Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
A lot of people disagree with this I hear but I thought Seinfeld had the perfect ending for the show. You get cameos from a lot of the best characters, the main characters learn absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing of any real value happened. The show ended the way it began and the way it was for its entire run: focused on the silly minutia in the lives of four awful people.
Yeah, I disagree with this. I felt like the cameos from all of the characters was a cheap way to get fans to reminisce instead of coming up with something original and a good, solid, home-hitting ending. Instead of doing that, it was essentially a "yeah, they deserved that" copout endig.

Seinfeld should have ended with each of them in separate settings perhaps in a way that tied them all together somehow and a manner that catered to the nature of their characters; perhaps George going off the handle in his George-like way, Kramer causing misplaced awkward distress to someone and being chased away, Elaine getting upset and her feathers ruffled over something trivial, and Jerry suffering someone's idiocy, and then showing the endings of the more important ensemble characters like Newman, et al.

The ending was a charicature of the show itself, and I didn't like that. Also, it was stupid.

I have actually not seen a lot of finales of the shows I watch because I can't handle how ridiculous they get. I am a sucker for the Friends finale, though, as mentioned. The last seasons leading up to it were stupid as all hell, but you bet your ass I cried my stupid eyes out at The Last One.

edit: Also, the Newsradio finale was a heinous crime and I will never forgive Lisa Miller for (SPOILER)not ending up with Dave. I can appreciate the liberties they took with Dave and Lisa's relationship, though, in order to make it non-typical and non-obvious, unlike every other sitcom couple in existence. I still don't like it, though, because they were meant for eachother.