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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 3, 2018 10:32:56 GMT -5
How I Met Your Mother - Barney and Robin don’t get divorced. Ted and Tracy stay together. Even if she still passes away, the mother still ends up being the center of the story that was literally named How I Met Your MOTHER!!! I hate that finale so bad that I cannot watch any episode of the series. It ruined it completly for me. Seriously. I think the creators had this long term story planned out to the point that they lost sight of the fact that the framing device used to tell the story ended up making the whole show about Ted asking his kids if they were cool with him dating their Aunt.
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Post by Johnny on Feb 3, 2018 10:53:27 GMT -5
this thread is making me realise how few tv series i've watched right the way through to the ending.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 11:14:40 GMT -5
The Sopranos - I need more than a f***ing fade to black. At least let me see him getting gunned down and then fade to black I say they do an extended cut featuring 10+ additional minutes of Meadow trying to parallel park and then STILL fade to black for maximum annoyance.
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Post by ERON on Feb 3, 2018 11:23:49 GMT -5
Buffy: End it the second before Dawn first shows up.
Transformers: Season 3 ends with the revelation that not only was Optimus Prime rescued at the last minute at the end of "Dark Awakening," but all the deactivated Autobots were salvaged and restored to life by the Junkions. Seasons 4-34 continue from there. Season 35 starts this fall.
ALF: Lynn rescues ALF at the last second and the show becomes an hour-long comedy-drama about the two of them drifting from town to town helping strangers in need while staying one step ahead of the government agents on their trail.
Lost: It turns out everything started with the Professor building a time machine to go back and stop himself from taking that three-hour tour, but Gilligan got hold of the machine and broke time itself.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 3, 2018 11:50:46 GMT -5
The Shield. Take out the last few seconds where Mackey takes his gun and leaves. The end needs to be him stuck at the desk in a hell he brought on himself.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 3, 2018 12:55:57 GMT -5
Star Trek: Voyager - "Endgame" happens, but it isn't the final episode. It's the second-to-last episode, is only a one-parter, and cuts out all the time travel/future Janeway stuff. Instead the Voyager crew comes across the Borg Trans-Warp Hub and need to figure out how to use it while destroying it at the same time. They succeed and wind up back in the Alpha Quadrant, but instead of being in what looks like Lunar Orbit, they wind up in an isolated and distant part of the quadrant that is still a couple months away from Earth.
The next episode, the actual finale, we discover it's a couple of weeks later and Voyager has rendezvoused with a Federation starship that's carrying dignitaries and Voyager crew family members and friends. We use this to get resolution to all the long-standing character story arcs from the series. The Maquis crew members are pardoned and offered Starfleet commissions, Paris and Torres settle things with their parents and introduce them to their new granddaughter, The Doctor and Barclay meet and the Doctor is told he has been awarded status as a sentient life form, Naomi meets her Dad, etc.
Then things go to crap. Apparently right before the Borg Queen was killed and the Trans-Warp Hub was destroyed, the Borg transported over to Voyager an experimental Borg nano-virus that has been infecting both the crew and the visitors. They have slowly been turning into Borgs, with Seven as the designated Queen, but while they have a local hive mind with each other, they aren't connected to the main Borg Collective yet. The crew attempts to stop this from happening without killing their family and friends while the Doctor works on a cure.
They of course manage to do it and the Doctor pumps his cure through the life support system of both ships. They cure everybody, except Seven, who is still the Borg Queen intent on assimilating everybody on both ships. Janeway makes the call to evacuate everybody onto the dignitary ship while she stays behind on Voyager to stop Seven (who has commandeered the ship). The main Voyager crew (Paris, Torres, Chakotay, Tuvok and The Doctor) decide to stay behind against orders to help Janeway. Then all of a sudden Voyager jumps into Trans-Warp. They discover that while in control of Voyager, the virus-infected pseudo-Borg managed to repair an old Trans-Warp drive on the ship that Voyager has been experimenting with, aimed it at Earth, and Borg Queen Seven activated it. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to be programmed to stop. Basically they turned Voyager into a great big Trans-Warp missile to destroy Earth when it reaches it in a couple of minutes. When asked why, Seven simple says that Earth has proven to be too great of a threat to the Collective and the only way to eliminate the threat is to destroy the planet.
So the Voyager crew breaks up into teams, Janeway, Paris and Tuvok head to the Bridge to stop Seven, Torres and Chakotay head to engineering to try to turn off the Trans-Warp drive, and the Doctor heads to Sick Bay to try to figure out why the cure didn't work on Seven. Action and drama happens and then the Doctor reveals that the cure DID work on Seven. Apparently though the events of the last few years of Seven's life combined with the recent trauma of the Borg virus caused her to psychologically snap, and now she can't think of herself as anything other then a Borg. More action follows, Janeway talks Seven down, Torres manages to turn off the Drive, Paris jumps into the pilots seat, but the ship is still going really fast, and while Earth is no longer in danger, it seems unlikely that Voyager and its remaining crew members will survive impact.We then see a speeding Voyager crash into the Pacific Ocean.
We then cut to a shot of the Voyager crew sitting on top of the hull of the ship in the Pacific Ocean as its being towed by some Naval vessels to San Francisco. Apparently Paris' piloting was good enough to slow Voyager down so they could survive the crash. A previously catatonic Seven wakes up, and is immediately distraught over her actions. The Voyager crew console her as we see fireworks go off over the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Voyager is finally home.
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Feb 3, 2018 13:02:15 GMT -5
The Shield. Take out the last few seconds where Mackey takes his gun and leaves. The end needs to be him stuck at the desk in a hell he brought on himself. I was hoping some form of a spin-off series where he finds his family or maybe a mini-sode where he goes to jail.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 3, 2018 13:37:41 GMT -5
How I Met Your Mother - Barney and Robin don’t get divorced. Ted and Tracy stay together. Even if she still passes away, the mother still ends up being the center of the story that was literally named How I Met Your MOTHER!!! I hate that finale so bad that I cannot watch any episode of the series. It ruined it completly for me. HIMYM was the worst example of how writers fall in love with their own headcanon even though they are in charge of the universe. Like, the whole point of the series was how Ted met Tracy, and how Tracy was the best person for him, but the writers were so hellbent on making Ted & Robin official from all the way back in the first season they tossed a somewhat somber but at least fulfilling ending (Ted misses Tracy but he still has his children and was finally able to remember the happy times) out for an incredibly weak ending where Barney went back to his lady (Or, bimbo) killing ways just so they could get the two to hook up. They also spent like 3 f***ing seasons using Barney and Robin's wedding as an anchoring point in the storyline, including the series finale. And there was so much filler in those seasons compared to the well-paced seasons previously. And after 3 seasons of that buildup, oh hey they get divorced 20 minutes later in the finale. Would've been really so much to have like, take away one season of the fillery crap and dedicate the last season to Ted and Tracy dating, falling in love, and then have the series finale centered on their wedding versus their entire lives together being wrapped up in like two episodes? Even if the ultimate ending would've stayed the same with Tracy dying, at least she wouldn't have been such a throwaway character compared to how she came off as, in spite of being the literal title character.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 3, 2018 14:37:10 GMT -5
Dexter: end it after season 5, but have La Guerta somehow get killed. Seriously end it after season 2. They blew their load way too quick with that season. Admittedly I gave up shortly after the assistant DA storyline in I think season 3. That storyline was just way too stupid for me. They could have made season 3 something else and perhaps that be the end of it so you wrap everything up and get Dexter’s reveal. I’ve heard there were other bits in the series that were good/great and I gave up too early. However there are too many great series out there that I still need to watch that aren’t knowing for having long stretches of sucking ass. Just don't watch it dude. It has glimpses of greatness, but the show would start each season with newly hired writers who clearly didn't get the show, so the second half would always be hitting the reset button to return to the status-quo. It's a bad show and I regret sticking with it through season 6.
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Post by The Lapsed ROHbot on Feb 3, 2018 18:12:39 GMT -5
Seriously end it after season 2. They blew their load way too quick with that season. Admittedly I gave up shortly after the assistant DA storyline in I think season 3. That storyline was just way too stupid for me. They could have made season 3 something else and perhaps that be the end of it so you wrap everything up and get Dexter’s reveal. I’ve heard there were other bits in the series that were good/great and I gave up too early. However there are too many great series out there that I still need to watch that aren’t knowing for having long stretches of sucking ass. Just don't watch it dude. It has glimpses of greatness, but the show would start each season with newly hired writers who clearly didn't get the show, so the second half would always be hitting the reset button to return to the status-quo. It's a bad show and I regret sticking with it through season 6. In a perfect Dexter canon, the initial showrunner sticks around a couple more seasons. In the wake of Dexter grieving the season 4 ending, he channels his rage by going after the murderous mobster that's part of bad ass Isaak Sirko's criminal organization. The main theme of season 5 is the dual grieving that Dexter and Isaak experience, while properly building to their climatic homicidal showdown in the season finale. Now for pure fantasy booking, season 6 would be the farewell and be an incredibly expensive "mirror image dream match" as the show goes cross-country between South Beach and the Pacific Northwest, for Kevin Costner gets cast as Mr. Brooks. It pits 2 addicted serial killers that both have a conscious character they communicate with internally, as well as how both blend it seamlessly with society to lead their successful double lives.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 3, 2018 20:50:09 GMT -5
The Office should have ended with Michael transferring to Colorado. Pam racing to the airport to hug Michael was the perfect ending for the series. Continuing past that was pointless.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 3, 2018 20:58:23 GMT -5
DBZ
I know it's from the Manga but the last 2 episodes to DBZ just never sat right with me. I prefer to think "He's Always Late" as the true ending to DBZ.
I hope Super retcons it
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 4, 2018 0:32:06 GMT -5
I dunno, to me DBZ should have ended when it hit it's ultimate climax: Piccolo gets his drivers license
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Post by Goldenbane on Feb 4, 2018 0:45:36 GMT -5
He-man and the Masters of the Universe/She-Ra: Princess of Power- The Great Rebellion and the Heroic Eternian Warriors team up and over throw the Horde on Etheria. Skeletor and Hordak are convinced to put aside their differences by a new evil villain, King Hiss. The three combine their forces and launch a huge assault on Castle Grayskull. Breaking into the Castle, Horde Prime nearly steals all the power and secrets from the castle, but he is betrayed by Skeletor, who, of course, wants the powers for himself. The heroes breach the castle just in time and defeat Skeletor, defeating the evil alliance, and destroying the evil Horde once and for all. The Trollans (Orko's people) imprison Hordak, King Hiss, Skeletor, and Horde Prime, allowing Etheria and Eternia to live in happiness and peace.
Alf: Alf is surrounded by the military...but suddenly a ship from his home planet appears. He is beamed aboard, and another ray of energy erases all evidence and memories of Alf from the military. Alf goes home and the Tanner family are the only humans on Earth with any knowledge or memories of their friend.
The Incredible Hulk: Death of the Incredible Hulk goes as normal...however, instead of going to credits we cut to a construction site a year later. The foreman is looking things over, and approaches a huge brute of a man, hard at work. With him is Jack McGee who is covering a story on the new building. As the foreman prattles on to Jack about what they are building, Jack notices a small green splotch on the giant brute's hand. It's the Hulk! The creature is still alive, but without David Banner...and has somehow gained a greater measure of intelligence, though he's still mute (maybe it has something to do with the fall or the David self dying). When the creature turns, both he and Jack immediately recognize each other. To the Hulk's surprise, however, McGee just sadly smiles, and nods, saying nothing to him and leaving him in peace. The Hulk is relieved and goes about living his new life as just an "ordinary" man, no longer feared and no longer on the run. The movie ends with Jack McGee visiting David's grave site and seeing it disturbed and the casket broken open, proving the Hulk freed himself at some point. Jack is satisfied, though. His quest to prove the Hulk existed was long over, and now he just has it confirmed for himself. He turns and leaves, as The Lonely Man begins to play and the credits roll.
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Post by -Lithium- on Feb 4, 2018 1:56:41 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. I was kind of disappointed in a way. From day one the series direction was "Mr Chips to Scarface" and I guess I took it too literally. I thought it might end with Walt being much more of a villain. Though outside of maybe killing his family, I can't imagine anything would ever turn Walt into the villain for me. I always wanted Walt to win. I f***ing HATED watching him have to put his hands behind his back and get cuffed by Hank. Though I suppose if it did end like you wanted, there'd constantly be pressure to continue the series.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 4, 2018 13:16:32 GMT -5
The last episode of How I Met Your Mother is just the wedding and the meeting at the train station. The other 40 minutes is just a card saying "hey nothing else happened they all lived happily ever after thanks for watching the show bye"
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Feb 4, 2018 13:29:31 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. I was kind of disappointed in a way. From day one the series direction was "Mr Chips to Scarface" and I guess I took it too literally. I thought it might end with Walt being much more of a villain. Though outside of maybe killing his family, I can't imagine anything would ever turn Walt into the villain for me. I always wanted Walt to win. I f***ing HATED watching him have to put his hands behind his back and get cuffed by Hank. Though I suppose if it did end like you wanted, there'd constantly be pressure to continue the series. Yeah, that was one of my minor gripes with the show too. Walt aside from poisoning a child I never felt like I should hate him. A villain, whether it's in a film, tv show, video game, or book shouldn't have any form of redeeming qualities. There's a reason why we should detest them and Walt, in my opinion, should've either accidentally killed Skyler or Walt Jr, or to really show how far he's fallen as a human being he should've killed Jesse in the finale to fully transition himself into Heisenberg and thus removing any redeeming qualities.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 13:36:01 GMT -5
Southpaw Regional Wrestling promotes Lethal Leap Year and becomes a viable competitor to McMahon.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 4, 2018 17:18:04 GMT -5
Thought it got confusing and past its expiration date even by then, the previous season of Once Upon A Time should have been the end instead of the Now With Half the Characters version we have now.
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Post by -Lithium- on Feb 4, 2018 22:45:51 GMT -5
I was kind of disappointed in a way. From day one the series direction was "Mr Chips to Scarface" and I guess I took it too literally. I thought it might end with Walt being much more of a villain. Though outside of maybe killing his family, I can't imagine anything would ever turn Walt into the villain for me. I always wanted Walt to win. I f***ing HATED watching him have to put his hands behind his back and get cuffed by Hank. Though I suppose if it did end like you wanted, there'd constantly be pressure to continue the series. Yeah, that was one of my minor gripes with the show too. Walt aside from poisoning a child I never felt like I should hate him. A villain, whether it's in a film, tv show, video game, or book shouldn't have any form of redeeming qualities. There's a reason why we should detest them and Walt, in my opinion, should've either accidentally killed Skyler or Walt Jr, or to really show how far he's fallen as a human being he should've killed Jesse in the finale to fully transition himself into Heisenberg and thus removing any redeeming qualities. Even like the Brock thing...yes, that was bad. But it didn't even come close to making he think of his as this evil villain. It's not like he planned on killing the kid. He knew what to do and knew that he'd be safe in the end. It wasn't some act of revenge on Jesse or anything, it was for the greater good. Walt did it to kill a guy who had employed child killers and actually threatened to murder his entire family, infant included.
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