Worst Series Finales EVER!
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All the shows that got canned mid-season (Jericho, Pushing Daisies [although Season 2 kinda sucked], Firefly, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone [are they coming back??]).
Buffy: I understand why they killed who they did, because someone had to die, and it wasn't going to be the boy. But that doesn't mean I like it. And for who mentioned the end of season 4 - Joss himself said that he didn't want to end on the epic two-parter boss fight, he wanted to do something different.
Regarding the series/season thing: british people call seasons 'series'. So it's all the same.
Buffy: I understand why they killed who they did, because someone had to die, and it wasn't going to be the boy. But that doesn't mean I like it. And for who mentioned the end of season 4 - Joss himself said that he didn't want to end on the epic two-parter boss fight, he wanted to do something different.
Regarding the series/season thing: british people call seasons 'series'. So it's all the same.
I'm pretty sure Takahashi went through the same thing that Toriyama went through with DBZ and just wanted to end it any way she could.Signa said:
I tend to support the "Angel" thing more than anything. However I believe they always intended to continue that, BUT the actual truth was that Joss lost battles with the networks over creative control of his ideas. Apparently the last season of Buffy was more or less the fault of those ongoing creative conflicts, and a lot of the problems with it were the result of Joss being sort of forced to write by comittee.
I do not consider the comic book thing "Canon" simply due to issues of format and availibility. I have sort of been hoping there would be some kind of movie, spin off, or new show that would tie into it and resolve the cliffhanger and such without having to actually show the old characters as the actors currently are. As far as I'm concerned to really tie it up requires something in video.
There have also been some truely depressing endings to anime series (Speed Grapher being the most memorable example in fairly recent memory). Anime having this nasty tendency to totally ruin itself in the last couple of episodes. I guess like a Steven King novel it does leave you guessing at times.
That said there were plenty of series that ended without any real closure through the years. Once upon a time they didn't even plan for series to have proper endings.
When it comes to things like "The X-Files" one of the problems is that when your intentionally obtuse and mysterious enough and switch things so much to try and keep people smarter than you guessing even after they get it right, no ending is going to satisfy the viewers. Thus the only way to do it is to basically end it with more questions.
This is sort of what a lot of people are predicting for "Lost". But then again in the last couple of seasons they have been trying to focus a lot on this time travel stuff and are turning the show into a bit of a temporal drama, forgetting all about things that were pulled out in the beginning. There were lists compiled about all of the ends needing to be tied up in the past.
All I can say that is that if JJ Abrams can avoid the most annoying ending in history with that one, he will have made his career more solidly than anything else he's produced.
Oh and if you liked Joss Whedon's musicals look up "Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog". I'm not kidding, it's a 45 minute musical production by him.
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I do not consider the comic book thing "Canon" simply due to issues of format and availibility. I have sort of been hoping there would be some kind of movie, spin off, or new show that would tie into it and resolve the cliffhanger and such without having to actually show the old characters as the actors currently are. As far as I'm concerned to really tie it up requires something in video.
There have also been some truely depressing endings to anime series (Speed Grapher being the most memorable example in fairly recent memory). Anime having this nasty tendency to totally ruin itself in the last couple of episodes. I guess like a Steven King novel it does leave you guessing at times.
That said there were plenty of series that ended without any real closure through the years. Once upon a time they didn't even plan for series to have proper endings.
When it comes to things like "The X-Files" one of the problems is that when your intentionally obtuse and mysterious enough and switch things so much to try and keep people smarter than you guessing even after they get it right, no ending is going to satisfy the viewers. Thus the only way to do it is to basically end it with more questions.
This is sort of what a lot of people are predicting for "Lost". But then again in the last couple of seasons they have been trying to focus a lot on this time travel stuff and are turning the show into a bit of a temporal drama, forgetting all about things that were pulled out in the beginning. There were lists compiled about all of the ends needing to be tied up in the past.
All I can say that is that if JJ Abrams can avoid the most annoying ending in history with that one, he will have made his career more solidly than anything else he's produced.
Oh and if you liked Joss Whedon's musicals look up "Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog". I'm not kidding, it's a 45 minute musical production by him.
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This.Sir_Nolan said:
After so many seasons on the air, it's like nobody cared to give it a proper finale.
boo.
"Oh, Chuck me."Glerken said:
The only way the kung-fu ending will bother me is if it doesn't get picked up for a third season...and it better. Now that they've uncovered "the ring" I have a ton of other questions besides what the hell FULCRUM was actually about besides their wanting the intersect.
Also, from what the producers and writers have said, the whole kung-fu thing isn't something Chuck actually knows. The Intersect has all the skill sets he would need on missions, but he'll only be able to use them when they're necessary. So,even though he did kung-fu then, he won't be able to do it on command.
Gantz........watch it and you'll see.
Edit: And Invader Zim because they just killed it and gave it no finale.
Edit: And Invader Zim because they just killed it and gave it no finale.
Unfortunately I haven't gotten around to watching the final two movies. At least they added them on though.WanderFreak said:
Speed Grapher's ending wasn't all that depressing. Saiga did end up on a sweet note, albeit he did lose something that he really loved, he gained something else that he really loved. It was bittersweet.Therumancer said:
But yeah.
SG-1 had a really terrible ending. I know the movies wrapped some things up, but the ending for the series, the last episode, well it sucked. Didn't wrap anything up, didn't solve anything, just did some weird crap with timetravel and then told you to piss off because it was over.
Big-O was also pretty bad. It was a pretty nice series up until the end, and then it all fell apart into WTF REALLY?