Now that Lost and 24 (two personal favourites of mine) are over and done with, it's gotten me thinking what tv series' endings were as close to perfect as the PTB's could manage.
My votes goes with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I've menioned in the past had much I loved the show, how highly I thought of the writing, and of the cast of characters (especially the minor/reoccuring characters). DS9 was the one Star Trek that made the perfect humans of the 24th century seem real, or at the very least relatable.
The Ending: That near perfect, magical 9 part story. The Dominion War heats up and comes to a head, Wolf and Ezri sort out their shit, the Section 31 story comes to a great close, Bashir finally gets into a Dax's pants, Wolf becomes the leader of the Klingons for five seconds before passing the buck to Martok, (the) Sisko's adventure with the Prophets comes to a head and he faces his own personal Satan (Dukut) in mortal combat and sacrifices himself, Odo returns to his people, and Cardasia is left in ruins (paying for their many sins). On top of it all, O'Brien heads off to Earth to teach at Starfleet Academy and Wolf becomes an Ambassador (sssh! damn remind the PTB's, they seem to have forgotten).
No series has every left me as satisfied, while still leaving a few things open for later.
So how about you. What series, and why?
My votes goes with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I've menioned in the past had much I loved the show, how highly I thought of the writing, and of the cast of characters (especially the minor/reoccuring characters). DS9 was the one Star Trek that made the perfect humans of the 24th century seem real, or at the very least relatable.
The Ending: That near perfect, magical 9 part story. The Dominion War heats up and comes to a head, Wolf and Ezri sort out their shit, the Section 31 story comes to a great close, Bashir finally gets into a Dax's pants, Wolf becomes the leader of the Klingons for five seconds before passing the buck to Martok, (the) Sisko's adventure with the Prophets comes to a head and he faces his own personal Satan (Dukut) in mortal combat and sacrifices himself, Odo returns to his people, and Cardasia is left in ruins (paying for their many sins). On top of it all, O'Brien heads off to Earth to teach at Starfleet Academy and Wolf becomes an Ambassador (sssh! damn remind the PTB's, they seem to have forgotten).
No series has every left me as satisfied, while still leaving a few things open for later.
So how about you. What series, and why?
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