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Post by Shark on May 10, 2019 22:51:44 GMT -5
Echoing the complaints for How I Met Your Mother. I'd even extend that to the entire final season.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on May 10, 2019 23:57:48 GMT -5
How have we gotten this far without a mention of the disaster that was the final episode of Star Trek Enterprise? Yes, it's been a long road...
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on May 11, 2019 0:36:34 GMT -5
Echoing the complaints for How I Met Your Mother. I'd even extend that to the entire final season. Zabka and The Mother were great in the final season, and there were still some good episodes, most of all "How Your Mother Met Me." But yeah, that final season was not good at all, and the finale was beyond shit.
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Post by Paul on May 11, 2019 0:56:03 GMT -5
What are some shows that you were a fan of but you were disappointed by the way it ended? Full House. An Amnesia story? Then it ends with "Michelle's ok, bye everybody, thanks for watching" Sopranos. Although I understand why. I didn't like the blackout How I Met Your Mother. I invested all those years. You spent seasons making not want to see Ted and Robin together while making me care about Barney and Robin's relationship. Just to end with "Mom died, Robin got divorced and I still love her" What the hell? In the case of Full House they didn't know it was going to be the series finale until after it was shot. There was talk of moving the series to The WB for another season.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 11, 2019 1:43:04 GMT -5
Well at the time I thought the ending to ‘Justified’ was disappointing. It was building to the final showdown between Raylan and Boyd... but Boyd just ends up going to jail and Raylan has a showdown with a character that was only introduced that season.
But upon reflection and rewatches.. I think the ending is good now.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on May 11, 2019 1:43:06 GMT -5
Seinfeld ending with our four main characters going to jail. Well that's it they are in jail thanks for watching
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on May 11, 2019 1:59:35 GMT -5
How have we gotten this far without a mention of the disaster that was the final episode of Star Trek Enterprise? If I am not mistaken, Enterprise was canceled before they had finished filming for that season and were forced to end the season a few episodes early, leading to that disjointed mess at the end of the series. It's a shame they did not get a 5th season, as the series was starting to get interesting again with the long Mirror Universe arc, which would have had a several episode follow up in the never-to-be S5, as well as a Romulan War arc and a Kzinti War arc (yes, they wanted to make the Kzinti fully canon rather than questionably canon, which would have been interesting). Another show mentioned was Buffy, and I have mixed feelings about it. I was glad the show did not end after S5. Don't get me wrong, the last half hour of that season was great, the show had really taken a downturn after the staff was split to run both Buffy and Angel simultaneously (and Angel apparently got the better staff members). Season 3 was damned good, especially since the Big Bad (Mayor Wilkins) and his dragon (Faith) were some of the most interesting characters on the show at that time. Seasons 4 and 5 paled in comparison. Season 6, however, may very well be my favorite of the show. It was mostly character development driven rather than plot driven, which was exactly what the show needed to lift it from the formulaic doldrums it had found itself in. Sure, a soul crushed Buffy, a magic addicted Willow, a whiny kleptomaniac Dawn, a burnt out Giles, and a break up seen a mile away in Anya and Xander might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it was far more interesting to me than virtually anything from the previous 2 seasons. Season 7, however, works better for me as a series of cool clips, apart from the episode where Wood tries to kill Spike. It is weird that they took so long to introduce Caleb, as he was easily the most interesting part of the bad guys team in Season 7. I also love that the end of the show led to Spike not only haunting Angel, but also demonstrating that Angel's new partners still tried to force him to be stuck as a ghost instead, not knowing that Spike would use the amulet instead.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on May 11, 2019 2:10:56 GMT -5
Game of Thrones... I'm just getting a jump start on everybody
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Post by The Wild Man of Borneo on May 11, 2019 2:41:52 GMT -5
The Batman: Brave and the Bold finale that everyone else seems to like. It was fine when Batmite was causing the 4th wall breaking, but the wrap party ending--I don't know, maybe it's just me, but when they come out and say "it's all just a show, folks," it's like nothing in the series really mattered since it's all fake anyway. Yeah, it's weird, I guess I'm overthinking it, but that's just how I feel about it.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 11, 2019 3:04:14 GMT -5
Quantum Leap ends on such a "f*** you", complete with the people behind the show lying, or at the very least misleading, to fans and saying no other ending had been made. Not true, as it'd turn out. Allison Pregler stumbled onto proof of otherwise. I guess they were hoping for another season and things changed, but this is akin to if the 60s Batman show had been cancelled and ended with an onscreen graphic that said, "Some guy shot Batman and he's dead now."
Here's the evidence of what the ending would have been, for anyone interested. It's kinda interesting, what could have been, and a damn sight better than just nonchalantly saying Sam never made it home.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on May 11, 2019 4:29:21 GMT -5
Twin Peaks.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on May 11, 2019 5:49:39 GMT -5
I still get upset every time I think about the goddamn How I Met Your Mother finale. Completely ruined all of my good memories of the show. Yeah, I can bring myself to rewatch it.
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Post by chronocross on May 11, 2019 5:51:45 GMT -5
Dexter Oz Sopranos
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Post by Spider2024 on May 11, 2019 6:10:31 GMT -5
The Batman: Brave and the Bold finale that everyone else seems to like. It was fine when Batmite was causing the 4th wall breaking, but the wrap party ending--I don't know, maybe it's just me, but when they come out and say "it's all just a show, folks," it's like nothing in the series really mattered since it's all fake anyway. Yeah, it's weird, I guess I'm overthinking it, but that's just how I feel about it. Have you ever heard of the 'reality' show "The Hills" or the short lived 80's sitcom "I Married Dora"?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 6:17:00 GMT -5
Death Note - Great series but just never liked the ending with Near/Mello tandem outsmarting Light and it never had the highs as it did with L vs Light I think the biggest issue with the end of Death Note is they focused on the wrong part of the tandem. It has other problems - the flood of new characters and shift to being much more action-focused are also mistakes - but Mello is WAY more interesting than Near, and there's a better story to be found in Mello being willing to go just as low as Light does and managing to succeed because of it than there is in Near basically just being a lame knockoff of L.
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Post by SmashTV on May 11, 2019 6:59:05 GMT -5
Seinfeld. I’d seen a dip in quality from series 7 onward, and knew that they all wound up in prison. However, the way it was done was just a bit flat, ending not with a bang but with a whimper.
I get that Seinfeld was about the little things - a show about ‘nothing’ - but it just seemed a ‘meh’ way to finish such an iconic, influential show.
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Post by edgestar on May 11, 2019 8:52:45 GMT -5
Roseanne's series finale was pretty awful. "I made everything up, my way, for my book."
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 9:19:07 GMT -5
My Name Is Earl. It ends on a damn cliffhanger. Again, it HAS an ending... ...only the Chances shouldn't have changed the channel before the reporter could tell us what it was (on Raising Hope.... Don't even remember how RH ended, actually, so we can fit it in here too!). An ending is referenced on Raising Hope, but it still had nothing to do with the final episode cliffhanger.
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Post by stevec484 on May 11, 2019 9:20:20 GMT -5
Sons of Anarchy Rescue Me
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 11, 2019 10:13:44 GMT -5
How I Met Your Mother's finale was not only bad it was completely tone deaf.
Ted: So anyway your mother was great and stuff but she died and now I want go have sex with your Aunt Robin again. You cool with that?
Kids: Of course dad, we have no problem with you telling us about mom only so you wouldn't feel guilty about hooking up with a woman we've known as our aunt our whole lives.
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