Favorite (or Least Favorite) Series Finale

[Ub3rD4n]

I agree that Friends has a pretty awesome finale. And I, too am pretty angry at how most shows get no ending. I mean, you got the begginning, and the middle.....where's the end? I think the execs seem to have the same opinion as Bloo in One False Movie: "Noone cares about the ending. So long as everything else is great, noone-". Invader Zim got no ending. It was canceled half-way through season 2. Thus the inexplicability of Minimoose. He was supposed to be introduced in another episode which never came.

I hope, when the time comes, hopefully looooong from now, when Fosters ends, we get a real ending. And don't just get left hanging.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Originally Posted by Ub3rD4n

And I, too am pretty angry at how most shows get no ending. I mean, you got the begginning, and the middle.....where's the end? I think the execs seem to have the same opinion as Bloo in One False Movie: "Noone cares about the ending. So long as everything else is great, noone-". Invader Zim got no ending. It was canceled half-way through season 2.

You kind of answered your own question there, cancellations. TV executives don't "not care about the ending", they don't care about the show PERIOD. If the show is not making them any money then they are going to yank it no matter where the show has gone as far as the storyline is considered.

It's not like they purposely don't like making endings for show, it's the fact that this is a business and what doesn't sell doesn't stay. It's different with TV seeing as you have characters you become attached to and grow and love, but the fact of the matter is TV shows are still nothing more then products.

If a product doesn't sell, it's removed, no matter how far or how short the series has gone. There is some TV networks and executives though that give shows enough time to whip up an ending after they have been canceled. Angel was canned but they got enough time to prepare a finale, same with failed shows like NBC's Kidnapped.

The reason so many shows end without proper endings is 98% of the time, no one has any idea the show has been canceled before it's too late.

[HappyFoppy]

I tend to never watch finales. Crazy enough. I wonder when the Simpsons is getting a finale, though.

[taranchula]

Originally Posted by HappyFoppy

I tend to never watch finales. Crazy enough. I wonder when the Simpsons is getting a finale, though.

At the rate they're going, around the end of time I'd wager.

[Invader Bloo]

Originally Posted by emperor26

My least favorite, however, is actually a special known as the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinator. I felt it was very rush, some factors for both shows weren't resolved, and finally, the way it end was anything but satisfying.

That wasn't the end for FOP, FOP's coming back eithger in the fall or next year/

Originally Posted by rukift

And oh, you know what else I hated? Invader Zim's ending was really weak. If it wasn't the last episode I would've just passed it off as an average episode... it would've been nice if Zim went out with a bang.
On the flipside, I thought Futurama and Seinfeld's endings were most excellent. I also wouldn't mind if the Boondocks and American Dad randomly got cancled, since their latest season finales filled me with so much glee. :<

I thought the Zim series finale is one of my favorites ever. I'm glad Futurama is coming back.

Originally Posted by HappyFoppy

I tend to never watch finales. Crazy enough. I wonder when the Simpsons is getting a finale, though.

At this point, they'll probablly make the crew do the show when they're just skeletons!

[some guy you dont know]

Originally Posted by rukift

I hated the season finale for Digimon Adventure 02. That was just... what was that? They drop anvil-sized hints for some pairings, and then the writers ignore everything they were building up the whole time... nyrgh.

i agree. that was kinda saddening. on the other hand, adventure and tamers (seasons 1 and 3) had pretty good endings.

i also liked the ending to yu-gi-oh! and, although this is really more of the manga, spiral (look it up on wikipedia, good show.)

[GrimTheLost]

I hated both finales to Buffy anf Angel.

Buffy's was just: "ooh look a hole."
Angels was: big fight and looked like it was going to have a next season.

And I hated the Rosanne finale. It irked me to no end.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Originally Posted by GrimTheLost

I hated both finales to Buffy anf Angel.

Buffy's was just: "ooh look a hole."
Angels was: big fight and looked like it was going to have a next season.

And I hated the Rosanne finale. It irked me to no end.

I actually liked Buffy's ending because it really did what nothing could do through out the show: leave Sunnydale. The characters there always ended up coming back and because of the evil that existed there, no one could ever truly leave and get on with their lives. Plus that was a KICK ASS final battle with the Uber Vamps.

Angel's I felt was even better because the show is a dark, sadistic gloomy show and it's no surprise the show would end on a similar note. Having Angel and his crew facing oblivion after killing all the big head demons of the world, and not knowing what'll happen next was a very provocative way to leave them. Sometimes I like wondering what's gonna happen next.

Because even if they died, it's that "dark mystery" and "unknown" that made Angel the dark show that it was. Angel was a lot more depressing then Buffy was and you'll notice that the characters suffer much more in this show too, Joss Whedon even admits that he's a sadist when it comes to Angel. So what better way to end it then to have him facing oblivion in a last stand-ish kinda way?

[Medikor]

I'm surprised that the Sopranos hasn't been mentioned yet. I never watched the show but I hear the series finale was awful. I even seen it on CNN.

[Cassini90125]

Equally surprising is that there's been no mention of the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode was one of the finest in all of Trek history. It had everything; excellent writing, marvelous special effects, action and drama and emotion all in just the right proportions, and well-defined characters we'd come to know and love. Even the background music was perfect. It was everything a Trekker could have hoped for.