Endings

In the series defense it is very difficult to write a series finale. It is difficult to give them justifiable meaning and the original comical sense at the same time. I certainly would not have known how to end it. How would you have ended it?

• L M

That was about as good a way to end it as any--- they get taught a valuable lesson and refuse to pay attention. The trial was a good excuse for running old clips from past show.

My only gripe was that the finale was too slow. Usually Seinfeld packs a hour's worth of humor into a half-hour (well, 22 minutes, actually) of show. This one stretched an hour of humor into two hours of show. It was so slooowww, I thought I was watching Mad About You--- andI assume it would have seemed even slower had not I missed the entire first hour :-)

--Tim Horrigan

Frankly, I had a hard time suspending my disbelief. The four of them laughing at the fat guy was indeed out of character, especially for Kramer, who would have at the least tried to help.

Secondly, assuming they were run in by the cop, you'd think they'd say, "We are helping out! Here's a videotape you can use to identify and convict the guy who stole the car.

Finally, any good lawyer would know that the Supreme Court once ruled that even an on-duty cop is entitled to allow a capital crime to go on under his nose and not do anything about it if it might jeopardize another case he is on. If cops, who have a sworn duty to protect the innocent are off the hook on getting "involved," then certainly private citizens should be as well.

One would also think that NBC would have provided decent lawyers for at least Jerry. And that the fact that they had all just narrowly averted death in a plane accident mere minutes before would have been sufficient grounds to have the charges dismissed.

There were no character witnesses for all the good stuff the four of them did during the series either.

Sorry. I just don't buy it. Illogical, and not consistent with the rest of the series.

-=-Ron-=-

God, I never realized ... but you're right. The series has been so perfectly logical up until now. How in the world did this ever slip by?<

I think that the opening arguments were very funny, but I agree with the rest of your comments. Also what happened with closing arguments or cross examination. Even for a comedy show the trial was not plausible enough.

Dan

I'm not debating who's right and who's wrong. I'm just noting what another possible ending could have been...

It would have been interesting to see them actually do something with the plot in the beginning of that episode. It would have been nice to see the show come full circle. Ya know, the last episode of "Seinfeld" where Jerry and George actually DO go off to LA to work on their show "Jerry"... An ending with a new beginning. Like ending where they began. Cute, complete, but would that have been very Seinfeld-ish? I'm not sure.

The last episode at first, really seemed like it could have been summed up in a half hour with them going to LA... I certainly wouldn't want to see the four split up so it could maybe gone that Jerry and George have to move to California and Kramer and Elaine more or less say "WE WANNA GO TOO!!!" So they all go and they would then live in a fancy California apartment building like the one in Melrose Place... :)

I'm not saying that I loved or hated this episode. I mean, they could have gone ANYWHERE with the story. I just felt that either the first half or the second half of that episode should go. Perhaps it was merely a matter of a poorly constructed connection of scenes. What I mean is, if they really wanted to go with the courtroom and prison situation, then the whole deal with bringing back "Jerry", the moving to L.A., and the private NBC jet seemed like quite a stretch to get them there.

Suzanne