Giving a Show a Proper Ending
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I know it didn't get the best reception but I loved Flash Forward, and I loved the ending to the first season, the music and the montage, was hauntingly beautiful... but it was clear they had more in mind and the plug got pulled so late they could never get it finished in one season and wouldnt get any more and that made me sad
Afterworld. Such a great build-up, so many great theories and complications...then, suddenly, it ended. Nobody wanted to pay for it anymore, it seems.
Rubicon
Terriers
The Sopranos
Those are the ones that really stick out to me in terms of bad endings.
Terriers
The Sopranos
Those are the ones that really stick out to me in terms of bad endings.
Never watched Deadwood (Not really into anything set in the old west), but Carnivale is the first that comes to mind for me too. That ending was a real punch in the balls. Twin Peaks is similar and I don not for the life of me understand people that tell me it´s a proper ending. There´s way too much stuff left hanging in the air. Also, there´s Firefly (of course), Legend Of The Seeker, Heroes, etc...octafish said:
Way too many shows get cancelled prematurely these days. If they pull that shit with Game Of Thrones I´ll be royally pissed. I want a nice and clean Six Feet Under ending.
SWAT Kats.
Cancelled in the middle of Season 2. Because it was "too violent" according to Ted Turner. Then what did he air on his network some years later?
DRAGONBALL MOTHER-F#$%ING Z!
Someone please explain to me the rationale of how being able to blow up a planet while farting is LESS violent than, say, a cement gatling gun clip to the face?
Cancelled in the middle of Season 2. Because it was "too violent" according to Ted Turner. Then what did he air on his network some years later?
DRAGONBALL MOTHER-F#$%ING Z!
Someone please explain to me the rationale of how being able to blow up a planet while farting is LESS violent than, say, a cement gatling gun clip to the face?
ctrl +f Invader Zim = no results.
How could no one have brought this up!
I watched it when I was about 12 on the UK's Nickelodeon, and I loved it! Freaked me the hell out! Cute and Disgusting at the same time.
It got cancelled mid way through its third season because it was too expensive and apparantly not enough people watched it. It ended on a Christmas episode for crying out loud.
There's been loads of fan attempts to bring it back and there's even a yearly convention called invadercon (http://www.invadercon.com/) Where they've managed to have some writers and all of the voice cast attend and talk about their experiences with the show.
Unfortunately, the creator himself, Jhonen Vasquez, doesn't seem interested.
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How could no one have brought this up!
I watched it when I was about 12 on the UK's Nickelodeon, and I loved it! Freaked me the hell out! Cute and Disgusting at the same time.
It got cancelled mid way through its third season because it was too expensive and apparantly not enough people watched it. It ended on a Christmas episode for crying out loud.
There's been loads of fan attempts to bring it back and there's even a yearly convention called invadercon (http://www.invadercon.com/) Where they've managed to have some writers and all of the voice cast attend and talk about their experiences with the show.
Unfortunately, the creator himself, Jhonen Vasquez, doesn't seem interested.
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Throwing out something no one's said: Star Trek Voyager. What really annoyed me about the two part ending:
1) We finally INTRODUCE the relationship between 7 of 9 and Chakotay. And the very f*cking end? REALLY?
2) B'lanna gives birth as they reach Earth, so the whole time they've been calling Naomi Wildman "the FIRST child born on Voyager" falls really flat, because the only OTHER one is at the end.
3) The switched the actress for the Borg Queen back to Alice Krieg, f*cking over the woman who'd been doing it on the show. Silly gripe, maybe, but it bugged me.
4) Messing with time travel. Again. Seriously, I've only watched Voyager to completion, and now I'm working on Enterprise. Otherwise, very little Trek experience. Someone please tell me that time travel is not so important in the other series. (Side note, boyfriend says we will NOT be watching Deep Space 9 because he has no desire to watch a Soap Opera in space.)
I really like this series, but the ending just felt like it opened more doors than it closed. I was genuinely upset it was over.
Two other issues I have with the show, because it was never resolve, though, are:
1) WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE BABY BORG WHEN THEY RESCUED ICHEB AND THE OTHER BORG CHILDREN?!
2) Why can't the copy the Doctor? He's a file, isn't he?
1) We finally INTRODUCE the relationship between 7 of 9 and Chakotay. And the very f*cking end? REALLY?
2) B'lanna gives birth as they reach Earth, so the whole time they've been calling Naomi Wildman "the FIRST child born on Voyager" falls really flat, because the only OTHER one is at the end.
3) The switched the actress for the Borg Queen back to Alice Krieg, f*cking over the woman who'd been doing it on the show. Silly gripe, maybe, but it bugged me.
4) Messing with time travel. Again. Seriously, I've only watched Voyager to completion, and now I'm working on Enterprise. Otherwise, very little Trek experience. Someone please tell me that time travel is not so important in the other series. (Side note, boyfriend says we will NOT be watching Deep Space 9 because he has no desire to watch a Soap Opera in space.)
I really like this series, but the ending just felt like it opened more doors than it closed. I was genuinely upset it was over.
Two other issues I have with the show, because it was never resolve, though, are:
1) WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE BABY BORG WHEN THEY RESCUED ICHEB AND THE OTHER BORG CHILDREN?!
2) Why can't the copy the Doctor? He's a file, isn't he?
Deadwood. Firefly had the film. Arrested Development ended just in time, quality was already slipping. Deadwood was in its prime, and it just...ended...without any finished character arcs or any long running story lines resolved.
For Game of Thrones to get a proper ending, Martin has to actually budge off his fat ass and finish the series, and I don't see that happening any time soon.
Six Feet Under is still the best series ending of all time for fans of closure. It gives you too MUCH goddam closure, is what it gives you.
For Game of Thrones to get a proper ending, Martin has to actually budge off his fat ass and finish the series, and I don't see that happening any time soon.
Six Feet Under is still the best series ending of all time for fans of closure. It gives you too MUCH goddam closure, is what it gives you.
Oh wait, I failed on the finding other zim posts here quite well it seems.silver wolf009 said:
I watched the DVD writers extras, they talk about where the show would have gone.
I don't know if this counts as spoilers...
They were going to do a couple more episodes, such as the return of Tak (I love her) and hoped to finish with a TV movie were it turned out *SPOILERS TO A NON-EXISTING STORY* That Dib is some sort of scientific creation/experiment by his father. I don't know what Zim had to do with that plot, but hey
Lie to Me.
I loved that show and the first season was by far the best. After season one, however, the series started to take a serious nose dive. The tone got a lot more serious and cases were solved using less and less "micro expressions," that the show was starting to dwindle down to more of a crime solvers show with people who can tell apart the lies from the truths.
It sucked that the series was canceled because they had a lot of great episodes and they were really geared towards character development in the third season. I would have like for this show to continue on for many years.
I think that a "fitting" ending to this series would have been that Lightman dies (somehow, solving a case), Foster would leave or take over the firm, Torres would replace Foster, Eli would start his own "Lightman Group," and Emily (Lightman's daughter) would be teaching and advancing the field of micro expressions.
I loved that show and the first season was by far the best. After season one, however, the series started to take a serious nose dive. The tone got a lot more serious and cases were solved using less and less "micro expressions," that the show was starting to dwindle down to more of a crime solvers show with people who can tell apart the lies from the truths.
It sucked that the series was canceled because they had a lot of great episodes and they were really geared towards character development in the third season. I would have like for this show to continue on for many years.
I think that a "fitting" ending to this series would have been that Lightman dies (somehow, solving a case), Foster would leave or take over the firm, Torres would replace Foster, Eli would start his own "Lightman Group," and Emily (Lightman's daughter) would be teaching and advancing the field of micro expressions.
Furioso said:
4 votes. It's because the fans / haters demanded proof that the writers weren't just making everything up as they were going along.
Personally, when I found out about the smoke monster, I was blown away. It explained so much, and I love it when an overcomplicated plan comes together, good or evil.
are.you.the.god.its.me.vader said:
Actually, they did that on purpose, the final episode was titled "Things Change" and that was the message of the episode too. It left you wanting more, but you where never going to get it. To end with an incomplete store, kind of brilliant, kind of trolling...DJ_DEnM said:
Anyway, I agree with the aforementioned Samurai Jack and Heroes, as well as King of the Hill despite that being the intended finale. I would like to add The Spectacular Spider-Man to the list as well. But, that should have got much more than a finale.
So happy one of my favorite shows, Chuck, is actually getting a conclusion instead of an abrupt cancellation. Although a lot of the season/half-season finales work well as series finales.
Neon Genesis Evangelion. I know the Rebuild is trying to give a new ending, but it doesn't even feel like the same series. Don't get me wrong, I like the rebuild, but it's not NGE. As for End of Evangelion...well...it felt as rushed as the original ending. I suppose this is less of a "didn't get a proper ending" because EoE was technically "proper." I just felt like EoE was wrong anyway.
The lack of even a passing mention of Veronica Mars makes me want to burst into tears.
OK not really, but it deserved WAY better than the ending it got.
OK not really, but it deserved WAY better than the ending it got.
With Arrested Development I think it was just them not putting their all in after knowing that it was going to be cancelled. It was pretty evident in the dodgy camera work where you started seeing peoples' arms and other cameras in the corner that they didn't really care at that point. Was still a fantastic show.BloatedGuppy said:
There are comics for the Majin Buu Saga. Although I don't know if they came before the cartoons or not. What I really don't understand is that Gohan is given nothing to do in the Buu saga. Except lose. He's built up from the fight with Raditz as being this apparently powerful hero. Then he does nothing.binnsyboy said:
At the end of his movie, he's heading to Galifrey with his two companions and you don't really know exactly what happens after that. Then in the first episode of the new series, you see Christopher Eccleston examining his face in a mirror as if he had never seen it before.
What this implies to me is that the 8th Doctor spent the rest of his life in the Time War. Then gets killed to regen and meet Rose.
I'd rather leave that gap to the imagination. No matter how amazing the "Nightmare Child" and "Horde of Travesties" end up being made they could never live up to my expectation.
I never watched My Name is Earl.
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I really wish Spider-Man Unlimited had a better conclusion. There were some crazy ideas in that show and some fun twists on the story, I wish it had a chance to finish.
Pokemon needs an ending. Ash has been 10 years old since 1997.