Disappointing last episodes

[Guynemer]

And on the flip side, I'd also like to commend the final episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. After a lackluster final season, the final episode was beyond sublime, and heartbreaking.

The follow-up movie was terrific, too.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Guynemer
I'm not old enough to know the original Newhart show, but I remember watching the finale of the second with my parents, and they just came apart at the seems laughing.

Funniest thing I've ever seen on TV...

[Pekka]

It really sucks though.. it's like the movie Transporter.. it starts, the idea is cool, it's something that you actually stop and say 'hmm I never thought of this, pretty cool!', you think casting has been great at the first 30 minutes. Nice little action, but then it just goes to a -... not even a b movie, a c movie at BEST. Then again, you can follow a series for years, I mean the least they OWE you after cancelling the show or quitting it after the last season is a freaking great last episode!

[DRoseDARs]

Last episode of Babylon 5 sucked all the air out of the room, the hallway, and all the ajoining rooms...

[laurentius]

You mean SiL?

I think it was as korny as the rest of the series.....

[Zulu Elephant]

Quantum Leap's last episode was pretty crappy. After about a million episodes starting with the narrator saying that Sam Beckett was trying to get home...

"Sam Beckett never stopped leaping..."

****ing hell!

[Pekka]

i've got something to put in you!!!

[General Ludd]

Farscape.


And if you count the mini-series that eventually came afterwards, it was ten times as disapointing.

[Bosh]

Black Adder Goes Forth last episode

[Kidlicious]

Since I can't remember any last episodes I say they all suck.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Friends was alright...good enough for consistent followers of the show. One of those "this is how it should end" things.

Seinfeld was of course a disappointment...but almost the entire last season was.

Home Improvement had a good last episode for what it was.

Fresh Prince of Bell Air's last episode was probably my favorite. That was the show I watched the most growing up.

Star Trek: The Next Generation had a great last episode too. Ending right back where it started and explaining what was realized since the beginning is a good way to wrap something up.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Last episode of Babylon 5 sucked all the air out of the room, the hallway, and all the ajoining rooms...

You mean the final episode of the time-condensed and very nearly final fourth season, or the final episode of the poorly executed mostly-filler was the final but should not have been fifth season?

[The Mad Monk]

Star Trek: The Next Generation had a great last episode too. Ending right back where it started and explaining what was realized since the beginning is a good way to wrap something up.

It's definately one that bears repeat watching.

[General Ludd]

yeah, TNG had a great ending. Really, I don't think there's ever been a show that's done as good an all around job as TNG did in it's run.

[Edan]

Spoilers warning, clearly.



Disspointing endings:
The Prisoner - Ugh.

Forever Knight - not so much for the ending itself, but tht it just didn't fit. I didn't mind, for instance, the simmilar endings in Blake's 7 and The Others, since it fit with those shows and their style/storyline better. In Forever Knight it was like the writers decided to go crazy for an episode. At least it didn't end up being a dream episode, though.

Profiler - not so much because it ended on a cliffhanger (lots of shows do that because they're cancelled, unfortunately), but because the powers that be scheduled the episodes in a completely random order (before one or two of the episodes that were supposed to come directly before it), meaning that it not only was never resolved, but it made a number of references to episodes viewers had never seen.

Good Endings:
Deep Space Nine - Probably the best series finale I can think of, although it had built up momentum during the last half season - the episode would probably not stand up as well on it's own.

Moonbase 3: The inhabatants of a moonbase witnessing the destruction of the Earth, and the realization that they're the last survivors of humanity, and without a habitable Earth, they're not going to last very long. Chilling.

I also remembered liking the finale of I'll Fly Away, where it was made as an epilogue set in the present day where one of the characters revisits her old friends from decades earlier.