On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:26 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I did not see the HIMYM finale. But I did just read about it. And I don't >> think I'm spoiling anything when I say this: >> >> Good news, Seinfeld! You're no longer the worst series finale in >> television history. >> > > I have never seen a single episode of HIMYM. But I have always felt that > the suckiness of the Seinfeld Finale has been greatly exaggerated. It was > not one of the top 25 episodes in the show's history, but Seinfeld was > arguably one of the 3 best Sitcoms in the history of US television, so even > an average episode was still pretty good. > > I think that the thing that people hate about the final episode of Seinfeld is not just that it wasn't a particularly great episode of the show on its own, but that the way it ended broke the series-long conceit that none of the lead characters would ever have to face serious consequences for being the horrible people that they were, which feels like a bit of a betrayal.
One thing that the Seinfeld finale has going for it (and I think the HIMYM finale will have going for it as well) is that it's memorable because of how it broke expectations, even if it's disliked for that. There are some fairly long-running sitcoms where the finale doesn't particularly stand out in my memory (e.g., The Cosby Show, where my recollection was basically limited to "someone had some big life event" until I looked it up a few minutes ago.) -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
