View Poll Results: Worst science fiction TV series finale?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
6
7.59%
Dark Angel
4
5.06%
Farscape
1
1.27%
The Prisoner
3
3.80%
Quantum Leap
7
8.86%
Sliders
6
7.59%
Star Trek: Voyager
17
21.52%
X-Files
26
32.91%
Xena: Warrior Princess
0
0%
Other...
9
11.39%
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Worst sci-fi TV series finale?
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Voted Voyager. I wanted to see Janeway snap from the stress and go Year of Hell/Evil Janeway from Living Witness on everyone.
I never got to see the X-files, what happened?
And Buffy's might have been anti-climactic, but I think it was something that had to happen.
Non-poll answer - Star Trek: The Original Series.
Turnabout Intruder?
I'm glad you mentioned this because I've had a TOS theory rolling about in my head and no reason to post it. It solves two problems with one idea.
Consider Star Trek: The Motion Picture as the series finale*. It fits both stylisticly and is only 2 1/2 years after the end of the five year mission. You have Turnabout, then the animated, then you jump forward to In Thy Image (the story's original name, which is what I was fervently praying to the Great Bird of the Galaxy that they would retitle TMP to when they did the big redux a few years back.) The crew goes out in one last grand mission, then has a new ship to continue the adventures.
A little time, then Wrath of Kahn...
As for the second issue, the yellowish cover is closer to the orange TOS DVDs, so if you separate TV from movies on your shelf, you could move TMP to the TV shelf and it wouldn't stick out too bad
Any takers?
*The Undiscovered Country would still be the cast's finale, with Generations being a coda.
I never got to see the X-files, what happened?
And Buffy's might have been anti-climactic, but I think it was something that had to happen.
Non-poll answer - Star Trek: The Original Series.
Turnabout Intruder?
I'm glad you mentioned this because I've had a TOS theory rolling about in my head and no reason to post it. It solves two problems with one idea.
Consider Star Trek: The Motion Picture as the series finale*. It fits both stylisticly and is only 2 1/2 years after the end of the five year mission. You have Turnabout, then the animated, then you jump forward to In Thy Image (the story's original name, which is what I was fervently praying to the Great Bird of the Galaxy that they would retitle TMP to when they did the big redux a few years back.) The crew goes out in one last grand mission, then has a new ship to continue the adventures.
A little time, then Wrath of Kahn...
As for the second issue, the yellowish cover is closer to the orange TOS DVDs, so if you separate TV from movies on your shelf, you could move TMP to the TV shelf and it wouldn't stick out too bad
Any takers?
*The Undiscovered Country would still be the cast's finale, with Generations being a coda.
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Voted Voyager. I wanted to see Janeway snap from the stress and go Year of Hell/Evil Janeway from Living Witness on everyone.
Voted Voyager. I wanted to see Janeway snap from the stress and go Year of Hell/Evil Janeway from Living Witness on everyone.
Anyway, the last few seasons of The X-Files were terrible, and the finale was a joke, but I've written too much on how unethical the Voyager finale was and how it pissed on 35 years of Trek to not award it this title. When ****ing up the timeline for individual personal gain is celebrated and mass genocide is applauded, there can be no other option.
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had to vote voyager, although the reset button feel to it was par for the course. but what janeway did would have caused such a huge ripple in the timeline that I don't see how the temporal police from the 29th century could have not shown up to stop her considering they showed up at least twice in the past for relatively minor things
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Although most of them were pretty bad (I actually liked the Quantum Leap finale and didn't mind Buffy's), I voted for The Prisoner. The season finale to that show was like waking up in the middle of the night after a particularly vivid dream and jotting the details down in a half-conscious daze before going back to sleep, then waking up in the morning, deciphering the barely-readable scrawl, and saying to yourself, "What the f-ck?"
A summary for those who don't recall or have never seen it:
A summary for those who don't recall or have never seen it:
Spoiler:
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I voted for Quantum Leap, just because it wasn't a finale at all. If I remember correctly, it was supposed to be a two-parter that would answer a lot of the ongoing series questions, but NBC canned it.
I thought the Buffy finale was possibly the best it could have been, considering how thematically screwed up the show got the last two seasons. The last shot always breaks me up a little.
I thought the Buffy finale was possibly the best it could have been, considering how thematically screwed up the show got the last two seasons. The last shot always breaks me up a little.
#9
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The Incredible Hulk had a good series, but then got bogged down by three extremely atrocious TV movies that culminated in the green guy's demise. It was a very poor handling of the character and didn't tie up any loose ends, no thanks to the absence of Kenneth Johnson and Bill Bixby's over involvement from the production end.
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Originally posted by das Monkey
Huh? Whether you liked it or not, the Quantum Leap finale was most certainly just that. Speaking personally, I thought it was wonderful.
das
Huh? Whether you liked it or not, the Quantum Leap finale was most certainly just that. Speaking personally, I thought it was wonderful.
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Agreed, I really liked where they went with the QL finale.
But I have also heard that it wasn't supposed to be the finale and had to be re-jiggered in post to look that way. A fortuitous accident it would seem.
otherwise
But I have also heard that it wasn't supposed to be the finale and had to be re-jiggered in post to look that way. A fortuitous accident it would seem.
otherwise
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If the X-Files episodes "Millennium" and "Jump The Shark" were meant to wrap up the loose threads from the series Millennium and The Lone Gunmen, respectively, then they deserve a spot on this list.
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Originally posted by das Monkey
Huh? Whether you liked it or not, the Quantum Leap finale was most certainly just that. Speaking personally, I thought it was wonderful.
das
Huh? Whether you liked it or not, the Quantum Leap finale was most certainly just that. Speaking personally, I thought it was wonderful.
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Sliders gets my vote simply because it had the worse end couple of years.. Then again so did the x-files, only the x-files actually had it's original cast come back for it.
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Originally posted by Breakfast with Girls
Although most of them were pretty bad (I actually liked the Quantum Leap finale and didn't mind Buffy's), I voted for The Prisoner. The season finale to that show was like waking up in the middle of the night after a particularly vivid dream and jotting the details down in a half-conscious daze before going back to sleep, then waking up in the morning, deciphering the barely-readable scrawl, and saying to yourself, "What the f-ck?"
Although most of them were pretty bad (I actually liked the Quantum Leap finale and didn't mind Buffy's), I voted for The Prisoner. The season finale to that show was like waking up in the middle of the night after a particularly vivid dream and jotting the details down in a half-conscious daze before going back to sleep, then waking up in the morning, deciphering the barely-readable scrawl, and saying to yourself, "What the f-ck?"
You've got to be kidding me...this is one of the BEST finales to any show. To each, his own I suppose...
The X-Files was the worst "planned" (meaning the producers knew the show wasn't coming back) finales I have seen of a sci-fi show. Star Trek: TNG was one of the best.
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Originally posted by Shannon Nutt
You've got to be kidding me...this is one of the BEST finales to any show. To each, his own I suppose...
You've got to be kidding me...this is one of the BEST finales to any show. To each, his own I suppose...
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I started out loving X-Files. That changed to dislike the year Mulder left, then it got worse the final year. That finale tainted my entire opinion of the series and gets my vote.