Talk:Series finale

I changed the description for the Farscape season finale, as it was not exactly accurate and sounded a bit too cheeky. --- Is that actually what happened on the Cheers finale? All I really remember is them sitting around the bar talking, and then Sam telling some customer the bar was closed. But then that was 10 years ago :)

• Yes, indeed! :)

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Contents

1 Why is Futurama listed without a series finale? 2 Alpha or chronological? 3 From finale (television) 4 Lone Gunmen 5 Finales That Aren't Finales

Why is Futurama listed without a series finale?

It resolved what was probably the longest-running plotline on the show, Fry's feelings for Leela. -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:50, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Alpha or chronological?

Do we want the list of finales to go in alphabetical order or chronological order? I incline to the former.

Agreed. Chronological makes little sense in this context. Cburnett 17:03, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

From finale (television)

Series episodic television programs eventually come to an end (except for Doctor Who), and when the production companies which make the shows know about it (or will admit to it) sufficiently far in advance, they often instruct/permit the writers to craft a Series Finale, which can tie up loose plot threads, satisfy viewers and fans, and, in some cases, set the stage for later series in a given fictional universe.

Some series also make a special dramatic point with their Season Finales, often using them as a cliffhanger to draw their audience back in for the following season.

One of the most difficult tasks in writing series episodic television is the job of writing a season finale when you don't know if it is also a series finale; very few instances of this exists, of which fewer were popular with fans.

Occasionally, as in the fifth season finale of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, a season finale will be portrayed as a series finale by a network which is losing a series to another network--the jumping of a series from one network to another, uncommon in earlier days of television, is happening more and more frequently these days; examples include:

• Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
• JAG

--Christopherlin 06:29, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I would like to ask, what exactly is notable about the following series:

   * Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (1990)
   * TaleSpin (1991)
   * Sonic the Hedgehog (1993)
   * The Lone Gunmen (2001)

other than The Lone Gunmen being a spinoff to The X Files, I don't feel any of the above series aew notable. I think better examples are needed here. Plus I agree with A. Feldspar above that Futurama did wind up having a series finale. The writers pretty much saw the series cancellation coming and wrote up a closer (The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings) that they felt would provide enough closure in the event that the inevitable happened. -- SterlingNorth 07:27, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lone Gunmen

Lone Gunmen is listed under shows without a finale. "The Lone Gunmen" itself didn't have a real finale, but an episode of the X-Files ("Jump the Shark") revolved around them (including Jimmy) and showed their fate (they lock themselves in with a man carrying a biological bomb and sacrifice themselves). This is worthy of a mention.

Finales That Aren't Finales

I changed the list of shows in the "shows without a series finale" bit because the previous list? (see above post!) Was ridiculous.

Feel free to change mine though, I just thought of some off the top of my head.