Ben Wyatt
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Feb 2, 2018 14:36:54 GMT -5
We're all a bunch of TV junkies and I'm sure all of us have had a series we were huge fans of end on a less than awesome note. It could be something universally panned (looking at you, 'Roseanne') or something on a personal level that *you* didn't like. How would you change it?
I'll go first:
Beverly Hills 90210: End it after season 8. Jason Priestly was leaving and and continuing the show without him was a terrible idea. So, this one is pretty simple: He and Kelly actually get married. They could shoehorn Donna/David together to end the series, because I always felt like that was the end game.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Feb 2, 2018 14:49:52 GMT -5
Dexter: end it after season 5, but have La Guerta somehow get killed.
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Bobeddy
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Bobeddy on Feb 2, 2018 15:05:40 GMT -5
Dexter: end it after season 5, but have La Guerta somehow get killed. My first thought was also Dexter, but have it end after Season 4. Dexter's on the boat disposing of Trinity, monologuing that the man he thought found the balance between his family self and killer self never had that balance at all. Dexter realises he can't have both and chooses family. He's willing to put his dark side aside altogether and returns home. If he comes home and Rita's fine, that could've been the series finale as the character had completed his arc. With that said, I loved the Rita reveal and it's a fantastic gut punch moment. But when I think on how the show did actually end (--shivers--), that's the point I think storywise would've made the most sense.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 2, 2018 15:10:10 GMT -5
Firefly: it would go to season 7 or 8 or so
(I'LL NEVER LET THIS GO)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 15:17:04 GMT -5
Not the absolute end but in Boardwalk Empire, Richard Harrow is left loads of money, gets married and lives a long and peaceful life.
THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Feb 2, 2018 15:17:46 GMT -5
Dexter: end it after season 5, but have La Guerta somehow get killed. My first thought was also Dexter, but have it end after Season 4. Dexter's on the boat disposing of Trinity, monologuing that the man he thought found the balance between his family self and killer self never had that balance at all. Dexter realises he can't have both and chooses family. He's willing to put his dark side aside altogether and returns home. If he comes home and Rita's fine, that could've been the series finale as the character had completed his arc. With that said, I loved the Rita reveal and it's a fantastic gut punch moment. But when I think on how the show did actually end (--shivers--), that's the point I think storywise would've made the most sense. Yeah, that's a better idea and have Rita be fine. And then he checks his voicemail and he's told LaGuerta is killed. That would be A++.
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Post by Wilfred on Feb 2, 2018 15:24:26 GMT -5
Lost: End it after five seasons. Don't do the church/purgatory scene. No time travel. Have Jack sacrifice himself somehow to destroy the island once and for all, saving the survivors.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 15:29:15 GMT -5
The Scrubs season 8 finale would have been the greatest finale in tv history.
Yeah, I know season 9 was really supposed to be a spinoff, and it was actually decent enough, but it didn't wind up having a "final" episode. It just randomly ended with Turk dancing or something like that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 15:31:37 GMT -5
Give Married with Children an actual ending. Kelly gets married, as was the proposed ending, and the other characters fall into place: Al ends up buying the shoe store but it's barely breaking even, Bud gets a job there and turns into the next Al, and Peg continues being a couch potato but maybe Al and she finally have another kid (to tie up the storyline that Peg was pregnant but it turned out to be only a dream to explain Katey Segal's miscarriage) and she attempts to become a better mother. Steve ends up back with Marcy, Jefferson goes back to being a spy, etc. Things change but they still remain the same, since the characters are stuck in their drudgery. The one thing I would end with is footage of Al scoring his four touchdowns for Polk High.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Feb 2, 2018 15:49:30 GMT -5
Friends: Everyone realizes how annoying Phoebe is and that she's the cause of, like, 80% of the series problems and conflicts, so they collectively decide to ostracize her.
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Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Feb 2, 2018 16:09:12 GMT -5
Hannibal ends with Will Graham retiring, Lechter incarcerated, and hinting at the introduction of Clarice Starling.
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Bobeddy
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Post by Bobeddy on Feb 2, 2018 16:21:08 GMT -5
My first thought was also Dexter, but have it end after Season 4. Dexter's on the boat disposing of Trinity, monologuing that the man he thought found the balance between his family self and killer self never had that balance at all. Dexter realises he can't have both and chooses family. He's willing to put his dark side aside altogether and returns home. If he comes home and Rita's fine, that could've been the series finale as the character had completed his arc. With that said, I loved the Rita reveal and it's a fantastic gut punch moment. But when I think on how the show did actually end (--shivers--), that's the point I think storywise would've made the most sense. Yeah, that's a better idea and have Rita be fine. And then he checks his voicemail and he's told LaGuerta is killed. That would be A++. If we're rewriting, let's go one better and have Season 1 be more like the first book where LaGuerta gets killed during the Ice Truck Killer confrontation. Hannibal ends with Will Graham retiring, Lechter incarcerated, and hinting at the introduction of Clarice Starling. Funnily enough, even if Hannibal never gets picked up again by someone else, I can totally buy the ending we've got as the end.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Feb 2, 2018 16:24:20 GMT -5
Friends: Everyone realizes how annoying Phoebe is and that she's the cause of, like, 80% of the series problems and conflicts, so they collectively decide to ostracize her. OR IN A MORE REALISTIC ENDING and not whatever you crayoned across your padded cell basically from 0:00 to 1:57 then we can all enjoy phoebe being QUEEN OF NEW YORK and putting them all in her new private prison called CENTRAL JAIL where you will all be her REDACTED! where there is only one song being played ..... {Spoiler} YOU DON'T DESERVE SMELLY CAT YOU FILTHY HEATHEN!!! other than MANIMAL, TALES OF THE GOLDEN MONKEY and BEST OF THE WEST having a mashup .....
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riseofsetian1981
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Feb 2, 2018 16:42:12 GMT -5
For me I'd have Breaking Bad end with Walt fully living as Heisenberg and continuing his meth empire. I just felt it would've been an amazing, intense, and epic ending if we saw Walt still battling cancer but wearing the hat, shades, and he walks up to a door of an unsuspecting individual knocks and walks away as two men approach afterwards with guns.
24 Season 8 I would've ended it with Jack accepting his fate and being arrested. As he's entering into a prison facility he happens to spot Tony in which they make amends.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 2, 2018 17:17:49 GMT -5
I wasn't a great fan of Enterprise, but it deserved better than a finale where the plot is a framing device for a subplot in an eleven year-old TNG episode.
What that better finale is, I'm really not sure.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 2, 2018 18:19:16 GMT -5
The Sopranos - Tony gets gunned down and killed.
Mad Men - Don realises his life has been completely empty and superficial, and jumps out of the window, becoming the guy in the opening credits.
Star Trek: Voyager - The ship makes it back after centuries, but is derelict and the crew are long-dead. It's been on autopilot for years.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 2, 2018 18:59:30 GMT -5
Give Married with Children an actual ending. Kelly gets married, as was the proposed ending, and the other characters fall into place: Al ends up buying the shoe store but it's barely breaking even, Bud gets a job there and turns into the next Al, and Peg continues being a couch potato but maybe Al and she finally have another kid (to tie up the storyline that Peg was pregnant but it turned out to be only a dream to explain Katey Segal's miscarriage) and she attempts to become a better mother. Steve ends up back with Marcy, Jefferson goes back to being a spy, etc. Things change but they still remain the same, since the characters are stuck in their drudgery. The one thing I would end with is footage of Al scoring his four touchdowns for Polk High. Modern Family ends with Ed O'Neil waking up back as Al, next to Peg.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Feb 2, 2018 19:00:59 GMT -5
I wasn't a great fan of Enterprise, but it deserved better than a finale where the plot is a framing device for a subplot in an eleven year-old TNG episode. What that better finale is, I'm really not sure. I have zero love for that show, especially the Brian Adams song intro, but I'm well aware it had a following. And what a slap in the face to those fans. :/
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 2, 2018 19:10:24 GMT -5
Star Trek: Voyager - The ship makes it back after centuries, but is derelict and the crew are long-dead. It's been on autopilot for years. Voyager needed rewriting from about halfway through the pilot onwards. It was a great premise - part-Starfleet/part-Maquis crew stranded 70 years from home, with limited supplies and hostile territories ahead of them - and they turned it into just another ordinary Trek show, with another ordinary Trek crew.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 2, 2018 19:34:24 GMT -5
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