Underhated TV finales - What ending you were the only one dissapointed at?

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Game of Thrones. The last season was "wut?" levels of retarded. I know it gets a lot of hate, but it doesn't get enough hate.

 

[Commissar Fuklaw]

How I Met Your Mother was so bad they released an alternate version where the mother lived on the DVD.

 

[LazyLizard]

The ending of Better Call Saul was bad, I feel like I must have seen a different episode with how much people were praising it.

Conversely, the people that hate the ending of Lost are legitimately low IQ and should be put into a gas van as soon as possible.

glad i'm not the only one who really didn't like the Better Call Saul ending, great show but a fumbled ending.

 

[TheBallPit]

The Blade TV series. One season, ends on a cliffhanger, canceled because, supposedly, too many women were watching a SpikeTV show. Sticky Fingaz aka Kirk Jones was actually robbed, along with the rest of the crew.

This was back when Marvel didn't know what the hell they were doing...not that they do now, either.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

How I Met Your Mother was so bad they released an alternate version where the mother lived on the DVD.

Ending was bad enough to get the show almost completely pulled out of syndication. As prior to airing of the ending, HIMYM reruns were being played on almost every local and non niche cable channel. After the ending was shown, good fucking luck trying to find more than maybe one or two channels immediately afterwards.

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Monk series ending, where Monk literally had identity of his wife's killer in his possession even before the series started. On a "If you're watching this I'm already dead. Here's the name and face of my killer and the deeds to why he killed me" VHS tape she had gave to him as a present for him to opened iirc at Christmas in a few days. Since he's such an autistic dipshit, he never opened that "gift" and spent years looking for the killer. Ultimately only to just barely get enough clues leading to that tape, to get Monk to finally opened that "gift."

 

[Thiletonomics]

Season 3 of Total Drama (World Tour) had an ending where nothing happens because Feral Ezekiel (which parodied Gollum from the LotR movies) steals the prize money from the winner (the show always does two endings, and which ending is aired is based on your regional location, but the Feral Ezekiel ending happens in both) and falls into a volcano with it. It also had dumb things like pineapples somehow make volcanos erupt violently, and the ending scene has all of the contestants swimming away from the raging volcano.

World Tour probably gets less hate because the later Total Drama seasons (i.e. All-Stars and Pakhiteau, and the contestants in the reboot SUCK, plus Christian Potenza getting fired as Chris's VA due to what later turned out to be a bogus accusation) turned out to be EVEN WORSE. The fact that that contestants get eliminated in All-Stars by getting FLUSHED DOWN A GIANT TOILET is a probably unintended metaphor for the series shitting the bed.

 

[Xev]

The 100. Sure it was dumb for a while but it's mind blowing that the writers consider that to be some sort of happy ending. It was bleak as fuck.

 

[Chandelier]

Game of Thrones. The last season was "wut?" levels of retarded. I know it gets a lot of hate, but it doesn't get enough hate.

Shit started going down in S5 with the rape of Sansa, which didn't make any sense at all because out of all the people Littlefinger swindled, he was loyal to Sansa as he viewed her as the replica of Cat, the woman he loved. Now, I know of the age gap in the books but Petyr did love Sansa. He would have never sold her to Ramsay whatsoever; he would have rather chucked her across the Wall to marry a Wildling. After that outcry, they toned down the sexual violence a LOT; you would have thought they would have done that after Dany's assault in the first season (which wasn't in the books. I am also aware she was a child and GRRM does express regret he made her that young). S6 killed Summer, Hodor and Margaery, and then S7 really started getting whacky once they started killing Dany's dragons. S8 was terrible and I saw the leaks on Reddit. Everyone was pissed off. Then we got HOTD S2 and Philosophy Tube as a Lyseni pirate when the original character was a flamboyant male. If they really wanted to go the troon route, Hunter fucking Schafer could've done it and he actually has the androgynous look to be both - and the hair. He has the hair to be a Lyseni. But they chose the arrogant, 'I can totally act' Choob. I fucking laughed my ass off as soon as I saw him. Hope Vermax torches him before he dies.

Might as well add this, even though the honeymoon period is wearing off: Arcane S2. Yes, I sperg about a lot in its thread, but for good reason. It was a show even 4chan could not stop glazing, so when it got leaked there everyone was flabbergasted at the first five episodes and left to theorize what the other four could be. The Leblanc theories were wild and all of them ended up being better than what we got; the sex scene between Cait and Vi was 'leaked' to be a cardboard sex scene in her apartment, before some legendary anon actually leaked what happened. No one believed him at first, and he had the 'yeah I have a relative at Riot/Netflix' but he dropped the episodes and when they were revealed that weekend...4chan was fucking ALIVE with its threads. Everyone was shocked the shitty rumours were true. It still gets a lot of praise from normies who love the animation, and yet another music video of Ma Meilleure Ennemie was released, but with Coldplay! so they can jizz over that.

Boardwalk Empire. I made it to S3, but when Nucky died after getting shot by Michael Pitt's son, as well as the death of Richard Harrow, made me go 'what the fuck'.

 

[TheBallPit]

The excellent Teen Titans cartoon. Ended on a cliffhanger (and a fairly important one) while being replaced with the almost universally hated Teen Titans Go!. TTG was such a step down that it even lampshaded itself on multiple occasions by making references to its far, FAR better predecessor.

To pour salt into the wound, TTG would consume Cartoon Network's programming matrix to the point that it was the only thing playing for large chunks of the day.

A crossover movie was produced called "Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans" (notice how TTG is first on the title marquee) that dangled the return of the original team, but it went nowhere, with TTG still Cartoon Network's go-to show.

TBF, TTG isn't a total write-off and does have some decent episodes, but on the whole it can't hold a candle to Teen Titans. And the fact that TT was axed in favor of TTG is a huge continuing bone of contention for Teen Titans faithfuls.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Burn Notice, I don't remember all the details I just remember a distinct feeling of disappointment. Though to be fair it had been running out of steam for at least a season and a half by the time it ended.

Black Sails, secret faggot plantation is stupid and Billy Bones was a shitty twist villain.

 

[Valstrax]

If anime/manga count, then JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Killing off almost the entire cast is one thing, it's been done before in JoJo, but resetting the entire universe and basically undoing everything the Joestars have done and fought for is some real dogshit. I feel like the only reason it happened was because Araki wanted to make Steel Ball Run but didn't know how to put it into the timeline without it fucking up severely.

Then again, the entire timeline is fucked up already, so who am I to complain? I'm just upset he killed off Annasui.

 

[LazyLizard]

The Mentalist, after 5 and a half seasons of hunting Red John, he's finally revealed and defeated and it just keeps going for another season with a mostly new crew and it tries to get you hyped for new villains but nothing measures up to Red John, it just goes out with a whimper not a bang. it should have ended with Jane killing Red John but instead the execs thought they could keep milking the series, turns out no they couldn't

 

[Calandrino]

The 90s superhero show M.A.N.T.I.S. ended with the main character being killed by an invisible dinosaur. I've never seen a single episode of M.A.N.T.I.S., but I read that somewhere, and it always stuck with me. It sounds like the way somebody would die in an improv comedy show.

 

[Famous Actor]

Anyone else have the conspiracy theory I do where endings suck now because they want to prevent people from re-watching and encourage them to move on to New Thing?

Doubt it, I think all TV shows w/ long-running stories are just doomed to have shit endings due to how the greenlighting of production is handled... Obviously many TV shows are canceled too soon, but on the other side of the coin producers/networks never let a good show end while it's still good (and thus getting views).

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan. I always hate shows that kill the heroine for edge points, and after the protagonists break every physical law to save the heroine, having her die with some bullshit "I can't exist because you killed the big bad" is horseshit.

But it gets worse because the epilogue has the two surviving protagonists live in misery while seemingly everyone else move on. Yet people like it because the final battle was EPPPIIICCCC!

Also the End of Evangelion 4 for having Shinji's father fight against him in a second mecha while they wax poetics. Just retarded.

If anime/manga count, then JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Killing off almost the entire cast is one thing, it's been done before in JoJo, but resetting the entire universe and basically undoing everything the Joestars have done and fought for is some real dogshit. I feel like the only reason it happened was because Araki wanted to make Steel Ball Run but didn't know how to put it into the timeline without it fucking up severely.

Then again, the entire timeline is fucked up already, so who am I to complain? I'm just upset he killed off Annasui.

Technically speaking everything up to Stone Ocean still happened. The universal retcon just removed the existence of Pucci's, which shouldn't affect any previous arc. I dunno, I liked it for having the side character win through his friends, but goddamn his new reality is harsh for the little guy.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan. I always hate shows that kill the heroine for edge points, and after the protagonists break every physical law to save the heroine, having her die with some bullshit "I can't exist because you killed the big bad" is horseshit.

But it gets worse because the epilogue has the two surviving protagonists live in misery while seemingly everyone else move on. Yet people like it because the final battle was EPPPIIICCCC!

I do too! In the extreme. Oh god, that ending ruined the entire series for me. It was so 100% pointless edginess. It ruined the MC as a character (I see him as a piece of shit), spit in the face of the series themes and justified the bad guy's (who they just beat) logic to do it. It was all so unnecessary. One of the worst endings in all of media, not just anime. People try to justify it so hard as being deep, justified or unavoidable. It made no sense in any context.

The worst part is that he wouldn't save her because it would be "unfair" to everyone who died.. Leaving out that unlike them, she didn't die yet. This wouldn't even be like using CPR to save someone, it would be like giving someone blood who was bleeding. The argument made no fucking sense. He chose not to save the girl he supposedly loves. Because!

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updaed: @wtfNeedSignUp

Also the End of Evangelion 4 for having Shinji's father fight against him in a second mecha while they wax poetics. Just retarded.

A least this latest complete version had an ending, that ending made some sense, and it gave the poor cast a justified peaceful non tragic or bittersweet ending. It only took him what? 3 or 4 tries? lol

 

[ParasiteSteve]

Burn Notice, I don't remember all the details I just remember a distinct feeling of disappointment. Though to be fair it had been running out of steam for at least a season and a half by the time it ended.

I would have liked Michael opening up more about his role in the agency, and how he had truly started to hate it and everything he had done.

Still, Burn Notice and Monk will remain some of my favorite shows of all time.

 

[Preacher ✝]

I would have liked Michael opening up more about his role in the agency, and how he had truly started to hate it and everything he had done.

Still, Burn Notice and Monk will remain some of my favorite shows of all time.

Oh yea, don't get me wrong Burn Notice is a good show. Perhaps that's why the ending was still disappointing without being outright terrible.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

How I Met Your Mother was so bad they released an alternate version where the mother lived on the DVD.

I actually just started re-watching that show again after like over a decade because my girlfriend never watched it when it was airing. I have already made it absolutely clear. We will not be watching the last two episodes.

It wasn’t even the mom dying. That was the real issue with the ending for me. It was spending an entire season on Barney and Robin’s wedding only to have them get divorced a minute into the series finale and taking away seasons, worth of character development of them both because Ted has to get back together with her eventually.

Hell, if you really want to look way too into it, the only thing that got Barney to “fully change for the better” according to the finale was having a daughter. Guess what Robin couldn’t do because she was barren?

Seriously, I could rant forever about how that shitty. Shitty ending ruined a great show for me.

 

[Ensok]

The Mentalist, after 5 and a half seasons of hunting Red John, he's finally revealed and defeated and it just keeps going for another season with a mostly new crew and it tries to get you hyped for new villains but nothing measures up to Red John, it just goes out with a whimper not a bang. it should have ended with Jane killing Red John but instead the execs thought they could keep milking the series, turns out no they couldn't

That one always gets me. The Mentalist was never as big as other shows but it was solid and Red John was a fantastic overarching villain. In fact the fakeout at the end of season 3 would've also been a pretty good finale if things stopped there too. But yeah, Jane's confrontation with Red John is great, way more satisfying than anything like what was done with CSI's long-running serial killers or other shows like that but... it occurs less than halfway through season 6. And then there's still season 7 after. It's so fucking weird. Season 7 is a short season too, it's like they just didn't know what they were doing.

I'll say King of the Hill for this thread too. The episode itself isn't bad in a vacuum but it's a mediocre way to end the show.