Which final season of a TV show gave you the closure you have been waiting for? Felt like the perfect closing of a novel? Gave the characters you’ve been journeying with over the series of the series justice to their storylines?
What is your favorite final season?
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The final season for two series come to mind. I thought season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica was great. It did have a couple episodes in the mix that weren't phenominal, but the way thigns came together was awesome.
The other one was the final season for Jericho. As a whole, Jericho was a great series, but when they were forced to really tighten things up and wrap up and entire season of story in 7 episodes, they produced some of the best TV that I've seen. In that final stretch of episodes, I can't really think of one that let me down.
The other one was the final season for Jericho. As a whole, Jericho was a great series, but when they were forced to really tighten things up and wrap up and entire season of story in 7 episodes, they produced some of the best TV that I've seen. In that final stretch of episodes, I can't really think of one that let me down.
Hmm, this is a tough one. It's hard to think of a show that didn't completely fall apart in its final season.
Babylon 5
Yeah, for the most part it was pretty terrible, but once the Byron crap was done with the season became great. It wrapped up so many characters, especially Londo, extremely well.
Angel
Slow start with a fantastic second half. Pretty much the same as Babylon 5. Once the Spike as a Ghost crap was over with the show jumped into high gear.
Babylon 5
Yeah, for the most part it was pretty terrible, but once the Byron crap was done with the season became great. It wrapped up so many characters, especially Londo, extremely well.
Angel
Slow start with a fantastic second half. Pretty much the same as Babylon 5. Once the Spike as a Ghost crap was over with the show jumped into high gear.
M*A*S*H, probably. It built up nicely and resolved long standing character issues well. That really felt like closure, and I didn't feel cheated or let down. It wrapped everything up nicely in the finale. And it was memorable. There are so many finales these days that I can't even remember.
Nowhere Man
Commodore
Cheers, Batlestar(for sure), TNG, Enterprise was just getting started in it's last season and gave no closure IMO , so I guess it dosent really count. I can't really think of any other shows.Monk just wraped pretty good( not perfect, but good)MASH.Smallviille we will see.
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Angel
Dollhouse (thus far)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Those are the only final seasons that really felt like they were still at the top of their game and provided decent closure. Enterprise would count but as it has been said didn't wrap things up.
Angel
Dollhouse (thus far)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Those are the only final seasons that really felt like they were still at the top of their game and provided decent closure. Enterprise would count but as it has been said didn't wrap things up.
Deep Space Nine
Babylon 5 (never understood the hate)
Babylon 5 (never understood the hate)
Some of my favorite final seasons include Deep Space Nine, Justice League Unlimited and Futurama.
When you compare a show to the rest of the series though the show that comes out on top is Enterprise. It's amazing how much of an improvement season 4 is over the first three seasons. It's really too bad it got canceled, if the remaining 3 seasons had been that high quality it would of went down as one of the best Star Trek series.
When you compare a show to the rest of the series though the show that comes out on top is Enterprise. It's amazing how much of an improvement season 4 is over the first three seasons. It's really too bad it got canceled, if the remaining 3 seasons had been that high quality it would of went down as one of the best Star Trek series.
DS9 and MASH come to mind.
If you think of the two-parter with Peter Weller right before the series finale as the series finale, it works much better. Fighting bigotry, overcoming differences to unite as the future United Federation of Planets.
Definitely not Battlestar. I'm surprised to see so many votes for it here, the final season was weaker than the previous ones, and the resolutions were mostly disappointing. DS9's final season was better, but it still had its fair share of problems (Red Eye Dukat, Space Jesus Sisko and the Pah-wraiths).
I'd choose The Shield. And This Life, though that one only had two seasons/series, but the second one was better than the first, and the ending was awesome. (They never should have made the 10 years after followup special.)
I'd choose The Shield. And This Life, though that one only had two seasons/series, but the second one was better than the first, and the ending was awesome. (They never should have made the 10 years after followup special.)
DS9, for the most part, had a pretty good final season. As with all things Trek, there were some dull episodes and places where it wasn't terribly exciting, but overall it was a strong season.
Angel had a fairly good half-season. It started off weak and didn't become terribly interesting until almost the half-way point. The first several episodes of season 5 are utterly forgettable to me.
BSG had a very good final season, but the finale and resolutions left me wanting more. I wasn't terribly impressed or satisfied with some of the answers (or non-answers) that were given in the end. The characters were given fairly good closure, but the mythology and plot of the show was poorly handled and came together in a somewhat lazy way that I found underwhelming.
Angel had a fairly good half-season. It started off weak and didn't become terribly interesting until almost the half-way point. The first several episodes of season 5 are utterly forgettable to me.
BSG had a very good final season, but the finale and resolutions left me wanting more. I wasn't terribly impressed or satisfied with some of the answers (or non-answers) that were given in the end. The characters were given fairly good closure, but the mythology and plot of the show was poorly handled and came together in a somewhat lazy way that I found underwhelming.
Deep Space 9
Scrubs (I'm not counting season 9...to me that's a spin off)
Stargate: SG1 - Didn't close up the loose ends but season 10 was one of my top seasons of the entire run
Coupling
Firefly
I was going to saw the UK office but that ended with a Christmas specials.
Scrubs (I'm not counting season 9...to me that's a spin off)
Stargate: SG1 - Didn't close up the loose ends but season 10 was one of my top seasons of the entire run
Coupling
Firefly
I was going to saw the UK office but that ended with a Christmas specials.
About the only show I can think of where the final season was my favorite compared to earlier seasons is Angel. The change of scenery to Wolfram & Hart was a refreshing clean slate after the convoluted storylines of seasons 3 and 4, and addition of Spike to the main cast just plain rocked. 
Angel sprung to mind immediately. It was a brilliant year, to end in cancellation was a crime. The cast were brilliant, Spike was finally, after how many years, was relevant and interesting, the plot was well done and interesting, and the setting of Wolfram & Hart was inspired.
I'll definitely vote for DS9. It got a terrific sendoff.
About the only other show I can think of that ended with one of its best seasons is Pushing Daisies, which is like kind of cheating because the show only had two seasons total, and the first season is really only half of a season.
About the only other show I can think of that ended with one of its best seasons is Pushing Daisies, which is like kind of cheating because the show only had two seasons total, and the first season is really only half of a season.
DS9 definitely did a good job. It deserves to be mentioned and not just because there's a bunch of Trekkies posting. The Wire's final season was weaker than the others, but it had just enough nostalgia that a final season needs (it seemed to come full circle in a way that only the first season did better and it ended with a shot of the city of Baltimore, which fit perfectly).
I'm not sure I can think of another at the moment, but I'm sure there are some. It's a rare show that ends at just the perfect point because there's almost always network politics that screw it up somehow.
I'm not sure I can think of another at the moment, but I'm sure there are some. It's a rare show that ends at just the perfect point because there's almost always network politics that screw it up somehow.
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