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Post by thechase on Nov 8, 2022 11:22:01 GMT -5
Stargate SG-1 had about four season fauxnales in a row as they kept building towards concluding with a movie. Then by the time they thought the show was secure for several years, they were entirely unprepared for the genuine axe falling. Fortunately, they had the DVD movies to tie up whatever was left of their loose ends.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Nov 8, 2022 20:07:11 GMT -5
Thundercats THE LAST DAY!
the season finale of Season 3.
The episode before the Lunataks were all arrested, Mumm-ra is given an ultimatum of destroy the thundercats or we stop helping you from the Ancient Spirits of Evil, and is destroyed...
then Season 4 happens the Lunataks make one more apperance, but Mumm-ra remains the main foe.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Nov 8, 2022 20:33:04 GMT -5
Chuck has to be the king of this. They were always on the verge of cancellation. So the season 2 finale, both season 3 and 4 mid and full season finales were all written to be series finales. Counting the actual series finale thats 5 faux and 1 real.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Nov 9, 2022 3:40:12 GMT -5
 always thought they should've saved this one for whenever they finally have to do a finale |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 9, 2022 4:03:43 GMT -5
Stargate SG-1 had about four season fauxnales in a row as they kept building towards concluding with a movie. Then by the time they thought the show was secure for several years, they were entirely unprepared for the genuine axe falling. Fortunately, they had the DVD movies to tie up whatever was left of their loose ends. The downside being the DVD movies did not feel like adequate wrap ups for the show. |
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Post by thechase on Nov 9, 2022 4:14:10 GMT -5
Stargate SG-1 had about four season fauxnales in a row as they kept building towards concluding with a movie. Then by the time they thought the show was secure for several years, they were entirely unprepared for the genuine axe falling. Fortunately, they had the DVD movies to tie up whatever was left of their loose ends. The downside being the DVD movies did not feel like adequate wrap ups for the show. Much like the later TV years, they thought they had a sure thing with the movies, an Atlantis one was in the pipeline when the decision was made to discontinue the movies |
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Nov 12, 2022 12:36:54 GMT -5
The downside being the DVD movies did not feel like adequate wrap ups for the show. Much like the later TV years, they thought they had a sure thing with the movies, an Atlantis one was in the pipeline when the decision was made to discontinue the movies Season 8's ending would have been about as perfect a series finale as you can get. |
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Post by thechase on Jan 14, 2023 12:46:47 GMT -5
Watching one of James Eatock's new audio commentaries for Cereal:GeekTV today compelled me to type in this entry on TVTropes
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
The early season one episode The Dragon Invasion raises the stakes so considerably one would be forgiven for mistaking it for a climatic chapter in the battle between good and evil. Skeletor is able to infiltrate Castle Greyskull and imprison the Sorceress within Snake Mountain. The episode concludes with Skeletor's allies soundly defeated after a battle within the castle itself, and a final confrontation between He-Man and Skeletor concludes with Skeletor almost falling to his death, only to be spared by He-Man, forcing him to flee his own lair. Of course the series would have many episodes to come and the saga continued.
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Post by schma on Jan 14, 2023 16:10:33 GMT -5
For Supernatural, if you remove like the last 20 seconds of the Season 5 finale 'Swan Song', that could've made for an overall ending to the show that I say most people would've been happy with. My understanding was that Supernatural was originally conceived as a 5 season show. Essentially this was the original conclusion they had planned, then it continued to get renewed. |
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Post by Mike Strike on Jan 18, 2023 14:14:55 GMT -5
Why of Fry was a more fitting finale for Futurama's original run than The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings.
Is it too early to call Once & Always an example? It feels like it'll be to Cosmis Fury what Forever Red was to Wild Force: the spiritual finale if not the actual one.
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on Jan 18, 2023 14:46:07 GMT -5
Why of Fry was a more fitting finale for Futurama's original run than The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings. How so? The central arch of the show is Fry/Leela, the Niblonians/Fry being the savior of humanity due to being an idiot is a minor subplot that doesn't even pop up in every season. |
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Post by thechase on Jan 19, 2023 5:50:18 GMT -5
Is it too early to call Once & Always an example? It feels like it'll be to Cosmis Fury what Forever Red was to Wild Force: the spiritual finale if not the actual one. I think Forever Red should have come after the Wild Force finale, just cut out the bits where they have to give up their powers (and jackets!) which always felt weird to me, overall RPM should still have been the final season, but shouldn't have been made an alternate reality with a separate Venjix, the one from Forever Red was the logical route to take. |
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jan 19, 2023 6:06:52 GMT -5
Bojack Horseman: The Face of Depression
Bojack pretty much makes amends with most of the main characters, learns to let go of his crippling self loathing and gets out of the toxic Hollywood environment to start a new life as a college professor. If they had left things there it would have been a good way to end the series bittersweet but with a small dollop of hope for everyone in the show.
(Of course if they did leave the show at that point we would not have gotten the hauntingly beautiful View From Halfway Down from the second half of the season. One of the few TV shows that I watched that actually gave me a nightmare.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 8:42:14 GMT -5
The Scrubs season 8 finale wins this conversation every time.
Also, OP thinks the X-Men comics should have ended at Fatal Attractions? I agree that the X-Men comics have been garbage for at least 20 years, but that would have been a bad stopping point with too many loose ends still. I would say Eve Of Destruction was a more fitting end to "classic" X-Men.
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Post by thechase on Jan 19, 2023 9:07:16 GMT -5
I would say Eve Of Destruction was a more fitting end to "classic" X-Men. When Colossus and Moria died and they rid themselves of the Legacy virus? Yeah, I can understand the choice there too, I still stand by Fatal Attractions being the end, but that would have made due as a mini-series epilogue years later. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 19, 2023 12:17:49 GMT -5
When the CW cancelled its Vortex lineup. It was the end of old school Saturday morning cartoons, a staple of tv from the days the medium first proliferated. The final Saturday morning cartoon ever-was a decade old episode of Yu Gi Oh. Not even a season finale episode. While the whole block was nothing but syndicated shows, it still felt like a really low note to end the history of Saturday morning cartoons on.
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Post by thechase on Jan 20, 2023 9:26:56 GMT -5
Although not intended to be the finale of the show at all, Buffy The Vampire Slayer's 'Once More With Feeling', the end of the first act of season six, works somewhat as an epilogue to "The Gift" as well as a finale, though if it had been it'd have been a very bittersweet one as everyone is coming to terms with their place in Buffy's world, some are preparing to move on like Giles and others are in a good place but beginning to doubt their happiness, and it culminates in everyone realizing just how badly Buffy was damaged by reviving her, wondering how they can realistically go on, with Spike ending up with the girl at the end. Buffy ending up romantically linked with a vampire who needed her to feel instead of being cursed with a soul fighting the good fight would have been a nice thematic end to the series (and it sort of got borne out with the actual finales of seasons six and seven), and the episode even ends with a big glossy hollywood musical "THE END"
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Post by thechase on Jan 21, 2023 6:09:39 GMT -5
I know there's like nine episodes of this thing left, but I think a lot of Pokeshippers worldwide would just prefer Friday's instalment of "Aim to Be A Pokemon Master" to be the end.
Ash gets unofficially unseated as the world champion in a battle with his soul mate, is perfectly OK with it, doesn't lose much swagger, and he gets the girl in the end and they head off into the sunset together.
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Post by karl100589 on Jan 21, 2023 7:01:43 GMT -5
Dexter’s “Last But Not Beast” felt like a perfect finale. It was an extended length, featured cameos from the Dexter spin-offs (Monkey, The Justice Friends) and has Dexter finally revealing the lab to his parents.
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Post by thechase on Jan 21, 2023 7:27:37 GMT -5
Continuing on the subject of Whedonverse shows:
It was going to end with a few more episodes left in the season anyway, but "You're Welcome" would have been a better finale for Angel's fifth season and series all things considered, given the team are more or less intact, are in a good place, and Cordelia's character arc is completed
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