can someone explain what exactly happened at the end of Lost? was it just that they were dead the whole time? ( i only saw a couple of episodes)
In earlier episodes, Laura I. Wilder narrated epilogues about some characters that were sure to have happened after the last episode. But why did they have to blow up Walnut grove? If I were to lose my house, I’d sell the dynamite.
They weren’t always dead, that’s part of the reason the ending was bad. The idea was that the alternative reality they were living was a place where they could wait for each other so that they could all pass on together. Many of them did die on the island, but as we saw at the end, a few did not, Sawyer and Kate got off, as well as a couple of others, and Ben and Hurley stayed on the island until they too passed on, presumably many decades later.
While the ending was bad, it did make me cry a little. I guess they figured if they couldn’t make it all make sense, the least they could do was go for the emotional jugular.
Seinfeld - but for more personal reason. I was the goody-two-shoes kid in school who thought that getting a detention was a fate worse than death, so the ending of Seinfeld terrified me. The movies Office Space and Election weren’t that much fun for me either.
Now that I’m wiser and more emotionally level, I can see that the ending on Seinfeld wasn’t so terrible. They went to prison, but it didn’t look like their prison experience would be like Oz. And I now find Office Space funny.
No love for The West Wing?
I though it ended very well. They wrapped up everything while showing the next administraion going on business-as-usual.
From strange reason, I was choked up a little when Bartlett was looking out the window of Air Force One on his way home.
I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but the British show One Foot in the Grave had a great ending. They killed off the main character and the final episode is a mix of flashbacks of him, and of scenes of his widow trying to cope with his death. The ending is ambiguous as we wonder if she has taken revenge on his killer.
Rather daring for a comedy, I though, but brilliant.
What? Victor Meldrew was murdered?
I don’t believe it.
It was an accident; a hit-and-run driver.
If you know the show but haven’t seen the final episode, check it out. It was available on youtube last I looked.
I should have said, “I don’t belieeeeeeeve it!”
Wait, what? :eek:
I remember seeing a couple of episodes of this show on PBS years ago, and if what I saw/remember was typical I certainly wouldn’t have expected the show to end that way! That is quite daring/shocking.
people like to bash the series finale of Roseanne, but i kinda liked it. i didn’t keep up with the show when it first aired, so i’ve only seen the finale in reruns over the past few years. i thought it was a kind of clever way to explain away the horrible final season, and i like that it means in the “real” roseanneiverse, dan never cheated (which i never saw happening to begin with). jackie being a lesbian made a lot of sense, dan dying is sad but realistic, the fact that they never really won the lottery and that was a fantasy she concocted after losing her husband is brutally realistic.
my biggest complaint would be i do not at all buy the business about the “real” pairings being darlene/mark and david/becky, plus that brings up a lot of questions about the baby darlene birthed- so i guess it’s mark’s kid, not david’s? yeah, that revelation didn’t work for me at all. overall, though, i think it’s good. the last 5 minutes or so is pretty emotional, that shot of dan at the table which pans back to show his empty chair always makes me cry, as i also do when she walks out of the basement to reveal the house as it was pre lottery, no fancy furniture or french doors or anything else- a realistic and somewhat depressing end for a realistic and somewhat depressing series.
hmm, i seem to have put a lot of thought into this.
I pretty much only watch The Big Bang Theory and The Venture Bros. Neither of those shows is allowed to end.
This thread needs more Lost hate. Seriously. I’m not sure there could be a point of “enough” Lost hate. I lean toward the theory that the whole series was a grand experiment in trolling. Worst storytellers ever. If those guys had any other jobs, they’d have killed somebody with their incompetence.
Hated the MAS*H ending. Two hours of Alan Alda weeping and ranting. It’s all about Hawkeye. Even after 30 years my annoyance is strong.
Lost ended near perfectly. Oh noes, they didn’t explain every last detail of how the island works, or give the smoke monster guy’s name, but they explained a lot in the last few eps (even why there was a frozen donkey wheel!), and hit a lot of really great emotional notes. Anyone who hates this, sorry, you’re as soulless as Jacob’s brother.
BSG ended about as well as it could have given the mess they’d worked themselves into. God did it was not only set up way back at the beginning, but literally the only way it could go by that point.
Seinfeld, it was a bad episode, but I can forgive it since the rest of the final season had been as good as ever.
Never watched Sopranos other than the last scene, so don’t really have much of an opinion on the ending beyond it feeling abrupt.
I also thought the ending to The Sopranos was just about perfect. After watching the final season all the way through for the second time, and knowing how it would end, I thought it was marvelous how David Chase set things up for that conclusion.
I liked the way B5 ended, even enjoyed the last season overall. Never had any problem with the Seinfeld series finale either, but I was a pretty young kid when it aired. I think I found it funnier then than I do now. Somehow it seems a bit “forced” to me watching it, but I don’t hate it now and never did.
I absolutely refuse to watch shows like Lost and BSG while they are airing specifically because they burn people so badly. I stick to shows that have run all the way through and have ended satisfyingly. I understand there are a few wackos out there who enjoyed the way The Sopranos, Lost and BSG ended, but there is enough very strong opinion that the finales ruined the entire show for them that I just have no interest in even trying to watch them. -
True, except as Mr. Spock would say, ‘seething over it is illogical’ - which only makes you wish they had airlocks on Star Trek (solely for the purpose of defenestration, or whatever you call it when it’s an airlock and not a window).
I thought they handled 666 Park Avenue very nicely. I have to say I did NOT . . . EVER see that coming and for once it’s nice to see the anti-Christ actually win in the end. I mean what’s up with that anyway. He’s supposed to win in the end but in every movie . . . nope, not this time. Foiled again. That was an ending that was long over due.
The ending of Oz where the bomb goes off so all the inmates are evacuated on the buses.
The ending of Oz was incredibly unsatisfying. I guess it fit the overall tone of the show, unrelenting awfulness, nobody ever really gets cut a break, but geez.