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Favorite series finales?

B5, TNG and DS9 all did it well. One that really got to me was Quantum Leap. I'm a romantic sap so it played right into my soft spots. Another that I thought was particularly moving was the finale to Journeyman. You have to watch the whole season/series to appreciate it but Wow. BSG was ok to good but not explaining Starbuck left me with a niggling annoyance. Life On Mars blew it for me with Gretchen's hair. It just took me out of the whole scenario. Too bad, as Gene Hunt had me rolling...I was willing to buy in until her hair...
Farscape took too long to get there, but it was a satisfying wrap. Someone mentioned MASH-I still cry as Hawkeye leaves...
 
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Welcome to the Old School:

X-Files
Space: Above and Beyond
Stargate SG-1

And the new school:

Battlestar Galactica (The glamour shot of BSG crossing the moon and headed for our Earth counters any supposed flaws. Period. Galactica reached Earth. Awesomeness!)
 
The West Wing
Scrubs Classic
TNG
Quantum Leap
Beast Wars
Battlestar Galactica
Stargate SG-1
Futurama
Carnivale (............. just kidding. Because of this show, I do have a reason to hate HBO now. And my life just wasn't complete without a reason to hate HBO)
 
Don't like most finales.

TNG's "All Good Things" was a clever way to make a convaluted story about the first time Picard played poker with his senior staff (not to be confused with the first time he played "poke her" with his "senior staff").

DS9 got too whistful.

NuBSG DAYBREAK, was bold yet corny...

ANGEL, I just wish we'd seen Angel fight that dragon and get his ass totally kicked.

BUFFY, what's her name's death was kinda unfufilling. Anya? What the fuck? Only her and Spike should've survived.

X-Files, if we can get Duchovny to come back and spout enough nonsense fast enough during the trial scene we can convince fans that the alien arc makes sense. Didn't work.

Voyager: Endgame, the whole show should've been a Barclay holo-fantasy. He ends it when the wreckage of the actual Voyager is discovered 7 years later. That's right, the real crew is mostly dead...except Chakotay, Torres and Tuvok...as the Maquis crew were found alive hiding on a planet somewhere..and bear little resemblence to Barclay's romanticized versions. Man, would that have a been a big F.U. to fans!

Buck Rogers: "The Dorian Secret", if only they had known this was the end. The Dorian men reveal their faces...all look like Gil Gerard...leaving a big mystery.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
Voyager: Endgame, the whole show should've been a Barclay holo-fantasy. He ends it when the wreckage of the actual Voyager is discovered 7 years later. That's right, the real crew is mostly dead...except Chakotay, Torres and Tuvok...as the Maquis crew were found alive hiding on a planet somewhere..and bear little resemblence to Barclay's romanticized versions. Man, would that have a been a big F.U. to fans!
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Voyager had fans?! :lol:
 
st:tng
beast wars/beast machines (though that latter series was kind of blah)
avatar (though it was too rushed)
gundam (wing, seed)
fushigi yuugi (original tv)
princess tutu (>_<) it was bittersweet
 
DS9 - What You Leave Behind
TNG - All Good Things
NuBSG - Daybreak
B5 - Sleeping In Light
Angel - Not Fade Away


And i'm calling it right now, Supernatural's finale will be epic!
 
Fans were divided on The Avatar finale. Many found it too predictable.

I mean, we knew Aang wasn't going to kill The Firelord. To do so would have been a betrayal of his character. But Azula just going nuts because daddy had more important things to worry about just seemed just seemed to so random and out of character IMO. But, the comet is just going to be back in 100 years though. So he really didn't solve the problem IMO. I think a more bold move would have been for him to sacrifice himself to destroy the comet, and he his reborn as a child of one of the characters like 10 years down the road. Perhaps this would be too adult for a kids show though.

I'm not a big Kataang fan either. When they kissed it was the most uncomfortablely awkward thing I'd ever seen on the show. Like Marty McFly and his mom awkward. If she was still the cute, sweet little Inuit girl from the first two seasons, then sure no problem there. But she had changed so radically in season 3(and he really had not) that the failure of the characters and the writers to recongnize this is glaring flaw. I'm not a big Zuko fan. He's probably my least favorite character on the show. But even I recognize that she had more going on with him, in terms of chemistry and storyline, then she ever did with Bald Boy. I know alot of Zuatara fans were really pissed off about that. I mean I liked Mai, but they could have gotten rid of her at any point in the show and no one would have noticed. If Aang were to get with anyone, one would asume it would be Toph as they're about the same age and have similar personalities.
 
Angel "Not Fade Away."I was so happy & excited after that finale that I was totally incoherent for the next hour or so. Some hate the cliffhanger nature of it. I think that's exactly the way the show should have ended. They keep fighting.

Star Trek: The Next Generation "All Good Things..." Mostly because it's just a great episode in its own right. But I especially enjoyed how it all circled back to the 1st episode and brought back Q, Tasha Yar, & Miles O'Brien.

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 "What You Leave Behind." The last hour kinda drags in some places and there's too much stock footage in the space battles. But the show got exactly the epic finale that it deserved. And "The Way You Look Tonight" still brings a tear to me eye.
 
I don't get the whole "It's about fighting!" thing. Of course it's about fighting. That's like saying baseball is about hitting and fielding. But that's not what fighting the forces of darkness is about nor is what baseball is about. WINNING is what's most important. If a baseball team can't win, they lose money because no one goes to their games. If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time.
 
Thrall said:
I don't get the whole "It's about fighting!" thing. Of course it's about fighting. That's like saying baseball is about hitting and fielding. But that's not what fighting the forces of darkness is about nor is what baseball is about. WINNING is what's most important. If a baseball team can't win, they lose money because no one goes to their games. If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time.
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To an extent, that's true. However, Angel made it pretty clear back in Season 2 that total victory over Wolfram & Hart was impossible because their power ultimately comes from the evil that exists within every human being. If that's what Angel wanted, he should have let Jasmine take over the world back in Season 4. But one of the themes of Angel is that free will is more important than the end result. Angel was never able to stop W&H completely but he did strike a severe blow against them. And with regards to Angel's personal arc, it was about him maintaining the will to fight, even when everything else was taken away from him.

You said, "If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time." That's like saying, "Why bother having doctors if we're all eventually going to die anyway?" It's not about achieving victory but about achieving the best quality of life possible, not only for humanity but for yourself as well.
 
The Borgified Corpse said:
Thrall said:
I don't get the whole "It's about fighting!" thing. Of course it's about fighting. That's like saying baseball is about hitting and fielding. But that's not what fighting the forces of darkness is about nor is what baseball is about. WINNING is what's most important. If a baseball team can't win, they lose money because no one goes to their games. If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time.
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To an extent, that's true. However, Angel made it pretty clear back in Season 2 that total victory over Wolfram & Hart was impossible because their power ultimately comes from the evil that exists within every human being. If that's what Angel wanted, he should have let Jasmine take over the world back in Season 4. But one of the themes of Angel is that free will is more important than the end result. Angel was never able to stop W&H completely but he did strike a severe blow against them. And with regards to Angel's personal arc, it was about him maintaining the will to fight, even when everything else was taken away from him.

You said, "If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time." That's like saying, "Why bother having doctors if we're all eventually going to die anyway?" It's not about achieving victory but about achieving the best quality of life possible, not only for humanity but for yourself as well.
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But they didn't achieve the "best quality of life possible". They lost. They failed. So yes, the characters were all completely useless and the show was just one big waste of time. Why people continue to lie to themselves that Whedon's nihilistic bullshit is really this big "ra ra ra go team!" message never ceases to amaze me.
 
Thrall said:
The Borgified Corpse said:
Thrall said:
I don't get the whole "It's about fighting!" thing. Of course it's about fighting. That's like saying baseball is about hitting and fielding. But that's not what fighting the forces of darkness is about nor is what baseball is about. WINNING is what's most important. If a baseball team can't win, they lose money because no one goes to their games. If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time.
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To an extent, that's true. However, Angel made it pretty clear back in Season 2 that total victory over Wolfram & Hart was impossible because their power ultimately comes from the evil that exists within every human being. If that's what Angel wanted, he should have let Jasmine take over the world back in Season 4. But one of the themes of Angel is that free will is more important than the end result. Angel was never able to stop W&H completely but he did strike a severe blow against them. And with regards to Angel's personal arc, it was about him maintaining the will to fight, even when everything else was taken away from him.

You said, "If heroes can't save the world, then they're pretty useless as characters and heroes and the whole show as a big waste of time." That's like saying, "Why bother having doctors if we're all eventually going to die anyway?" It's not about achieving victory but about achieving the best quality of life possible, not only for humanity but for yourself as well.
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But they didn't achieve the "best quality of life possible". They lost. They failed. So yes, the characters were all completely useless and the show was just one big waste of time. Why people continue to lie to themselves that Whedon's nihilistic bullshit is really this big "ra ra ra go team!" message never ceases to amaze me.
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It's not about saving the world. It's about personal redemption. You keep fighting the good fight, and don't surrender to despair, even when defeat is inevitable.

Camelot fell in the end. That doesn't mean King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were a bunch of big, fat losers.
 
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