That’s great! I saw the final episode and loved it, but I had no idea that was the first movie they’d ever done.
I often remember Crow talking about how much he loves their new apartment: “…and on the bus line!!!”
Someone mentioned the last episodes of Sailormoon though they were really explaining the last episodes from the first season.
The real last episode of Sailormoon had her flying around naked for a great portion of the time.
Honestly I don’t know which one is better. On the one hand the first season ended so tragically and romantic. But on the other hand the fifth season ended with her flying around naked.
Count me in with those that loved the Angel finale.
Best: Angel, DS9
Worst: X-Files, Quantum Leap
How nice of them. 
Mine’s Bob Sacramento. He can get you a deal on anything.
Best: Star Trek TNG
Worst: Star Trek Voyager…WTF?
Most Dissapointing: Earth 2…I loved that show! Why did it have to end so soon (i know the answer). It ended with a cliffhanger that will never be resolved…argh!
Could someone who is complaining about the QL ending please explain why they find it so bad?
I mean I for one loved the fact that there was no higher being purposly guiding his travelling around, and that its his choice not to go home and rather selflessly help the population.
As to the new movie I believe that it is based around his daughter (maybe they couldnt get Bakula back with Enterprise still running?).
Best:
Angel
Firefly
Buffy
B5
Blake’s Seven has already been mentioned, but I’ll second it: I love it because all the good guys get killed messily and the bad guys win.
They did it that way because Hitchhiker’s Guide was starting, and with Doctor Who still running the BBC couldn’t budget for three SF shows: on being told that the show was being cancelled with no chance of renewal, the writers got vengeful and decided that there really would be no chance of renewal. Brilliant.
Best: Magnum PI, penultimate season (walking off into the clouds)
Worst: Magnum PI, last season (joining the Navy)
A similar thing happened with Space: Above and Beyond - some resolution, but mostly just my favourite characters going down in flames.
The Office Christmas Special made me teary, as does the final of Blackadder. I hated the Friends final - wound up yelling at the screen ‘go to france to silly woman. Go to FRANCE!’ Bah.
Best: The short-lives series Dinosaurs, when:
They all went EXTINCT!
Worst: Married…With Children, Duckman, and Futurama, which were all cancelled before they could make a proper final episode. Oh, and The Simpsons, for not having one yet.
Well, I have to agree with you on that point, and I’m all for the not-so-happy endings, but it was a huge letdown. For one, it seemed like it was suggesting that there was a higher purpose sending him around. It was a good episode, and it seemed like it was building up to something really interesting for the next one, then…BAM! He never gets home.
Oooo, how did I forget Dinosaurs? I especially like (though I was too young to appreciate it at the time) how they took the old format of ‘Earl does something stupid, things go wrong, but everything turns out alright in the end’ and had it not turn out alright in the end. Basically, what would happen if sitcoms took place in reality.
Well first off I was mad because everywhere they were promising a great episode tying up the loose ends when it didn’t. It didn’t explain anything really. It was poorly written. It made little to no sense. The bartender kept hinting at a big reveal and never paid off and did I mention…TIME TRAVELING GHOSTS?
Really it was easily the opposite of everything they promised with a bunch of unnecessary weirdness thrown in for no reason.
NEW FISH! NEW FISH!
Don’t know if it’s worst, but the most disappointing to me was the Deep Space Nine finale. Simply because this was a show that, unlike standard TV dogma, had dared to have change – plot lines would stretch out over nearly a whole season, characters died, married, or went through other changes. It was tremendous to have a show that wasn’t always the same situation endlessly repeated.
So I had high hopes for the finale, with a chance to make even bigger changes and interesting things. So when the finale ended with, basically, the station still there and everything back to normal, just as it was, that was quite a letdown.
Well Sisko and Gul-Dukat probably don’t think things went back to normal.
I sort of agree though, I liked the DS9 final, but was a little disappointed in that, other then Sisko’s character arc, everything got wrapped up more or less the way one would’ve expected it to. There weren’t a lot of suprises.
My take on it is that Chris Carter kept painting himself into a corner and cutting a hole in the wall through which to escape, and eventually took out too many load-bearing elements.
Good: “Sleeping In Light” (Babylon 5), “All Good Things…” (Star Trek TNG), “Goodbyeee” (Blackadder IV)
Bad: X-Files Finale, Twin Peaks Finale
WTF?: “Fall Out” (The Prisoner) – I put this in a separate category from “Bad” because it’s interesting even when I can’t figure out WTF McGoohan is trying to say.
In defense of the behemoth that is The Simpsons, they seem to be doing a better job of late (as some of us observed the other day) and come back up from the nadir of sheer randomness and minimal, rather predictable humor that it seemed to have sunk into since achieving nigh-immortal status several years ago. Perhaps the staff has gotten a second wind. Maybe it doesn’t need to end just yet.
Oh, it paid off, just in the wrong way. Sam had been ending up where he was because his subconscious kept interfering! Oh my!
I didn’t get that the ghost was time travelling at all, it just looked to Sam that way.
Y’all are missing the real problems…not only did they change the premise (Sam no longer leaping into other people’s bodies) but the end itself was vague. Did he not get home because Al’s being reunited with his wife invalidate the entire project, or what?
Ugh. Joe brain hurt.
Admittedly, I only saw it once, but I thought the final QL episode basically stuck Sam in a bar talking to who I assumed was God (ie. the bartender). The bartender (ie. God) gave Sam the choice of continuing to do good things forever or going home. Feeling that the world needed lots of fixing, Sam chose to continue fixing things.
Did I make all this up in my head somewhere?
-Joe