she’ll finagle a residency at County.
Nurse Sam, cute as she is, needs to be smacked. Hard. My girlfriends and I watch the show together and have come to the conclusion that Sam’s multiple problems boil down to a lack of girlfriends, she’s all miss figure it out alone without any advice and she’s doing a piss poor job of it. The way she interacts with her son makes me cringe, her utter wussiness at dealing with the ex situation was unbelievable and stupid, Luka should never have to beg for Og’s sake, Sams killing me! Although I still smile when I remember her taking Romano’s hand away from him for pinching her butt. I don’t want to see some pat ‘St.Luka moves in and organizes her life for her’ resolution, I’d much rather see her character grow up.
I don’t think they showed us what happened to the shooter that caused the accident. Jing-mai identified him but they never even showed anyone calling the authorities, much less following up with his injuries. How’d he even wind up there, did he crash following Pratt’s going over the bridge or something? It’s not like Greg was shooting back at him or anything.
Any bets on what the big Thanksgiving drama will be? Ebola lands at County? Jerry blows up the lobby again? Terrorists? Sharks are big this year, maybe someone will throw a few fresh-water adaptable ones in the lake and they’ll have to treat bite victims? 
The cliffhanger will be that there will be no cliffhanger. Everyone will be content with their day at work and lives in general, and we, the audience, will be on the edge of our seats waiting for the shit to hit the fan, but it never does.
I liked the Kerry storyline. That was a very sweet resolution.
I also liked the way they dealt with Abby. She’s so proud of being a doctor but at the same time it’s clear there are some things she’s going to miss about being a nurse. The look she gave the other nurse when she realized she had missed helping the patient with cancer cope with impending death was very telling.
It’s a wonder that Jing-Mei has kept it together this long, with her father being an invalid and being abusive towards her last season. I wonder if they’ll write his death or if she’ll have to move him out of her home and into skilled care.
How long do you think the business between Carter and Kem will last? Somehow I don’t think she’ll come back from Africa. There’s already been such tremendous damage with their baby dying in the womb; their relationship might not survive.
When she and the kid checked into the hotel, and Alex made the comment about being kidnapped, I very much wanted the old guy to call the cops - I figured that was how the writers were going to get Luka there, not the same old call from Alex. I just thought it would be an interesting way for her to have to ask for help. Ah well. Guess you can’t have everything.
I may be misremembering but I thought I remembered Kerry’s SO’s brother Eduardo telling her last season that he knew his sister would want her to have Henry and he was trying to get his parents to see that as well. So I figured he finally got through to them.
As for Luka and Sam, I was also hoping she’d be gone. I am really getting sick of seeing Luka toss his career aside for a piece of tail. You’d think he’d have learned by now that these fragile women he thinks need saving are too screwed up for him to fix.
The Kerry storyline was pretty much elided. The brother came in as a mediator and presumably offered a compromise offscreen.
If Kerry had lost custody of her son, she would have been unable to function.
I always found that storyline hard to believe because I could not imagine that a firefighter would not have had some very good legal documentation set up to take care of her own child in case of sudden death. It’s not like she was in a particularly safe occupation.
I haven’t been watchin ER lately, so I don’t know how they handled the storyline precisely, but IRL, courts routinely ignore such provisions and grant custody to grandparents instead of the surviving partner. Hell, more than once in the US, the courts have granted custody of a child to the grandparents while the biological parent was still alive, simply on the grounds that homosexuals are “unfit” to raise children.
I stopped watching it last season. What happened to Sandy?
(Don’t tell me someone ELSE got killed off!)
I’ve got voicemail, but I needed to talk to the caller. And the TiVo is in the media room, but I was snuggled up with the mister watching from the bed. Yay for the bed, not so yay for lack of TiVo.
Yep. She fell through a roof at a fire scene and died of internal injuries. It was way melodramatic.
Does that happen much today? Are there examples of this that you can cite? I’m just curious if this is something that breaks down regionally.