Things that make me go "hmmm."

[tzikeh]

The Sopranos. Life on Mars. Battlestar Galactica. (ETA: The Prisoner.)

Every time there's a spectacularly polarizing finale to one of the shows I love, I always (thus far) come down on the "that was awesome, and a perfect way to end the show" side. I'm not sure what that says about me; perhaps it doesn't mean anything at all—but it makes me go "hmmm." To paraphrase Auric Goldfinger: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times an interesting pattern to be mulled over." (The actual quote is "Three times is enemy action," but let's not go there. *g*)

I don't think it's the "We're not watching the same show" syndrome, because oftentimes the people who are on the "UGH!" side of things have been of a like mind with me about the show, generally right up 'til the finale. Still it must be something akin, or tangential, to that.

Please don't spoil any of those shows in comments, and please don't point out everything you think was wrong and bad about any of the finales. The "you're just not reading it right!" // "you're just reading into it!" argument is so tiring, and rarely has any kind of positive outcome. I'm just wondering aloud--or whatever the internet version of "aloud" is.

Hmmm.