What Was The Best Series Finale Ever

[Parche]

I just watched the last Frasier, and that for some reason got me ..:cry: :cry: :cry:

[MrCoffee]

1. Cliche be damned...M*A*S*H wins.

[TZ]

2. Yep.

I totally agree with that one.

[Bake]

3. Agreed.

Bake

[Orrex]

5. I'm with you on that, so I posted my choice for second place

Hawkeye's destruction after the bus incident is still powerful even so many years later.

[murielm99]

43. I was more upset by what happened with Charles.

Maybe that is because I love music.

He was a selfish prig, but the human loss got to him on a deep level.

[dbackjon]

18. Ditto

[DarkTirade]

34. Yep.

I didn't see it until almost 25 years after it aired, but it still hit me like a ton 'o bricks.

[Orrex]

4. The finale of Star Trek TNG was very good

A fitting and well-crafted close to the series.

Arrested Development also had a good finale, all things considered.

[Deja Q]

9. One minor flaw in it, but it is quite forgivable...

"All Good Things..." made a far better feature film than any of the four TNG flicks.

[Orrex]

25. Which flaw are you thinking of?

The one that bothered me was how long it took for them to conclude that "anti-time" would flow backwards relative to "normal" time. I mean, as soon as I heard the term, I just assumed outright that it would be reversed, yet it took Data et al quite a span of time to get there.

Regardless, Q's near-revelation to Picard at the end is magnificent--one of the best moments in all of Trek IMO.

[Deja Q]

29. The one where they reach the point (in the future) when they create the anomaly...

yet if the anomaly travels backwards, how do they bugger off to let the future-Picard whine and flail, only to return later to see a fully developed anomaly, already in form. (the plot has them all saying "Oh, it took time for it to create in regular time to form so it could travel backwards." A quaint line, but it doesn't ring true.

A double paradox? Paradoxes? A pair o' paradox? :D

Indeed, with the very name "anti-time", even Troi could have fathomed it out in less time than Data...

[rcrush]

20. I liked the Deep Space Nine finale as well

Tho it felt kind of rushed even though it was 2 hours long

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. The last episode of Six Feet Under was just unbelievable.

I get chills (good ones) just thinking about it.

[Kashka-Kat]

15. There is absolutely no contest - that one was by far the best ever - as satisfying as a classic

piece of literature - pulling together all the loose ends into a satisfying conclusion - most series aren't conceived as a whole or with the idea that there would be a conclusion so the finales are usually pretty lame.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

21. Six Feet Under...

No contest.

[dawgmom]

22. Damn...you took my answer

Oh dear....I was a complete mess by they time they got to Claire......

[MrScorpio]

26. Six Feet Under

Without a doubt

[Mollis]

33. Exactly what I was going to say.

Loved it. It was amazing.

[Lost in CT]

48. I agree.

Though the last two and a half seasons I had felt it lost it's way. (The whole sister in law affair murder plot was a disaster.)

I felt the last episode made up for a lot of bad writing that came before.

[Deja Q]

7. "Blake's 7" (spoiler)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY10pMsq3N8

It helps to know the full series, but most TV shows don't quite end like that one... or what led to it:

Blakes 7 was the first Sci-Fi show to have: An arc story, kill off characters if necessary, use cliffhangers.

The USA at the time was ahead of us in special effects, but we were ahead in characterization and stories.

[rcrush]

8. Angel

Cause you kow you want to slay the dragon to.

[SidneyCarton]

19. I agree, if you're gonna go, go down swinging

[DarkTirade]

35. When I saw the title of your post I was 'bout to respond with "I kinda wanna slay the dragon..."

But you beat me to it. :)

[rcrush]

44. I'll take the couple hundred thousand on the right...

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. The Sopranos

It got people all shook up.

[SacredCow]

11. depends on how I quantify it.....

for emotion? MASH- hands down.

cleverness? Newhart- again, hands down.

finality? Probably the X-Files.

[LeftinOH]

12. Newhart (1990).......n/t

[EastTennesseeDem]

17. Seconded, enthusiastically

[Mudoria]

13. The West Wing

[BOSSHOG]

14. The Fugitive

After chasing that one armed bastard around for years, justice finally "fell."

[CreekDog]

16. The West Wing "Tomorrow" episode is a great one

and should probably be shown in classrooms.

[LSdemocrat]

27. That was such a fan satisfaction cheesefest . . .

but that was some really, really, good cheese anyway!

[CreekDog]

32. perhaps it was cheese because of the "feel-good" factor

but it was good in the sense that it was well done and as far as I can tell, mostly accurate with respect to what happens on inauguration day.

[laconicsax]

23. The Stargate SG-1 season 8 finale.

They thought the series wasn't going to be picked up for a ninth season, so the two-part episode "Moebius" was intended to be a series finale. It served that purpose wonderfully. I see the 9th and 10th seasons as spin-off--the series ended after season 8.

[azmouse]

24. Cheers

[TrogL]

28. Twin Peaks

The finale topped all for incomprehensibility.

[Initech]

30. Arrested Development

[LanternWaste]

31. Once and Again

Once and Again-- the Herskovitz bookend to thirtysomething (which did not have a good finale, if it could be called a finale in the first place)

[reyd reid reed]

36. There are a lot of 'em that I haven't seen, but

I'd have to say, of the ones I have, M*A*S*H.

[cloudbase]

37. Mazeroski homers in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Yankees

and win the series.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

38. Although it was a horrible show and ran for eight years..

This one....

http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp/gettymil/?ptp_photo_id=3061556

[Broken_Hero]

39. Ditto...big DITTO....nt

[Blue_Tires]

52. +1

i haven't even seen any of the other finales mention in this thread, save for MASH and ST:TNG

[csziggy]

40. I loved the last episode of the "Newhart" show

Where he woke up in bed with his wife from "The Bob Newhart Show" and told her about the strange dream he had about owning an inn with all the characters that came in and out.

The last episode of "MASH" was powerful but I did not enjoy it and will never watch it again.

[MicaelS]

41. Hasn't been shown yet -

Battlestar Galactica.

[mcctatas]

42. The Sopranos...

:rofl:

[rcrush]

45. BABYLON 5

Why hasnt anyone said this yet?

[LanternWaste]

53. Dammit! Because I wasn't thinking.

"Why hasnt anyone said this yet?"

Dammit! Because I wasn't thinking clearly-- of course you're right. Best show, best finale...

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Ohio Joe]

46. No question... The Shield

Any other answer is simply wrong.

[CBGLuthier]

47. Futurama

When Fry gets the robot devil's hands to create music to woo Leela. The last crude holophone generated image of Leela and Fry together just gets ya right there. :-)

[BlueIris]

49. "Night Court." But in general, I think all series finales suck.

But that's me.

[rurallib]

50. I'd say 1960 Yankees / Pirates - Mazeroski's game winning homer.

[leeroysphitz]

51. Coprock. n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

54. NEWHART! no contest nt