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bedlamsbardOn the heels of the Deathly Hallows trailer, a thought that's been swimming around in my head for a week or so now.
I tend to hate series endings. There are only about two or three that really, really work for me, and one of them is my Ideal Platonic Ending. The others come pretty close.
Deathly Hallows is not on the list. Last Battle is not on the list. Return of the King is not on the list. The Lost finale is not on the list; it could have been by a difference of one or two beats. Freak Nation is also not on the list, but the second season of Dark Angel didn't work for me on a number of levels. I don't have the emotional background to judge the BtVS or AtS finales, and for some reason I still haven't gotten around to seeing the back half of BSG or the last episodes of Kings or Caprica 1.0.
My runner-up endings? Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and the last episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, "Born to Run." My one perfect ending is the end of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse trilogy (the first one, not the second quartet), A Meeting at Corvallis. It's just -- perfect on so many levels. So many. I reread the trilogy a couple of weeks ago, and have been thinking about the ending for a while now. I love it, and it makes me cry, and it makes me smile, and there's hope. There's beauty, and pain, and -- the world goes on.
The world goes on.
(For levels on which The Last Battle fails, look at that last one. *snort*)
I tend to hate series endings. There are only about two or three that really, really work for me, and one of them is my Ideal Platonic Ending. The others come pretty close.
Deathly Hallows is not on the list. Last Battle is not on the list. Return of the King is not on the list. The Lost finale is not on the list; it could have been by a difference of one or two beats. Freak Nation is also not on the list, but the second season of Dark Angel didn't work for me on a number of levels. I don't have the emotional background to judge the BtVS or AtS finales, and for some reason I still haven't gotten around to seeing the back half of BSG or the last episodes of Kings or Caprica 1.0.
My runner-up endings? Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and the last episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, "Born to Run." My one perfect ending is the end of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse trilogy (the first one, not the second quartet), A Meeting at Corvallis. It's just -- perfect on so many levels. So many. I reread the trilogy a couple of weeks ago, and have been thinking about the ending for a while now. I love it, and it makes me cry, and it makes me smile, and there's hope. There's beauty, and pain, and -- the world goes on.
The world goes on.
(For levels on which The Last Battle fails, look at that last one. *snort*)
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:48 am (UTC)Due South has a great series ending.
*thinks*
I like to ignore The Last Battle as much as possible.
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Date: 2010-06-29 09:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-30 12:57 am (UTC)*mutters darkly*
Ats and BTVS were good finales and encapsulated the messages of the series. And, I still love the sequence when all over the world, every single girl who might ever be a Slayer IS. *sighs* Girls being awesome.
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