Ultimate Geek Fu

It's been a big week for couch potatoes and TV junkies all across America. On Sunday, Lost finally wrapped it up, closed the show, and struck the tent after.... Heck, I don't know. I stopped watching years ago. Likewise, on Monday, Jack Bauer finally reached the final, final, no kidding this time it's really final, end of his last tick... tock... tick... BOOM!

Series finales are weird things. Most American TV series never get to a planned ending, they just sort of crap out, go "on hiatus," get shuffled around the schedule to ever more obscure time slots, and finally, quietly, are put out of their misery and canceled. Other series drag on for years longer than they should: i.e., M*A*S*H, which lasted about four times longer than the war it was supposedly set during. But then, once in a very great while, a series does actually manage to make it to some sort of graceful and planned final episode.

Hence today's question. If you watched either the Lost or 24 series finale: was it good for you? Did you feel the final episode was worth all those years you devoted to watching the show?

And if you didn't watch either, here's the backup question. What, in your humble opinion, is the all-time best final episode of a series ever broadcast?


Let the arguments begin.

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