Good by to "ER"

I have never missed an episode. It has been one of the longest running shows I have watch. It never detoured from the story line and always kept it as real feeling as possible.

I've just been thinking about what a good job, looking back, the writers and producers did when an actor left the show. They managed to make it look as seamless as possible, in my opinion, with someone leaving and someone else coming at the same time. Of course, for most of us who watched from the beginning the characters you mentioned were impossible to replace and no matter who tried to fill their shoes it wouldn't be as good but that's not the fault of the writers or the new cast members, it's just human nature and says a lot for the original cast. They were an amazing group, no question about it! However, through the years as much as I continued to miss Carol and Doug and all the others and as angry as I got every time I learned of yet another favorite planning to move on, I came to love all the new characters who came almost as much. Abbey and Luca, Sam and Tony, Neela and Michael and then Neela and Ray...hey, I found myself pulling for them just as I had for Carol and Doug and the other early cast members. Annie