Worst series ending concepts

[Viking Bastard]

Well, All Good Things was a kick-arse finale.

The movies are just a epilogue.

...(or I guess you could count *shudder* Star Trek V:Final Frontier as the finale in which case my nomination stands)

Er... Star Trek VI: Undiscovered Country?

TOS got a good finale with that movie.

(Generations may have been Kirk's end, but it wasn't TOS's.)

 

[Nightfall]

Well maybe but honestly it just felt like another STG ep in some ways, only much cooler.

 

[David Howery]

I was ambivelant about the Buffy ending... OTOH, you had that magical amulet gizmo just conveniently turn up and save the day.. where the hell did it come from? OTOH.... Sunnydale got pulled into the Hellmouth! Cool! I'd love to see the media try to explain that one...

I rather liked the idea of a lot of girls around the world getting Slayer powered... when you consider what happens to so many girls around the world. Forced marriages, honor killings, horrifying statistics of rape, being dragged into brothels, etc... imagine what a Slayer would do to someone who tried this....

 

[Viking Bastard]

The Amulet Gizmo came from Angel, IIRC.

 

[swordsmasher]

Well, as for Quantum Leap, they left the ending open ended in case they ever wanted to go back and do it again. And you do realize that every once in a while Sam does get to leap home (maybe not the one he wants to be at, but whatever). I heard a rumor not too long ago that they were planning a miniseries, or even a tv movie, where they lose track of sam somehow, so his daughter jumps into the accelerator and goes through time searching for sam, with sam popping up every now and then i guess. sounds interesting to me.

voyager had a good basic storyline, but i think it would have made a better miniseries. i lost all respect for that show the episode where the one harry dies by getting blasted into space, then they just replace him with the one from the other dimension (sans the beard!! what's with that!?!?! we all know people from the other dimension have beards and are evil, right?) lol

The 1st last episode of Charmed was really stupid in my book. Yay, let's all use magic to change our looks and id's and go about our daily lives. i am so glad the show got renewed and they changed that.

Sister, Sister!! Right, the whole show started off as these twins seperated at birth find eachother, go through all the crap to find thier real parents, and when the real dad shows up, they split up again. hoo boy. lol

Xena, Warrior Princess: I mean, come on!!!!!! the woman takes on the greek god of war and constantly wipes her butt with him, yet she gets decapped by some samurai????? though i got to say, at least the show kept to the original plot with gabby going off to write the xena scrolls.

As for DS9, the only thing that always bugged me was every time they got in the darn ship, you could pretty much guess the dialogue. it always seemed so rehearsed and fake. not too mention, lines like "I am bringing the shuttle to bearing 447-45 mark 2.7" yeah, who says that. more like "i am bringing her around." you know what I mean? and then not just starfleet, but even the pirate dudes and the klingons too! yeah, whatever.

 

[DonTadow]

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.



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.

I"m an athiest, and I don't think DS9 was too far away from Roddenberry's beliefs. The show talked about religion as real as a show is. What I got from the bajorans was that they knew that the higher beings were aliens but still worshiped them none the less. The wormhole aliens were no different from the Que or the Traveller. I liked DS9 for actually taking us in the realm of these higher beings nad not playing us for stupid.

As for voyager, yeah, anytime you use time travel to end a series, you obviously had no idea how to end it. Time travel is the easiest way to get out of anything when you can't write your way out (see the third harry potter book/movie) Time travel is what you result to when you've written yourself into a hole. It's easy. It can be done right, but it rarely is. Especially when you leave holes in the plot such as why didn't they do this before, how come others havn't attempted, was what we saw reality or just another time line ect.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Charmed went downhill when they decided to cut Shannon Doherty instead of Alyssa Milano. I liked last season's finale because it was an end. This new season is not good to me.

 

[Nightfall]

Yeah the way they did season 7 of charmed finale, really stupid. But honestly Charmed has gone down hill since the demise of the Source (and of course removing Cole as a possible revival of the Source.)

IE: Shannon over Alyssa, what I'd REALLY liked to have happen is BOTH get over themselves. While I don't mind Whitelighter Paige/Rose McGowan, I do think the series worked best with those two in their roles, not as it currently is.

 

[Vocenoctum]

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.

I think one of my main problems with the finale, was it ended (IIRC) about half hour short as an actual episode, then went into 30 minutes of wrap up. A quick wrap up is fine if it's quick, but it was so long it felt wierd.

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.

The thing with it being "rushed" in the finale, is you have to take the season as a whole. There were large gaps of plotlessness, and episodes where nothing at all happened. Then suddenly they add a bunch of elements in the last couple episodes, and complain that they didn't have longer for the finale itself?

And yes, Faith returns, and does nothing. They kick Buffy out because her plans boiled down to "lets charge!" and then accept her back and follow her plan of "lets Charge!". The amulet, the axe, the Empower All Potentials (even if the girls in her house were supposed to be the last of the potentials), and of course the source of the Slayer Power is because a bunch of men had a demon rape the first slayer?

Mind you, I'm a man, so Buffy's Anti-Male aspects became quite obvious to me. Female Empowerment can be done well without downgrading men in the process, but not in the Buffy Series.

 

[Villano]

I forgot about Angel. They basically tried to squeeze another season into the last few episode. The rushed feel was bad enough, but taking time out to include the comedy episode with The Immortal in Italy was an incredibly dumb idea.

We're supposed to be concerned that Angel has turned evil, suddenly he's acting goofy in a silly comedy, then he's "evil" again. Joss should never complain about having to rush things considering he wasted an episode for throwaway nonsense.

An Xena was pretty bad, mostly because it focused on some heretofore unknow aspect of her past instead of building on something already established. Then again, it might actually be appropriate since, as a series, it was all over the place like that (serious, comedy, no continuity, etc.).