The two hour finale included time travel; the oldest one, ill, realising the rest are great friends and trying to help them all by being the pivotal character to save them all; a reappearance of characters who've previously died; the main characters helping each other so that they can all escape a judge who've basically put them all on trial together; a mysterious entity from another realm watching over them all - and the final scene: best friends sitting around a table playing poker with a camera panning above them.
No, not the two hour finale ''All Good Things'' from Star Trek The Next Generation. The finale of ... Desperate Housewives.
Practically the only difference between the TV finale of Star Trek The Next Generation of 1994 and the finale of Desperate Housewives this Sunday night in 2012 in America was that in Star Trek TNG the blonde one who was killed off by an oil slick came back for one last appearance. In Desperate Housewives the blonde one who was killed off by electricity remained absent.
The multiple, and very blatant similarities between Star Trek TNG and the Desperate Housewives finale are well ... lets just say somewhere Q and Mary Alice must have been talking about how a writer or writers must have been watching too must Star Trek DVD box sets and were too lazy to come up with their own stuff and narrative structure to end it all.
The Desperate Housewives finale comes across as desperately going where TV viewers and those who actually watch television have gone before - flashes through time to the past, flashes through time to the future, a main character who is ill and dying, an ex wife who comes to the rescue, and a circular structure returning to the very first episode to book-end the show.
And of course
There's violins. Of course. And in the end a vehicle seen
