Season 1 of HIMYM ended on a sad note and a happy note, and the whole time, in the background, is Bloc Party’s song playing, This Modern Love. It sets the mood by constantly building up to a crescendo of aural bliss. The simplicity of the guitars, a faint bass, the drums idly in the background. And it explodes when you expect it to, and as it comes back down, you’re hit with one of the biggest shocks.

Season 2 of HIMYM ended very simply, with Barney just stating it would be Legen, wait for it and cut to black. That’s all you needed to end an amazing season of television. You know what’s next, it’s the dary part, but the fact that they actually used it in such a way that was simple and effective.

Season 6 of Scrubs ends with JD and Elliot not sure of their relationships. JD staying with Kim for their kid, and Elliot unsure of marrying Keith. This is another aural moment where Say Anything’s Alive with the Glory of Love is playing in the background as the final moments of this season pulls to a close. As the camera pull out, the songs plays, and recaps the last part of the season, you get JD and Elliot, holding hands, and leaning in for that kiss you so desperately want to see and it just cuts right before it happens. That scene always gets me. Although Alive with the Glory of Love is about Jewish people being hunted by Nazi’s and loved in death camps, but still, it’s a beautiful song that I can’t get enough of.

Well, that’s about all I had to talk about, just the fact I found 3 really great finale’s. I’m sure there are others out there, but I’m so far behind on my TV watching that it will be awhile before I make another post about finale’s again.

Edit (2009-11-28): If we want to talk about show ending finales, I’d have to say the best one that I can think of at the moment is Scrubs finale where they walk JD down a hallway lined with people from his past 8 years working at Sacred Heart until he reaches his goodbye sheet and Peter Gabriel’s – Book of Love starts playing and a projector shows what JD’s life could be in the future. Seriously, if you do not cry watching this sequence, you’re fucking dead inside. It is simply the greatest ending to a show EVER. I don’t care if they’re making a Season 9, because this show ends at Season 8 for me, like Veronica Mars only had 2 seasons. You can’t just end the show like this and continue, fuck that. Throw that shit up and leave it be.

For the past nine months I’ve had lots of time to do some serious thinking and planning. I came to the conclusion that my plans were flawed in every way. I wanted something so bad I refused to look at all the flaws that were tearing me apart. That’s never good. I’ve lived and I’ve learned. I’ve shifted my plans in a new direction and thrown away the old ones. No longer am I striving for that family I’ve always wanted, but instead I’ve replaced it with the ambitions of a place to call home. This whole year I’ve given some serious thought to how I’m going to accomplish that goal and I’ve already put a plan in place to make sure I reach that goal in three years.

My other goals are not long forgotten. They’ve just take a backseat in the roller coaster that is my life. When I jump back on that path again, there is something very important she must have; goals and ambitions. I simply cannot see myself wasting time with someone who doesn’t know what and when they want it. Everyday I’m getting older and I have less and less time to make a mark in this world.

This post has become more of a ramble, but when I talked with my friend, they had a plan and the person they were with didn’t really think that far ahead. The same went for JD, but he ended it because there was nothing. Where my friend stands currently, I don’t know. The talk happened, but there isn’t a response yet from the other party.