That was the best part. It's exactly what "Endgame" should have done.But they should have stopped before National Geographic.
What Series' Had Damn Near Perfect Endings?
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Agreed, deliberately ending on the ultimate cliffhanger was exactly the appropriate way for this show to go out, since it often lived & died by the cliffhanger anyway. There were also a lot of really nice touches, like bringing back Connor, Spike at the poetry slam, and Gunn visiting Anne. (I'd been wanting another Anne appearance all season.) I'm not quite sure I can give it a "perfect" rating though because I don't think Lindsey deserved to die.
I had come up with my own Angel finale in my head before the real finale aired. Strangely enough, they're nothing alike, except they both have the same final line, Angel says, "Let's go to work." (My version dealt with a lot of the same themes but had a much more sentimental, less cliffhangery ending where Angel, Spike, & whoever else survived the finale reopened Angel Investigations. And as a reward for Angel's fighting on behalf of TPTB, Cordelia was resurrected.)
Don't you mean the 2001 World Series?
I was crying like a baby too. I still wish we got the sequel series though.
How did the Cosby Show end?
Angel
BSG (2003)
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: DS9
The Wire
The Shield
Six Feet Under
Arrested Development
BSG (2003)
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: DS9
The Wire
The Shield
Six Feet Under
Arrested Development
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Miami Vice...not the episode itself, just at the very end, the reuse of the line at the end of the pilot: "Have you ever considered a career in southern law enforcement?"
All Good Things was the only good Trek finale. "What you Leave Behind" is too whistful...and without Jadzia...something got left behind alright. "Endgame" stinks a bit because of the selfish motivations of Admiral Janeway for violating temporal directives...poor, poor Chakotay's broken heart, saving Seven and schizo Tuvok (but not Carey who died a week earlier). Maybe if the Borg were on the verge of crushing the Federation, and going back and blasting that hub would cripple them. How about that?
Buffy's finale...what was with Anya just dying? What was even with Anya in that last season, anyway? Also, the feminist super empowerment Daus Ex Machina (creating many Mary Sues) felt masturbatory. (As did that last sentence.)
All Good Things was the only good Trek finale. "What you Leave Behind" is too whistful...and without Jadzia...something got left behind alright. "Endgame" stinks a bit because of the selfish motivations of Admiral Janeway for violating temporal directives...poor, poor Chakotay's broken heart, saving Seven and schizo Tuvok (but not Carey who died a week earlier). Maybe if the Borg were on the verge of crushing the Federation, and going back and blasting that hub would cripple them. How about that?
Buffy's finale...what was with Anya just dying? What was even with Anya in that last season, anyway? Also, the feminist super empowerment Daus Ex Machina (creating many Mary Sues) felt masturbatory. (As did that last sentence.
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Agreeing with everyone who says TNG.
More obscurely, the third season of Digimon.
More obscurely, the third season of Digimon.
Edit: I wanna make clear that this is in no way directed at you personally, and differing opinions are good things--I say this, because I think I use some strong language to describe mine below.
I realize it's well-liked--I can even admit that taken completely in itself it's well-done--but I hated Blackadder Goes Forth's ending. Here we had four series of pure, unencumbered comedy (well, three--I don't like the first that much), and three everybody-dies endings that were tremendously funny, and then that. Just because it's World War I, and World War I Is Serious Business, and only a churl would argue otherwise.
Boo. Blackadder was not a seriocomedy, it was entirely clever goofiness and slapstick. It's not like MASH, which always had a serious side, a darkness to it. MASH could pull off the sheer horror of its ending.
Blackadder's ending, by contrast, couldn't make me care about the sacrifice of these perpetually reincarnated gits--except, admittedly, through its technical artistry. It makes me feel unpleasant and manipulated, not cathartized. And that doesn't work either, because it's Blackadder!
It's like if they made an Airplane! 3, and ended it with a tearful scene where Ted Stryker fails to subdue the Islamic terrorists before they can crash it into the North Tower. Does that seem in extremely poor taste? I found that a similar problem is inherent in Rowan Atkinson and co.'s comedy stylings, when juxtaposed against Blackadder making some corner of a foreign field forever England. At best, it's alarmingly narm.
Now, Blackadder Back and Forth is probably the better ending to the saga (such as it could be said to have one, after all, Blackadder is effectively immortal). Even if, on reflection, it's kind of the same ending as Blackadder the Third.
I haven't seen the newer incarnations, although I get the feeling they're vignettish as opposed to the awesome series-capper that Back and Forth was.
Echoing Lonemagpie's thoughts on Buffy, BSG had a pretty good ending--but then they made Season 4.5.
LOST
MASH
Blake's 7
Deep Space Nine
Life on Mars (UK)
TNG
Mary Tyler Moore
Cheers
MASH
Blake's 7
Deep Space Nine
Life on Mars (UK)
TNG
Mary Tyler Moore
Cheers
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Of course,
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - They had been building and building up to the revelation of the Dorian Secret from all the way since the beginning of the last episode of the last season. When it comes...wow. Blows you away.
Batman - Batman and Robin defeat Minverva, and she slaps a cop. Then everyone laughs and Gordon tells the dynamic duo that she was the last criminal in town. With the caped crusader no longer needed, Batman retires.
Lost in Space - So they get the parts to repair the Jupiter 2 from a junkyard in space. They fix the ship and then set a course for home...the end. Sweet.
Smallville - Man, when Clark dons the suit and cape...wait, that shit's still on, innit?
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - They had been building and building up to the revelation of the Dorian Secret from all the way since the beginning of the last episode of the last season. When it comes...wow. Blows you away.
Batman - Batman and Robin defeat Minverva, and she slaps a cop. Then everyone laughs and Gordon tells the dynamic duo that she was the last criminal in town. With the caped crusader no longer needed, Batman retires.
Lost in Space - So they get the parts to repair the Jupiter 2 from a junkyard in space. They fix the ship and then set a course for home...the end. Sweet.
Smallville - Man, when Clark dons the suit and cape...wait, that shit's still on, innit?
That was the best part. It's exactly what "Endgame" should have done.But they should have stopped before National Geographic.
Anything would have improved Endgame!
Having the muppets suddently invade Voyager and dance an Irish jig would have been a better ending.Similar threads
