Not sure what made me think of this, but it seems like a good question to ask.
I know my answer: the Season Three finale of Babylon 5, episode Z'Ha'Dum, with Captain John Sheridan having just called down his White Star ship, loaded with nukes, to blow the Hell out of the Shadows' home in a desperate, suicidal move that he told no one about. He's out on a ledge overlooking a deep chasm, with some Shadows and the thing that's taken over his dead wife's body advancing on him, and his blazing ship streaking down toward him. His goose appears to be cooked, when the Vorlon voice inside his head tells him to "Jump. Jump now." And he does jump, falling headlong into a seemingly-bottomless chasm just as the city behind him is enveloped in a nuclear explosion.
Hell, he's not hanging from the cliff.. he's falling off of it! And that's what fans were left with until Season Four started.
So what's your favourite cliffhanger? It can be from a book, TV show, movie or even comic...
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Who shot J.R.? hahah...just kidding but this is likely the most famous one. B5 is a great one and so was Picard being turned into a Borg.
I suspect Vicki means "The Best of Both Worlds Part I" from ST:TNG. Definitely a good cliffhanger.
I agree with the "Locutus of Borg" 100% :) No wait, 10,000%. 100,000,000%?
Yea, lots.
That was probably the longest wait between seasons of any show I've ever followed.
Of recent memory, the way Weeds (IMHO, one of the best shows currently on TV) ended this last season was in a bit of a pickle..
Buffy season 2 finale where angel dies, and the season 5 finale where she dies. Alias season 2 finale where Syd wakes up 2 years in the future. Agree with Mike on the Weeds cliffhanger (which isn't even resolved yet! sidenote: i think it'll have something to do with that gun in the microwave).
But perhaps above all else the Angel *series* finale because it's just weird to have an entire series end on a cliffhanger.
Z'ha'dum is up there for me, too.
I have to agree with Vicki..."Best of Both Worlds" came immediately when reading the title of this post. There was a definite chill running down my spine when Locutus said, "Resistance is Futile.....Number One!!". The fact that he still had some Picard in him left me cursing as I knew I had to wait all summer to find out what happened!
The Wire between 1st and 2nd season. The whole detail has gone against the wishes of their various superiors and proven that the drug dealers are funding an 'Urband Renewal' project.
The fates of the various characters bust down is what makes the season 2 so rewarding. McNulty is working the habour, Griegs (the lesbian) is pussy-whipped behind a desk and the Lt. works in the evidence room basement. Perfect set up for the start of Season 2 and the details' redemption on the docks.
I think Matt had said something about TV programs reaching the quality of a dickens novel. For my money HBO's the Wire is the only one that has.... and so does the New York Times:
'If Charles Dickens were alive today, he would watch “The Wire,” unless, that is, he was already writing for it. The pay-cable television series is the closest that moving pictures have come so far to the depth and nuance of the novel. Feature films are far too brief, akin to a good short story. The network schedule has traditionally been so long — requiring nearly twice as many episodes as HBO — that it skews strongly toward the formulaic.'
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