Re: Well I'll be ....

On Dec 10, 8:55 am, npar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Dec 9, 6:18 pm, "sharon" <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > I am very afraid that a prolonged writer's strike would cause NBC to
> > consider a 15th season to give ER a longer sendoff.  Chulack and Wells
are
> > both campaigning for it big time.
>
> And.... if MP and LC and GV are gone ... who will be left?  (Unless
> they start a new show "ER -The Next Generation.")

"ER Babies", set in the County daycare: all our favorite characters,
re-imagined as tots.

> They really shouldof/couldof done one of the two things.  1. Skip the
> wedding.  Have Abby decide that she just can't marry him (this without
> the 'suprise wedding' storyline), and Luka, who has already quit as
> department head, decides to leave County and get a job elsewhere. (And
> his few appearences this season would revolve around his visits to his
> young son.) 2.  Kill him off.

It's certainly not as though GV is unfamiliar with onscreen death.
"Okay, how do I get killed THIS time?"

>  Lots of ways they could have done this.  Work it in together with SW's
departure. (Luka
> tries to save Ray and is killed himself.)  Or a reworking of the mugger
story --
> make Luka and Abby's relation****p a full-circle.

Or they could've gone for the ironic, and had him take a pratfall in
front of an El train. (Though this requires believing that he was
thinking about jumping in that scene in "May Day") "Whoooooops! Oh,
bollock*splat*"