Worst series ending concepts

[TwistedBishop]

I'll second the Buffy finale hate. I didn't know if I should be laughing or crying at the spectacle it made of itself at the end, but then that's how I felt in general during the last two seasons.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I'll nominate the original series of Star Trek mainly because they didn't get a finale!

edit - errr my brain no worky today?

 

[DonTadow]

I agree with X-Files and Seinfeld have terrible endings.

Star Trek Voyager was an awful show with an awful ending that pretty much invalidated the entire series. Multiple times in the past Janeway refuses help back to the alpha quadrant, but this time she accepts. Huh?

I liked the DS9 ending. It wasn't all happy as at least one major character bites it. I didn't see the last B5 as the final season kind of meandered and kind of sucked.

But Alf had the worse series ending: a cliff-hanger where he is grabbed by the government. And then no more series. Ack!

AGreed. Voyager was the worst ending, as the only way they could figure out how to use the show was to "time travel" and create a huge paradox. DS9 was also a sad ending in my book. Odo returned to the collective, but you knew he was still in love with Kira. HE tears his self away from the woman he loves so he can cure his family.

Sisco essentially dies. Transending to a "higher" form is dying in my book. Jake has to deal with losing his father. The universe is in a situation of chaos as the end of the war happened, but we saw no "end results". Remember through the last couple seasons they'd make hints at how the Romulans wouldn't give this land back and the Klingons wouldn't give that. It was just a prime show for a sequal, instead we get the Voyagers boring trek through the delta quandrant.

I loved the angel and buffy finale on a emotional level, but hated that UPN didn't give Joss 2 hours for the finale like he wanted. The buffy finale felt rushed and packed and when you observe the plot, it doesnt make any sense at all. They go into the hell mouth... errr.. to do what, they didn't know what hte amulet did yet and they were out numbered 1,000 to 1. They had the weapon idea, but that was it and that was obviously not going to kill them all. They sort of muddled through it.

Angel was canceled too early and the ending seemed a bit rushed, but the last 20 minutes was great, with the group continuing to fight, no happy ending,... angel was never the happy show that was Buffy. Angel was the redemption show, which we all know is impossible.

My worst ending (which ranks lower than some of the others mentioned but frustrated me none the less) Quantum Leap. All the emotions you went through with Sam and Al and he doesnt get back home. That was depressing in that the reason you watched every week was the see his adventures and hope he eventually got back home.

 

[Storm Raven]

Eh? The place was decomissioned and scuttled. Why is that dumb?

And it wasn't even the real point of the finale. The finale was about Sheridan's death, blowing up B5 was a side plot - a significant side plot, but still a side plot. The main plot of the finale was Sheridan's farewell.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

double post

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer


Boy was that bad. Turning all of those girlsinto slayers was lame.

Agreed. It was crap. I have Seasons 1-5 of BUFFY. The show ends for me when she sacrifices herself at the end of S5 to save the world. To me the show took a huge dip in quality after s5 a couple of choice episodes doesnt out weigh the fact that most of the eps were sub par comapared to what we were getting previously.


And the whole "even bad Joss is better than most TV" is crap. Going from eating prime rib to millet isnt great because the next edible option literally crap. If that's the case the people are REALLY selling themselves short.

Now ANGEL, THAT is how a show is supposed to end.

 

[wedgeski]

Agreed. It was crap. I have Seasons 1-5 of BUFFY. The show ends for me when she sacrifices herself at the end of S5 to save the world. To me the show took a huge dip in quality after s5 a couple of choice episodes doesnt out weigh the fact that most of the eps were sub par comapared to what we were getting previously.

I agree... kind of. Certainly the subsequent series with Buffy's return and her psychotic episodes, then Willow's turn to the dark side, was disappointingly feeble. That entire series just felt wrongly: wrongly conceived, wrongly executed. Now, the final season, I kinda liked, and I have no problem with the finale which seemed to me a very fitting end to the series (and a great setup for a spinoff). It hit all the right notes.

Now ANGEL, THAT is how a show is supposed to end.

Yup, great ending.

Every TV producer/writer should be forced, contractually, to write the ending of their series almost from the word go, so that when the inevitable cancellation occurs, they're not left fumbling around for a decent finale. See: JMS, Babylon 5.

 

[Nightfall]

I guess this is where I'll disagree, Angel SHOULD have not been canceled nor should have made Joss rush. But that's me. I will agree, the last 20 minutes great stuff. Especially Angel's line at the end of the show. That was great stuff.

Wedge,

Are you refering to season 5 as a whole or to the ending?

 

[maggot]

I disagree, It makes perfect sense. She didnt really accept help so much as force herself into a situation he couldnt refuse. Not only did she destroy a major Borg installation but she got her people home. She was also forced to face what her refusal to find a shortcut would do to her family. All the death and pain that she never had to come face to face with before.

Ack! Thinking this in depth about ST:Voyager (Voyager!) scares me. How I take seriously any show where they find a car floating in space and start it up (apparently it was floating in space with a full tank of gas), and then find the AM radio works and lead them to a planet they didn't know about? The show was so bad on so many level, so at some level the ending was appropriat.

As for DS9, I think THAT was a completly retarded ending that completly spat in the face of what Gene Rodenberry stood for. The man was an athiest. He was extremly anti-religion yet the whole series constantly played around faith and in the end a starfleet officer gives up his career, his family, his love to become some sort of god? I'm sorry but no.

I don't really care what GR would have wanted, I liked the ending. If the ending was a preachy atheist ending, I doubt I would have liked it.

 

[Nightfall]

I'm just glad DS9 had a good ending. I don't think the same can be said about the other ST creations.