Posted by DuckDodgers at ool-44c34b46.dyn.optonline.net on January 23, 2004 at 02:41:24:
In Reply to: No, no, no, no, NO. posted by jkm822 on January 23, 2004 at 00:53:04:
Eeveryone who watched that show, I mean everyone when they saw the final message were like "What the fuck", as in what the Fuck did I waste my tuesday nights watching this show for the last 4 years for? It was a complete cop-out as jkm points out below. Manipulative sentimental garbage. Only people in love with the tragic who aspire some sort of artifical gradeur (of which Smalls has provided an eloquent example) to endings that suck would have thought it was well done.
And the best ending ever to a TV show was Newhart. Not even close.
: : You were watching Leap because you wanted to see him get home?
: No. Sam helped people because HE hoped that eventually, God, or whatever it was that was leaping him around, would let him go home. I'm glad he did right by Al, of course I am. I'm just saying that that single line at the end of the episode:
: "Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home."
: Was crap. It was Universal writing the show off.
: Did you watch Farscape?
: End of season 4, John and Aeryn get dissolved into teensy weensy little particles, leaving only the engagement ring that John's just given to Aeryn. Y'know how the show's creators chose to end that episode, even though they knew that Sci Fi Channel had cancelled the series?
: To Be Continued.
: And now, it's going to be.
: Quantum Leap didn't get that kind of chance, and it pisses me off.