Does any other show end so strongly?
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preachcaleb — 11 years ago(December 10, 2014 05:53 AM)
They should have rewrote Ozymandias slightly to tie up some loose ends and just have that be the ending. Kill Jesse in the desert with Hank, then just have Walt run off with the new identity guy. Perfect.
That's not perfect. That's just dropping everything. In fact, that leaves even more loose ends since it was established
Walt returns a year later and is up to something.
Can't stop the signal. -
Klarkash-Ton — 11 years ago(December 09, 2014 08:18 PM)
Interesting, I was so sure that Walt would never
find any kind of redemption
that the ending caught me off guard.
I did like it, but it was nowhere near The Shield, which masterfully wrapped up multiple long-seeded plotlines and characters' fates, while providing what seemed like an impossibly appropriate ending for Mackey. Brilliant stuff. -
Rylant — 11 years ago(December 12, 2014 11:10 AM)
I found Six Feet Under to be a good series, but not spectacular. The thing is, the ending totally kicked my ass. Maybe the best ending of any series out there, imho. That being said, I found The Shield to be an amazing series with one amazing finale. Although I don't think the finale of The Shield is quite as good as Six Feet Under's, I think the series was better all around.
MASH would be the other I would consider to have an amazing ending, although it is more than a little dated now.
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Cademon — 11 years ago(December 17, 2014 09:45 PM)
Another vote for SFU's ending here.
Sadly there aren't many good endings in tv. Two other very strong endings I can think of.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
film
End of Evangelion
Edge of Darkness
I wasn't keen on BB's ending or The Wire's or Dexter's. -
jd-267 — 11 years ago(December 20, 2014 08:51 AM)
Six feet under had a good final season, and a pretty good fibale but it still wasn't as good as The Shield's.
Breaking Bad had an amazing final season and amazing finale, and it was almost step for step just like The Shield's final season. It's like the copied The Shield's blueprint on how to make a good finale.
The Wire also had a really great final season, but that show is more about the overall experience of the show as a whole. It was so consistently good throughout that it's hard to say the ending was any better than the episodes before it. -
ific90 — 11 years ago(December 20, 2014 04:04 PM)
The Sopranos. I know the show still gets a lot of hate because of the 'cut to black' thing but I think that's really idiotic. That didn't take away anything from the show, and if it ended after the scene in the nursing home, no one would be pissed.
First half of the last season was problematic, but the second half was amazing, especially those last 4 episodes. -
filmtvwatcher — 11 years ago(December 22, 2014 10:08 AM)
Some good replies here.
6 Feet Under's def on my list to watch.
I thought the end to BB was good, just not as good as the rest of the show.
On the bad side, I thought the ends to Dexter and Sopranos sucked. In both those cases, I don't think we got any real closure as viewers.
I agree on the idea that the Wire was so good throughout that the ending didn't/couldn't top the rest of the show. The ending felt fitting to me, though. -
filmtvwatcher — 11 years ago(December 23, 2014 08:31 AM)
I think both endings were anticlimactic.
I felt Dexter's end didn't satisfy because we didn't really get to see him hunted. That would have been fun. Instead, the end just felt thrown together and silly.
In a way, though, I was more annoyed by the end to the Sopranos. I thought it was clever, yet completely unsatisfying. It was arty and referential, but we didn't get to see or experience a thing. -
sawfan1414 — 11 years ago(December 22, 2014 04:13 PM)
On the bad side, I thought the ends to Dexter and Sopranos sucked. In both those cases, I don't think we got any real closure as viewers.
See I just don't understand what was wrong with the finale of Dexter. Yeah it wasn't amazing, but it wrapped everything up. With the exception of Dexter being found out, BUT that storyline already happened in 2 and 7. Personally I think it made sense in the context of the story they were trying to tell over the 8 seasons. It wasn't amazing or anything, but it made sense and gave closure.- Dexter had been on a journey to become "human" and to feel real emotions. It happened. Check.
- Dexter had throughout the series been trying to find someone who could accept who he really is. His dad couldn't accept what he was, Brian couldn't accept the life he created, Lila couldn't accept the good in Dexter, Miguel manipulated him and thought of him as a tool he could use, Lumen was almost the perfect woman, but then she left after realizing she no longer had the same urges as Dex, Deb can't accept Dex as a Killer. Hannah? Accepts everything about Dexter.
- The entire series was building to Deb's death whether we liked it or not.
- As for the lumberjack ending, the entire series slammed home the point that Dexter could never live normally without losing those who are innocent around him. His dad, Rita, LaGuerta, Zach, Vogel, Deb. So what better way to ensure you can never be a threat to the only two people that are still alive that he cares about? Isolation, he was DESTROYED with Deb's death, he could never forgive himself, and he couldn't bear to have it happen to him again.
Ron beep Swanson is the greatest thing that ever happened to television.
