Best and Worst Series Finales

[zinfamous]

No.

The last episode of TNG season 2 was a clip show (there was a writer's strike that year).

So you're saying there were more than 2 seasons?

:hmm:

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Dexter's ending was a complete insult to what was a pretty good drama series. Showtime seems to have forgotten it's the fans/viewers who pay a monthly fee to watch there programming

I personally only watched Season 1,3 and 4 and 6 but it did seem like they were importing serial murders and that Miami Metro was run by complete morons.

The fact that Dexter was able to remove his sister from life support and take her dead body out of the hospital without anyone knowing is complete non-sense.

Then after Dexter fakes his own death, his killer girlfriend Hanna will now have to raise Harrison who most likely will grow up to be a killer as well.

Then Showtime wants us to believe Dexter winds up as a lumberjack leaving behind everyone he knows including his son.

From what I read Showtime ended it like this so they could either have Dexter to return in another series or do movies later on.

After the Sopranos fading to black, i'm not expecting much from tv drama series anymore. I hope everyone cancels there Showtime subscription, the best way to voice your option is to hit these morons in there pocket.

That is specifically what bothered me about the ending. The show has been horrible for the last 3-4 seasons, and you'd have to be insane to fund yet more of this crap. They should at least have had the courage to end it with some finality.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Best:

Battlestar Galactica (new version) I know some people didn't like the ending. I have a few nit picks with it too (especially them destroying all their tech) Overall though, I though it was decent enough. Watching the last half an hour or so, with Bear McCreary's emotional score playing in the background really effected me. Those poor people, starting over on a savage predator laced Earth.

You know, they could have improved the BSG finale if they had simply changed the subtitle from "150,000 years ago" to "50,000 years ago." This would make the arrival of the colonists coincide with the start of the Paleolithic Revolution, a time at which humans made great strides in technology, art, culture, and language. Presumably, even if the colonists destroyed all their technology, they would have still carried a bunch of knowledge with them.

Furthermore, because the show set their time of arrival to Earth at 150,000 years ago, any colonists who settled anywhere other than Africa are presumed to have simply died out - if not immediately, then within a few generations. As far as we know, humans didn't leave Africa until 100,000 years ago or later.

The writers chose the year solely because of "mitochondrial Eve," which doesn't even make sense. You can't just FIND mitochondrial Eve - we wouldn't be able to simply find the remains of a prehistoric human and test them to see if she was mitochondrial Eve or not. The way they presented it in the show is nonsensical and shows that the writers had no clue what they were doing and simply liked the name because "Eve" = biblical reference.

Basically the ending made no sense at all and all of the colonists probably died within a year of landing without leaving any impact in the world.

 

[Away]

Newhart and St. Elsewhere. Could be best or worst depending on your viewpoint. I personally love them both.

 

[Koing]

I really liked the ending to Spartacus.

Samehere.

Good
ST: Voyager

Bad
Lost - wtf

Koing

 

[dr150]

If I'm remembering correctly (which is a stretch, considering it's been over a decade since I've watched it):

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I think the last episode had him essentially realizing and/or being told that he could control his own leaps, although I believe there might've been some text saying he never got back home.

Ending was

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sad

. From what I remember,

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he could never go back home since he took the decision to help humanity by leaping. Wasn't it God/similar entity that was giving him that choice to serve?....

 

[MiataNC]

Ending was

Spoiler

sad

. From what I remember,

Spoiler

he could never go back home since he took the decision to help humanity by leaping. Wasn't it God/similar entity that was giving him that choice to serve?....

My memory is fuzzy, but I think it came down to his "purpose" for leaping was ultimately to help Al save his first marriage by telling his wife to wait for him to come home from Vietnam (he was presumed KIA but was actually in a prison camp). Thus changing his own timeline (and association with Al), and making it impossible for him to return home. (paradox?)

 

[bigrash]

Lost was one of my favorite shows, up until that terrible finale.

 

[T9D]

Star Trek Enterprise was the worst ever ending

 

[RagingBITCH]

Recent Burn Notice ending was awful. They ripped the latest Batman off. Just think another episode or two would have been nice to truly close things off.

 

[Svnla]

Seinfield final was one of the worse. I was like "WTF x 100000000000000" when I saw it.

 

[lupi]

Just thinking, so many shows I can't remember much about the finale anymore.

Was that really a series ending for Atlantis? I though it wasn't decided when it was filmed.

BSG was absolutely horrendous.

Mash & West Wing really good and Seinfeld was bizarre.

 

[lupi]

That's kinda what I remember about Quantum Leap too.

Was Enterprise another that wasn't planned as a series finale?

 

[Childs]

Was that really a series ending for Atlantis? I though it wasn't decided when it was filmed.

The thought was they were going to continue with movies like they did with SG1, but it obviously didnt happen. They did bring Atlantis to Earth in the series finale, so it can be over. SciFi channel kinda screwed them by not renewing the series midway through that last season.

 

[CountZero]

I think I stopped watching Burn Notice last season, which was a bummer because I really enjoyed the show before that. I also enjoyed the episodic nature of it, but I tend to enjoy that more than long, sweeping arcs. I was the same way with Fringe as I think I was one of the few that preferred the Science Oddity of the Week format that season one relied heavily on.

It seems to me that the when shows that start of with a heavy X of the week (monster, murder, whatever) emphasis and a barely there arc slowly evolve to a heavy arc emphasis and a barely there X of the week (or worse try to tie every X of the week to the arc in the most convoluted way) the quality nearly always goes downhill.

Shows that start off with a heavy arc emphasis don't seem to have this issue as much.

 

[techs]

The thought was they were going to continue with movies like they did with SG1, but it obviously didnt happen. They did bring Atlantis to Earth in the series finale, so it can be over. SciFi channel kinda screwed them by not renewing the series midway through that last season.

When they cancelled the Atlantis movies and sold the sets Syfy was dead to me.

btw the producers begged Syfy to give them two hours for the finale but Syfy said no. So, the last episode was so rushed it was not as good as could have been.