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Lost was lost to me from beginning--the writers/show-runners just messed w/audience's minds for no reason at all...
The Wire was bit of letdown in final season but hope MacNulty was able to pull it off
And yes--The Sopranos--- artful ending perhaps but not satisfying for most viewers...
It's just that they made the mother to be so likable and a perfect match to Ted! They kept telling us why Robin and Ted wouldn't work for seasons only to bring them back together in the end after killing off the mother and breaking up Barney and Robin, which I liked together! They made Barney regress so much too! Ugh terrible ending!
Worst...Sopranos...left us all arguing over what it was supposed to mean. Didn't seem like an ending to the story so much as they just stopped telling it.
Northern Exposure had a terrific ending, Friends was wrapped up in a satisfying manner.
Agree on the Soprano's as "all time worst",Newhart was all so pretty bad .
Best ....Mash !Second runner up the ending to the original Fugitive!
And if it had to be left ambiguous, it could have been accomplished far more artfully than the scene in the diner. Strangers walking in and out..Meadow having problems parking her car..none of that added up to anything. It just seemed like filler material and none of it was sufficient in itself to serve as a foundation for what we were supposed to be guessing was happening.
it didn't necessarily add up to anything. It might have just been what happens. People have trouble parking. Strangers come and go. Or, it might have - that's the ambiguity. And really, that's the life of a crime boss. Everything that is otherwise normal is maybe some part of a greater machination to snuff you out. That's Tony's life.
And maybe that life was snuffed out with a bullet to the back of the head as we cut to black. Or maybe not. It could go either way.
it didn't necessarily add up to anything. It might have just been what happens. People have trouble parking. Strangers come and go. Or, it might have - that's the ambiguity. And really, that's the life of a crime boss. Everything that is otherwise normal is maybe some part of a greater machination to snuff you out. That's Tony's life.
And maybe that life was snuffed out with a bullet to the back of the head as we cut to black. Or maybe not. It could go either way.
I understood all that, that is the interpretation of the ending that I made as well...leaving us with an image of ongoing paranoia. However, it is also the sort of conclusion one reaches after thinking about it for a time, not what you think when it happens. As I noted, they could have crafted a scene where this message came across as we watched, not as a later conclusion. They could have tricked us into thinking Tony was absolutely going to be assassinated by someone in the diner...but ultimately reveal this person to be innocuous...Tony is visibly relieved...then we go dark.
I remember being disappointed as a kid when Dark Shadows ended, because it just ... ended. Nothing was wrapped up, it just went out like there would be another episode the next day.
I didn't mind how Mad Men ended as much as the disjointed nonsense that led up to the final episode. Oh, yeah, and I was annoyed that Megan's mother was actually happy.
I'm not sure which was worse, the cliff hanger (with Mitch P. surveying his handy work) or the summary of scenes that said the show was over (leaving Carrie Anne Moss in limbo in South America hooker hell), the summary clearly having the label of "This is only one take, make the best of it".
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