Sci-Fi series finales (or final episodes), who had the best?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, November 5, 2009 22:45
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Buffy.
Blakes 7 - that was cool
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Cleopatra 2525! The 2nd season had one-hour episodes, and the final one was terrific. We got to meet The Voice in person, and we learned about the origins of the deadly Baily's, and Cregan's relationship with them. The final episode gave a glimpse into what future shows may have looked like, but the 3rd season never filmed. They had gotten by with 2 years of "skimpy costumes & stunts", so they packed up and ran at the frightening prospect of having to do serious episodes in Season 3. The silver lining was that Gina became free to go work on another tv series; something called Firefly or some such.
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Originally posted by DMI:
I didn't mention the new BSG to specifically avoid this discussion, and now its happened. Here we go. Besides the random disappearance of Kara where no death at all was harbinged, it was an amazing finale. You can't call it Dues ex Machina when the character that was an angel had been saying so since the first season and kept trying to tell Baltar how everything was happening according to God's plan. With the constant repetition of "all of this has happened before and will happen again" how could it have ended any other way? It was fitting and brought back the original warnings against the misuse and abuse of technology. It wasn't perfect, but no series finale is (I still can't figure out why Data turns into Sherlock Holmes in the future!).
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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.
I love that about the end - they had been telling us the truth from the start - and we as the audience refused to believe it.
I can see how this upsets some fans - particularly those who think any religious aspects should be explained as tied to some alien influence (B5, DS9), but I appreciated that they didn't go that way - because it's been done. I have to respect a show that deals in religious allegory it's entire run, and then doesn't try to explain it through science.
I guess it comes down to expectations - those who hate the ending seem to have wanted it to be like other shows, tieing everything up in a bow, but I loved the BSG finale for doing something different while still being true to what it had been all along.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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ST:TNG-"All good things.." was perhaps the best season finale of the next generation that i'd ever seen. But still at the top of my list, is TSCC-"Born to run." Although it was unjustly forced upon us, like with DARK ANGEL AND FIREFLY, BY THOSE FOOLS IDIODIC FOOLS AT FOX.... (PUNCHES FRACKING WALL),.... It has a like (FRACKING) ending to the new BSG, no hppy ending, in fact this is one of the most heart fracking wrnching endings i've ever seen. CURSE YOU FOX, YOU UNAMERICAN BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22
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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Considering the pilot was aired last(last episode) of Firefly I actually considered that the last episode at the time.
And it was the best last Fking last episode ever.
Well, I was torn between Star Trek:The Next Generation (I've always said it could of been a theatrical release) and Space:Above And Beyond until I read this...
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Any of the 'Farscape' season finales because every season they thought the show was canceled
9
"who shot J.R.?
8
Terminator
7
Spider-Man the MTV cartoon
6
The West Wing ok not scifi but what the hell
5
Babylon 5 or Crusade
4
Star Trek TNG
3
Original Outer Limits or Original Twilight Zone
2
Charlie Jade
1
Twin Peaks
Worst
X-Files - series went on too long...can't even remember how it ends
St Elsewhere -its all a dream inside the mind of a mentally challenged boy,
Colbys, the UFO did it, drop Fallon down on Dynasty.
Friends - crap the show can only be redeemed by everyone getting hit by Napalm from a Stealth Bomber. I don't think I've ever watched the ending because I barely watched the show in the first place
Battlestar - Ron Moore and David Eick finally crawl up their own ass, inhale deeply and then cough it all out on screen
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Originally posted by Storymark:
I can see how this upsets some fans - particularly those who think any religious aspects should be explained as tied to some alien influence (B5, DS9)
Or, left unexplained.
I don't mind a few mysteries and wonders left over that might be signs of some higher power - its the out-and-out "God did it" aspect of the BSG finale that I didn't like. Its not just atheism: having omnipotent beings involved is plot poison - you keep having to contrive reasons why they can't wave their hands and save the day (a bit like the transporter in Star Trek).
"Sorry Cap'n: the entire planet is flooded with Dawkins radiation - its rationalized the upper atmosphere and set up a Pullman field so we can't get a lock on His Divine Will. You'll have to jump the guards and kiss the girl as usual. Just try and get it in the right order this time..."
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