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Everyone was very shocked back in the day at the ending of Seinfeld.
i think people are seeing “seinfeld” alot differently these days. cant watch it without thinking what a shill jerry has become for AIPAC/israel, plus he dated a minor.
Some of us thought they were just taking a year break (which they explicitly said in the last episode)
The Bob Newhart Show famously ended the series by saying the whole show was nothing but a dream.
Weirdly, didn’t one of the Star Treks reveal to be just a holodeck sequence?
Enterprise.
Controversial as in it ruined an otherwise great show? Dexter.
Yes, that ending was so bad… I still watched the continuation, Cold Blood. It was OKish…
I personally think it’s a great ending, even though it was intended to be a cliffhanger for the next series before cancellation, but a lot of fans didn’t like the ending of Quantum Leap where it was said that Sam never made it home.
imma go with sopranos.
Dexter. I noped out after the Season 3 finale where they (John Lithgow’s psycho killer character) killed his wife. My gf kept watching, and was predictably pissed when they killed the sister in the series finale. I laughed like hell. I will not be watching the reboot.
Dark.
I was super invested in the show, the concept of time travel and how everything (or anything) is connected (or not) if time is not linear. The end just ruined the whole flow. In my head, I actually have a different ending, which I can elaborate if anyone cares.
I watched Dark through once and thought the ending was weird, but I have good memories. I’m currently rewatching, I’m about halfway through S2. I would like to hear your theory because I think Dark is a really good show, but I won’t read for a couple of weeks to avoid reminding myself too much and spoiling it
I quite enjoyed dark, and imo the ending ties up the show rather beautifully
sgu, sga, sg1 was past its prime and needed a ending as the people working on the show felt it.
both sgu and sga were cliffhanger endings that unfortunate problems like mgm losing money and bankrupting to lower vierership and cancellation. according to the showrunners, and writers they were going to be more arcs being revealed if they continued the next season for both shows.
Oh, yeah defo, that ending is terrible. Great series, but I wasn’t given it’s chance to die.
after the series ended, the showrunners/writers went in an interview, and reddit. saying that season 6 of atlantis was going to have those aliens from deadalus variations show up and reveal themselves to main universe atlantis, im guessing thats why they foreshadowed those aliens in “deadalus variations” by pointing to the insignia of the aliens, plus Replicator wier also was foreshadowing in ghost in the machine episode “advanced species in the milky way that kept themselves hidden from the wraith”, they definitely were setting up season 6 to have more interesting plots.
for sgu they said/writers were alluding the creators of the berzerker drones/carriers being created by one of the novus colony humans centuries ago in season 3. Plus the OP planet builder aliens plot. they did a AMA on reddit, stargate sub.
Warehouse 13 for me, only good part is the meta speech at the end by one of the actors angry about the end being here so suddenly
Can we mention Farscape? Without the movie it was a massive let down, with the movie it became an impossible mess. Either way, an incredible let down.
I introduced my wife to Farscape in 2008 and she absolutely fell in love with the series, as had I when I first watched it. We binged watched the entire series inside of two weeks.
We got to the final episode of season 4… And…she… was…piiiiiiiiissssssed. She absolutely abhors cliffhangers. I cannot count the number of times we’ve had to stay up late to finish on an episode that didn’t end on a cliff hanger.
I might have forgotten to mention “The Peacekeeper War” mini-series… evil laugh.
She stomped off and made herself a cup of tea, as I was “getting Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica 2004 ready to watch”. wink wink
She came back sat down on the couch and I hit play… “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!” She only uses the word “fuck” when she’s truly angry BTW.
We then stayed up late to finish “The Peacekeeper War”.
As to it being a mess… Yeah, I can see your point. An entire season was rammed into the equivalent of 4 episodes. I think it was done about as well as it could of been. With that said, it would have been great to get that 5th season.
It still remains as my all time favorite Sci Fi series. There was just too much creativity and uniqueness through out to just throw it out at the end as a fan.
bsg is one of the ones people were upset at about, made it too christiany-messianic messaging. plus the showrunner largely forgot about the show, and instead wanted to write caprica which was a failed show too.
i only watched it because they went to sg1 shortly after it ended(claudia and ben browder) Claudia at least found some work later on, “originals” i dont know what ben has been doing.
In this thread, mostly: “Yeah, I know the show was poorly written through several seasons, but I thought the ending would at least be satisfactory.”
Dr Who. It was going great, the 4th doctor was the best ever, and then they ended the entire thing with him regenerating into Tristan Farnon. Don’t think they made any after that.
Babylon 5 (whole last season actually); just ran out of gas.
Didn’t they famously get cancelled in season 4, then greenlit for the final year?
Yes, so they used all their best ideas.
However, we got a bunch of Bester episodes, so if kinda has a place in my heart. It’s just not as good as Season 4, which was spectacular.
One that made me feel like I had wasted time watching the show was How I Met Your Mother. It was a fun show and really picked up in quality in seasons three - five. They could have ended the show in season 7, really, if they had planned for it. Season 8 was kind of a bore, and season 9 was bad, as all of the season took place over a weekend. And when we got the finale of the show… I was so tired of holding on to what might come that it really hit me negatively how they ended it.
That being said, Game of Thrones ended so poorly that I was baffled as to how haphazard and dull the writing and storytelling was that I, just like a lot of others, held on to hope that the last few episodes might bring things all around. (Morgan Freeman as Narrator - It didn’t.) While cracks were showing since late season 6, the finale of that show was horrible. The payoffs didn’t come, and everything just felt so rushed, watered down, and a tremendous feeling that content was missing from the season, if they were to help make sense of the finale.
I see a lot of hate for the HIMYM finale and… I truly do not get it. I will not praise it as a cinematic masterpiece, because it isn’t. But it is an ending that they have been building up since the very beginning, and it makes perfect sense given the characters and what they went through. There are a lot of show endings that cannot claim that at all, with random last-minute additional arcs or forgetting things from earlier seasons. I haven’t seen any of that in HIMYM. So yeah, I think it’s a decent ending overall, and I truly do not understand the hate it gets.
As for GoT; yeah that went into shitshow territory from season 7 for me personally.
Let’s be honest cracks started showing in season 2 its just the source material covered it up for a while.
I was never super into it, i only watched it sonetimes when my girlfriend was watching it.
Aside from not finding it very funny to begin with, i never really got the premise. The whole show was the guy telling his children how he met their mother. Whenever he dated someone it was like: is it gonna be her?? Is it her?? And there was an on and off thing with the other main character. Omg is it her? But the children have to know the name of their own mother. So they know and he’s just telling them who he banged before he met their mother?
I was talking about Game of Thrones.
But actually since we’re on the topic, the show was wasn’t about the mother. Thats just the title. The show was about how he met and fell in love with Robin. He’s telling the story to his kids to explain to them why he is ready to move on and wants to try again with her.
How I Met Your Mother. It was a fun show and really picked up in quality in seasons three - five. They could have ended the show in season 7, really, if they had planned for it.
I heard they were being cancelled after 7, and thus were on target to wrap it up by then, but then got the cash to do the last season and found themselves short on material but needing to end it properly.
Game of Thrones went from a worldwide cultural phenomenon to barely a footnote pretty much overnight. That says a ton on how disappointingly the show ended.
My partner was a GOT fan. He was so utterly disappointed by the ending that still nowadays he would randomly stop doing whatever he was doing to look at me and say “I am still mad”. He is such a peaceful person this is honestly the only thing he has ever been genuinely mad about… so I always know what he is referring to.
The best way I’ve seen it put; the GOT ending was so bad, it made you feel ashamed for liking the show in the first place.
When i watched season 6 i thought, yeah it’s kind of bad, but at least, i can always go back whenever i feel like and still enjoy the good episodes. It got worse and worse and by the end of season 7 i wasn’t really sure if i even wanna see the next season. When i did see it, i realised that i will probably never go back to watch it. I didn’t even know it was possible to retroactively ruin a show for me. It’s kinda impressive
I’m a weird case. I didn’t like the show too much, but when I saw the final series was so shitty, I binged the whole thing just so I could understand the memes.
Worth it.
I sailed the high seas when watching it and i felt ripped off…
Totally agree on both.
I read the GOT books, and I’m convinced that HBO is the reason why Martin messed this all up. There was a whole other Targeryen, Aegon VI, that was running around being some charismatic cool dude and also making a claim to the Iron Throne. HBO just cut him out, and I’m convinced that what was supposed to happen was everything was him vs. Danerys at the end, and he took the iron throne, and would have been sitting on it when the dragon fried it, which would have killed him and the throne and left Danerys as the obvious true ruler because she has that fire magic.
But we’ll never know because Martin cashed his checks and peaced out.
I’m actually convinced that this is Martin’s ending and everything to get us there was made up by HBO. Seeing the absolute backlash has scared the shit out of him and that’s why it won’t be finished.
100% same. As if he saw all the hate, didn’t want to put forth the effort to explain the discrepancy, and shelved the last book until it all dies down. Maybe even a posthumous publishing just to avoid the haters.
People are trash. What is wrong with us? It’s like anyone that does anything cool and can’t keep up perfection forever has no other option but to be a total pariah is they slip.
He’s already admitted as much, there are minor changes to what he’d planned but the show’s ultimate ending is very similar to what he’d written in his notes. Bran becomes the king in the South for some reason, Samsa queen in the North, Aria goes off on an adventure and John Snow goes back to the night watch, having grown exactly 0% after they fucking murdered him, which consequently is where the books leave off.
So if you take that ending as canon, that John Snow dies and so Westeros falls, I gotta say it’s a brave ending.
Oh, I wasn’t aware he had talked that in detail about his ideas.
And it’s weird that he goes from “No one is safe” dispatching Ned Stark early on, to some Breakfast Club ending. I always figured HBO rounded down to their lowest common denominator level and that’s why we got what we got. Oh well…
Jon doesn’t go back to the Watch in the finale. He gets exiled to the Watch again, but immediately goes AWOL to join the free folk.
That’s right, well that at least makes more sense.
