Best TV Season Finale (Possible Spoilers)

[Shadowdancer]

That Millennium season ender was supposed to be the final for the series. Then Fox renewed it, and ruined the ending. That would have been one of the greatest endings ever for a series.

 

[Sagan Darkside]

That Millennium season ender was supposed to be the final for the series. Then Fox renewed it, and ruined the ending. That would have been one of the greatest endings ever for a series.

That great show seemed to go through that a lot.

It had some of my favorite scenes of all time.

SD

 

[Sagan Darkside]

Salutations,

DS9 had one of my favorite- the first time they meet the Jem'Hadar. They were on a camping trip on the other side of the wormhole and were captured by the Dominion.

There was a great line along the lines of "Why couldn't you have been a Klingon? I was looking forward to meeting a Klingon."

But the best part of the episode was in the end when the Federation sends a Galaxy class ship to flex its muscle. Tee hee.

SD

 

[John Crichton]

That was a great one!

Farscape season 2....I remember yelling at the TV; "No, that be it, arrrrrrrrr." Then counting the months to the new season started.

Oh yes, I was certainly screaming at the TV during and after that ep. Great TV.

I just remember another older favorite of mine: the series finale to Quantum Leap.

 

[WayneLigon]

I just remember another older favorite of mine: the series finale to Quantum Leap.

So what was it? I missed that.

 

[WayneLigon]

Dallas?

I'm pretty sure that Dallas started the tradition of the season-ending cliffhanger with 'Who Shot JR?'. Were there any shows that did such a thing before that?

 

[Sagan Darkside]

So what was it? I missed that.

It was boring- if you ask me.

He sat around a restraunt for most of it- and I guess it was suggested the cook was god.

Well.. anyway.. Sam realizes he has been controlling his leaps from the start. He goes back and fixes something he refused to do for Al in the past.

In the end he has an option to go home, but he decides to keep leaping. The End.

SD

 

[John Crichton]

It was boring- if you ask me.

He sat around a restraunt for most of it- and I guess it was suggested the cook was god.

Well.. anyway.. Sam realizes he has been controlling his leaps from the start. He goes back and fixes something he refused to do for Al in the past.

In the end he has an option to go home, but he decides to keep leaping. The End.

I thought it was a fitting end to a solid series. And it didn't really happen in that order, they revealed Sam's Leaping Secret late in the ep which basically put the whole thing in perspective. And it wasn't that he could control the Quantum Leaps but that he didn't want to stop helping people, IIRC. I thought it was good stuff at the time.

 

[John Crichton]

Re: Dallas?

I'm pretty sure that Dallas started the tradition of the season-ending cliffhanger with 'Who Shot JR?'. Were there any shows that did such a thing before that?

My TV history past the 80's is bad so I can't really say for certain. That type of thing was most likely tried before (soap operas, both day and night have been doing it from the start), however Dallas was the biggest thing around at the time so it got a ton of attention.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I vote for series 2 of Buffy - two years of good storytelling that came together in two episodes, and just to top it all, the Mutant Enemy Productions Zombie moving across the screen and going "I need a hug!" instead of "Grrr! Aargh!" as usual.

Red Dwarf series 5, although only six episodes long (very short by american standards, I know!) had the best episode ever at the end of it, with the realisation that the whole thing has been a computer game! Or not.

I've seen a copy of the script, and about 5 minutes into the "Real Life" section, there's a note from the authors saying "Are you worried yet, guys?" Great stuff, and the first time we ever saw Duane Dibley, too.