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

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Burakumin Bro dijo:
Actually that used to be a written law. Back in the 30s there use to be the Hays Code, a moral code for movies. And one of the laws was that criminals should always lose at the end. That law gave rise to the classic "rise and fall" structure that many mob movies and shows follows even to this day.
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It still works because of the intrinsic justice of it. while there is a lower quality by the end of the series, the ending is at least decent by how much you can read into it.

Weirdly out of all the deconstructive shit going on, crime being punished is still seemingly kept. Maybe sometimes having a character get away with it if he "legally" didn't do wrong or it was accidental (while highlighting it in the former case).

...though I wouldn't be surprised if there are modern films where the girlboss does something bad and gets away with it.
 
Pygmy Giraffe dijo:
This isn't exactly "underhated," as its become infamous, but the finale of Star Trek Enterprise is a wretched pile of dogshit. Apparently, the framing device is that all of the preceding show was just a holodeck simulation to help an aging, overweight Commander Riker come to a decision to tell Picard the truth about the illegal experiment on the Pegasus. The main plot is a tangled, forgettable mess where the Enterprise must rescue Shran's cousin or something--I've erased the specifics from memory.

The show was cancelled unexpectedly by typical network kikery and the finale was written by tumblr-tier fan fic scabs during a writer strike, but holy shit it's awful. The plot makes no sense, everyone is out of character, and some of the best characters die offscreen. The worst part is that it follows the best two-parter of ENT, the mirror universe "In a Mirror Darkly," which features callbacks to the original series and the movie First Contact. Just check out this opening:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qXw6hC7hxBA
They even replaced the Hallmark channel-style soft rock opening with a badass title credit sequence for a based, militant Earth:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sfbsZRbwbJ4
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iirc it's the usual crew writing
It's that they knew the plans they had were dead so they roboteched together some of the cool parts that were planned to be in seasons 5-7
So yeah it's a total fucking mess but it's not quite as dumb

The real biggest problem is they forgot to put in the part where Sam leaps out of Archer
 
Regarding the end of Enterprise (which I agree was really bad), I never quite understood something. Was Riker's holo-novel true to what Archer & Co. factually accomplished, heavily embellished, or completely fabricated? IOW, did the events depicted in his novel, which in turn was what appeared onscreen in the episode, actually take place and is now part of canon or was it something #1 cooked-up in a fever dream? I remember the outcry from people thinking the latter and was REALLY confused thinking the finale dramatized the former.
 
TheBallPit dijo:
Regarding the end of Enterprise (which I agree was really bad), I never quite understood something. Was Riker's holo-novel true to what Archer & Co. factually accomplished, heavily embellished, or completely fabricated? IOW, did the events depicted in his novel, which in turn was what appeared onscreen in the episode, actually take place and is now part of canon or was it something #1 cooked-up in a fever dream? I remember the outcry from people thinking the latter and was REALLY confused thinking the finale dramatized the former.
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General concensus over the decades have been to best treat the episode as non-canon.
 
Oh, and how could I forget this turd - the finale of the original Dexter run. Look, I don't give a fuck if there were sequels, prequels and "Dexter goes to space" shit, it all ended to me there and it was awful. They should've made a better version of the previous season since it was tying everything down perfectly with Debora confronting Dex planning to kill Laguerta in penultimate episode leaving it on cliffhanger and then in the finale go with the original intent(although it was caused by them having no clue how to end the series) - the entirety of the series was Dexter's flashbacks as he waits for a lethal injection on death row. No, get that weak-ass last season with the dumbest ending possible and trucker Dexter so they could milk it for another decade.
I mean, it is not underhated since I can't recall anyone liking it, but let's be real - if it was hated as much as it deserved to be, no one would watch The Adventures of Trucker Dexter, yet there will be a fuckton of other media in the universe.
 
The finale of the 1980s hospital drama St. Elsewhere, where the previous six seasons of a grounded medical drama was written as having been an autistic boy's daydream. I suppose the lack of social media back when contributed to it's lack of inclusion on lists of "worst TV series endings".
 
Juan But Not Forgotten dijo:
Oh, and how could I forget this turd - the finale of the original Dexter run. Look, I don't give a fuck if there were sequels, prequels and "Dexter goes to space" shit, it all ended to me there and it was awful. They should've made a better version of the previous season since it was tying everything down perfectly with Debora confronting Dex planning to kill Laguerta in penultimate episode leaving it on cliffhanger and then in the finale go with the original intent(although it was caused by them having no clue how to end the series) - the entirety of the series was Dexter's flashbacks as he waits for a lethal injection on death row. No, get that weak-ass last season with the dumbest ending possible and trucker Dexter so they could milk it for another decade.
I mean, it is not underhated since I can't recall anyone liking it, but let's be real - if it was hated as much as it deserved to be, no one would watch The Adventures of Trucker Dexter, yet there will be a fuckton of other media in the universe.
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then they came back with a sequel series which was suppose to bring a better end to the series but it ended just as bad if not worse then the original so when they made the prequel series they just retconned the ending of the sequel series.
 
LazyLizard dijo:
then they came back with a sequel series which was suppose to bring a better end to the series but it ended just as bad if not worse then the original so when they made the prequel series they just retconned the ending of the sequel series.
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What in the actual fuck? How? Like with Dex dying somewhere in between and seeing the rest as his dying visions? Or was it just his dreams on a death row?
 
Commissar Fuklaw dijo:
How I Met Your Mother was so bad they released an alternate version where the mother lived on the DVD.
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I hope this is true because I’m going to find that DVD.

SteelPlatedHeart dijo:
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.
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The way everyone treated Robin at the end always rubbed me the wrong way. And let’s not forget that one of the big reasons Ted couldn’t be with her was because he wanted kids so badly. But now that he’s old, has kids, and the wife is dead, he shows up at her front door. And this is suppose to be the happy ending for Robin. WTF?
 
Juan But Not Forgotten dijo:
"Dexter goes to space"
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that would be cool
more franchises need IN SPACE

the wife is finally starting on the novels and I was trying to explain that big difference between the books and the tv without giving up what the deal is so I was like "it's basically like, also there's saucermen involved sorta"
 
Commander X dijo:
The finale of the 1980s hospital drama St. Elsewhere, where the previous six seasons of a grounded medical drama was written as having been an autistic boy's daydream. I suppose the lack of social media back when contributed to it's lack of inclusion on lists of "worst TV series endings".
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It is infamously a black hole of autism since autists online claim that every other media cameo'd/referenced in that drama is by extension also inside that autists' dream.
 
Juan But Not Forgotten dijo:
What in the actual fuck? How? Like with Dex dying somewhere in between and seeing the rest as his dying visions? Or was it just his dreams on a death row?
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basically the entire season up until the final episode was ok but in the final episode every character just went insane, the psychic super detective small town cop who's dating Dexter goes all psycho on Dexter and throws him in jail, the case is so flimsy Dex would just walk out in the morning and her life would be ruined but instead he goes psycho and kills the only likable cop and did nothing wrong and breaks out of jail then Dex son who was totally ok with killing 5 min ago is now super pissed and decides to kill his dad and Dex is just ok with it and then he dies and he is dead, the showrunners were very clear that it was the end for Dexter he is 100% dead then the cop gf shows up, the same cop gf that pulled a gun and threw Dex in jail because she had an incredibly wild theory with no evidence but she just takes the gun from the son, wipes it down, gives him some money and lets him run away from murdering his dad. it's all just so dumb.

then the prequel comes along and "lol we were just joking, he's not dead"
 
Supernatural.

Yes, I'm aware the series had long jumped the shark so hard, they weren't even in the Milky Way anymore. The only thing that kept me watching was a mix of sunk-cost, wanting to see how bad it got, and enough self-loathing to refuse quitting. And that shit was still so ass.
 
Has anyone brought up Monk?

"The Trudy Mystery is solved by a Video Tape that Monk had the entire time and Monk has just tortured himself for years for no real reason."
 
Hijo de D. Woodchucks Jr. dijo:
Supernatural.

Yes, I'm aware the series had long jumped the shark so hard, they weren't even in the Milky Way anymore. The only thing that kept me watching was a mix of sunk-cost, wanting to see how bad it got, and enough self-loathing to refuse quitting. And that shit was still so ass.
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supernatural had a very solid 5 season run but the execs wanted more, the showrunner left, writers left and the quality dropped, i dropped it after i think season 8, checked the wiki recently and man did it get fucking goofy as it went on
 
LazyLizard dijo:
supernatural had a very solid 5 season run but the execs wanted more, the showrunner left, writers left and the quality dropped, i dropped it after i think season 8, checked the wiki recently and man did it get fucking goofy as it went on
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It had a few good things (very few) here and there after the original five seasons, but it never reached even close to that level of quality again despite the arguable escalation of the threats they faced. Lucifer showing up was always fun while it lasted,though.
 
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