# Biggest finale blunder by a show's creator (Lost spoilers, among others) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697 "2010-05-25T13:29:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/41 "2010-05-26T06:28:35Z")
They didn’t do anything to Deanna; that timeline didn’t happen ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/42 "2010-05-26T06:40:17Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Can you spell out that plot hole for me? I’ve heard people mention it before, but I honestly didn’t notice. And I don’t believe they ever told me specifically what they were talking about. Nevermind. I see you already explained it. I could have sworn there were only a couple posts after yours. Maybe I left the thread open for a long time or something. And I agree it would have looked better. I’ve had to fanwank it, as it really seems like the thing grows forward in time in each of the timelines. As in, it was going forward in time and then would jump back. Why else did they have to hurry and stop it? Their lives should have been wiped out retroactively. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/43 "2010-05-26T07:00:15Z")
Are you kidding? _The Sopranos_’ ending was brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/44 "2010-05-26T07:11:52Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I don’t agree, but a lot of people seemed _really_ peeved at the way David Chase ended _The Sopranos_. That ending took me by surprise. It was set up though, so it’s not as though they just decided to cut to black because they were out of ideas. They spelled out what it meant well in advance, and I hold it as one of the better series finales. I still object that LOST failed to even TRY to deliver on the mysteries, and that I was roped into watching six seasons worth of a Lifetime movie. There were mysteries, some sci-fi, and in the end it’s all swelling orchestral music and hugs and kisses in the afterlife filmed in soft fuzzy focus. Bah. I haven’t voted in the poll yet, but I just talked myself into it. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/45 "2010-05-26T10:14:48Z")
I voted Other, and choose _Farscape_. _Farscape_ was cancelled after the end of season 4. The season 4 finale had been shot. With a little editing (literally hacking off the last 30 seconds or so of the season, now series, finale), we could have been left with a happy, satisfying ending. Instead, we have the two main characters disintegrated. Turns out they weren’t disintegrated, just dehydrated, and could be collected and rehydrated. It was as if the writers were demanding a TV movie from SciFi (“You guys green light so many crap movies, you’ll green light ours or face the fans revolt”). ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/46 "2010-05-27T03:12:48Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > If _Next Generation_’s finale had been on the list, I might have voted for it because of the glaring plot hole (which would have been so easy to fix) and what they did to Deanna. I looked this up at [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/episodes#season-7), and it doesn’t look familiar to me. We get a chance to review it Friday at midnight CDT on WGN. Oops, that might be Thursday night - gotta verify. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/47 "2010-05-27T03:17:57Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > I looked this up at [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/episodes#season-7), and it doesn’t look familiar to me. We get a chance to review it Friday at midnight CDT on WGN. > > Oops, that might be Thursday night - gotta verify. Looks like it is on both nights, then the series resets Monday night. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697/48 "2010-05-27T03:28:36Z")
I’m sure my vote for BSG doesn’t surprise anybody. “God did it” + “Let’s mothball all our technology and go live like hunter-gatherers” + Starbuck vanishes into thin air + no answers to multiple questions =\*\* GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR OAK SMASH!\*\*. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-finale-blunder-by-a-shows-creator-lost-spoilers-among-others/540697.md?page=2)