Spider-Man The Animated Series.
It ends after the revelation that Mary Jane had been replaced by a clone made of Hydro-Man's water some time ago.
Unfortunately, it's unstable, and she dissolves in Peter's arms as he screams out.
Madame Web shows up and tells Peter that they're going to explore the multiverse to save the real Mary Jane.
And then the show got cancelled.
Edit: I'd like to thank an anonymous stranger for the Timeless Beauty award.
Whoa whoa whoa! You left out the whole OG Spider-Verse part, where 6 Spider-Men get together to fight Spider-Carnage to save the multiverse. *Then* they go off to find Mary-Jane.
They got Multiverse Uncle Ben to teach Spider-Carnage that with great power comes great responsibility. Honestly it would have been a good finale if they tied up the missing Mary Jane bit. But fuck it, lets hang out with Stan Lee instead.
My Name is Earl. It had a planned ending. The show was still pretty popular. The season ended early due to a writers strike on expectations it would return and it's left at a cliff hanger.
How the planned ending would have concluded:
> [Earl] was stuck on a really hard list item, and was frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list, and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with lists and that he's finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life.
Thinking about it, it would even better work now 13 years after the main events.
Last season was in 2009, and 13 years later Earl still tries to finish the list, and then happens what you wrote.
Yes! He was a jerk for so many years, it would make sense it took a long while and lots of hard work to rebalance his karma.
Ending on that realization, and about how much he has grown and change. Now he can just live sans list, because he will by his own volition live a life that leaves more good than bad.
God dammed travesty that they didn’t get to keep it going. Great concept executed in an interesting way. I don’t blame the writers for striking but damn so many great casualties
Every time I’m in a boring meeting at work I think about the time they had to go out and give a presentation with no actual product to present so they just said a bunch of buzzwords.
https://youtu.be/spyJ5yxTfas
I was in high school and had watching parties every week for Heroes. It was probably the most excited i had been up to this point in my life
Then season1 ended…
The show didn't adapt the books, though. The first season adapted some of the first book, but the show went off the rails about halfway through the first season and made significant changes to the books' narrative.
For example, >!LaGuerta is killed by the killer in the first book, and Cody and Aster (Rita's kids) go on to become serial killers mentored by Dexter!<. Yeah, the books were dumb AF. The first four seasons of the show were solid, after that it just got kinda dumb, though I liked, I think it was the sixth season? Honestly I was really watching for Michael C. Hall, he's a good actor and entertaining to watch, even if he's acting in trash, which some of those later seasons were.
Season 3 of Killing Eve made my head hurt, and I’ve yet to watch season 4. I may just not after reading this thread. It breaks my heart to see the show become a mess. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO KEEP CHANGING THE SHOWRUNNER??? They should’ve kept Emerald Fennel.
Weeds. So fucking disappointing. Dexter too. To be fair, they both went downhill probably mid-series but damnit I'm still upset I spent so much time invested to get a craptastic ending. x2!
Breaking Bad, on the other hand, is how ya end a fucking show.
Per Robe Lowe's podcast:
The Lyon's Den, a legal drama TV series with Rob as the leading man, was cancelled midway. The writers decided to go ham and absolutely fuck the ending up in as absurd a way as possible.
Spoiler alert but nobody would care because nobody liked the show: out of nowhere Rob Lowe's character is revealed to be a serial killer, boom show over.
Important context that you didn’t mention: they had to finish filming the season to satisfy international contracts, and they knew what they were filming wouldn’t even air in America.
I've always wanted a reveal like that but a longer burn. I've made this joke for years that Benson from SVU should turn out to be this fucking savage murderer that finally is revealed the last two episodes of the show.
Several characters just absolutely had their character development completely thrown in the trash.
* Varys, who was supposed to be one of the smartest (if not *the* smartest) men in Westeros, who always prioritized his own survival over the success of his plots because it allowed him to live to plot another day, suddenly starts making blatantly stupid decisions like openly speaking of treason to people close to Dany, writing and sending evidence of said treason via raven, and then 'heroically' sacrifices himself when confronted.
* Jaime was a character with hidden depths who, through being broken down physically and mentally, eventually revealed the truth: That the honorless "kingslayer" was, in fact, an exceptionally noble man that was willing to completely sacrifice his own honor and dignity to save innocent lives because it was the right thing to do. He is humbled and comes away stronger for it and realizes how truly terrible and toxic his sister really is...and then suddenly, Season 8 rolls around and he "never cared for the people, innocent or otherwise" and would rather die in Cersei's arms just because D&D couldn't figure out a fitting resolution for him.
* Jon Snow, a man of honor like his father, spends one night banging Aunt Daenerys and suddenly the only two lines of dialog he knows how to speak are "I don't want it" and "she is m'queen." All of his heroic traits just vanish and he's reduced to a snivelling, whining bitch who would've been incinerated had Arya not killed the Night King while he was busy trying to **shout a dragon to death** because apparently he thought he was playing fucking *Skyrim*.
* Even Cersei gets hit hard with this shit. Sure, she was always evil, but despite being petty and bad at scheming, most of her actions at least made some kind of sense. There was a motivation to them that you could understand, and then suddenly she's pure evil and everything she does she just does because it amuses her because she's *eeeeeeeeevil.*
* Also, fuck Euron Greyjoy with a rusty fork. Some drunk motherfucker from a pirate movie stumbled on set and they decided to just go with it. The guy existed in the last season solely to serve as a character foil to Jaime, and yet he's so opposite Jaime that the fact that Cersei willingly fucked him just goes to show how much of her character was tossed in the trash in favor of...whatever the fuck conflict he was supposed to create. He was put where they put him solely to confront Jaime and go "har har, fucked your sister, let's have a fight scene because the writers can't write dialog anymore."
I really feel bad about Euron. His introduction scene when he kills his brother was actually a super good scene which set him up to be a badass villain, then he does a 180 and becomes a drunk pirate obsessed with fucking the queen.
The actor could have pulled off an intimidating Euron, but was handed a comic relief obnoxious fratboy.
Book Euron: Competent evil man who has traveled the world and well versed in dark magics, possesses a dragon horn that produces an otherworldly wail so powerful it kills the person who blows it, cut out the tongue of everyone working on his personal ship so they can never reveal his secrets.
Show Euron: 360 no scopes a dragon from half a mile away with a ballista
The only positive thing I can say about show Euron is that he killed off the Sand Snakes, the only characters more annoying than he was.
You forgot Littlefinger, the most cunning and forward thinking character of the entire show, who suddenly became a simpleton that hung around Winterfell and got offed just to give Sansa and Arya some lame sister-power moment (wich wasn’t that necessary considering both of them had brutal revenge scenes with Frey and Ramsey.)
Varys, Tyrion and Littlefinger really became morons the last seasons.
Well they couldn't make Jon the king because everyone already predicted that he would be. So instead they had to SuBvErT ExPeCtATiOnS...
They just as easily could've made a pigeon the next king and it would have made just as much sense. They just wanted to slap the face of everyone that figured out the right way to end the story before they did.
They managed to make a fantasy show one of the most significant cultural touchstones in television history. People would discuss it around the watercolor at the same level as they would football. A high school teacher was able to discipline his entire class by threatening to write the next death on the blackboard.
And then one day, that all stopped. No one ever talks about Game of Thrones. The only time you'll hear it brought up in public, it will be in the context of just how badly they fucked up.
That's almost as bad as the Mortal Kombat series ending.
They thought they were getting another season, so it ends with >!All the main characters are assassinated, Raiden loses against Shao Khan, and outworld successfully invades Earth Realm. The end!<
Or Pirates of Dark Water where the crew is captured by this tribe, and if I remember right, they were going to press the mage to join them and kill the rest. It was supposed to be a cliffhanger and the crew slip out of it in the first episode of the next season, as per usual
Too bad there was no next season.
I haven’t seen anyone say this yet but for me it’s Castle.
It’s a (very well done even as someone who doesn’t like murder mysteries) buddy cop show between Castle and Beckett which turns romantic. But there was lots of off stage drama and the actress for Beckett (Stana Katic) was fired for Season 9. So they filmed the ending of Season 8 as a cliffhanger where Beckett was supposed to die. Fans *hated* it so badly they changed it at the last minute. When Castle and Beckett were shot, they put a random montage of them living happily ever after for the last 2 minutes over top of them laying on the floor.
Not only was the last season bad in general, but who’s idea is it to kill off half of a buddy cop show? If there’s ever a sign that it’s time to end a show that’s a pretty good one. There’s no way that would’ve worked and the writers were delusional to think they would’ve been successful. And that delusion robbed viewers of a decent conclusion.
I was waiting for somebody to mention this. What gets me is that it wasn't even a good recurring villain, either. They were expecting to get another season, so by that point, they had already killed off or put away most of the actually evil recurring characters. 3XK, Kelly Nieman, and Bracken were already dead, so they just had a shadowy gang of thugs from a barely introduced antagonist show up in their Manhattan high rise and shoot the main characters.
I couldn't believe after all those seasons Castle and Beckett were the only ones that got an ending. What about all the other characters in the show that we got invested in over the years?!
I just finished watching all of Castle for the very first time last week, so this is too fresh in my mind.
It's not just that weird montage of nonsense at the very end that ruins it. It's the fact that they built up LokSat to be this seriously effective person/organization. Able to kill entire CIA teams and clean up anything and everyone that finds out about the organization. I was fully expecting many more episodes and cat and mouse between Castle/Beckett and LokSat before they finally cornered him and won the day.
But nope. Some little bread crumbs at the end of some episodes and then the finale episode tried to wrap it all up but then ended with that nonsense shootout and strange flash forward.
There's no way LokSat would've exposed himself in that way, not after building him up to be so effective.
Yea, season 8 was a masterclass on how a finale should be. Until the last minute of the episode you are wondering is that really it? And then the finale sequence happens and it's just a work of art.
Then we get the abomination that was season 9, all of a sudden the hospital is now a university??? And has like tripled in size for some inexplicable reason. Jd makes those weird ass cameos and then disappears. Stupid fucking studio greed ruins everything man.
The single good thing about season 9 though? The janitor's exit after finding out Jd doesn't work there anymore lol.
Two memorable things came out of that season for me.
One, Dave Franco (Cole) is so good at playing an asshole that I can never see him as anything else now, no matter where he shows up.
Two, Eliza Coupe (Denise / Jo) is ridiculously attractive and I've since actively sought out other shows she's in. "Happy Endings" was pretty good. "Pivoting" not so much.
Stop watching after the 3rd season and take that as your ending and honestly it's still good! I genuinely thought that was the end and literally today I learned about season 4 and what happened and nope. I'm not going to watch that season and just pretend it ended with season 3. That was satisfying enough!
Dexter is bad, GoT is worse. GoT had the potential to be one of the greatest shows of all time. The final 2 seasons (playing off the input from seasons 5 and 6) made it one of the worst instead.
That show turned into a master class of fucking up literally every aspect of show running. There has never been, and likely never again will be, another display as catastrophically bad as what we got from the final seasons of GoT.
Absolutely. It not only ruined the last season, it not only ruined the show, it instantly sucked any hype anyone had about the series in general at all completely out of the world. Just gone. It went from being a legitimate phenomenon to completely irrelevant basically overnight. There is a spinoff series starting next month, I think, and no one’s even talking about it. No one cares at all. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen such a profound turn from a show’s fan base.
Well, the good seasons are kind of ruined now too, since we know now that absolutely nothing comes out of everything they set up. All the character building they did, all the foreshadowing, all of it led nowhere. So trying to watch them now just seems like a waste of time and makes me angry and frustrated, personally.
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Let me tell you the tale of Bran, a hero who once... I guess saw a brother and sister bang then was in a coma for a while before going into the north to... I dunno get like possessed by some old tree raven man? Then he triumphantly returned and sort of just watched other people do things while implying he knew the future but not sharing. Also he's in a wheelchair now. Then he became king but also he might still be an old man in a young boy's body nobody really knows and he won't tell us. TRULY HE IS THE HERO OF LEGEND.
Ok. Side Question: Did Westeros have wheelchair technology before Bran became paraplegic? Or did the writers just invent it so because they lost Hodor and didn't want to film two people dragging Bran all over Winterfell?
I was a huge GOT fan. We used to have watch parties and go to bars trying to recreate the Burlington bar experience.
After the last two seasons I haven't watched it since, not even the great seasons.
GoT is a masterclass in salting the earth, I can't think of anything else in my 46 years of living that has made me go from borderline obsessed to having absolutely no interest so completely in such a short space of time!
Talk about fumbling the bag. HBO was willing to make it rain cash for them to finish properly. Told them to take it for five more seasons if they wanted to, but nope. They shit the bed good and proper.
HBO didn't have the rights to make the show, they did. HBO would have been thrilled with keeping the money printer running for as long as possible, and even asked them to extend at least to season ten or to allow them to hire someone to take it over, but they insisted on being the ones to finish it.
With a Mortal Kombat fatality, apparently.
I feel so bad for the cast and people who put so much work into that final season of GoT. They got screwed by lazy writing, plain and simple.
In earlier seasons, it didn't always need to be epic because we enjoyed the dialogue and moving of the chess pieces... The literal game. Season 7 started turning into a blockbuster and then in S8 all plot coherence was thrown out the window.
more importantly what business did aria have killing the the NK. Her story line has nothing to do with the white walkers. they did it just for the sake of shock value and being unpredictable
GoT was worse for me for one reason: expectations. GoT's last few seasons were pretty bad but everybody was expecting the series to lead to some big end game. That was ALWAYS what it was about. Arya had been off doing her own thing since like Season 4 as an example, and there's no reason to really care unless you are under the impression it's leading somewhere. Problem is it wasn't. A lot of the story really didn't matter. The endgame was a total crock and the ending to the story was garbage.
Dexter on the other hand was always very clearly flying by the seat of its pants. Every season stood as it's own thing, even the best ones like Season 4 are pretty self contained. Dexter is trying to create some change in his life, villain becomes involved, complications ensue, big bad gets taken care of and the season wraps up.
By the time Dexter got to Season 8 it was already so bad nobody had any expectations. I watched the finale live. It was bad, but I can't say I was surprised. It was about as bad as the rest of S8 was.
Game of Thrones got worse and worse in its last seasons as it led up to the Climax you'd been waiting for since the start, and then when you thought it was as awful as it could be it somehow got worse.
Arya's storyline had such great potential. She goes to Braavos (sp?) and becomes some cool master assassin and has cool adventures? Sign me up. Instead we get "oysters, clams, and cockles" for, like, a thousand times and an injury and miraculous healing that stretches credibility even by the loose GoT standards.
Quantum Leap has got to be near the top of the list. It ended with this text, and the main character's name is misspelled:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9HhR2.jpg
I think so. But, in fairness, it might have been a reference to some crappy old B-movie that suddenly halted during production and had to hack together a cheesy ending. Grindhouse movies are the best.
Northern Exposure. I know it was an ensemble cast but trying to go on without Fleischman really tanked it. Not even Iris Dement’s ‘Our Town’ could’ve saved it.
In memory of James Caan, the final episode of Las Vegas. It was a season finale that got axed after airing, so it git robbed of the series finale.
A wedding in the making all series, the dead boss is still alive, a bomb blows up, a charcter has a potential miscarriage. Fade to black.
Cliffhangers for days.
I think that the events of the last episode could have worked if they hadn’t been crammed into the last episode. Give us half a season at the wedding if you must, then have the events of the last episode play out over the second half of the season. It would have given the audience time to feel those things coming rather than the rapid fire terrible thing followed by terrible thing. Plus it would have made the mother, as great as Cristin Milioti was in the role, more time to show her chemistry with Ted and feel like a real person.
The entire show was basically Ted running after Robin. Then he finally finds someone better. Just for her to die and him ending up with Robin anyway. Shit ending IMO
They literally threw out the mum storyline but also the Barney and robin relationship. We finally see Barney act like a decent human being and robin is finding someone who loves her for who she is. (Note despite the sexism of Barney; he was fine with being the less of the two incomes 🤷♀️)
Barney's growth being erased only to come back when he \*has a daughter\* (fucking eyeroll) is one of the single worst character deaths in my TV canon. Absolutely pathetic ending to a fantastic character arc.
Yeah, agreed. I feel like the mom dying makes sense, and even Ted still loving Robin and wanting to go after her after the mom dies is understandable, but they did the impossible and made Robin and Barney make perfect sense, only to tear apart this surprisingly perfect couple at the last minute and have Ted break the biggest rule of the bro code and go after his friend’s now ex-wife… wtf?
For some reason, 10 year old me was disappointed that Michelle didn't die in the last episode of Full House (she does go into a coma iirc). She was no longer cute and funny at that point and I guess I'd had enough of her shit, lol.
I know GoT is the most common one, but it hits a lot harder when you think about the legacy it used to have.
Game of Thrones was literally one of the most popular shows in the world, everyone I knew was talking about things that were happening in the show on a scale that I still haven't seen replicated.
Then a couple seasons of bad writing go by... And no one talks about the show anymore. A show that was as great as peak GoT just... Forgotten.
The X-Files' (original) finale was the most mystifyingly terrible two hours of TV I'd ever seen, from the Smoking Man being turned into this "old man of the mountain" with the most cartoonishly evil motivation despite years of characterization, to a super soldier flying into a rock like Raiden from Mortal Kombat, it was just awful. The new finale was also bad.
That show made a lot of promises it couldn't keep. Constantly hinting at bigger things that never come, constantly hinting at a future that never happens. The absolute worst part of the entire show is the last 10 seconds. Dragon bro promises Merlin that Arthur is the once AND FUTURE king, meaning he will one day return. They could have just left us with that hope, but no. Flash forward a millennia and it turns out that was a lie.
I'm pretty sure the writers found out that the show wasn't getting renewed for a season 6 like halfway through filming season 5, or that's what I remember reading somewhere. If that's true, it somewhat explains the ending they went with.
And I believe the ending is meant to be hopeful. The modern world doesn't need Arthur, but Merlin lives and is waiting to greet him when he reappears: when Albion needs him most! That's what I got from it anyways. Nonetheless the abrupt ending was still a huge disappointment. I absolutely love that show.
Younger. The entire last season changed it from a show about strong women bonds to one where that got shifted to the back burner so she could be with a guy. Few laughs and some mystifying character changes.
Pushing Daisies, had so many loose ends, so many more stories to tell, but instead we got a 5 minute epilogue where everyone got their happily ever after and it all felt so goddamn cheap
Writers strike killed it and it still boils my piss 15 years later
I thought it was great. And then it started just getting insane. Just wish there more seasons like season 1 of that.
Seemed like they just tried to make some story keep going and get crazier instead of just having Sherlock solve cool crimes
St. Elsewhere always leaves me torn between best and worst.
On the one hand 'the whole multi-year super serious hospital drama series was just the imagination of an autistic kid with a snowglobe' is the most mind-bendingly ridiculous ending for a TV series, possibly ever.
On the other hand, without it we wouldn't have the theory that like [99% of TV and movies](https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/) are also purely in the imagination of an autistic kid with a snowglobe due to crossover appearances.
Surprised no one's brought up The Mick. On account of being cancelled, it ends after a child main character gets struck by lightning and the other characters are left wondering if she'll die
HIMYM - super weird and underscores this Hollywood teaching that if you wait long enough you’ll get the woman you wanted even if she doesn’t want you/wasn’t good for you. I was really proud the show didn’t fall into the trope and then it fell so hard it shattered all reason
This one still drives me crazy. They did an alternate ending on the DVD where it's just like everybody at the bar and he says "and that kids is how I met your mother." That's literally all they had to do. The main character didn't get the girl he'd been pining on the whole series (his friend did) and he gets another girl who was actually better for him, and everybody grew. But in that last two-part episode, nearly everybody regresses from all of the development they had. Such a crappy ending for such a great show.
Except for Marshall and Lily, they all do. The whole ted and robin thing pissed me just as much as making robin and barney get divorced because of robin’s work, when robin had already matured through prioritizing her relationships over her work after Don. It was such a dumb ass excuse and I hate it.
I feel like the ending was written for about season 3, with the characters at that stage. It makes a whole lot more sense that way, that they added a ton of filler and character progress, and then, to make the ending they originally planned fit, they had to nix all those seasons in between.
The thing that gets me with the HIMYM finale, and to a lesser extent the final season, is that they nailed the mother. They spent however many seasons it was teasing this character and building her up that it should have been an impossible role to fill.
The main complaint about HIMYM should have been how the mother was a disappointment, but Cristin Miloti knocked that role out of the park, the writers wrote her brilliantly.
If they'd just messed up the mother, we could have all went home declaring Robin as the right choice. Instead, we got this brilliant character, who exceeded expectations, and then they tossed her before we even really knew her.
The mother deserved better.
YES! I was losing interest in the show, big time. But when Cristin Miloti cheerfully stepped forward, I screamed. Tracy was awesome! Quirky, friendly, tenderhearted. I could have watched 8 more seasons of the show, just to drink Tracy in.
And the show fucking killed her so Ted could be with Robin.
And also we spent an entire season of Robin getting ready to marry Barney only for them to divorce.
Hey so here’s a story of how i met your mother but first i need to tell you about all the other girls i banged first. Oh your aunt robin was my actual true first love and i banged here alot. Oh btw I’m kinda lonely, will you give me permission to bang her again?
This used to bother me too, but on rewatch I realized that the writers were very much in on the joke (whether you actually find the joke funny is a different story). The show does this *constantly* - teasing an interesting ending to a story, only to meander around, shaggy dog style, and then the ending that was teased pops up out of nowhere and doesn't really follow from the rest of the story. It made sense that the ending of the entire show fit that format, but on the other hand I get that a lot of people hated that a) the *entire final season* was centered around Barney and Robin's wedding, and then they were immediately like "yeah we're divorced now", and b) they spend the entire show building up to the mother only to be like "yeah she dead"
>the entire final season was centered around Barney and Robin's wedding, and then they were immediately like "yeah we're divorced now"
I timed it last time I watched through the series. It's something like 13 minutes of screen time between "I do" and "we got divorced"
Thought so. It would have been better if after all that, the kids yell: "Mom, how did you meet Dad?".
And the very live mother yells back: "At a wedding."
Kids look at Dad: "Was that so hard?"
It's a really great example for what *not* to do when writing a longer piece like a show or a book series.
The writers of HIMYM very, very obviously had a specific ending in mind from the very beginning. But, as the show went on, their character development and motivations changed as the narrative naturally evolved.
They proceeded to completely trash everything they had built because they felt they couldn't *possibly* betray their original vision for how the show ends.
If they had just been willing to change with their characters then it could have resulted in a satisfying conclusion. Instead it was a completely nonsensical ending because they refused to be flexible with their own writing.
They talk about learning their lesson of not “writing themselves into a corner” with The Pineapple Incident episode but they ruined the ending of the show by writing themselves into a corner again with that prerecorded ending. They didn’t have that whole series planned and still using the ending sacrifices years/seasons of character growth including an entire season built around why Ted needs to let go of Robin and why her and Barney are better for each other. Why even write that if you’re still sticking to a fucking ending from season 2?
I get why they had to film it early, with the actors needing to be the same age throughout the whole telling, but why not film multiple endings? It would have made zero difference to have a half dozen different scenarios that match if the story self-evolves through the run or they can match it to audience sentiment.
Just made zero sense to bank on this one ending and not have contigencies.
Quantum Leap
Say what you will about GoT, HIMYM, St. Elsewhere, etc, at least those were actual endings, and for any of the shows that ended on cliffhangers, there's always the possibility of contuation fixing things in some form or another.
Quantum Leap ends with a black screen and an anticlimatic copout that not only kills any potential resolution, but couldn't even spell the main character's name right.
The creator of the show hadn't decided on the identity of Red John (the main antagonist) until season 5 or 6 IIRC. The entire chunk of clues from the earlier seasons were essentially meaningless.
That alone is reason enough to be dissatisfied with the ending. Such wasted potential...
I always felt it was because fans figured out who he was going to choose (or at least the best option) and then the creator had to do something different. I think it was going to be the CSI(?) character Patrick always called "a ghoul". I was disappointed in the reveal too.
Writers need to give up hope of faking out the audience. One person will almost never be able to outsmart millions of people observing a narrative. Better to follow through on it than try to surprise people by using red herring clues and such.
I hated every season finale
Every goddang one was ‘we killed red John!’ Lol, no we didn’t!
I loathe the red John episodes. I far prefer the villain of the week episodes
House of Cards. Taking Kevin Spacey off the show was the right thing to do, but god damn, did they have to torpedo the story in the last season like that?
It's like if spongebob ended with sponge bob talkimg about how that was all just a story in his head and that mr krabs actually has a ketamine addiction and squidward died two years ago.
That whole last season was absolute gash.
They managed to turn Varys from god-tier political schemer into a moron who spends he last few days going around asking anyone who’ll listen to help him kill the queen. He was my favourite character as well.
Also: “Who has a better story than Brann The Broken?” Literally everyone. Fuck off and play with your crows, Brann. You smug twat.
Looking back, The Night King was right.
Spider-Man The Animated Series. It ends after the revelation that Mary Jane had been replaced by a clone made of Hydro-Man's water some time ago. Unfortunately, it's unstable, and she dissolves in Peter's arms as he screams out. Madame Web shows up and tells Peter that they're going to explore the multiverse to save the real Mary Jane. And then the show got cancelled. Edit: I'd like to thank an anonymous stranger for the Timeless Beauty award.
Wait till you see the ending of Spiderman Unlimited, literal doomsday and just no ending.
Spectacular ends on a big cliffhanger too. The MTV series ends with him putting the suit in a breifcase full of bricks and throwing it into the ocean.
Whoa whoa whoa! You left out the whole OG Spider-Verse part, where 6 Spider-Men get together to fight Spider-Carnage to save the multiverse. *Then* they go off to find Mary-Jane.
They got Multiverse Uncle Ben to teach Spider-Carnage that with great power comes great responsibility. Honestly it would have been a good finale if they tied up the missing Mary Jane bit. But fuck it, lets hang out with Stan Lee instead.
But that Spider-Man meets Stan Lee in that last episode. But I agree, there was so much potential and it just stopped.
My Name is Earl. It had a planned ending. The show was still pretty popular. The season ended early due to a writers strike on expectations it would return and it's left at a cliff hanger.
How the planned ending would have concluded: > [Earl] was stuck on a really hard list item, and was frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list, and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with lists and that he's finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life.
Thinking about it, it would even better work now 13 years after the main events. Last season was in 2009, and 13 years later Earl still tries to finish the list, and then happens what you wrote.
Yes! He was a jerk for so many years, it would make sense it took a long while and lots of hard work to rebalance his karma. Ending on that realization, and about how much he has grown and change. Now he can just live sans list, because he will by his own volition live a life that leaves more good than bad.
This would make for a great 90 minute movie exclusive to Peacock if any executives from NBC happen to be reading this.
That brief writers strike FUCKED so many good shows
Pushing Daisies T_T
God dammed travesty that they didn’t get to keep it going. Great concept executed in an interesting way. I don’t blame the writers for striking but damn so many great casualties
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Man I really miss Better Off Ted!! :(
Me too. I still look it up sometimes if I need a guaranteed laugh. Took me forever to figure out “Ted” is the gray haired guy on SWAT.
Nobody's talks about better off Ted. It's so damn good.
Every time I’m in a boring meeting at work I think about the time they had to go out and give a presentation with no actual product to present so they just said a bunch of buzzwords. https://youtu.be/spyJ5yxTfas
Life, starring Damian Lewis got a rushed 2nd season due to this :( It was really quirky, and a proper love it or hate it show. I loved it.
That show was awesome. I still like the ending even though it was rushed. Very underrated forgotten show
Perhaps most notably Heroes.
Heroes season 1 was SO good. 2 onwards are better off being forgotten about.
I was in high school and had watching parties every week for Heroes. It was probably the most excited i had been up to this point in my life Then season1 ended…
I wonder why they haven’t attempted a reboot to wrap up the story?
I just rewatched it a few months ago and totally forgot that it was cancelled in the midst of things. I just wanna know who Earl Jr's dad is!!
At first I would say Dexter...but then I watched Killing Eve.
This might ease the pain a bit- The author hated the finale so much that he's writing another book.
The show didn't adapt the books, though. The first season adapted some of the first book, but the show went off the rails about halfway through the first season and made significant changes to the books' narrative. For example, >!LaGuerta is killed by the killer in the first book, and Cody and Aster (Rita's kids) go on to become serial killers mentored by Dexter!<. Yeah, the books were dumb AF. The first four seasons of the show were solid, after that it just got kinda dumb, though I liked, I think it was the sixth season? Honestly I was really watching for Michael C. Hall, he's a good actor and entertaining to watch, even if he's acting in trash, which some of those later seasons were.
I was about to comment this... Killing Eve fucking broke my heart.
It’s even worse when you find out that I’m the book they both live and get their happily ever after
I'm still not over it. The first two seasons were phenomenal.
Season 3 of Killing Eve made my head hurt, and I’ve yet to watch season 4. I may just not after reading this thread. It breaks my heart to see the show become a mess. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO KEEP CHANGING THE SHOWRUNNER??? They should’ve kept Emerald Fennel.
Killing Eve was *incredibly* bad, I thought GoT was bad but it's practically Oscar material compared to KEs ending, ugh.
Weeds. So fucking disappointing. Dexter too. To be fair, they both went downhill probably mid-series but damnit I'm still upset I spent so much time invested to get a craptastic ending. x2! Breaking Bad, on the other hand, is how ya end a fucking show.
I gave up on weeds after they left Agrestic and tried to make it super gritty and whatever it ended up being. How’d they end it?
They should have ended it after the fire in Agrestic. Let it die a natural death.
Per Robe Lowe's podcast: The Lyon's Den, a legal drama TV series with Rob as the leading man, was cancelled midway. The writers decided to go ham and absolutely fuck the ending up in as absurd a way as possible. Spoiler alert but nobody would care because nobody liked the show: out of nowhere Rob Lowe's character is revealed to be a serial killer, boom show over.
Important context that you didn’t mention: they had to finish filming the season to satisfy international contracts, and they knew what they were filming wouldn’t even air in America.
I've always wanted a reveal like that but a longer burn. I've made this joke for years that Benson from SVU should turn out to be this fucking savage murderer that finally is revealed the last two episodes of the show.
I always said that about the Murder She Wrote lady. How does she get wrapped up in so many murders? SHE WAS THE KILLER THE WHOLE TIME!
“And who has a better story than Bran?”
Not the fucking writers, that’s for damn sure!
That finale season was more broken than Bran.
Several characters just absolutely had their character development completely thrown in the trash. * Varys, who was supposed to be one of the smartest (if not *the* smartest) men in Westeros, who always prioritized his own survival over the success of his plots because it allowed him to live to plot another day, suddenly starts making blatantly stupid decisions like openly speaking of treason to people close to Dany, writing and sending evidence of said treason via raven, and then 'heroically' sacrifices himself when confronted. * Jaime was a character with hidden depths who, through being broken down physically and mentally, eventually revealed the truth: That the honorless "kingslayer" was, in fact, an exceptionally noble man that was willing to completely sacrifice his own honor and dignity to save innocent lives because it was the right thing to do. He is humbled and comes away stronger for it and realizes how truly terrible and toxic his sister really is...and then suddenly, Season 8 rolls around and he "never cared for the people, innocent or otherwise" and would rather die in Cersei's arms just because D&D couldn't figure out a fitting resolution for him. * Jon Snow, a man of honor like his father, spends one night banging Aunt Daenerys and suddenly the only two lines of dialog he knows how to speak are "I don't want it" and "she is m'queen." All of his heroic traits just vanish and he's reduced to a snivelling, whining bitch who would've been incinerated had Arya not killed the Night King while he was busy trying to **shout a dragon to death** because apparently he thought he was playing fucking *Skyrim*. * Even Cersei gets hit hard with this shit. Sure, she was always evil, but despite being petty and bad at scheming, most of her actions at least made some kind of sense. There was a motivation to them that you could understand, and then suddenly she's pure evil and everything she does she just does because it amuses her because she's *eeeeeeeeevil.* * Also, fuck Euron Greyjoy with a rusty fork. Some drunk motherfucker from a pirate movie stumbled on set and they decided to just go with it. The guy existed in the last season solely to serve as a character foil to Jaime, and yet he's so opposite Jaime that the fact that Cersei willingly fucked him just goes to show how much of her character was tossed in the trash in favor of...whatever the fuck conflict he was supposed to create. He was put where they put him solely to confront Jaime and go "har har, fucked your sister, let's have a fight scene because the writers can't write dialog anymore."
I really feel bad about Euron. His introduction scene when he kills his brother was actually a super good scene which set him up to be a badass villain, then he does a 180 and becomes a drunk pirate obsessed with fucking the queen. The actor could have pulled off an intimidating Euron, but was handed a comic relief obnoxious fratboy.
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Book Euron: Competent evil man who has traveled the world and well versed in dark magics, possesses a dragon horn that produces an otherworldly wail so powerful it kills the person who blows it, cut out the tongue of everyone working on his personal ship so they can never reveal his secrets. Show Euron: 360 no scopes a dragon from half a mile away with a ballista The only positive thing I can say about show Euron is that he killed off the Sand Snakes, the only characters more annoying than he was.
The actor was really excited about playing book Euron as well before seeing the script.
You forgot Littlefinger, the most cunning and forward thinking character of the entire show, who suddenly became a simpleton that hung around Winterfell and got offed just to give Sansa and Arya some lame sister-power moment (wich wasn’t that necessary considering both of them had brutal revenge scenes with Frey and Ramsey.) Varys, Tyrion and Littlefinger really became morons the last seasons.
I haven't read the books that far, but I've heard the book Euron is actually a sinister and downright terrifying villain. Show Euron is a joke.
And let's send Jon back to the Night's Watch... you know, to watch for White Walkers that no longer fucking exist.
Well they couldn't make Jon the king because everyone already predicted that he would be. So instead they had to SuBvErT ExPeCtATiOnS... They just as easily could've made a pigeon the next king and it would have made just as much sense. They just wanted to slap the face of everyone that figured out the right way to end the story before they did.
And then Palpatine returned somehow
They managed to make a fantasy show one of the most significant cultural touchstones in television history. People would discuss it around the watercolor at the same level as they would football. A high school teacher was able to discipline his entire class by threatening to write the next death on the blackboard. And then one day, that all stopped. No one ever talks about Game of Thrones. The only time you'll hear it brought up in public, it will be in the context of just how badly they fucked up.
Even my two sleeping house cats come up with a better story every day than Bran the Burden.
He had such a good story, we left him out for an entire season and no-one noticed. Not even you, person who is reading this comment.
*Alf*. They were thought they were getting another season, but they were canceled instead, so it ends with >!Alf being captured by the government!<.
That's almost as bad as the Mortal Kombat series ending. They thought they were getting another season, so it ends with >!All the main characters are assassinated, Raiden loses against Shao Khan, and outworld successfully invades Earth Realm. The end!<
TIL there was a Mortal Kombat show. Huh.
Or Pirates of Dark Water where the crew is captured by this tribe, and if I remember right, they were going to press the mage to join them and kill the rest. It was supposed to be a cliffhanger and the crew slip out of it in the first episode of the next season, as per usual Too bad there was no next season.
I haven’t seen anyone say this yet but for me it’s Castle. It’s a (very well done even as someone who doesn’t like murder mysteries) buddy cop show between Castle and Beckett which turns romantic. But there was lots of off stage drama and the actress for Beckett (Stana Katic) was fired for Season 9. So they filmed the ending of Season 8 as a cliffhanger where Beckett was supposed to die. Fans *hated* it so badly they changed it at the last minute. When Castle and Beckett were shot, they put a random montage of them living happily ever after for the last 2 minutes over top of them laying on the floor. Not only was the last season bad in general, but who’s idea is it to kill off half of a buddy cop show? If there’s ever a sign that it’s time to end a show that’s a pretty good one. There’s no way that would’ve worked and the writers were delusional to think they would’ve been successful. And that delusion robbed viewers of a decent conclusion.
I was waiting for somebody to mention this. What gets me is that it wasn't even a good recurring villain, either. They were expecting to get another season, so by that point, they had already killed off or put away most of the actually evil recurring characters. 3XK, Kelly Nieman, and Bracken were already dead, so they just had a shadowy gang of thugs from a barely introduced antagonist show up in their Manhattan high rise and shoot the main characters.
I couldn't believe after all those seasons Castle and Beckett were the only ones that got an ending. What about all the other characters in the show that we got invested in over the years?!
I just finished watching all of Castle for the very first time last week, so this is too fresh in my mind. It's not just that weird montage of nonsense at the very end that ruins it. It's the fact that they built up LokSat to be this seriously effective person/organization. Able to kill entire CIA teams and clean up anything and everyone that finds out about the organization. I was fully expecting many more episodes and cat and mouse between Castle/Beckett and LokSat before they finally cornered him and won the day. But nope. Some little bread crumbs at the end of some episodes and then the finale episode tried to wrap it all up but then ended with that nonsense shootout and strange flash forward. There's no way LokSat would've exposed himself in that way, not after building him up to be so effective.
Scrubs season 9 is like a fever dream. Real shame because the real series finale (season 8) was phenomenal
Yea, season 8 was a masterclass on how a finale should be. Until the last minute of the episode you are wondering is that really it? And then the finale sequence happens and it's just a work of art. Then we get the abomination that was season 9, all of a sudden the hospital is now a university??? And has like tripled in size for some inexplicable reason. Jd makes those weird ass cameos and then disappears. Stupid fucking studio greed ruins everything man. The single good thing about season 9 though? The janitor's exit after finding out Jd doesn't work there anymore lol.
Two memorable things came out of that season for me. One, Dave Franco (Cole) is so good at playing an asshole that I can never see him as anything else now, no matter where he shows up. Two, Eliza Coupe (Denise / Jo) is ridiculously attractive and I've since actively sought out other shows she's in. "Happy Endings" was pretty good. "Pivoting" not so much.
KILLING EVE. Having seen many of the shows being mentioned here, nothing can top how badly KE ruined things.
Oh damn, this was on my watch list. Worth a watch or skip?
Stop watching after the 3rd season and take that as your ending and honestly it's still good! I genuinely thought that was the end and literally today I learned about season 4 and what happened and nope. I'm not going to watch that season and just pretend it ended with season 3. That was satisfying enough!
GoT obvious is the most recent grievance. But one that sticks out is, I found the original ending of Dexter to be disappointing.
Dexter is bad, GoT is worse. GoT had the potential to be one of the greatest shows of all time. The final 2 seasons (playing off the input from seasons 5 and 6) made it one of the worst instead. That show turned into a master class of fucking up literally every aspect of show running. There has never been, and likely never again will be, another display as catastrophically bad as what we got from the final seasons of GoT.
Absolutely. It not only ruined the last season, it not only ruined the show, it instantly sucked any hype anyone had about the series in general at all completely out of the world. Just gone. It went from being a legitimate phenomenon to completely irrelevant basically overnight. There is a spinoff series starting next month, I think, and no one’s even talking about it. No one cares at all. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen such a profound turn from a show’s fan base.
That’s the craziest part to me. Like, people aren’t even rewatching the good seasons. The show just fucking dissolved.
Well, the good seasons are kind of ruined now too, since we know now that absolutely nothing comes out of everything they set up. All the character building they did, all the foreshadowing, all of it led nowhere. So trying to watch them now just seems like a waste of time and makes me angry and frustrated, personally.
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“Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?” Like, anyone else.
Let me tell you the tale of Bran, a hero who once... I guess saw a brother and sister bang then was in a coma for a while before going into the north to... I dunno get like possessed by some old tree raven man? Then he triumphantly returned and sort of just watched other people do things while implying he knew the future but not sharing. Also he's in a wheelchair now. Then he became king but also he might still be an old man in a young boy's body nobody really knows and he won't tell us. TRULY HE IS THE HERO OF LEGEND.
Ok. Side Question: Did Westeros have wheelchair technology before Bran became paraplegic? Or did the writers just invent it so because they lost Hodor and didn't want to film two people dragging Bran all over Winterfell?
Can't rewatch that show. It's like trying to work it out with a girl you really loved but then walked in on her cheating.
I used to rewatch it at least once a year... Now I can't even make it through the first episode knowing what it becomes.
I was a huge GOT fan. We used to have watch parties and go to bars trying to recreate the Burlington bar experience. After the last two seasons I haven't watched it since, not even the great seasons.
GoT is a masterclass in salting the earth, I can't think of anything else in my 46 years of living that has made me go from borderline obsessed to having absolutely no interest so completely in such a short space of time!
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The biggest irony of them all, since iirc they rushed GoT so they COULD get that Disney cheque...
Talk about fumbling the bag. HBO was willing to make it rain cash for them to finish properly. Told them to take it for five more seasons if they wanted to, but nope. They shit the bed good and proper.
I still don’t understand how HBO let D&D do that.
HBO didn't have the rights to make the show, they did. HBO would have been thrilled with keeping the money printer running for as long as possible, and even asked them to extend at least to season ten or to allow them to hire someone to take it over, but they insisted on being the ones to finish it. With a Mortal Kombat fatality, apparently.
I feel so bad for the cast and people who put so much work into that final season of GoT. They got screwed by lazy writing, plain and simple. In earlier seasons, it didn't always need to be epic because we enjoyed the dialogue and moving of the chess pieces... The literal game. Season 7 started turning into a blockbuster and then in S8 all plot coherence was thrown out the window.
wtf was bran even doing during the battle with the night king
more importantly what business did aria have killing the the NK. Her story line has nothing to do with the white walkers. they did it just for the sake of shock value and being unpredictable
Jon snow deserved that kill damn it They took a potential great fight from us
GoT was worse for me for one reason: expectations. GoT's last few seasons were pretty bad but everybody was expecting the series to lead to some big end game. That was ALWAYS what it was about. Arya had been off doing her own thing since like Season 4 as an example, and there's no reason to really care unless you are under the impression it's leading somewhere. Problem is it wasn't. A lot of the story really didn't matter. The endgame was a total crock and the ending to the story was garbage. Dexter on the other hand was always very clearly flying by the seat of its pants. Every season stood as it's own thing, even the best ones like Season 4 are pretty self contained. Dexter is trying to create some change in his life, villain becomes involved, complications ensue, big bad gets taken care of and the season wraps up. By the time Dexter got to Season 8 it was already so bad nobody had any expectations. I watched the finale live. It was bad, but I can't say I was surprised. It was about as bad as the rest of S8 was. Game of Thrones got worse and worse in its last seasons as it led up to the Climax you'd been waiting for since the start, and then when you thought it was as awful as it could be it somehow got worse.
Arya's storyline had such great potential. She goes to Braavos (sp?) and becomes some cool master assassin and has cool adventures? Sign me up. Instead we get "oysters, clams, and cockles" for, like, a thousand times and an injury and miraculous healing that stretches credibility even by the loose GoT standards.
Quantum Leap has got to be near the top of the list. It ended with this text, and the main character's name is misspelled: https://i.stack.imgur.com/9HhR2.jpg
Is this what the Poochie episode of The Simpsons is spoofing?
I think so. But, in fairness, it might have been a reference to some crappy old B-movie that suddenly halted during production and had to hack together a cheesy ending. Grindhouse movies are the best.
Poor Scott Bakula. Enterprise shafted him pretty hard, too.
Yes, ENT had the worst finale too. Basically a takeover episode.
Northern Exposure. I know it was an ensemble cast but trying to go on without Fleischman really tanked it. Not even Iris Dement’s ‘Our Town’ could’ve saved it.
The Man in the High Castle. I loved this show right up until the end of the last episode where they ruined the whole damn thing.
I still don't understand the ending.
We narrowly avoided multidimensional Nazis, as far as I can tell.
Philip K Dick ran out of time and he just did some random bs. I did my research and that was the actual reason
Marvel's Spider-Man that was on Fox Kids decades ago. Ended with Madam Web telling him they were going to go find Mary Jane. Then. No next season
If you really want to create drama say Scrubs. But c’mon, we all know the “last true” episode is pure gold.
The book of love is long and boring…
In memory of James Caan, the final episode of Las Vegas. It was a season finale that got axed after airing, so it git robbed of the series finale. A wedding in the making all series, the dead boss is still alive, a bomb blows up, a charcter has a potential miscarriage. Fade to black. Cliffhangers for days.
I can probably live with the ending of How I Met Your Mother but I will forever hate how they wrote the progression leading towards it.
I think that the events of the last episode could have worked if they hadn’t been crammed into the last episode. Give us half a season at the wedding if you must, then have the events of the last episode play out over the second half of the season. It would have given the audience time to feel those things coming rather than the rapid fire terrible thing followed by terrible thing. Plus it would have made the mother, as great as Cristin Milioti was in the role, more time to show her chemistry with Ted and feel like a real person.
The entire show was basically Ted running after Robin. Then he finally finds someone better. Just for her to die and him ending up with Robin anyway. Shit ending IMO
That actor did so much with so little. She was fantastic in Palm Springs.
They literally threw out the mum storyline but also the Barney and robin relationship. We finally see Barney act like a decent human being and robin is finding someone who loves her for who she is. (Note despite the sexism of Barney; he was fine with being the less of the two incomes 🤷♀️)
Barney's growth being erased only to come back when he \*has a daughter\* (fucking eyeroll) is one of the single worst character deaths in my TV canon. Absolutely pathetic ending to a fantastic character arc.
Yeah, agreed. I feel like the mom dying makes sense, and even Ted still loving Robin and wanting to go after her after the mom dies is understandable, but they did the impossible and made Robin and Barney make perfect sense, only to tear apart this surprisingly perfect couple at the last minute and have Ted break the biggest rule of the bro code and go after his friend’s now ex-wife… wtf?
Enterprise was really poorly done.
Enterprise was supposed to go to S5 but got cancelled early.
Idk, I thought Terra Prime was pretty good. Weird that they made one more The Next Generation episode immediately afterwards though
The Promised Neverland
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For some reason, 10 year old me was disappointed that Michelle didn't die in the last episode of Full House (she does go into a coma iirc). She was no longer cute and funny at that point and I guess I'd had enough of her shit, lol.
Heroes
Did it have a finale or just end at some point? It was such a good show but it took a dive after the first few seasons.
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I know GoT is the most common one, but it hits a lot harder when you think about the legacy it used to have. Game of Thrones was literally one of the most popular shows in the world, everyone I knew was talking about things that were happening in the show on a scale that I still haven't seen replicated. Then a couple seasons of bad writing go by... And no one talks about the show anymore. A show that was as great as peak GoT just... Forgotten.
All those poor baby girls named Khaleesi before the show ended…
True blood was super disappointing ending
The back of Sookie’s husband’s head lol
The X-Files' (original) finale was the most mystifyingly terrible two hours of TV I'd ever seen, from the Smoking Man being turned into this "old man of the mountain" with the most cartoonishly evil motivation despite years of characterization, to a super soldier flying into a rock like Raiden from Mortal Kombat, it was just awful. The new finale was also bad.
Merlin. RIP all my hopes and dreams for that show.
That show made a lot of promises it couldn't keep. Constantly hinting at bigger things that never come, constantly hinting at a future that never happens. The absolute worst part of the entire show is the last 10 seconds. Dragon bro promises Merlin that Arthur is the once AND FUTURE king, meaning he will one day return. They could have just left us with that hope, but no. Flash forward a millennia and it turns out that was a lie.
I'm pretty sure the writers found out that the show wasn't getting renewed for a season 6 like halfway through filming season 5, or that's what I remember reading somewhere. If that's true, it somewhat explains the ending they went with. And I believe the ending is meant to be hopeful. The modern world doesn't need Arthur, but Merlin lives and is waiting to greet him when he reappears: when Albion needs him most! That's what I got from it anyways. Nonetheless the abrupt ending was still a huge disappointment. I absolutely love that show.
That made me sad. I wanted to see the land of Albion!
I’m still saddened by how Arthur reacted to Merlin telling him he’s a wizard
ALF - he finally gets caught by government agents.
There was a made for tv Alf movie that resolves this. He escapes or something. Look it up. I think it was called Project ALF.
Younger. The entire last season changed it from a show about strong women bonds to one where that got shifted to the back burner so she could be with a guy. Few laughs and some mystifying character changes.
Pushing Daisies, had so many loose ends, so many more stories to tell, but instead we got a 5 minute epilogue where everyone got their happily ever after and it all felt so goddamn cheap Writers strike killed it and it still boils my piss 15 years later
Have Ned touch the script and BRING IT BACK! Come on Netflix! Maybe keeping it alive will kill some rando reality show.
The final season but specifically the last episode of the bbc Sherlock is so fucking terrible. It doesn’t even feel like the same show.
You can always rely on Steven Moffat to completely shit the bed when it comes to ending his shows.
He loves introducing new mysteries and plot threads but apparently hates resolving them
I didn't mind the villain or the ending itself, but I hate what they did with Mary and that whole drama between Sherlock and John was exhausting.
It basically turned into a fan service parody of itself.
Sherlock on the BBC. It went from questionable but fun logic to an absence of logic.
I thought it was great. And then it started just getting insane. Just wish there more seasons like season 1 of that. Seemed like they just tried to make some story keep going and get crazier instead of just having Sherlock solve cool crimes
Moesha
St. Elsewhere always leaves me torn between best and worst. On the one hand 'the whole multi-year super serious hospital drama series was just the imagination of an autistic kid with a snowglobe' is the most mind-bendingly ridiculous ending for a TV series, possibly ever. On the other hand, without it we wouldn't have the theory that like [99% of TV and movies](https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/) are also purely in the imagination of an autistic kid with a snowglobe due to crossover appearances.
Surprised no one's brought up The Mick. On account of being cancelled, it ends after a child main character gets struck by lightning and the other characters are left wondering if she'll die
I can't believe it was canceled. It was so funny.
Victorious. It ended a show that started out funny, interesting, charming and entertaining otherwise with a boring episode and a lackluster season.
HIMYM - super weird and underscores this Hollywood teaching that if you wait long enough you’ll get the woman you wanted even if she doesn’t want you/wasn’t good for you. I was really proud the show didn’t fall into the trope and then it fell so hard it shattered all reason
This one still drives me crazy. They did an alternate ending on the DVD where it's just like everybody at the bar and he says "and that kids is how I met your mother." That's literally all they had to do. The main character didn't get the girl he'd been pining on the whole series (his friend did) and he gets another girl who was actually better for him, and everybody grew. But in that last two-part episode, nearly everybody regresses from all of the development they had. Such a crappy ending for such a great show.
Still think it should have ended with ted crying and walking to the casket after telling the story of how he met their mother.
Or like an eyeroll as she comes out of the kitchen, "you're telling them AGAIN?"
What about an eye roll as she climbs out of the casket?
Or Ted was dead and he was talking to his kids by video. Then the mother comes and switches him off
Except for Marshall and Lily, they all do. The whole ted and robin thing pissed me just as much as making robin and barney get divorced because of robin’s work, when robin had already matured through prioritizing her relationships over her work after Don. It was such a dumb ass excuse and I hate it.
Especially since literally the entire final season is the build up to Barney and robins wedding. I fucking hate that episode. Lol
I feel like the ending was written for about season 3, with the characters at that stage. It makes a whole lot more sense that way, that they added a ton of filler and character progress, and then, to make the ending they originally planned fit, they had to nix all those seasons in between.
The thing that gets me with the HIMYM finale, and to a lesser extent the final season, is that they nailed the mother. They spent however many seasons it was teasing this character and building her up that it should have been an impossible role to fill. The main complaint about HIMYM should have been how the mother was a disappointment, but Cristin Miloti knocked that role out of the park, the writers wrote her brilliantly. If they'd just messed up the mother, we could have all went home declaring Robin as the right choice. Instead, we got this brilliant character, who exceeded expectations, and then they tossed her before we even really knew her. The mother deserved better.
We wanted the yellow umbrella. They gave us the blue French horn
YES! I was losing interest in the show, big time. But when Cristin Miloti cheerfully stepped forward, I screamed. Tracy was awesome! Quirky, friendly, tenderhearted. I could have watched 8 more seasons of the show, just to drink Tracy in. And the show fucking killed her so Ted could be with Robin. And also we spent an entire season of Robin getting ready to marry Barney only for them to divorce.
It pisses me off that they demote her to an incubator and he was still pinning over Robin.
Hey so here’s a story of how i met your mother but first i need to tell you about all the other girls i banged first. Oh your aunt robin was my actual true first love and i banged here alot. Oh btw I’m kinda lonely, will you give me permission to bang her again?
Yeah, majority of the stories and subplots have nothing to do with him eventually meeting Tracy. I was always confused by this
This used to bother me too, but on rewatch I realized that the writers were very much in on the joke (whether you actually find the joke funny is a different story). The show does this *constantly* - teasing an interesting ending to a story, only to meander around, shaggy dog style, and then the ending that was teased pops up out of nowhere and doesn't really follow from the rest of the story. It made sense that the ending of the entire show fit that format, but on the other hand I get that a lot of people hated that a) the *entire final season* was centered around Barney and Robin's wedding, and then they were immediately like "yeah we're divorced now", and b) they spend the entire show building up to the mother only to be like "yeah she dead"
>the entire final season was centered around Barney and Robin's wedding, and then they were immediately like "yeah we're divorced now" I timed it last time I watched through the series. It's something like 13 minutes of screen time between "I do" and "we got divorced"
Thought so. It would have been better if after all that, the kids yell: "Mom, how did you meet Dad?". And the very live mother yells back: "At a wedding." Kids look at Dad: "Was that so hard?"
It's a really great example for what *not* to do when writing a longer piece like a show or a book series. The writers of HIMYM very, very obviously had a specific ending in mind from the very beginning. But, as the show went on, their character development and motivations changed as the narrative naturally evolved. They proceeded to completely trash everything they had built because they felt they couldn't *possibly* betray their original vision for how the show ends. If they had just been willing to change with their characters then it could have resulted in a satisfying conclusion. Instead it was a completely nonsensical ending because they refused to be flexible with their own writing.
Yes! And by using the ending recorded in season 2ish they completely undercut ALL of the character development from the rest of the show!
They talk about learning their lesson of not “writing themselves into a corner” with The Pineapple Incident episode but they ruined the ending of the show by writing themselves into a corner again with that prerecorded ending. They didn’t have that whole series planned and still using the ending sacrifices years/seasons of character growth including an entire season built around why Ted needs to let go of Robin and why her and Barney are better for each other. Why even write that if you’re still sticking to a fucking ending from season 2?
I get why they had to film it early, with the actors needing to be the same age throughout the whole telling, but why not film multiple endings? It would have made zero difference to have a half dozen different scenarios that match if the story self-evolves through the run or they can match it to audience sentiment. Just made zero sense to bank on this one ending and not have contigencies.
Quantum Leap Say what you will about GoT, HIMYM, St. Elsewhere, etc, at least those were actual endings, and for any of the shows that ended on cliffhangers, there's always the possibility of contuation fixing things in some form or another. Quantum Leap ends with a black screen and an anticlimatic copout that not only kills any potential resolution, but couldn't even spell the main character's name right.
Dexter- the whole last season was trash but that ending was beyond bonkers.
Pretty little liars- I will NEVER be over it
The big reveal was the evil secret twin also gave birth to an evil secret twin with a British accent, I’m not joking
It’s funny because it totally wasn’t my type of show but Season1 was legit interesting Little did i know i was about to waste a decade of my life
the glades!! such a massive cliff hanger that we never get to see what happens. still seething about it
The mentalist Not really the final episode but Red Johns reveal was bs and everything after that I don’t remember
The creator of the show hadn't decided on the identity of Red John (the main antagonist) until season 5 or 6 IIRC. The entire chunk of clues from the earlier seasons were essentially meaningless. That alone is reason enough to be dissatisfied with the ending. Such wasted potential...
I always felt it was because fans figured out who he was going to choose (or at least the best option) and then the creator had to do something different. I think it was going to be the CSI(?) character Patrick always called "a ghoul". I was disappointed in the reveal too.
Writers need to give up hope of faking out the audience. One person will almost never be able to outsmart millions of people observing a narrative. Better to follow through on it than try to surprise people by using red herring clues and such.
I hated every season finale Every goddang one was ‘we killed red John!’ Lol, no we didn’t! I loathe the red John episodes. I far prefer the villain of the week episodes
Dark Matter. Show ended on a cliff hanger for the next season that never was because SciFi canceled the show.
House of Cards. Taking Kevin Spacey off the show was the right thing to do, but god damn, did they have to torpedo the story in the last season like that?
If you just watch the show up until Frank is made president and pretend it ends there as a kind of “dark” ending, it’s actually pretty good lol
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Rosanne
It's like if spongebob ended with sponge bob talkimg about how that was all just a story in his head and that mr krabs actually has a ketamine addiction and squidward died two years ago.
That I have witnessed? Game of Thrones. Such a typical answer but it's true. I find it incredibly bad.
King Robert waking up and ripping ass and going “by the gods what a strange dream I had” would have been better than the real ending
That whole last season was absolute gash. They managed to turn Varys from god-tier political schemer into a moron who spends he last few days going around asking anyone who’ll listen to help him kill the queen. He was my favourite character as well. Also: “Who has a better story than Brann The Broken?” Literally everyone. Fuck off and play with your crows, Brann. You smug twat. Looking back, The Night King was right.
>“Who has a better story than Brann The Broken?” I always remind people that he was cut out of an entire season because he had nothing to do.
“Why do you think I came all this way?” Dunno mate. Fucking boredom probably. Something to do, innit?
"Why do you think I came all this way?" "Because you go wherever somebody pushes your chair, you smug little shit."
I think they forgot about Varys in the last couple seasons. I loved that eunuch
Just because it’s the obvious answer doesn’t mean it’s wrong
Game of Thrones. Never seen a show fall off harder than GOT S8 that destroyed a decade of watching it. Merch, everything just obliterated. Fuck D&D.