Bad endings

Ted Stevens served honorably as a Senator from Alaska for 40 years. In 2008, some politicians didn't want him to be re-elected, and after a witch-hunt, the Justice Department convicted him of corruption, and he lost the election. Mission accomplished. . . through prosecutorial misconduct. Oops, now they're sorry?


I was sorely disappointed by the final episode of "Life on Mars." We had been warned by TV Guide that it would be something different from the original British series, in which the hero eventually awoke from a coma after being hit by a car. Faced with cancellation by the Great God Nielsen, the new writers hastily devised a Wizard of Oz type ending that was a poorly conceived and thoroughly unsatisfying cop-out (play on words intended).