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    I was fairly disappointed by Battlestar Galactica's (the re-imagining) series finale. Many of the season finales were awesome, though.

    Angel's series finale... I can handle cliffhanger endings when a new season starts in a handful of months, but when it's over? Well, the comic book thing started, I guess...

    Roseanne. Terrible finale.

    I liked Arrested Development's.

    Never watched The Sopranos past season 2, but I heard its ending was one of the worst ever

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    I think the season finale of True Blood Season 2 was probably one of the worst ones of a good, relatively new show. It left me with very little excitement and desire to watch season 3. Let down.

    The Season 1 finale was good though.

    Things like season finales in the last seasons of Charmed and other shows of that sort are a given when it comes to bad finales.


    Six Feet Under tended to do amazing season finales. The series finale was, hands down, the best one I've ever watched. I cried a lot. I felt like I was watching a friend die, it was very painful at some parts.


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    Buffy had a really good series finale - and a whole lot of great season finales too!

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    Angel's series finale... I can handle cliffhanger endings when a new season starts in a handful of months, but when it's over? Well, the comic book thing started, I guess...
    I don't think they intended that to be the season finale. From what I remember, the cancellation order came after they had already filmed it or something along those lines so they intended to use it as an introduction into the comic book "series", which starts almost exactly where the finale left off. I actually enjoyed it.

    The Wire's series finale was perhaps one of the best I have ever seen. It wrapped up everything appropriately for each character and continued the trend that the rest of the series carried on throughout the five seasons it aired. Overall, The Wire was an amazing show.

    As much as I enjoyed the last season of Veronica Mars, it was fairly lackluster compared to the first two seasons. The series finale was a letdown in that it ended the show but also because it was not as strong as the other episodes.

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a decent series finale, far better than Angel's, which is neat because Angel was the stronger show in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bunny View Post
    Angel's series finale... I can handle cliffhanger endings when a new season starts in a handful of months, but when it's over? Well, the comic book thing started, I guess...
    I don't think they intended that to be the season finale. From what I remember, the cancellation order came after they had already filmed it or something along those lines so they intended to use it as an introduction into the comic book "series", which starts almost exactly where the finale left off. I actually enjoyed it.
    They'd known about the cancellation of the show since "Smile Time", which was the 14th episode of the season.
    - but yeah, I also enjoyed the series finale of Angel.

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    Battlestar Galactica was fairly atrocious.

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    Oh, that reminds me. Babylon 5's last season was fantastic, but I don't think I loved the series finale. It summed things up well, but I felt it was a little lack-lustre compared to the previous few episodes.


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    I didn't hate it, didn't love it, when it came to Angel. I didn't mean to imply I flat-out hated it. But yeah, Buffy and Angel both had some wicked season finales, that for sure. Man, sometimes I was ripping my hair out for them to start again.

    Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the finale of the latest Dexter season was pretty good ;O It left me craving more.

    And I liked the season 2 finale of True Blood :aimblush: (SPOILER)Anything that indicates Sookie and Bill will be apart for any amount of time is good for me. Hopefully this is heading for the storyline where he's taken away for almost an entire book and we see much more of Eric than him.

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    I liked the ending of MASH :3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle View Post
    I didn't hate it, didn't love it, when it came to Angel. I didn't mean to imply I flat-out hated it. But yeah, Buffy and Angel both had some wicked season finales, that for sure. Man, sometimes I was ripping my hair out for them to start again.

    Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the finale of the latest Dexter season was pretty good ;O It left me craving more.

    And I liked the season 2 finale of True Blood :aimblush: (SPOILER)Anything that indicates Sookie and Bill will be apart for any amount of time is good for me. Hopefully this is heading for the storyline where he's taken away for almost an entire book and we see much more of Eric than him.
    Oh! Well I liked THAT part of the finale, I feel the same about both pairings. XDD Just nothing much else about it.


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    Battlestar Galactica as previously pointed out ended on such a low note after such a hot series. Made me kinda feel like I had been cheated, better that Galatica had taken on the cylons and lost in a blaze of glory than win in a hushed silence.

    The Unit has had some awesome season finales. Though I haven't seen all of them.

    24 Doesn't really fail to disappoint for sheer awesome stuff going on throughout and ending well. The last hour is always the most tense.

    Stargate Atlantis ended crapily what is with sci-fi's ending so awfully? Add to this list Stargate SG-1, Star Trek Voyager and so on and so on.

    Buffy was good though I missed the ending of Angel.

    Red Dwarf was amazing (no not the crap revisited series they done. The proper original ending)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow View Post
    Stargate Atlantis ended crapily what is with sci-fi's ending so awfully? Add to this list Stargate SG-1, Star Trek Voyager and so on and so on.
    Voyager was crap the whole way through so no big surprises the ending sucked. As for SG-1 and Atlantis, they were both canceled after their season finales had been filmed I believe. At least SG-1 got the films to cap things off, and supposedly so will Atlantis.

    And I don't care what anyone says about Galactica, not only was pretty much every season finale amazing, but I felt the series finale was the perfect ending for the show. I don't think there was any other way it could have had a satisfactory ending, and I don't have many problems with it.

    I think I'll also throw Supernatural out there. The first season finale was probably the weakest but they all got consistently better after that, though the season three finale is probably my favourite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪ View Post
    I liked the ending of MASH :3
    I didn't expect anyone to say this, but "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" is not only my favorite finale of all time, it's probably my favorite episode of any TV show, ever.

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    Man, I really liked the ending to BSG, I don't give a smurf what you guys think. I couldn't see it ending any other way.

    House usually has pretty damn good season finales. If I had to pick my favorite, it'd probably be the season 4 finale.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod View Post
    Man, I really liked the ending to BSG, I don't give a smurf what you guys think. I couldn't see it ending any other way.
    Well, it might have been an improvement if all the survivors of the fleet didn't develop severe brain damage.

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