We all hate for our favourite shows to end. Some of them do it right, resolving everything. Some don’t. TV Guide has gathered their little list of the don’ts:
TVGuide.ca says:
How do you finish a popular show in a way that doesn’t either tick off or disappoint fans? Sometimes the finale works: in Sex and the City, everyone lived happily ever after with really good sex and shoes; Friends ended with the final resolution of Ross and Rachel; and M*A*S*H set the standard for the series finale spectacle.
Then there are the shows that leave viewers wondering if the writers were on drugs when they conceived the ending …
To sum up the list:
7. Gilmore Girls (2007) - Resolved way too fast. Not believable, not satisfying.
6. Quantum Leap (1993) - No Resolution. Show was cancelled after a cliffhanger and no next season.
5. Star Trek Voyager (2002) - Too Easy. Still impossibly far from home and boom 10 minute resolution and one hefty wormhole later and thats it. You’re done.
4. The X-Files (2002) - More questions, no answers. Apprently the Truth is STILL out there.
3. Angel (2004) - Rushed ending due to early cancellation left us wondering what happens.
2. St. Elsewhere (1988) - 6 years turns out to be all the imagination of a kid. Didn’t they do that with Bob Newheart? It was just a dream?
1. Seinfeld (1997) In a show where the silly impossible became possible are we really surprised that it ended with a depressing impossible scenario?
Personally I would have added Veronica Mars in there but mostly because that wound is still fresh. That show didnt end. It just kept going like there was another day. And we were robbed of seeing the next day.
This post was Authored by Rodney Brazeau, Copy Editor
Comments
Of the listed shows, I only watched X-Files, Angel, and Seinfeld. I agree with X and Seinfeld (2 of my all time favorite shows), but I really liked the Angel finale. I know it was rushed, but I thought they did a great job of bringing closure to some of the characters. I agree it left us wondering what happens next, but that’s actually one of the things I really liked about it. So many shows end and clean everything up. Angel left you wanting more. Just my opinion.
I liked the Seinfeld finale. It was fitting for the show.
Where’s the great “Married with Children”? That show was awesome, and it sucked the way Fox cancelled the series. There wasn’t even a finale.
The first time I saw it, I hated the Seinfeld finale, but now I like it. I think it works well.
Along similar lines, Twin Peaks was canceled after an unbelievable cliffhanger. I was very disappointed originally, but now every time I watch the series, I enjoy that ending (even though it wasn’t intended to be an ending) more and more.
I thought that the series finale of Quantum Leap resolved everything. I personally loved the ending.
**SPOILER**
Sam meets God. God tells Sam that he had the power himself to return home at anytime; that he always chose his next leap. Knowing this and faced with the choice of going home or continuing to leap and “put right what once went wrong,” Sam picks the unselfish route and continues to leap forever. In fact, his first controlled leap takes him back to Al’s wife to tell her that he is alive and coming home, and she never remarries. It brings tears to my eye just to remember that final scene.
**END SPOILER**
A beautiful ending to a wonderful show, in my opinion. But hey, that’s what subjectivity is all about, right?
I miss QL.
dont forget the sopranos finale…yuck
Star Trek :Enterprise has to rank…after all the last season of the show (and perhaps of he Trek Universe at that) was really good. I would have been satisfied with it ending on the eps with Peter Weller, where at the end of it they showed the birth of the Federation Of Planets…BUT NOOOO….the final episode has to deal with Number One Will Riker (!) having to find himself in a holodeck simulation/history account (!!) “interviewing” members of Enterprise as the ship cook (???) and if nothing else, it proves that in spite of Manny Coto’s efforts, all creative ideas and storytelling gets pissed over by Ron Moore.
X-Files… the two last seasons jerked around too much to even care about the ending.
I always wanted a resolution to Twin Peaks…and Crime Story, for that matter.