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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:35 PM
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What Was The Best Series Finale Ever
I just watched the last Frasier, and that for some reason got me ..:cry: :cry: :cry:
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:36 PM
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1. Cliche be damned...M*A*S*H wins.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:37 PM
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2. Yep.
I totally agree with that one.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:37 PM
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3. Agreed.
Bake
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:39 PM
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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.
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 03:00 AM
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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.
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dbackjon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:39 PM
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18. Ditto
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:27 PM
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34. Yep.
I didn't see it until almost 25 years after it aired, but it still hit me like a ton 'o bricks.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:37 PM
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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.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:41 PM
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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.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:07 PM
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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.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:28 PM
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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...
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:45 PM
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20. I liked the Deep Space Nine finale as well
Tho it felt kind of rushed even though it was 2 hours long
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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:39 PM
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6. The last episode of Six Feet Under was just unbelievable.
I get chills (good ones) just thinking about it.
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Kashka-Kat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:04 PM
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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.
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A-Long-Little-Doggie Donating Member (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:46 PM
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21. Six Feet Under...
No contest.
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dawgmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:55 PM
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22. Damn...you took my answer
Oh dear....I was a complete mess by they time they got to Claire......
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:10 PM
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26. Six Feet Under
Without a doubt
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Mollis Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:02 PM
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33. Exactly what I was going to say.
Loved it. It was amazing.
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Lost in CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 08:37 AM
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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.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:39 PM
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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.



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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:39 PM
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8. Angel
Cause you kow you want to slay the dragon to.
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:43 PM
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19. I agree, if you're gonna go, go down swinging
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:28 PM
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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. :)
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 03:42 AM
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44. I'll take the couple hundred thousand on the right...
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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:42 PM
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10. The Sopranos
It got people all shook up.
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:43 PM
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11. depends on how I quantify it.....
for emotion? MASH- hands down.

cleverness? Newhart- again, hands down.

finality? Probably the X-Files.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:43 PM
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12. Newhart (1990).......n/t
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:24 PM
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17. Seconded, enthusiastically
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Mudoria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:58 PM
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13. The West Wing
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:03 PM
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14. The Fugitive
After chasing that one armed bastard around for years, justice finally "fell."
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:23 PM
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16. The West Wing "Tomorrow" episode is a great one
and should probably be shown in classrooms.
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:11 PM
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27. That was such a fan satisfaction cheesefest . . .
but that was some really, really, good cheese anyway!
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:56 PM
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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.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:56 PM
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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.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 05:59 PM
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24. Cheers
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:12 PM
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28. Twin Peaks
The finale topped all for incomprehensibility.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:32 PM
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30. Arrested Development
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:39 PM
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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)
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:32 PM
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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.
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:37 PM
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37. Mazeroski homers in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Yankees
and win the series.
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PaddyBlueEyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:39 PM
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38. Although it was a horrible show and ran for eight years..
This one....

http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp/gettymil/?ptp_photo_id=3061556
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:49 AM
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39. Ditto...big DITTO....nt
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 09:22 AM
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52. +1
i haven't even seen any of the other finales mention in this thread, save for MASH and ST:TNG
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:04 AM
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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.
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:07 AM
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41. Hasn't been shown yet -
Battlestar Galactica.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:08 AM
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42. The Sopranos...
:rofl:
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 03:44 AM
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45. BABYLON 5
Why hasnt anyone said this yet?
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:25 PM
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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:
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 08:15 AM
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46. No question... The Shield
Any other answer is simply wrong.
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 08:20 AM
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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. :-)
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 09:14 AM
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49. "Night Court." But in general, I think all series finales suck.
But that's me.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 09:15 AM
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50. I'd say 1960 Yankees / Pirates - Mazeroski's game winning homer.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 09:21 AM
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51. Coprock. n/t
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 09:15 PM
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54. NEWHART! no contest nt
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