dav
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Post by dav on May 13, 2019 10:28:45 GMT -5
Add Clone High to the list of brilliant shows ending on a cliffhanger. I'm concerned about the series finale of the Simpsons. There's just no way for a finale to meet the expectations set by a show that's lasted 30 years and has that kind of a legacy. Is anyone really expecting the Simpsons finale to be anything except a mercy kill at this point? On a more obscure note, Strange Dawn. Entire series of hunting for the Princess, internal politics and knife fights that're basically Munchkins with shivs and it all gets resolved in about ten seconds at the end of the series with the Princess appearing, taking the girls somewhere and then vanishing completely. Twenty damn years and I still don't get it.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on May 13, 2019 10:55:47 GMT -5
SOA ended perfectly. Jax knew the only way his sons would have a good life is if he died. So he did was was needed. The last season of Sons was so bad that the final episode gets shit on by proxy. I love the way it ended.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 13, 2019 12:32:46 GMT -5
SOA ended perfectly. Jax knew the only way his sons would have a good life is if he died. So he did was was needed. The last season of Sons was so bad that the final episode gets shit on by proxy. I love the way it ended. See to me the only bad season of SOA was the one in Ireland. But I do see lots of people saying how much they hated that final season.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on May 13, 2019 19:20:31 GMT -5
In fairness the problem that Craig Thomas & Carter Bays had in writing the HIMYM finale was that I don't think they expected their quirky little show to become a quasi hit. Due to the narrative device of Ted talking to his kids they had to shoot the finale scene of the show in the second so the kids still looked like kids. As the show kept getting renewed the writing & the characters all matured and became different people than they were in the early seasons. But then because the ending had been shot already they pretty much had to quickly devolve all the characters back to their season 2 selves. It came off as jarring and out of place. I think some stubbornness was involved too, I think they wanted to show people "look we had a plan all long", they could have simply not use the footage, they must have known the Ted/Robin storyline had run it's course long before the last season If you haven't watched the alternate ending on HIMYM it's on YouTube. Its MUCH better!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 19:25:08 GMT -5
Add Clone High to the list of brilliant shows ending on a cliffhanger. I'm concerned about the series finale of the Simpsons. There's just no way for a finale to meet the expectations set by a show that's lasted 30 years and has that kind of a legacy. Is anyone really expecting the Simpsons finale to be anything except a mercy kill at this point? You know what, I kind of want them to go all King of the Hill and just have the finale be a normal episode like nothing is final. Maybe do the ending like KOTH but just have it be run of the mill. They know they can’t do a mega finale. Might as well do it that way.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on May 13, 2019 21:20:38 GMT -5
One foot in the Grave ended with Victors death and a really dark mystery over the women who accidentally killed him.
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on May 13, 2019 22:27:48 GMT -5
Castle. And unless I missed it, I'm surprised no one else has said it.
Sparing all of the stupid plot of the last season (but to paraphrase, spend seven seasons trying to find the man who killed NYC officer Kate Beckett's mom, find him, then spend one last season on a never-mention "Oh, but he was taking orders from a HIGHER POWER), they catch the higher power, but then they get gunned down in their apartment, they reach out to hold hands one last time...and then we handwave to "several years later" and everyone's fine, they have kids, THE END.
I kinda know why they did it. If they had continued out, Beckett would have died and Castle would've continued on as a private eye because they were firing Stana Katic, but still. Going from the fairly obvious but shocking end to just, "never mind, everyone's fine, that's all folks!" went from an emotional end to infuriating. My wife even just blurted out "What the f***?" as soon as it was done.
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