"Always Be Closing". Glee again makes up for flawed middle with grand finale.

In a day when Lost can't wrap up their six-year run without negating everything that came before it, and even 24 can't end with a bang thanks to an upcoming movie version (the series finale was remarkably similar to the finale of season four), it's nice to see a final episode, even just a season finale, go out with a little style. Yes, the Glee mid-season finale was sharper and better paced, especially as two of the dramatic highlights (the kids doing a song for their teacher and Will making one last play for Emma) were reruns of last year's mid-season climax. Yes most of the break-out characters were put on the sidelines to focus to the original leads: Will, Sue, Finn, and Rachel. Yes, it's absolutely absurd that a character who has confessed to attempting to fix a dance competition just months ago would be allowed to judge a higher level of said competition. And the insertion of Rachel's long-lost mother proved to be a big fat deus ex machina to allow a known character to adapt Quinn and Puck's newborn.

Post-Lost fun, all more fun than the Lost finale.

Much of this comes from last night's Jimmy Kimmel show, which I did not stay up to watch. The first alternate ending is pretty funny (Naveen Andrews is hysterical), the other two slightly less so. The Q&A is better than the norm for these kind of things (the audience members actually ask amusing questions). And the two 'homemade' clips are pretty terrific. Anyway, enjoy these several goodies after the jump.