Season Finales Roundup

I managed to catch up on my tv watching this weekend. Tis time of the year when the good shows have their season finales. I'll start off with Scrubs.

For scrubs, the season finale is a 1 hour episode, and actually the funniest episode all season. They try to add some serious drama element into this episode for the cliffhanger ending, but it didn't matter. I don't watch Scrubs for the drama, I watch it for the gags, and this episode in particular was chockablock full of 'em. And they were even funny too, unlike some of the ones in other episodes of the season.


JD has is getting child, and Elliot is getting married. At this important turning point in their lives, they look for each other for comfort. Yadyadya.. who cares, the important thing is its a very funny episode. If you're looking for a "dramatic" episode, the one where Laverne dies has more impact than this one.

The next one is 24. I've got to say right off the bat, the stupidest ending ever. Oooh.. Jack's all shaken up. Yeah, yeah yeah... whatever. It's like, you've seen one season, you've seen them all. They seriously need to reinvent the show. If they don't show any significant change in the first 2 episodes of next season, I'll stop watching. It's not even worth it. And, the theme of the season finale seems to be: Jack Bauer is always right, everybody else is wrong.

Jack Bauer survives to live another day.

The problem is that each season, they try to make a shocker episode to bring in ratings, and the shocker is always: somebody's gonna die. Everybody dies except Jack. The only character you're allowed to get attached to is Jack. So, if you don't like Jack very much, there's no reason to watch this show. Plus, this season, Jack is extra emo. I don't want to see Jack get all emo. I mean, the girl can walk already, thanks to Linderman. Just move on.

And speaking of Linderman, the next season finale I watched was Heroes. That was the greatest segue ever. I must say, it was great. I was expecting more of an all-out heroes brawl in the middle of New York, but what they did was okay too. They tied loose ends but they created new ones too for next season. I honestly expected more from the season finale. It felt as if they rushed things too much, there was not enough buildup. It would've been a lot better if they made a double episode season finale.

Peter goes BOOM!

Plus, a few things didn't add up in the story. I mean, why couldn't Sylar stop Hiro. Hiro was running towards him, but he didn't do anything. And how come Parkman didn't die immediately when he was "shot" by so many bullets.

Yattaa!

However, it was great, but I expected more. And one more thing, they need to improve the dialogue in the show. Those kinds of dialogues are okay in comic books, but if you put it in live action, it just sounds cheesy.

And I'm saving the best for last, it's Lost's season finale. First off, if there was a Pulitzer for tv writing, the writers of Lost should get it. Lost has consistently been good throughout. Even during season 2 when people start saying that it's going nowhere, I personally felt it was going somewhere, and somewhere great for that matter.

Going somewhere?

And this season proved it. Throughout this season, they've been revealing more and more, and the best one they've saved for last. The previous season's ending (season2), they finally revealed that there was actually an outside world looking for the island, in the form of Penny. For me, that was one of the greatest moments in tv history. I've never felt more satisfied with a tv episode than that moment. This season's finale didn't actually change that. I still feel that the season 2's finale was still better than this one's. But in terms of overall season enjoyment, this season is the best one yet.

Penny makes an appearance, just like season 2's finale.

They did Charlie justice by killing him in a very meaningful and respectful way. One the best main character deaths on tv. But I'm not sure if he's really dead. I mean he (Dominic Monaghan) is getting married to Evangeline Lilly, so he'll still be around the set in Hawaii. It'll be a waste not to bring him back in some way for next season.

Goodbye Charlie.

Another reason why this season has been great - Kate (Evangeline Lilly) is hotter than ever this season. And the amount of skin she has shown throughout this season really contributes to this season's enjoyability.

Somebody's jealous.

Oh, that's why.

And for the first time ever, and the biggest shocker of all, the flashbacks in the 2 final episodes weren't really flashbacks. We find out that it is actually the future after they've been rescued. And future Jack has regrets about being rescued. Is this good tv or what!

Future Jack with future Kate.

But one minor detail that bugged me right from the start of the episode was how terrible was future Jack's fake mustache is. The makeup guy/girl should get fired for this shoddy job. The beard was fine but the mustache really looked fake. And future Kate looks as if she had a facelift with too much lift.

Bad fake mustache.

Overall Heroes and Lost made this a good year of tv watching. Battlestar Galactica was a disappointment, but I hope the next season is the final one. 24 was a disappointment too, but who cares. Lost more than made up for the disappointments. And all the talk about the next 2 seasons of Lost will only have 16 episodes was really disheartening, but you can be rest assured that all 16 will be great. I hope they make some of the 16 episodes a 2 hour one.