Worst series ending concepts

[mojo1701]

"Hotlips" became "Margaret" and turned into just one of the guys instead of the bitchy nurse who was always the target of practical jokes.

She was still somewhat bitchy, but her temperament was usually the result of one problem or another.

 

[Darthjaye]

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.

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.

Next to the Enterprise series, Voyager was one of the worst endings I have ever seen in the Trek runs. The whole series was just mildly better than Enterprise. Hell, they had to shove Jerry Ryan into a skin tight suit to bump up ratings cause their writing was so bad.

As for DS9, I can't see how the ending spat in the face of Rodenberry. The whole series played on the fact of how fallible man can be. However "good intentioned" they were (i.e. Section 31) they were human. Alien's weren't all on the same page (Damar's rebellion against the Dominion and the Klingon's internal strife). The enemy was clever and ultimately not evil, just misguided in their beliefs on what "solids" were about. Both sides commited pretty dispicable atrocities in the war. Even the concept of the prophets was fallible. They believed in preserving their way at the cost of all others, and Sisko did not. Maybe his choice to become one of them was so that he could change that perception by becoming one of their equals? They weren't apparently all omniscient (as Nightfall pointed out).

 

[Arnwyn]

My hate goes out to (off the top of my head):

- Enterprise
- X-Files
- Star Trek: Nemesis

(I loved the ending to Seinfeld, simply because those abhorrent schmucks got what they deserved.)

 

[Fast Learner]

I also think M*A*S*H improved after Alda took over. There was less black comedy, it's true, but there was a hell of a lot less idiocy and some really powerful and important storytelling.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

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

There was a movie 6 years later, "Project Alf", that followed up on the cliffhanger. I forget how it ended, but it got him out of government custody.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Next to the Enterprise series, Voyager was one of the worst endings I have ever seen in the Trek runs. The whole series was just mildly better than Enterprise. Hell, they had to shove Jerry Ryan into a skin tight suit to bump up ratings cause their writing was so bad.

As for DS9, I can't see how the ending spat in the face of Rodenberry. The whole series played on the fact of how fallible man can be. However "good intentioned" they were (i.e. Section 31) they were human. Alien's weren't all on the same page (Damar's rebellion against the Dominion and the Klingon's internal strife). The enemy was clever and ultimately not evil, just misguided in their beliefs on what "solids" were about. Both sides commited pretty dispicable atrocities in the war. Even the concept of the prophets was fallible. They believed in preserving their way at the cost of all others, and Sisko did not. Maybe his choice to become one of them was so that he could change that perception by becoming one of their equals? They weren't apparently all omniscient (as Nightfall pointed out).

Perhaps. That is certainly one way to look at it. And all those things are great, but I still would have prefered to see how rodenberry would have done it.

As for "movie" endings to TV series. I liked the Generations ending to TNG as a series better then Nemesis. The problem with Nemesis was that it was written by a trekkie fanboy who had no respect for rodenberrys vision, and overseen by...braga!

 

[Darthjaye]

As for "movie" endings to TV series. I liked the Generations ending to TNG as a series better then Nemesis. The problem with Nemesis was that it was written by a trekkie fanboy who had no respect for rodenberrys vision, and overseen by...braga!

I didn't mind Generations, but it seemed rather....bland for their first foray into the movie "frontier" for the TNG crew. I also did not like the way Kirk went out as far as ends to series go (seeing as this wasn't so much an ending for TNG as for the original crew). This, if any, was a smack to the face of the original crew. I do agree though, Nemesis, while an interesting concept, was horribly done and Braga was the big reason that the current hiatus for Star Trek has come about. I'm thankful he did not try for a movie for the DS9 crew. their ending was fine enough for me and is one of the few Sci-Fi series I prefer to end and stay that way despite my enjoying them.

 

[Digital M@]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer


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

 

[Dark Jezter]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer


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

Uh oh.

Do you realized what you've done?

You've badmouthed something made by Joss Whedon.

Prepare to be assaulted by fanboys.

 

[Crothian]

Prepare to be assaulted by fanboys.

Why? He's allowed to have his opinion no mmatter how wrong he is!!