"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Most Retarded Endings. Spoilers (duh)
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Have to go with Dollhouse. Loved that show, but the ending is just stupid. Can't really blame them as they had to improvise, due to being cancelled (Joss Whedon, duh), but it's still retarded.
They had a pretty intruiguing character with Boyd, who seemed like the most honorable man on the show, but for some reason still worked for the Dollhouse. But instead of giving him a background he just gets turned into the crazy ubervillain at the last minute, who was secretly behind everything all the time. And it doesn't make the least bit of sense, no foreshadowing at all, it's clear they just wanted the show to end on a twist.
They had a pretty intruiguing character with Boyd, who seemed like the most honorable man on the show, but for some reason still worked for the Dollhouse. But instead of giving him a background he just gets turned into the crazy ubervillain at the last minute, who was secretly behind everything all the time. And it doesn't make the least bit of sense, no foreshadowing at all, it's clear they just wanted the show to end on a twist.
Which ending? The one with shinji standing on a Globe being congratulated by everyone because he finally developed a sense of self esteem(and who cares about everything else going on, right? RIGHT?)? Or EoE where everyone on earth gets merged into a single consciousness while all the bodies turn into LCL?Sigmund Av Volsung said:
ACtually, there were supposed to be a second season, which is why they ended with a cliffhanger. And don't forget we got a movie instead, that solves everything quite nicely.Sigmund Av Volsung said:Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I don't even... want to go into why.
The last episode of Firefly also constitutes, as it had an unnecessarily jarring shift of tone... for no reason.
Though what about the show Angel? "You take the ten thousand demons that side, I'll take the dragon. I've always wanted to fight one." The end. WTF?
Not to mention Dallas, season nine. The show ran from 1978 to 1991 (spanning 14 seasons), then returned in 2012 for a final three season. So this isn't technically the finale, but still. To spoil quite a bit, season nine was all dream. Literally, the entire season was a dream. Top that, if you can. Lol.
I would also like to draw special attention to; The Core. That movie hurt my brain. Using nukes to restart Earth's core? I... ugh, I'm having a rage stroke again.
My two submissions for this thread have already been said: Dexter and BSG.
BSG I was OK with (I still LOVE to rant about it) because I had been hating the show since the 3rd season, and the only reason I was continuing to watch it was because I had loaded the episodes onto my PSP and I was watching them during lunch breaks. I had hoped they would turn around the show by the end, but they just forced it into a spectacular nosedive instead. I still can't believe people liked that show.
Dexter just makes me sad. The ending was so horrible that it retroactively soured the whole show for me. They wanted so bad to make a twist ending that blew our minds, but instead it was just dumb. Turning the last episode into an alien invasion movie probably would have turned out better.
Ending at the same time as Dexter was Breaking Bad. That was a great example of how you end a show. Sure, it was rather predictable, but that's the point. They built these characters so well that you knew what they were going to do. It didn't need a twist, just a conclusion.
BSG I was OK with (I still LOVE to rant about it) because I had been hating the show since the 3rd season, and the only reason I was continuing to watch it was because I had loaded the episodes onto my PSP and I was watching them during lunch breaks. I had hoped they would turn around the show by the end, but they just forced it into a spectacular nosedive instead. I still can't believe people liked that show.
Dexter just makes me sad. The ending was so horrible that it retroactively soured the whole show for me. They wanted so bad to make a twist ending that blew our minds, but instead it was just dumb. Turning the last episode into an alien invasion movie probably would have turned out better.
Ending at the same time as Dexter was Breaking Bad. That was a great example of how you end a show. Sure, it was rather predictable, but that's the point. They built these characters so well that you knew what they were going to do. It didn't need a twist, just a conclusion.
MST3K fans will remember this one: Monster A Go-Go. An astronaut returning from space in a capsule reports trouble before landing on American soil- but what comes out is a large, radioactive, flesh-searing creature. He's captured, but manages to get free, leaving a trail of bodies until he's cornered in a sewer tunnel; a group of soldiers and technicians prepares to move in...
...only to find nothing.
And then a telegram is delivered: The astronaut has been found, alive and normal, in a raft in the ocean with no recollection of how he got there.
Fin.
The MST3K crew considered it to be the worst movie they'd ever riffed. Yes, even worse than Manos: Hands of Fate or even Invasion of the Neptune Men.
...only to find nothing.
And then a telegram is delivered: The astronaut has been found, alive and normal, in a raft in the ocean with no recollection of how he got there.
Fin.
The MST3K crew considered it to be the worst movie they'd ever riffed. Yes, even worse than Manos: Hands of Fate or even Invasion of the Neptune Men.
VGAME
ME3's ending was so bad, i stopped playing games on my 360, and avoided AAA titles until bioshock infinite (and then only because yatzee gave it GOTY) ME3's story was already the weakest of the three, but its ending was just a turd on the entire franchise. still it finally got me to switch over to pcgaming almost exclusively. so theres that for a silver lining
Movie
Shawshenk Redemption (stay with me)
specifically the last 10-15 seconds. the entire movie was based on hope, how its a good thing, and how it can keep us going even in the darkest of times., and its about to end on a perfect 10/10 note about how Red is going to mexico and how he hopes he will find andy. he doesn't know if he will, but he a man can HOPE. and we have a beautiful shot of a buss traveling on the road south to end on. But then we have to have it ruined by a quick shot of red finding andy sanding a boat, completely negating the need for audience to have anything to hope for. i read somewhere that that scene was added in at the behest of the studio who wanted the happy ending to be even more explicit. Shawshenk redemption woulda been a damn near perfect movie without those last 15 seconds.
Book:
The historian
first 3/4s of the book is an awesome mix of eastern european/middleeastern folklore, vampires, thriller, middle eastern mythology, and great characters. the author did this great thing throughout the book where she sprinkled "historical documents" throughout the novel to increase its realism. concerning vlad tepes brutality, or the role of religion with vampires, or past archalogists running something afoul and it all works great. That is until the last 2-300 pages, just go on and on and on with these historical documents about how monks are transporting draculas body in the 1700s or something. and. it. just. won't. stop.
ME3's ending was so bad, i stopped playing games on my 360, and avoided AAA titles until bioshock infinite (and then only because yatzee gave it GOTY) ME3's story was already the weakest of the three, but its ending was just a turd on the entire franchise. still it finally got me to switch over to pcgaming almost exclusively. so theres that for a silver lining
Movie
Shawshenk Redemption (stay with me)
specifically the last 10-15 seconds. the entire movie was based on hope, how its a good thing, and how it can keep us going even in the darkest of times., and its about to end on a perfect 10/10 note about how Red is going to mexico and how he hopes he will find andy. he doesn't know if he will, but he a man can HOPE. and we have a beautiful shot of a buss traveling on the road south to end on. But then we have to have it ruined by a quick shot of red finding andy sanding a boat, completely negating the need for audience to have anything to hope for. i read somewhere that that scene was added in at the behest of the studio who wanted the happy ending to be even more explicit. Shawshenk redemption woulda been a damn near perfect movie without those last 15 seconds.
Book:
The historian
first 3/4s of the book is an awesome mix of eastern european/middleeastern folklore, vampires, thriller, middle eastern mythology, and great characters. the author did this great thing throughout the book where she sprinkled "historical documents" throughout the novel to increase its realism. concerning vlad tepes brutality, or the role of religion with vampires, or past archalogists running something afoul and it all works great. That is until the last 2-300 pages, just go on and on and on with these historical documents about how monks are transporting draculas body in the 1700s or something. and. it. just. won't. stop.
Are you talking about Jubules Earle (definitely spelled that wrong)? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that wasn't the last episode. Episode 14 had the gang defending a brothel against misogynist cowboys, and I thought it kicked ass. But I liked the bounty hunter episode too; it was strange, but I don't think it broke with the tone of the show. I was actually worried at the beginning of the episode because I thought the bounty hunter character would just be a run of the mill bruiser, but then the show went and surprised me by making him one of the quirkiest yet brutal characters the gang meets.Sigmund Av Volsung said:
On the other hand, I hated the Serenity film that was meant to tie up everything. Not the specific plot elements necessarily, I just think things got way too serious way too fast. I probably would't have minded seeing the plot reveals and the urgency surrounding them built up to slowly over the course of another season or two, but the show was cancelled so can't help that. I also think they handled the two character deaths in an utterly bullshit manner. It just felt like they were ticking off an arbitrary shock value box; it didn't feel as if the characters' deaths served any greater purpose to the story.
It's hard to think that no one raised their hand at any point and asked a)where the fuck the original story about the barracuda went, and b) how that ending made any fucking sense in the direction it did go. What were the writers on that the ending we got made any sense given that we got no hint that it was coming. It was neat that the barracuda got some excuse for their behavior in the movie unlike the shark in Jaws, but where they took that was the dumbest thing ever.putowtin said:
As bizarre as this sounds, someone mentioned it earlier: fighting can actually be weirdly therapeutic and very bonding. If you've ever participated in no-BS combat sports where the intent is to straight up hurt your opponent, it creates this strange sense of bonding almost immediately. That's why you so often see UFC fighters hug each other after a match, even though they've just spent the last 15-25 minutes beating the crap out of each other. Back when I boxed, I remembered that, immediately after the final bell, whomever I had just fought was my best friend in the world for about 10 minutes (basically until the adrenaline wore off).irishda said:
But, I will agree that I didn't like the ending to 'Warrior' because it did what so many "scrappy underdog" movies do: it made the big opponent so overwhelmingly good that it was completely unbelievable that the underdog even stood a chance (see also, Rocky 4, Real Steel, Mighty Ducks 2, etc.). In this case, Tommy could basically knock out anyone just by looking at them funny, while Brennan was never all that great of a fighter and barely scraped by in the other fights. It felt especially ridiculous considering Tommy knocked out basically everyone else with one punch, yet somehow Brennan got punched like 20 times and was still hanging in there.
The Inheritance Cycle.
Christopher Paolini's books were wonderful...right up until the point he completely contrived the ending in order to screw his main character out of almost everything. I felt bad for poor Eregon, having to leave his homeland for no good reason and leaving behind everyone he knows and loves. Shit, he doesn't even get the girl.
The worst part is that there was no compelling reason for Eregon to inflict this on himself. I could poke holes in his reasons for leaving for days.
But I should be doing my Mathematical Reasoning homework right now, so I'm not going to.
Christopher Paolini's books were wonderful...right up until the point he completely contrived the ending in order to screw his main character out of almost everything. I felt bad for poor Eregon, having to leave his homeland for no good reason and leaving behind everyone he knows and loves. Shit, he doesn't even get the girl.
The worst part is that there was no compelling reason for Eregon to inflict this on himself. I could poke holes in his reasons for leaving for days.
But I should be doing my Mathematical Reasoning homework right now, so I'm not going to.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Hell, I even would've settled for just the last shot panning on Andy sanding his boat looking at the sky. On the topic of movies with Morgan Freeman in them, it's just like the end of Se7en when Kevin Spacey kneels in front of Brad Pitt and goads him into shooting him. If that scene had just cut to black after Pitt pulled his gun out and stayed ambiguous it would've been great. Then they had to ruin it by showing Pitt's decision and the aftermath, overlaid with Morgan Freeman's narration.BigTallGuy said:
It is perfectly simple. the ending he planned at the start and the ending he ended up with were different. In the original ending he still left but he got the girl. Also his cousin became king and his brother was killed. But half way into writing the series he chose to end it differently in order to crank out a sequal later on when he needs a new car or a new house. And I still don't get why he did not kill his brother. He was forced to do some bad stuff but he also did alot of that stuff because he enjoyed it. Guy was a complete douch bag.SlumlordThanatos said:
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Most of mine have been said Firefly, Angle, Mass Effect 3 so here is a more recent one. Middle-earth: shadow of Mordor. I LOVE the gameplay but damn is the ending bad. I was able to ignore most of the lore breaking stuff but the last hour or so of the game took it to far. Even ignoring the lore stuff it was still bad.
Except that it hasn't been established that synthetics and organics will always go to war, or that peace cannot be achieved after war, or that synthetics will always win, or that the victorious synthetics will always kill off the organics.McMindflayer said:
Faulty logic stacked on top of faulty logic stacked on top of faulty logic. It's bullshitception.
I hadn't considered that, but I agree, that would be better. As far as I can tell, the book leaves it ambiguous, with Red heading off to find Andy, but without disclosing how it turns out. That's more King's style.BigTallGuy said:
The final episode of World Without End. After seven weeks of building up themes of a new world rising in the ashes of the old, and the primary characters becoming formidable forces in their own rights...the miniseries ends with a village battle hitting every Medieval cliche one can think of. Characters have dramatic confrontations with other characters, in some cases without the show ever having established animosity between them in the first place. One of the minor characters turns out to be the old king in disguise (without anybody ever noticing), and solves all the problems with a flourish.
It was dreadful - it took what was developing into a reasonable miniseries and binned the plot, character, and theme development so badly it took down the rest of the series.
It was dreadful - it took what was developing into a reasonable miniseries and binned the plot, character, and theme development so badly it took down the rest of the series.