Worst series ending concepts

[GrayLinnorm]

I'll second the inclusion of the Seinfeld and Roseanne (what a sad ending to a once-great show) finales. I'll also mention the series finale of Cheers --- 90 minutes with 30 seconds of laughs.

But the absolute lamest series finale I've seen was for Parker Lewis Can't Lose (remember that show?). The basic premise was that the diner that Parker Lewis and his friends hung out in was going to be torn down. Most of the show was clips which came out of the jukebox(!!) (a previous poster hated clip shows --- so do I) and it ended with the coach (who ran the diner) lipsynching to a show tume. Pathetic.

 

[farscapesg1]

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.

I have agree that I found Quantum Leap's ending pretty bad. I also really didn't like the ending of Sliders for the same reason. Not to mention I somehow missed an entire last season somehow and finally got to see it on Sci-Fi a couple years ago. If I remember, the last episode just has them jumping through a wormhole that was supposed to take them home, but how many times has that happened before?

Of course, I thought that Sliders went down hill after they lost Wade. Then the loss of Quinn made it almost unwatchable.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I have agree that I found Quantum Leap's ending pretty bad. I also really didn't like the ending of Sliders for the same reason. Not to mention I somehow missed an entire last season somehow and finally got to see it on Sci-Fi a couple years ago. If I remember, the last episode just has them jumping through a wormhole that was supposed to take them home, but how many times has that happened before?

Of course, I thought that Sliders went down hill after they lost Wade. Then the loss of Quinn made it almost unwatchable.

I forget how Quantum Leap Ended? was it the two parter where he ran into the female leaper (guided by evil) for the second time?

As for Sliders, only one of them jumped through the wormhole in the last episode, remmy i think it was. Initially there was supposed to be a special 2 hour movie on Sci-fi to actually end the series and explain what happened after that. But Sci-fi never bothered to make it.

 

[wingsandsword]

I forget how Quantum Leap Ended? was it the two parter where he ran into the female leaper (guided by evil) for the second time?

The last episode of Quantum Leap had Sam leap into this weird bar that was at his exact time of birth, with an omniscient bartender that was strongly implied to be God and people he met from previous leaps in the bar, with some being leapers themselves. There Sam learns how to control his leaping, and before leaping home he decides to help Al out by leaping into him in the past and preventing him from leaving his wife years before. However, in doing this he prevents Al from ever working on the Quantum Leap project and thus makes it so he can never return home, and the show ends on a closing card that just says that Dr. Sam Beckett never made it home.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

That sucks!

 

[Particle_Man]

The last episode of Quantum Leap had Sam leap into this weird bar that was at his exact time of birth, with an omniscient bartender that was strongly implied to be God and people he met from previous leaps in the bar, with some being leapers themselves. There Sam learns how to control his leaping, and before leaping home he decides to help Al out by leaping into him in the past and preventing him from leaving his wife years before. However, in doing this he prevents Al from ever working on the Quantum Leap project and thus makes it so he can never return home, and the show ends on a closing card that just says that Dr. Sam Beckett never made it home.

I remember it slightly differently. Sam leaped into the past to tell the wife to simply WAIT for her husband Al, who was missing in vietmam. So she waits, instead of considering him dead and marrying someone else. There is no information on whether this affects the project (Al might still have ended up working on it), so "Sam Beckett never made it home" might just mean he is "leaping as a servant of God" now.

 

[Crothian]

I was rather perplexed at the ending of "Roseanne", in which it is reaveled that pretty much the entire series is a semiautobiographic story Roseanne wrote. It then shows the way things really happened, like Dan not surviving his heart attack.

The last season was really bad, but the end was nice and I liked how they showed how it was different and it was creative.

 

[Bront]

Earth: Final Conflict is just horrible. The first two seasons were decent, but the last episode of that show made me sad. The thing is that it had nothing to do with anything that came before it.

How did that show end? Details...

I thought 3rd Rock from the Sun was a dumb ending. "Oh, we're going, we're aliens, now forget you ever knew us but remember to feel good about us. Bye" Bletch

 

[Elf Witch]

Two series endings I really hated were Forever Knight and Blake 7. In both everyone dies. Now Blake 7 was always a grim so I can at least understand why the ending. But Forever Knight was all about Nick trying to become human. They showed it was possible with Janette earler in the season. But they ended it with Nick killing Natalie and then Nick asking Lacroix to kill him. Lame Lame Lame!

 

[frandelgearslip]

I also agree that enterprise was a horrid ending. So was Buffy, but the whole last two seasons were horrid. The death of anya was the most pointless stupid thing I have ever seen. As for Angel the problem was that they tried to cram 3 seasons into one season (lindsay season, fred demon season, wolfram and hart season).

As a matter of fact all of joss whedon's shows have bad endings, because he does cliched things just because its "cool". Before watching serenity I preceeded to guess the number of crew deaths and which crew members they were. He ended Firefly identically to how he ended buffy and angel so it wasn't hard to figure out.

I remember explaining to a friend that by the end of earth final conflict that none of the original characters were left and with one exception none of the characters that replaced the original characters were left. All the characters were "3rd generation" or later.