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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Apr 13, 2020 13:25:21 GMT -5
Breaking Bad's finale pretty much tainted the rest of the show for me, but that feels like kind of a specific circumstance. All along, they'd been like "You're not supposed to like Walt!" and "the people who think he's an awesome badass are watching the show wrong!" and the ending undercut that so stupidly and blatantly, it made it clear that'd been bullshit the whole time.
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Post by cabbageboy on Apr 13, 2020 13:53:00 GMT -5
The finale of Enterprise was awful but at least you could say they had to rush a finale for a show that was about to be cancelled. It's worse when TV producers actually do something at the end when they had plenty of time to do something decent.
How about a show that doesn't exactly have a coherent series finale? Babylon 5 never really had a flat out definite end to it.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 13, 2020 14:00:17 GMT -5
I can still watch old episodes of HIMYM and really enjoy them, and I despised the series finale for that show for a lot of reasons. So I don't think it can really taint the show as a whole for me if it's something I genuinely love. Though it does taint the last couple of seasons, but mostly because they weren't that good to begin with.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 14:17:57 GMT -5
A comic rather than a show but I don’t think I’ll ever really feel the same way about Misfile since it ended as I did in the early days of it. It really ran out of gas and became a largely directionless slog well before it ended, but I kept reading because the early stuff made me very much want to see what happened to these characters and to see if the comic would deliver on the ending I wanted out of it. It more or less did, some questionable specifics aside, but the problem is that after about a decade of barely anything happening, soon as the author got funding for the sequel he just said f*** it and sped to a conclusion incredibly quickly with essentially nothing in the way of emotional resolution, tons of questions left lingering and unresolved plot threads, and a total lack of any kind of actual climax. The whole thing just screamed the author not caring anymore about giving the story an actual ending and if he didn’t care why should readers, y’know?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 14:18:09 GMT -5
Game of Thrones and Dexter took huge bullets making crappy final seasons. Fine series, but after all that - you could slap a -80% sticker on it as all the speculations and anticipation was just not totally worth it. Would not mind now if I had the possibility to fast forward the boring parts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 14:28:08 GMT -5
Similar to adult films, sloppy endings just doesn't make me want to watch series again in full. Only parts of it. And even then it feels like "I could be doing something else instead of wasting my time..." Quantum Leap is exception!
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Post by Cela on Apr 13, 2020 14:42:29 GMT -5
Game of Thrones and How I Met Your Mother definitely.
Personally I'd say Mad Men, but I know I'm in the minority. All the build up to... that.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Apr 13, 2020 21:22:54 GMT -5
Game of Thrones and How I Met Your Mother definitely. Personally I'd say Mad Men, but I know I'm in the minority. All the build up to... that. I thought Mad Men was perfect. The ending solidified that Dick Whitman really was Don Draper after all.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 21:30:14 GMT -5
Depends what you mean by taint.
Does it make everything in the series as bad as the finale? No. Does it make you not want to rewatch/read/replay the series again? It's possible.
An example is Mass Effect 3. Game had a trash ending that damaged it and the series. I never replayed it but I can't say everything prior to that ending was as bad as the finale but with that said, they took a big hit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 21:37:47 GMT -5
I haven`t watched an episode of Dexter since viewing the finale..... not a single thing about that entire episode felt right.
To try and remain vague, Dexter should have at least gotten caught thanks to what he did with the pen in the finale. Everything after that moment just gets worse and worse
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 13, 2020 23:07:17 GMT -5
I don’t think so. You can just skip that episode.
I think the Seinfeld was brilliant.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 13, 2020 23:09:10 GMT -5
Yes, it makes it significantly harder to promise that watching a show all the way through will be worth the time put in. It's one of the reasons why I don't recommend Boardwalk Empire to people despite genuinely loving most of that show.
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Post by badkarma on Apr 13, 2020 23:45:08 GMT -5
Revenge of the Sith was so bad, especially the ending, that I completely lost all interest in any Star Wars movie past or present. This is coming from a life long fan that saw all of the first six episodes in the theaters multiple times each and had a sizable collection of Star War memorabilia.
I equate it to walking in on your girlfriend having sex with another guy. Once you’ve seen something that awful, it taints, and ruins any good memories you have of her, no matter how much you loved her. You can only break someone’s heart so many times before they just stop caring out of self preservation.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2020 0:09:55 GMT -5
Can a bad finale to a show ruin the rest of the show? Malcolm in the Middle comes to mind. The episode ended with some guy from a tech company visiting Malcolm and offering him an excellent job, but Lois basically turned it down, saying it's more important that Malcolm goes to college. Malcolm eventually snaps at his mother and Lois tells him that she's been the way she was through the entire series because she's determined to have Malcolm become President so he can help people like her family. It might have worked if the final shot had been Malcolm as President, but instead it was showing him working as a Janitor to pay his way through college. Considering all that he went through in the series, couldnt they at least throw him a bone and give him a happy ending? Sorry for the rant, but that episode kind of taints the whole series for me. I'm a janitor and I love my life. How is that not a happy ending?
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Post by adamclark52 on Apr 14, 2020 1:38:17 GMT -5
Game of Thrones' ending was so bad that everyone immediately stopped talking about it. Well now they talk about, they’re just usually laughing when they do
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2020 3:09:55 GMT -5
It’s been said but How I Met Your Mother
I can’t even really enjoy the individual episodes because every time he shows up I can’t help but think about why a massive c*** Ted is
Plus every time I see him I think about how the show ultimately wasted my time and investment in its story and don’t want to give it anymore of either
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Post by Heartbreaker on Apr 14, 2020 3:22:50 GMT -5
Despite Seinfeld having a weak finale, it never tainted the show. 20 years later and it's still so popular. Though it probably helps that it's a sitcom with not much of a story compared to How I Met Your Mother. I wasn't even a big HIMYM fan but that finale felt like a giant f*** you to the viewers. I can't even imagine how the people who watched weekly from the start felt... so no big surprise a lot of people mention they can't even rewatch it.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 14, 2020 3:26:24 GMT -5
Similar to adult films, sloppy endings just doesn't make me want to watch series again in full. Only parts of it. And even then it feels like "I could be doing something else instead of wasting my time..." Quantum Leap is exception! Quantum Leap has an excuse though, on top of actually being a really good episode till those words popped up on screen, it was supposed to be a season finale. We only got the post script, because it got cancelled.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 14, 2020 3:33:07 GMT -5
Yes, a bad ending can absolutely spoil the story leading up to it.
So if the series was like a long narrative yes... if it was an episodic thing then no.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 14, 2020 9:44:29 GMT -5
Something something How I Met Your Mother. I agreed because the finale undercuts the journey of the series. Like in the movie contact when Jodie Foster meets the Alien and it's the Alien as her father. Which I never got the hate for Seinfeld's finale. The whole premise of the show is the characters never learn anything. So we see in the finale that it catchs up to them and still while in a jail cell they still haven't learned anything. It's not a happy ending which was kind of the point.
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