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A critic bids a great show goodbye, with a wish list for the characters' futures.

On the season finale of "The Bachelorette" tonight, Jillian Harris, the 29-year-old interior designer from Vancouver, B.C., enthusiastically accepted the marriage proposal of Ed Swiderski, 29, a technology consultant from Chicago.

America chose sweetness over sizzle, small-town reticence over Vegas swagger, or as Ryan Seacrest put it, the guy next door over “the guyliner.”

"Grey's Anatomy" handed Dr. Isobel Stevens a fateful choice on its fifth-season finale Thursday night.Izzie had to decide if she should have risky brain surgery for the cancer that has plagued her on the ABC medical drama. She wrestled with the decision as her fellow doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital pulled her in opposite directions. Whatever she did, she seemed a goner.In another development on Thursday's two-hour season-ender, Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her beau, Dr. Derek Shepherd, were wed.Well, sort of.

She joins guest stars Liza Weil and Debra Mooney for the last episode of the season.

''Galactica,'' ''ER,'' ''Scrubs'' -- all ended or ending; see past series that showed how to go out in style

When the series "ER" airs its finale on Thursday, the event will not only mark the completion of one of NBC's most successful shows, but it can also be viewed as the end of an era for the network.