{"id":231,"date":"2007-06-11T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T01:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/231"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:02:11","slug":"question-of-the-week-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/231","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a little let down by the <em>Sopranos<\/em> finale.  To be sure, there were things about it that I liked, but the series ended not with a bang, but a whimper.  The finale is the writers&#8217; last chance to say whatever it was they wanted to say when they created the series.  It should be something spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>There have been series finales that have knocked my socks off.  My pick for best finale would be the last episode of <em>M*A*S*H<\/em>, an instant classic that did justice to the magnificent series it concluded.  Over twenty years later, it still has the power to move me.<\/p>\n<p>I also really liked the last episode of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>, which used a time-travel scenario to pay tribute to how far the show had grown during its run.  Picard actually goes back in time to the series premiere.  Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>And who could forget the finale of <em>Newhart<\/em>, when Bob wakes up in his earlier series <em>The Bob Newhart Show<\/em> and realizes he dreamed the whole <em>Newhart<\/em> series?<\/p>\n<p><em>Cheers<\/em> brought back Diane for its finale.  <em>Seinfeld<\/em> put the gang on trial for their lack of empathy throughout the run of the series.  <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> ended with a final battle of biblical proportions between the forces of good and evil, and the ultimate sacrifice by the central character to save the universe.  Now that&#8217;s good teevee.<\/p>\n<p><em>What was your favorite series finale of any TV show, and why?<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--912537294f9b8eced09ac540590d370c--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a little let down by the Sopranos finale. To be sure, there were things about it that I liked, but the series ended not with a bang, but a whimper. The finale is the writers&#8217; last chance to say whatever it was they wanted to say when they created the series. It should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}