omg, no - All Good Things brings me to tears every damn time!
Series Average: 7.9
Finale: 8.1
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Iām not sure exactly what you could have done differently, but do spoiler tags really serve any purpose when youāre not saying what movies or shows will be spoiled if you click them? I donāt think there are many people that havenāt seen the first thing you were referring to, but I hadnāt seen the second one yet.
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Fair point, sorry.
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A nice idea, but the presentation of the data sux for us colorblind folk. Red/green thin lines? Really?
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I wonder if thereās a way to tweak a computerās color display settings to push those into a part of the spectrum colorblind people can more easily differentiate?
Seems to test well under Spectrum (a chrome plugin that Iām not sure I should trust.) Blue substitutes for green, orange for red.
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The color doesnāt convey any information you wouldnāt get from a monochrome version. All the right-pointing arrows are blue, all the left-pointing ones are orange.
Flash Forward should have been plotted out as a one-season show, converging to a known endpoint, and then should have ended. Unfortunately, they tried to have it both ways about whether the future could be changed or not, which was stupid, and then for the season finale they had a second flash forward, as, like, a cliffhanger or something.
And then there was no second season.
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Iām kind of surprised that the finale of the (newer) Battlestar Galactica was rated favorably. I was furious after I watched it, and I havenāt been able to take a television series seriously since.
I thought the end of Lost would have needed a whole new section on its own so as not to skew the figures but itās surprisingly not that big a drop.
I guess, like @OtherMichael said, people were already used to the idea of expecting a steaming pile of bullshit after dragging themselves through that whole last season.
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There was no way that fans couldnāt be disappointed by the finale of Battlestar Galactica. They were writing themselves into a corner from day one.
Babylon 5 was written like a novel, with a beginning middle and end. The history of the B5 universe was mapped out 200 years into the past and future before the show went into production. Stories had to fit into the overall narrative. The producer firmly believed in the murder mystery standard that if someone gets shot, you should be able to go back and see the gun on the mantle earlier on.
With Battlestar Galactica, while the opening credits declared āAnd they (the Cylons) Have A Plan!!!ā, there was no plan. The āFinal Fiveā was never part of an overall story; it was made up for the show it was first mentioned in, three seasons in. Who the Final Five were, was never planned in advance.
BG and Lost were written like the X-Files: Just keep piling on new mystery each episode. People will be hooked, wanting to see how it all gets resolved. But you donāt have to resolve it, since your pay is based only on the first run of the series. A big disappointment at the end is OK, as long as you keep viewers watching until the end.
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It definitely wasnāt up to the rest of the seasons, but for a long running show it did pretty well. They clearly wanted to tie up the loose ends instead of just leaving everything all unresolved.
I pretty much agree with all of this, and have said similar things.
Not long ago, I read a claim that one of the writers for BSG later admitted that theyād composed a ābibleā that covered the first few seasons, up to the New Caprica arc, but after that, they just winged it. That explains why many fans felt the series went well up to that point, but then started stumbling. But the fundamental criticism remains: they implied there was a full story in which weād eventually understand what it all meant, but there was no such story.
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Thatās the main reason people are still pissed off at Lost and The X-Files. Itās one thing to say āitās the journey, not the destinationā but itās another to promise the kids a road trip to Disneyland and then spend the next two weeks driving aimlessly around the country until you run out of gas money.
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But the X-Files isnāt finished! The new series will tie it all together. It was always planned this way.
Is Life on Mars on this list?
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And Twin Peaks. But it became clear pretty early on, comparatively.
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Yes, and that I liked. However what used to be conflicts that were threaded over 3 or 4 episodes suddenly became pat:
āIām upset about this!ā
āHere is the solution.ā
āAll better!ā
(Also, after re-reading my earlier post, I apologise, it came off kind of snarky and rude when I was just in a hurry 
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Looks like they did okay.
Iām mildly surprised that The West Wing was a wash. It started so strong, but those last couple seasons just werenāt so great. And I donāt remember the finale redeeming itself particularly. Donāt remember it all, in fact. Guess I should watch it again.
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The āAlan Alda for presidentā story line didnāt do anything for you?
