And because it's so true...

[jackwabbit]

Forgive me for double-posting, but you can't talk cliffhangers without this guy, so I have no choice.

After all, resistance is futile.  Article is still here.
 


If you need it, there's an episode summary, with air dates and some wicked anti-spoiler devices(damn straight!) here!

Comments

[lolmac]

The article was a complete 'meh' for me, except for the ST:TNG entry. Almost every series they listed is one I haven't seen, so it struck me as a good illustration of the breathtakingly short-term nature of pop culture memory. My own list would have to begin with Blake's 7 and include Babylon 5 and Stargate, and an older Who than Doctor #5. I must be a fuddy-duddy.

Their classic Who entry was passable -- but given that every single episode of Doctor Who ends with a cliffhanger, except the episodes that conclude stories (1 in 4, on the average), it's a very, very full slate there.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

For me, too. I haven't seen any of the shows except TXF and TNG.

These types of things are always odd, though, so...whatever.

[lolmac]

So if we put together our own list, of all the Much Better Shows that we, the True Believers, have seen -- what shall we put on it?

Mine has to begin with the end of the second season of Blake's 7. It may have been the first SF series ever to have a season-ending cliffhanger -- the galaxy is being invaded by very hostile aliens, help is hours away (and the help is coming from the Bad Guys), one hero's badly wounded and the others, in a single ship, are committed to a face-off against the entire alien fleet. The final lines went about like this:

Vila: "This is insane!"
Avon: "When has that ever stopped us?"
Jenna: "They're in range."
Avon: "Fire!!"
(cue credits)
There wasn't even a "To be continued".

So which season ending would you nominate from Stargate?

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Brain no workie goodie enough rite now to do...maybe later?

More in a bit, but I have a one track mind, and it's not on sci-fi right now.

[lolmac]

*pets brain gently* No problema. Teh intratoobz will still be here later. And I'm drabbling myself right now anyway.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm posting about my dog and playing with pictures, is all.