Chainsaw
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A very BAD man.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jan 4, 2017 20:31:43 GMT -5
Anybody remembered how the wonder years ended ? Yeah. I remember it actually ended up on a pretty upbeat note, even though Kevin and Winnie don't end up together, they remain friends into adulthood.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 4, 2017 20:40:39 GMT -5
Anybody remembered how the wonder years ended ? Yeah. I remember it actually ended up on a pretty upbeat note, even though Kevin and Winnie don't end up together, they remain friends into adulthood. And Wayne became an exec for WCW and TNA...oops!
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jan 4, 2017 20:41:51 GMT -5
What didn't work for you, out of interest?
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jan 4, 2017 20:42:26 GMT -5
I had issues with the final seasons of That 70's Show, HIMYM and Sons of Anarachy. SOA is close but Dexter has to have the crown. After an awesome seventh season, they did away with the Deb/Dexter issues by like, episode four. The season introduced new characters and nonsense instead of focusing on what made the previous seasons great. Then the finale was just...yikes.
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FinalGwen
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Particularly fond of muffins.
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Post by FinalGwen on Jan 4, 2017 20:43:09 GMT -5
I'll throw Coupling into the mix. Lost its best character and replaced him with Steven Moffat's second self insert, Oliver. But because anything remotely funny about himself ended up in the show's main character, all that was left for Oliver was a love of Doctor Who and casual biphobia.
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Jazzman
King Koopa
Trombone Shorty > Your Favorite Musician
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Post by Jazzman on Jan 4, 2017 22:44:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure if the 6th season of Community counts, but it did kill an entire streaming platform.
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Urethra Franklin
King Koopa
When Toronto sports teams lose, Alison Brie is sad
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jan 4, 2017 23:30:54 GMT -5
Oz. That show started out like gangbusters and fell hard, especially after Season 4. I think the show peaked with Adebisi's death. Everything after kinda sucked.
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Post by CubsFan71 on Jan 5, 2017 4:13:39 GMT -5
I'm throwing X-Files into the mix. The end of season 8 with Mulder holding baby William and he and Scully kissing would have been the perfect way to end the series. But nah! Let's have a Mulderless 9th season where we kill off the lone gunmen and have an episode in the Brady Bunch house. Jesus
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Unocal 76
King Koopa
Providing The Finest Oil
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Post by Unocal 76 on Jan 5, 2017 4:36:01 GMT -5
Beverly Hills 90210 was pretty dire Wheels were off the wagon by then. Jason Priestley was gone. Tiffani Thiessen had left. The show was definitely left in the dust by then. It grew old and outdated for a show that had such a huge teen following and big impact. By the end of the 90s, it seemed stale compared with the WB Network's hip lineup (Ironically, among those Dubba Dubba WB stars was Shannen Doherty) The cast was top heavy (Jenny/Luke/Tori//Ian Ziering/Brian Austin were there the whole way), the cast had become a rotating bullpen of names coming and going and the chemistry wasn't the same.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 5, 2017 6:24:23 GMT -5
Battlestar Galactica's last season (and its finale in particular) was god-awful. it became really obvious they were just making shit up as they went along and had no idea how to end anything.
That 70's Show really should have ended after Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace left.
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2017 6:52:22 GMT -5
Beverly Hills 90210 was pretty dire Wheels were off the wagon by then. Jason Priestley was gone. Tiffani Thiessen had left. The show was definitely left in the dust by then. It grew old and outdated for a show that had such a huge teen following and big impact. By the end of the 90s, it seemed stale compared with the WB Network's hip lineup (Ironically, among those Dubba Dubba WB stars was Shannen Doherty) The cast was top heavy (Jenny/Luke/Tori//Ian Ziering/Brian Austin were there the whole way), the cast had become a rotating bullpen of names coming and going and the chemistry wasn't the same. Oh, I don't disagree at all with anything you said, but I feel like the last season was especially terrible. The finale couldn't have been more shoehorned in.
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Nr1Humanoid
Hank Scorpio
Is the #3 humanoid at best.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jan 5, 2017 7:31:55 GMT -5
Dallas. The storylines were boring, most of the principal cast was gone, their replacements a poor imitaion of those that came before and the greatest television villain of all time was redused to a bumbling fool. Just horrible all around.
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Post by thegame415 on Jan 5, 2017 9:02:28 GMT -5
Married...with Children.
The tornado, Al and Peg get separated, Al joins the army, Al plays Robert Englund in football, etc.
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2017 9:07:19 GMT -5
I wouldn't say worst ever, but yeah it was pretty dire. I generally don't mind the latter seasons, but by the final one it was painfully clear they were completely out of gas. The ONLY issue I take with the show ending is that it never got a real proper finale. Fox owed it that much, seeing how it was (along with the Simpsons) the show that put Fox on the map
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
Posts: 41,496
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2017 9:10:47 GMT -5
That 70s show had no place being on TV after Topher Grace left but it's far from the worst. The finale was excellent, IMO. (To go further, the previous couple episodes to it were pretty good at how they tied it all together) I think the finale being so well received probably earned the last season a shred of goodwill
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jan 5, 2017 11:03:28 GMT -5
Dallas. The storylines were boring, most of the principal cast was gone, their replacements a poor imitaion of those that came before and the greatest television villain of all time was redused to a bumbling fool. Just horrible all around. For that matter, the revival of Dallas' Season 3, but maybe because I'm sour that after 2's satisfying ending, 3 ended on a cliffhanger and then got cancelled.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Jan 5, 2017 11:36:35 GMT -5
I had issues with the final seasons of That 70's Show, HIMYM and Sons of Anarachy. SOA is close but Dexter has to have the crown. After an awesome seventh season, they did away with the Deb/Dexter issues by like, episode four. The season introduced new characters and nonsense instead of focusing on what made the previous seasons great. Then the finale was just...yikes. I was going to say SOA as well. It all went downhill from season 2, but the final season was a clusterf*** of epic proportions. A lot of it was illogical and some even hard to watch. I know Kurt Sutter had the end in mind from the beginning, but it was stretched out way too long. 4 seasons would have been perfect.
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Post by Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic on Jan 5, 2017 11:50:58 GMT -5
- That last season of Roseanne never happened. The show ended with Dan's heart attack. Never happened. Never. Happened.
- I don't think anyone's mentioned The Drew Carey Show. ABC thought it would be a good idea to renew the show for 2 seasons and when they did, it immediately went to shit. Christa Miller left, Craig Ferguson left. Winfrid-Louder closed and turned into some bullshit online company. The show and its ratings got so bad ABC ended up burning it off in the summer.
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BRV
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Wants him some Taco Flavored Kisses.
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Post by BRV on Jan 5, 2017 15:23:12 GMT -5
I'll throw a vote for the final seasons of Entourage and The Office Yeah Entourage's final season and the movie was pretty bad. But the final season of The Office was pretty good despite the first few episodes being rough. Like it was a lot better then the last few seasons before and it ended on a good note. I remember hating the final season of "The Office" as it aired, but I recently went back and gave it a second chance on Netflix and it's actually much better than I recall. When it initially aired, I was very unfair to the final season largely because it had been preceded by three seasons of garbage. Basically, from the end of the Michael Scott Paper Company plot to the start of the ninth and final season, the show was impossibly terrible. So I went into the last season with low expectations and was unfairly dismissive of it. But a second viewing with a clearer mind allowed me to find it to be pretty funny and actually somewhat charming. A huge key was the return of Andy being a villain because that character should never be someone the audience is asked to root for. He's a pompous, selfish, silver-spoon Ivy League brat who lashes out in a rage anytime anything doesn't go exactly his way. Spinning off of Andy returning to being the villain was the adorable Pete and Erin relationship, the first time they tried to replicate Jim and Pam and did it successfully. Rewatching those episodes, you realize how charming of a pairing those two were and how well their burgeoning love story developed. The only plot in the final season that still rankled me upon a second viewing was the Jim/Pam/Brian love triangle that went from being something substantial to absolutely nothing in about two episodes flat. After that dissipated, we had Jim and Pam squabbling and questions about whether they'd go their separate ways, but of course, with Jim and Pam being the undisputed king and queen of Dunder Mifflin, everything worked out for them because they're just the perfect couple. As for a show that I loved that had a wretched final season, I'll cast a vote for the other hugely popular NBC comedy of the era - "Parks & Recreation". The whole 2017 storyline was hackneyed and maybe could have carried an episode or two but to stretch it out across the final season was just a cheap and easy way for the writers to get some mileage out of jokes that were nothing more than "THE FUTURE...AM I RIGHT, YOU GUYS?!" The only episode of the final season that really resonated with me was "Leslie and Ron" because I'd always felt that the mentor/apprentice, teacher/student, father/daughter dynamic that Ron and Leslie had built was one of the better ongoing storylines of the entire series. So to see them connect and to see Ron Swanson be humanized when he tries to go to Leslie for help was really touching. The show's series finale was pretty disappointing, as it was sort of a take-off on the "Six Feet Under" finale, where we go even further into the future and see how the main characters lived their lives. Overall, though, it was a lackluster season that focused way too much time on irrelevant storylines that went nowhere and seemingly wrapped up in a week or two (Morningstar, Grizzyl) or dedicated too much energy on characters that were at best tertiary but for some reason became starring characters (April, Andy). Also, season 7 featured "The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show", quite possibly the worst single episode of any network television I've ever seen.
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mizerable
Fry's dog Seymour
You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest.
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Post by mizerable on Jan 5, 2017 15:52:25 GMT -5
The thing is, Dexter lost it's luster after season 4. They never ever change the format and I thought having Dexter get exposed would do some good to change things, but the writing was very very complacent. Not the last season but I'm still pissed at that The Sopranos last episode They f***ed up when they killed Christopher mid season.
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