Spoilers TV Shows with Great Endings

GreyLord

Legend
Hmm, sounds like I need to watch Travelers as several in this thread have mentioned it. I've seen the first two episodes, but never really got beyond that.

One that I thought had a great ending, though I've only seen it once, was the series finale of the Big Bang Theory. It probably should have ended near season 8 or 9, but the finale was a great way to end it.

Not a series finale in that it was the finale of the series itself, but as the finale of the entire series of TV shows and movies for the Original Crew, Star Trek the Undiscovered Country was a great way to end it all.

Farscape had a terrible ending, but the TV movie was a great way to end the series as well as a series finale.

It depends on what you see as a series finale. The original Doctor Who run had a decent final episode ending for the 7th doctor...at least in my opinion.

Some that I thought had terrible endings...

Highlander...didn't really resolve things...and the movie afterwards...

What should have happened is they lined it up with the first movie so that Conner was ultimately the winner of the tournament and Duncan had some sort of epic death. Instead, they just made yet another universe for the Highlander franchise, adding onto all the other ones they'd already screwed up with. Adding in the Source made it even worse.

Scrubs could have had a good series finale if they had just finished it one season earlier...but no...they had to continue onward...

Battlestar Galactica (the new series)...controversial take...but WTH was that!!! We get into angels, divine leading, and a whole lot of other schlock...maybe I'm just not into a religious philosophy ideal sort of person...but...yeah. I don't get why people love this series so much...that ending is akin to what people think of the GoT ending...at least for me. I don't see why people adore it. That was a weak ending. Sure, we had questions answered...in the worse possible way with the worst possible answer...

I guess I'm not much into that religious philosophy mumbo jumbo...or maybe it's just not my type of thing.
 

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Battlestar Galactica (the new series)...controversial take...but WTH was that!!! We get into angels, divine leading, and a whole lot of other schlock...maybe I'm just not into a religious philosophy ideal sort of person...but...yeah. I don't get why people love this series so much...
The nuBSG ending is one of the most widely-hated endings out there. I don't know how you've gotten the mistaken impression that people like that ending. Even among nuBSG ultra-fans there tends to be some distaste for it.

People love the show despite the ending, for the most part, not because of it.

That said there is a somewhat confusing (to me) subset of TV viewers who seem to adore odd metaphysical Christian-coded endings (like nuBSG or Lost), even without being religious themselves, and will defend them to death. I feel like there's some complex stuff going on there, probably you could write a PhD thesis on it!
 



DrunkonDuty

he/him
Ah! It was too.

I think I'd have been happiest if they'd ended at the point where the Cylons find them on New Caprica. (Was that the cold, naughty word planet's name?) A good, downbeat ending.
 


Although Anime can be seen as cringe. I genuinely believe that Code Geass has one of the best endings in media.
Huh. I'm 3/4s of the way through Code Geass and I have no idea whatsoever how they can possibly end this (wild) story well, I guess I need to go back and watch the rest now!
 




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