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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 20, 2024 7:40:18 GMT -5
Lucifer had a very good ending. In fact, it had two! At the end of season 4, the final one at Fox, Lucifer and Chloe make peace over his being the devil (an uncommon but understandable point of tension between two lovebirds) and recognize their love for each other. Lucifer accepts his responsibilities and accepts to sacrifice his happiness with Chloe to return to Hell and prevent it from breaking loose, regaining his angel wings in the process. It's a bittersweet ending, but a satisfying one; all boxes are checked, all plots resolved, and the characters's arcs all led somewhere. However, Netflix decided to pick up the franchise and gave us two extra seasons. God having retired, there's conflict to decide who should sit on His throne; meanwhile the future daughter of Lucifer and Chloe shows up in the present (what is this, the X-Men?) hating her dad for abandoning her mom. That gets explained in due course, and the second ending to the series is thankfully happier than the rather melancholy one from season 4 ( even if Chloe ends up in Hell!  ). (I hear that the TV series is nothing like the comic, but it was a lot of fun. Its tone reminded me of the Mentalist, but mostly due to the way the characters were written than to both starting as police procedurals).
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Post by impulse on Apr 20, 2024 9:49:32 GMT -5
Most. It's hard to bring any show that you love to a satisfying conclusion. People still whine about Sienfeld and The Sopranos. I mean, most shows get unceremoniously cancelled, so if you're actually lucky enough to get to a final episode, there's a good chance the show has already lost much of the magic that originally made it special. Even if that's not the case, finding a satisfying ending is tough as all heck. This is largely my experience, too. I generally don't enjoy endings because usually, a) I'm enjoying it and don't want it to stop, or b), it's already declined/declining and I'm already not enjoying it. Sometimes it's C) it's time to wrap it up, but the ending just isn't satisfying. Occasionally, I'm satisfied, but most of the time, I'm not. I agree on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Perfect ending. To the point I'm still putting off watching Picard because why reopen something closed that well? I enjoyed the ending to Breaking Bad. It was bleak and depressing as hell, but it was an entertaining story. Game of Thrones - this is so easy it almost feels unfair to pick on it, but what a dumpster fire of an ending. I don't know if we will ever again see such a Stark decline in quality and that much goodwill casually tossed in the garbage. 4 seasons of arguably some of the best TV created, a season or two of obviously declining but "maybe passable if they stick the landing??" TV, followed by two of the biggest turds ever to air on HBO. I don't recall ever before seeing an ending so bad it took something that was a mainstay of popular culture and basically erased it from the general discourse. Let's see... Lost. Terrible ending. It became clear that none of the mysteries had well thought out answers all along but that the show was made up on the spot. In hindsight, this is now obvious as it's a JJ Abrams production, but the first two seasons were nail-biting water cooler TV. The Fresh Prince of Belair had a good ending. Sad but heartfelt in a good way, but this brings me back to my original feelings. Even when it's a well-done ending, it's hard to be happy because now it's over. If and when The Simpsons finally ends, I'm not sure how I will feel. It hasn't been the show I grew up watching longer than it was, but it's been a mainstay most of my life. I read an online short writeup someone made of a potential last episode, and it was perfect. So perfect I doubt the writers will come up with something similar, but to paraphrase: After a long time, Krusty announces his retirement culminating in a final show. This rocks the residents of Springfield because they can't imagine the world without Krusty. He's been a cultural mainstay for so long. Most of the episode is the residents discussing their feelings on it and coming to terms with it. It ends with the Simpson family rushing home from their individual activities in a way that mirrors the show opening, they rush to the couch together and Homer turns on the Krusty finale, and the credits roll. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 20, 2024 10:31:16 GMT -5
I liked the endings to Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Mad Men. I also liked the endings for The Good Place and Schitt's Creek. I also liked the bittersweet ending to The Wonder Years. Seconding Breaking Bad, which owes a debt to The Searchers.Seconding The Wire, too... "He was the black sheep. The permanent pariah. He asked no quarter of the bosses and none was given. He learned no lessons. He acknowledged no mistakes. He was as stubborn a Mick as ever stumbled out of the Northeast parishes to take a patrolman's shield. He brooked no authority, he did what he wanted to do and he said what he wanted to say and, in the end, he gave you the clearances. He was natural police."
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Post by Calidore on Apr 20, 2024 11:13:55 GMT -5
Benson I saw very little of, though I liked the character and the show he came from, Soap. Speaking of which, Soap's cancellation left multiple never-resolved cliffhangers. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 20, 2024 11:54:00 GMT -5
Rome had a good ending. We had followed the fall of the republic and the civil war mainly through the eyes of Vorenus and Pullo, whose personal lives were so tied up with the shenanigans of powerful people, and we conclude the series with the resolution of their respective familial crises just as Augustus assumes sole power. There's a nod to real world politics in there: ordinary people struggle and die, and terrible people in positions of power end up on top.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 20, 2024 11:58:43 GMT -5
Rome had a good ending. (...) Many of Romans of the time would have begged to differ, methinks. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 20, 2024 12:03:56 GMT -5
Rome had a good ending. (...) Many of Romans of the time would have begged to differ, methinks. Republicans! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 20, 2024 13:43:46 GMT -5
I liked the endings to Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Mad Men. I also liked the endings for The Good Place and Schitt's Creek. I also liked the bittersweet ending to The Wonder Years. Seconding Breaking Bad, which owes a debt to The Searchers.Seconding The Wire, too... "He was the black sheep. The permanent pariah. He asked no quarter of the bosses and none was given. He learned no lessons. He acknowledged no mistakes. He was as stubborn a Mick as ever stumbled out of the Northeast parishes to take a patrolman's shield. He brooked no authority, he did what he wanted to do and he said what he wanted to say and, in the end, he gave you the clearances. He was natural police."
(Mad Men is on my list to watch.) I hated the last season of The Wire. So…not so much. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 20, 2024 14:01:46 GMT -5
My favorite finales tend to be those that wrap up their major plotlines but make it clear the characters will continue on as before except that their exploits are no longer being recorded (see Bones, CSI: New York, NCIS: Los Angeles, Big Bang Theory, etc.). I don't mind series that come to a definite end (i.e., Mary Tyler Moore, Frasier) but I prefer the former.
Cei-U!
I summon the satisfactory conclusion!
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Post by berkley on Apr 20, 2024 14:24:04 GMT -5
I liked the endings to Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Mad Men. I also liked the endings for The Good Place and Schitt's Creek. I also liked the bittersweet ending to The Wonder Years.
I'd more or less agree with the first three, haven't seen the others, though I've watched the first season or two of Schitt's Creek.
I thought the last two seasons of Breaking Bad were by far the best. There were many highlights in the first three years and lots of first rate individual episodes but the last two were more consistent for me.
The Wire I felt slipped just a bit the last year, if I remember, but still a very good show. Mad Men maintained its high usual level of quality though the ending itself didn't feel like a strong resolution to me.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 20, 2024 16:02:28 GMT -5
I should've hated the contrived finale of Castle but the series had been crap for the preceding three seasons anyway so I didn't care,
Cei-U!
I summon the sorry decline of a once entertaining show!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 20, 2024 16:15:32 GMT -5
I was todays year old when I discovered that the “King of Queens “ show ended with them getting divorced. That’s a terrible ending. Are there Any shows where you didn’t like the ending ? , of course. After five brilliant and complex seasons, the show turned into a confused one-dimensional mess. Plot holes you can ride a dragon through, plot-imandated stupidity galore, characters who might as well be different people and a downer of a conclusion. Funny how that happened at the exact spot where they moved beyond the source material. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 20, 2024 16:16:49 GMT -5
Blackadder had one of the greatest show endings ever.
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Post by commond on Apr 20, 2024 16:36:39 GMT -5
Cowboy Bebop has an incredible ending.
People rave about the ending to Six Feet Under, but I never made it that far.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 20, 2024 17:28:56 GMT -5
Seconding Breaking Bad, which owes a debt to The Searchers.Seconding The Wire, too... "He was the black sheep. The permanent pariah. He asked no quarter of the bosses and none was given. He learned no lessons. He acknowledged no mistakes. He was as stubborn a Mick as ever stumbled out of the Northeast parishes to take a patrolman's shield. He brooked no authority, he did what he wanted to do and he said what he wanted to say and, in the end, he gave you the clearances. He was natural police."
(Mad Men is on my list to watch.) I hated the last season of The Wire. So…not so much. I said I liked the ending. There were ups and downs throughout that series. |
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