Heh heh, this sucks, whatever "this" is.

[captainsblog]

Over on sci-fi author Michael Burstein's most excellent blog today, there's a discussion question going which inspired me to provide an immediate and impassioned answer.

So immediate and impassioned, in fact, for me not to finish reading the damned question:

I'm looking for suggestions for the worst science fiction television season finale ever. (Not series finale, but season finale.) Any thoughts?

Several versions of Trek; Earth: Final Conflict; BSG; and X-Files all garnered negative recommendations from the assembled populace, all of whom seemed to understand the question except me.

Nonetheless, since I proceeded to answer the precise question he didn't want answered, I figured I'd ask it here:

What was the Worst Sci-Fi SERIES Finale evah?

Those of you who know me probably know my vote. (If you don't, the snappy answer to the wrong question is still on Michael's entry here.)

But what think YOU?

(Feel free to answer the other question if you want, or any question for that matter. I gets as good as I gives.)

Comments

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head, X-Files is at least on the short list. The series finale was deeply painful, as Carter -- who hadn't given the faintest crap for years -- attempted to stitch all of the improvised, random, unconnected, ragged-assed, unregarded, ineffectual threads into something, anything at all.

I pass by all of the series that were cancelled or abandoned, as whatever the last show actually was wasn't meant as an end.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

A lot of people have been disappointed by the BSG finale. I'm still processing it (yes, even weeks later).

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Torchwood, season one.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Firefly. Nothing was wrapped up...it took a movie to do it.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Which still makes it better than my choice.

If the series had ended with Serenity crashing into an asteroid or something, no movie, no resolution.

Thus, my frustrated fandom's gone close to 20 years without any ability to resolve it through a movie, fanfic, anything.

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

Heh. As I'm clicking over to your linked post I'm thinking ... "It's probably Quantum Leap" (that would be my vote). God may or may not be D-Day from Animal House as some sort of in-between time batender. Perfect sense.