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Best Series Finale

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exhawg

exhawg

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With Lost ending last night I thought it would be cool to hear what everyone's favorite series finale is. Mine is Star Trek The Next Generation. For me it was the perfect ending to my favorite show. I'm having a hard time remembering any other finale's that weren't disappointing. I thought BSG and Lost both had holes in them, but were at least good final episodes when compared with other shows like The Sopranos. I'm hoping that others can remind me of other shows that I may have forgotten about.
 
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i can't disagree with m*a*s*h as having the best series finale. a personal runner-up would be cheers. though not an actual series, the final airing of the tonight show with johnny carson was epic. arrested development had the best tongue-in-cheek finale.

worst? st. elsewhere.
 
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Folanator;1707762; said:
Not a long running show, but one finale I liked a lot with a great cast.

Life on Mars

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I did enjoy Life on Mars. That brings me to my second point on tv shows. I don't care how short a shows run is, please give it an ending. Life on Mars only ran for one season, but at least they wrapped up the whole thing. I hate nothing more than a show getting cancelled without a finale. i.e. Carnivale on HBO. I think 2 things need to happen. Networks need to announce that they are going to pull the plug on a series before the last episode or 2 are written so that they can tie up any loose ends. If that doesn't happen then the show gets a 2 hours finale to take care of this. I can't even remember all of the shows I've watched that got cancelled after a year or two with no closure. It makes it hard to start watching a new show when it could get cancelled without telling the whole story. i.e. Flashforward
I would also like to see more shows do what ABC did with Lost and set an end date a year or two ahead of time. That would give the writers the ability to create enough story that everything gets cleaned up in the end. I think this would have been good for a show like Heroes that started good in the first season and then went downhill fast when the show seamed to have no direction. Another example is how The X Files continued on for 2-3 years longer than it should have. If a show does well in the first season set a date and say you have 4 or 5 seasons to tell your story. That way we'd have less Alias, more Lost.
 
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OH10;1707814; said:
Good show. Great premise. Horrendous ending.
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While it was not off the charts, they did explain everything.

I cannot really tell you a single finale that I really liked (including MASH). Most are for the benefit of the cast and wrighters, not the audience.
 
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