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All good things must end and, certainly, our favorite television series are no exceptions to this longstanding rule. It’s really been on our mind a lot lately, given that one of the most important shows in recent memory is drawing to a close. Of course, we’re speaking of “Gilmore Girls.”

Um, we mean “The Sopranos.”

Sorry, our bad. We don’t watch “Gilmore Girls.” And we definitely don’t own the six seasons of the show that are currently available on DVD. Or the soundtrack.

Where were we?

Oh, right: “The Sopranos” is departing the airwaves, and like most diehard TV addicts, we here at Bullz-Eye are down on our knees, hoping and praying that the series finale lives up to the legacy that David Chase has created for the show over the course of these six seasons. It’s also gotten us to reminiscing about other departed series…in particular, which ones met the challenge of providing just the right amount of closure to leave their fans happy, and which ones failed miserably at the task. Your mileage may vary when you’re presented with our selections, but, hey, we can’t watch everything!

By the way, we shouldn’t have to tell you that there are major spoilers ahead, but better safe than sorry, no? And now that we’ve officially absolved of any guilt, click here to read on!

Walker: Texas Ranger: The Complete Second Season – Honestly, we really shouldn’t even cover this release, given how poorly the poor bastard did in our Badass Bracket. I mean, honestly, it was shameful…almost as shameful as the fact that there ain’t a single special feature on this seven-disc set. Then again, if you’re enough of a fan of the adventures of Chuck Norris’s Texas-based Martial Arts master, you probably won’t care, anyway.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 2, Volume 2 – So tired…so very, very tired…of this show coming out on DVD. If they cared enough to release the first two seasons on DVD, why in God’s sake did they feel obliged to stretch it into four separate sets? I mean, good lord, they’re releasing “Land of the Giants” (another Irwin Allen series) in a Complete Series set. They couldn’t at least put each season of “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” in its own box? Oh, well, the DVD producers at least deserve some credit for stretching out the special features as well, so that each set gets some; this time, you get still galleries as well as interviews with David Hedison (Captain Crane).

Moonlighting: Season Five – It’s nice of Lions Gate to finish up the release of “Moonlighting” by getting the show’s final season into stores, and it’s even nicer that we continue to get special features – audio commentaries (one with producers Glenn Gordon Caron and Jay Daniel on the season premiere, another with director Dennis Dugan on the series finale) as well as the original screen test of Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as an on-screen couple – but we could’ve done with a little more details as to where to find them. The accompanying booklet provides in-depth episode synopses and a reference to the existence of the special features, but no clarification as to what features are on what disc. If you’ve forgotten how the show ended, David Addison returned to the offices of Blue Moon Investigations after Bert and Agnes’s wedding, only to find an ABC executive packing things up. “I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re cancelled.” After tearful goodbyes are said, we get a closing title card which reveals that the agency ceased operations on May 14, 1989, and the Anselmo case was never solved. Damn!

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