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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2743347" data-attributes="member: 14159">I actually liked the last episode of Seinfeld, all those jerks getting thrown in prison.  I normally never watched the show because every one of them was a reprehensible person and I found it boring to watch them, but they actually got their comeuppance in the end with a finale devoted to pointing out what terrible people they were.Star Trek: Enterprise had a finale that was actually an insult to fans.  The entire episode is told as a Next Generation episode featuring Riker and Troi, as Riker plays a historic holodeck file reenacting the last mission of the Enterprise NX-01 as a subplot to the TNG episode "The Pegasus", set 10 years after the main body of the series, we see a main character die a meaningless death, and we get a glimpse of the signing of the charter of the Federation itself (the day NX-01 was decommissioned, thus it was never a Federation Starship so Enterprise-D can be the fifth Federation Starship Enterprise), but just as Archer is about to give a speech that Riker and Troi have talked about being incredibly historic (they had to memorize it in grade school, sort of the Federation version of the Gettysburg Address), it fades out.The MASH finale was very preachy to be sure, but Alan Alda's original concept was much worse, to have a normal episode, but at the end you hear the Director say "Cut" and stagehands appear and start carrying everything away and taking the sets apart, and Alda breaks character and the 4th wall to give an anti-war speech directly to the audience.  The network scoffed at this one and we got an end to the war at least.  Personally, I prefer MASH before it became the "Alan Alda Propaganda Show".I didn't care for the end of X-Files, with Mulder being sentenced to death by a secret military court and ending up as a fugitive on the run.I missed the last episode of M.A.N.T.I.S., sounds like I should be glad I did.</blockquote>

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