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

[BrunoMattei]

Serenity was a shit ending to firefly. it felt like a swear-ier version of a tv episode instead of a cinematic send off.

I thought Firefly itself sucked dicks.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

I thought the ending to Grimm was pretty lame. All that build-up about the magic wand being a splinter from Moses' staff, and instead we get a totally unrelated-to-Moses nobody-villain in another dimension that kills everyone on the show, only to have it all undone in a literal reset button ending. None of it had anything to do with the show or even really the last season of the show.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

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".

It have been on the online lists of "worst TV series endings" for 15-20 years now. Hell it haven't been in syndication hardly at all after the original run. Moreso for what was a popular series up til that last episode. Long before online social media existed, people did talk and word gets out fast whether a show or movie is good or not. Especially when they have shit and fuck you endings as they can and have tanked future earnings potential in syndication and home video release(s) i.e. VHS, and Betamax.

I thought the ending to Grimm was pretty lame. All that build-up about the magic wand being a splinter from Moses' staff, and instead we get a totally unrelated-to-Moses nobody-villain in another dimension that kills everyone on the show, only to have it all undone in a literal reset button ending. None of it had anything to do with the show or even really the last season of the show.

Grimm was lucky to get that last season to try and sort of properly end instead of outright cancelation and no ending. Seen it done before with Fringe, where it's last half-season had done the same thing.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

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

They really should've just had the guy he killed in Season 3's finale be Red John, Jane had earned it (he legit tricked Red John) and the whole plot line was starting to lose steam by then anyway. Plus they could've pivoted to Malcolm McDowell's cult leader for a new villain/nemesis, as it's heavily implied he knew Red John and might've even been his mentor figure.

But no, they just had to keep milking Red John another 2 seasons, and run out of suspects just to make it someone who doesn't even fit the clues they made up explicitly to point to Red John. I don't hate Jane's whole final confrontation with the real Red John, it's well done IMHO, but those 2 seasons were really stretching the premise thin for me. And that whole final season and a half was just a totally different show. I haven't seen the Leverage reboot, but I assume it would feel similar.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I was going to say Seinfeld but that's pretty universally disliked. Futurama is another one. The show has had 3-4(?) finales and each one is more disappointing and "that was it?" then the next. But it just got renewed again so, I don't know anymore.

 

[Commander X]

Even before the "mystery box" concept was named such, there've been plenty of long-running TV series where running plotlines are milked and stretched out to ridiculous degrees, with unsatisfying resolutions - "who killed [x]?" or "what happened to the character who went missing years ago", "what's the nature of a cover-up the main characters seem to have discovered" etc. etc.

It's one thing to set up a running mystery subplot, but to tie everything together and give the mystery a satisfying payoff requires actual effort - figuring out the plot, putting clues that are enough to intrigue without giving it away, etc. You need to start at the end and work your way back, you can't just make it up as you go along. It takes no effort at all to just throw stuff out there to create a feeling of mysteriousness or announce that the person you were led to believe was the villain pulling the strings was just another puppet, etc.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

I was surprised no one mentioned the last few seasons of "X-Files" when the mystery arc ran off of the rails and they tried replacing the two main actors. Mulder and Scully had to eventually be brought back. Their sleeping together is seen as a shark jump moment by many.

I also remember there being a show in the 8os called "Beauty and the Beast" starring Linda Hamilton. She left the show and they killed her character off after she gave birth to the Beast's child, which was a gutsy move by the writers, but it pretty much destroyed the entire appeal of the show.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

I was surprised no one mentioned the last few seasons of "X-Files" when the mystery arc ran off of the rails and they tried replacing the two main actors. Mulder and Scully had to eventually be brought back. Their sleeping together is seen as a shark jump moment by many

X-Files became an anthology show after "Two Fathers"/"One Son," change my mind.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

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"

For some reason I thought that they retconned the last season. God, this is awful.

I'd also like to mention Person of interest. I mean, the finale wasn't terrible, but the show was clearly on the decline, they even weren't allowed to have a full final season. The problem is that the final two episodes basically made the entire show pointless. The premise was about fear of technology taking over our lives and the main antagonist since season three was an AI called Samaritan with his pocket corporation Decima, who basically worshiped it as a God. For five seasons the creator of a good AI called the Machine refuses to let it unlock its full potential in fears of it going rouge. Near the finale after the loss of a comrade he goes mad and basically tells it "gloves off", writes super virus that bends over entire Internet and in a span of one episode destroys Decima and Samaritan to the ground. So the moral is... they were correct all along?

 

[William Murderface]

X-Files became an anthology show after "Two Fathers"/"One Son," change my mind.

I think it was always designed as an anthology show with a set cast and a loose arc involving a conspiracy tying it all together. The concept just fell apart when the fanbase started wanting more and more info on the conspiracy than the monster of the week.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I was surprised no one mentioned the last few seasons of "X-Files" when the mystery arc ran off of the rails and they tried replacing the two main actors. Mulder and Scully had to eventually be brought back. Their sleeping together is seen as a shark jump moment by many.

I also remember there being a show in the 8os called "Beauty and the Beast" starring Linda Hamilton. She left the show and they killed her character off after she gave birth to the Beast's child, which was a gutsy move by the writers, but it pretty much destroyed the entire appeal of the show.

Robert Patrick was really fucking great on Xfiles. I'll always love how he got the little bleed of New York accent when the character got pissed

 

[LazyLizard]

Marco Polo, it got 2 season and was then cancelled, problem is they really had no idea they would be cancelled so it ends on a big cliffhanger with a potential holy war between the mongols and the pope.

 

[Commander X]

Yes, the last couple of seasons of the X-Files kind of went crazy with the Conspiracy plotline, and despite more than a few fans being vocal about their displeasure, there were plenty who could not get enough of that nonsense.

It's a shame because for more than a few seasons, X-Files was a mostly good show, that just happened to explode into being the sort of pop-cultural phenomenon that infects the pop-cultural zeitgeist and influences and inspires a lot of people - and it was probably one of the biggest shows to inspire knock-offs, copycats and wake riders. (Most ridiculous being the retooled second season of the spin-off Baywatch Nights which had started it's first season as a show about the Hoff and his cop pal moonlighting as private eyes, then it became about the Hoff and Angie Harmon investigating mysterious phenomena and weird creatures)

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Yes, the last couple of seasons of the X-Files kind of went crazy with the Conspiracy plotline, and despite more than a few fans being vocal about their displeasure, there were plenty who could not get enough of that nonsense.

Wasn't it basically "government is about to let aliens to take over Earth", but later it turned into "the aliens are already beaten and the government does usual shady government shit"?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Wasn't it basically "government is about to let aliens to take over Earth", but later it turned into "the aliens are already beaten and the government does usual shady government shit"?

iirc the ayys were various degrees of already won, already lost, or Earth All Along depending on the story

I mostly recall cigarette smoking man getting a rocket in the face and his skull flying at the camera

 

[Standardized Profile]

Wasn't it basically "government is about to let aliens to take over Earth", but later it turned into "the aliens are already beaten and the government does usual shady government shit"?

The X-Files conspiracy arc went roughly like this:

Spoiler

Seasons 1-6: Aliens are going to colonize the Earth by spreading a virus that turns people into reptilians/greys. An international syndicate manipulates governments to enable this and/or delay it and/or prevent it. Rebel aliens murder the syndicate and apparently halt colonization, but not before the syndicate develops a vaccine to the virus.

Seasons 7-9: Aliens are going to conquer Earth by spreading a virus that turns people into supersoldiers and infiltrating society.

First finale: Aliens are going to colonize the Earth in May 2012 with the first virus, which might be the same as the second virus.

Reboot seasons: Aliens didn't colonize the Earth and aren't going to because of global warming. The Smoking Man is alive again and he's going to wipe out humanity, except for a chosen elite, with a virus that was administered in smallpox vaccines.

I think the global warming thing might have been a condition from William B. Davis to come back (even though he died in the first finale). He feels very strongly about it. In pre-reboot X-Files, the aliens left/went underground during the ice age because they need heat for their metamorphosis, and humans were out-competing them.

 

[Endless Torment]

I thought the ending to Grimm was pretty lame. All that build-up about the magic wand being a splinter from Moses' staff, and instead we get a totally unrelated-to-Moses nobody-villain in another dimension that kills everyone on the show, only to have it all undone in a literal reset button ending. None of it had anything to do with the show or even really the last season of the show.

I always felt Grimm was hampered by being cable television and it's budget, but I'm glad it at least managed to reach an ending.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

The X-Files conspiracy arc went roughly like this:

Spoiler

Seasons 1-6: Aliens are going to colonize the Earth by spreading a virus that turns people into reptilians/greys. An international syndicate manipulates governments to enable this and/or delay it and/or prevent it. Rebel aliens murder the syndicate and apparently halt colonization, but not before the syndicate develops a vaccine to the virus.

Seasons 7-9: Aliens are going to conquer Earth by spreading a virus that turns people into supersoldiers and infiltrating society.

First finale: Aliens are going to colonize the Earth in May 2012 with the first virus, which might be the same as the second virus.

Reboot seasons: Aliens didn't colonize the Earth and aren't going to because of global warming. The Smoking Man is alive again and he's going to wipe out humanity, except for a chosen elite, with a virus that was administered in smallpox vaccines.

I think the global warming thing might have been a condition from William B. Davis to come back (even though he died in the first finale). He feels very strongly about it. In pre-reboot X-Files, the aliens left/went underground during the ice age because they need heat for their metamorphosis, and humans were out-competing them.

he should have insisted on them letting him water ski

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

See, you say a lot of cool opinions.
And then you write this retarded shit.


She can't exist because she was a byproduct of the hivemind they literally just fucking destroyed.

What protagonists are miserable?
Rossiu just seems tired because he spent the last twenty years singlehandedly creating universal peace.
Simon says "I guess I'm nothing" because he's accepted that his time has come and gone and that other generations will pick up and continue drilling into a better tomorrow. He's traveling around with his pigmole pal. He doesn't need to show anyone he's him because he has the self confidence he spent the entire series building towards.
Simon doesn't need anyone because he's accepted himself. He misses his friends but he has faith in the future.
The entire show isn't about measuring your dick. It's about having enough faith in yourself and the world that will eventually move on without you.

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Not a product of but now powered by that hive mind. Since she "awoken". MC had the power to save her, they even talked about it.. But because of "reasons" (i.e. the bad guys bullshit arguments and to be "fair" to everyone else.. see my destruction of that claim in last post) he chose not to. All pure excuses to save the try hard tragic ending. It shit over every element and theme of the series.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

I'd also like to mention Person of interest. I mean, the finale wasn't terrible, but the show was clearly on the decline, they even weren't allowed to have a full final season. The problem is that the final two episodes basically made the entire show pointless. The premise was about fear of technology taking over our lives and the main antagonist since season three was an AI called Samaritan with his pocket corporation Decima, who basically worshiped it as a God. For five seasons the creator of a good AI called the Machine refuses to let it unlock its full potential in fears of it going rouge. Near the finale after the loss of a comrade he goes mad and basically tells it "gloves off", writes super virus that bends over entire Internet and in a span of one episode destroys Decima and Samaritan to the ground. So the moral is... they were correct all along?

Change My Mind: Person of Interest is a disguised remake of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but with Cyberpunk tropes instead of Gothic Horror.

Person of Interest was doomed to go downhill because it was following Buffy's own decline from the 4th season on. At least it got cancelled for real and not picked up again after the fact, forcing them to hastily write a 6th season or totally retool the next season because the lead opted to stay on and be resurrected.