most fucked up ending to something you've ever read or seen.

[linkzeldi]

The Big O. . . ah with the tomatoes. The entire world was reset, I think.

Honestly I have no idea how it really ended. It looked as if it reset but then there is puzzling out Roger Smith and Angel and what he said to her in that control room. It is definitely a very weird ending (considering they were in a dome and they had a satalite fall, which I still don't fully get)
Very weird anime from start to finish which is why i have watched it 3 times ^^.

From what I've read, they intended to make a third season but never got the greenlight to do so. So an explanation for whatever the hell really happened was planned. It just didn't happen. Leaving us confused watchers back at square one. I guess it's better than the horrible cliffhanger that ended season one though.

I don't reacll a first season (I think there were 25 in total). Do enlighten me if I am wrong.

Well you see toonami ran through the first 12 episodes, and the show was abruptly canceled. The twelfth episode ended on such a cliffhanger though, there was a huge fan response asking for more big O. So the episodes began running uncut on Adult Swim with the announcement that Adult Swim had contacted the japanese studio and were planning for another season. Adult Swim ran the new episodes, and they slowly became more and more philosophical and less batman meets giant robots. Then for the finale they threw all logic out the window and decided to screw with out minds.

And screw they did indeed. I liked though how it started to get more complex and detailed, was a really good run up to the final episode and it sort felt right as Rodger Smith got deeper and deeper intwinded into what was happening. It ended up feeling alot like a 24 episode detective movie that way and the comic relief was well timed to stop it getting too deep.
Did anyone ever come across the manga for Big-O? I suspect there may be a more clear ending for that as sometims happens, but I could not fish up any info when I did a basic check a good while back.

There was a manga for big O? This was the first time I ever heard of it. That is a good point, I mean Batman meets giant robots can only be entertaining for so long. The opening was extremely awesome as well. Maybe if the last episode had made a lick of sense the writers would have gotten that third season. Oh japan and your apparent love of screwing with our western minds

I'm not so sure about your manga theory though. Fooly Cooly had a manga, and the manga ending made even less sense.

 

[I Max95]

Knowing
first two acts were good but the third one was fucked up and ruined the movie for me

Spoiler

nic cages son gets abducted by aliens with children from around the world while cage burns along withe most of the human race as the earth is toasted...that last part gave me nightmares

also bridge to teribithia but thats already been said

 

[lizards]

the end to half life 2 episode 2 (which was my favorite by the way) dont read this if your playing through half life now

you go through stuff that it would problay take a whole division of rebels to do, kill enough combine to fill all the graveyards in the US, kill obscene amounts of striders and hunters, save alyxs life, and finally launch that the rocket that (at this point anyway) seems to have saved and liberated humanity

only to have to oversized slugs come through a fucking window and kill eli, it was the biggest cock slap ive ever endured

I believe that was intentional, seeing as there will be a sequel. (I still have hope!) It sets up a desire to kill the giant maggoty thingies. I can't remember the name right now, but it'll come back an hour from now, when it doesn't matter. Players won't want to go and kill more combine, more headcrab zombies, more antlions. Even hunters and striders, while pretty awesome and unique, have become less of a special thing to us. So they're throwing a new, extremely powerful thing into the mix to persuade us to buy the next game.

That said, yes. Especially the way in which he was killed...I don't want to know what that's all about.

ya i know about that but its still a cockslap.....granted i love halflife, and when this first shows up its episode 2 (i think) doesnt the whole brain suck thing remind you (at best) or completely copy (at worst) the queen thing from starship troopers?

not to mention antlions must be their distant cousins...

 

[Mr. McFuzzers]

That Dumplings movie... oh. my. god.

SPOILERS

The lady eats her own damn baby...

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Spoiler: Next

"Oops, I fucked up. Good thing that was just my poorly defined psychic powers. Gotcha, huh?"

I've seen that kind of ending so much, and I hate it more every time I see it.

 

[Code Monkey]

Neong Genesis Evangelion.

It went from "Awesome giant robot show" to "Fruedian mindfuck show" in a few short episodes.

Spoiler: This video sums it up nicely: