Best TV Season Finale (Possible Spoilers)

uv23 said:
One series finale I remember well was actually for Space Above and Beyond of all things; where a good deal of the major characters basically died in one last doomed battle. Classic stuff.

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I don't remember this at all. The last episode I saw, which I thought was the last episode of the season, and then it didn't get renewed so no more episodes, had the two female characters taken prisoner. The three male characters had been trapped in a derelict space craft, and one sacrificed himself so the others could be rescued. It ended with the two surviving men on board their main ship, mourning the loss of one character and plotting how to rescue the other two.
 

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My favorite season finale was Dark Angel. Don't recall the season number, but they go on the mission to free the prisoners and she dodges the bullet and they all go back and celebrate and...

Too bad the series suffered from your standard Escalation problem. Every season has to be MORE than the last one...

Same problem with Buffy I think, every year has to add something.

I liked DS9, but their Series Finale wasn't very good. Not as bad as X Files, but then XFiles should have ended a season or two sooner.
 

Everyone's mentioned the end of Buffy season 2, but I thought the end of season five was stunning. My family and I sat around slack jawed at that. It took us a good 5 minutes to even ask WTF?

PS
 

Storminator said:
Everyone's mentioned the end of Buffy season 2, but I thought the end of season five was stunning. My family and I sat around slack jawed at that. It took us a good 5 minutes to even ask WTF?

PS

Agreed. That one was amazing, and of course intended to be the series finale.

XFiles also had some great enders, many of which were also supposed to be series finales.
 

Storminator said:
Everyone's mentioned the end of Buffy season 2, but I thought the end of season five was stunning. My family and I sat around slack jawed at that. It took us a good 5 minutes to even ask WTF?
It was done very well, but had I not known what was going to happen (no fault of my own :() it would have had much more impact.
 

Vocenoctum said:
I liked DS9, but their Series Finale wasn't very good. Not as bad as X Files, but then XFiles should have ended a season or two sooner.
I stopped watching X-Files after Mulder was taken.

As for DS9, the series finale was a mixed bag. The first hour was awesome but the second hour was rather weak. I want to go back and watch it again just to see why. I just recall not being as nearly as impressed or entertained as I was with the previous 3 seasons...
 



Millenium's second season finale was pretty damn good. That 10 minute Horses sequence kind of lost it's way, but the ending was stunning. Then Chris Carter returned to actually running the show, decided it had lost it's way, and came back to basically ruin it for the third season, only to partially fix it in an X-files episode. My biggest complaint was the rampant child endagerment in that series, but otherwise I really liked it, once they got away from the 'serial killer of the week' premise.

Season 3 of Babylon 5 is a given. Quantum Leaps series finale was, I thought, a brilliant capstone to a wonderfully underappreciated show. Very touching, and reminiscent of a good Twilight Zone episode, actually.

Trek season finales seemed to lose a lot of punch after The Borg cliffhanger. The most notable thing about that episode with the camping trip for me was the hint of doing something interesting with the Ferengi (and the subsequent loss of same).

Best ending ever, though, goes to Blake's 7. If you've seen it, you know. Wow. It was the first time I sat and just stared at the screen, trying to figure out what had just happened. A friend, who had already seen it just sat next to me on the couch and addressed my speechlessness with a simple "Yeah. I know."
 

Shadowdancer said:


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I don't remember this at all. The last episode I saw, which I thought was the last episode of the season, and then it didn't get renewed so no more episodes, had the two female characters taken prisoner. The three male characters had been trapped in a derelict space craft, and one sacrificed himself so the others could be rescued. It ended with the two surviving men on board their main ship, mourning the loss of one character and plotting how to rescue the other two.

Hmm it was a long time ago but thats not what I remember... I do remember two of the main characters floating away in a shuttle pod or something of the sort with no power, with it being obvious that they were about to die. It was quite powerful.
 

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