Agreed. That would have made much more sense.
I thought the “Ludd was Right” aspect of the Battlestar Galactica ending was worse than the angels. I could tolerate the spiritual aspect, though I wasn’t a huge fan of it. So my vote goes to BSG, but to Lee Adama’s idiocy instead.
Enterprise. Just… Enterprise.
Alf
I hate to expose my basic comic-book geekiness, but I hated the Justice League Unlimited finale–or, rather, the last few minutes of it. Considering that JL was basically a continuation of Superman: the Animated Series, the whole story had been building up to a final confrontation between Superman & Darkseid. Having Lex Luthor ultimately save the world (even at the cost of his own life) was a deliberate and, frankly, stupid way to undercut that.
The Voyager finale was also terrible, but then the entire series was, so that was no surprise.
The last episode of The Prisoner “Fallout” (which was the conclusion of a two-parter) gave up on telling a coherent story about what happened to Number Six and turned into an allegorical fantasy. Maybe The Prisoner couldn’t have a satisfactory real ending, but “Fallout” still sucked.
X-Files was the worst.
But y’all remember that Dinosaurs show? Now that was a fucked-up ending! Check it out.
I thought I was the only one who hated, hated that finale. And the worst part was that I had previously read a short story with almost exactly the Hawkeye plot. Grrrrr. Except for pretending the baby was a chicken or whatever.
Well Married With Children never had a final episode. This series was very important to the then new FOX network. To cancel that series during the off season so as to not have a series finale sucks.
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day was the movie that ended the series. Such a huge letdown. It wasn’t funny at all.
The American version of Life On Mars.
I voted for Roseanne, hated that stupid “oh, Dan’s dead, Becky’s with David/Darlene’s with Mark, oh and Jackies a lesbian not Bev” shit. If it had been a simple “Rosie made a book out of her life” it wouldn’t have been that bad, but the attempted shock value, just make it piss me off.
I would’ve given Seinfeld 2nd place. Great show, and I think it was still as great as ever during the last season, but that whole stupid trial thing was just horrible and seemed to just be an excuse for bringing back zillions of past guest stars.
I didn’t hate the Lost ending. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it, but I do feel about it, more strongly than I’ve felt about most endings, so that counts for something. I just can’t talk too much about it or it all hits me again.
BSG, I felt it ended about as well as it could’ve, given the way the writers clearly had just been pulling things out their asses all along. They have a plan, my ass.
Quantum Leap, I don’t mind that Sam never returned home. To me that just left the door open for the show to return later. Never did, but I liked the possibility being there.
I didn’t watch Sopranos, but I did watch the ending of it, and I totally can see why that would piss people off. They didn’t even finish the episode, let alone the series!
Never cared for X-Files, so I don’t have anything to say on that one.
Other? Didn’t really like Angel’s ending. I’ve been told it’s supposed to show how the battle never ends or some such, but to me it just says GIANT CLIFFHANGER WE AIN’T GONNA RESOLVE. And no, the comics don’t count, even if Joss written and approved.
Another, the Scrubs series finale (third in a series, collect them all!), boy talk about going out with a whimper. I didn’t even know it was the season finale, let alone the series finale, until like a month later. The 2nd series finale from last year was great, though. The first series finale (the NBC finale) meh, wasn’t even meant to be a finale, and was shown out of order (thanks NBC, NOT)
My nominee for series ending that left a bad taste in my mouth: Freaks and Geeks. Overall, the last episode was good like the other episodes, but I just didn’t like how Lindsay wound up. In my mind, she ditched the Grateful Dead and wound up with Neil’s brother Barry.
I thought the finale to Dallas really sucked. The show lost its way after the Dream season and really got bad after Pam left.
the ending really should have been that the JR was the love-child of Miss Ellie and Digger Barnes. J.R. and Cliff being half-brothers and JR not Jocks Son. That would be something that would make JR kill himself.
Wow. I mean…wow.
Depressing, dark, preachy, poorly written (subtlety be DAMNED!), deflating, BLAH. Geez, as it is I barely remember this show. Now I shall go back to forgetting it once I gargle this taste out of my mouth.
Ick.
Oh, and what happened on Enterprise? Did everyone get together in a big intergalactic sing along of the theme song?
The entire point of the show was that war is so insane, the only way to endure it is to be even more so, which Hawkeye Pierce strove ever to be. By the time of that finale, Alan Alda had obliterated the character by inundating it with his own personality. That fershlugginer finale practically undid all the quality that had gone before. When watching reruns, I have to think of it as out-of-continuity fanfic.
The holodeck program ended and Riker and Troi walked into a hallway on the Enterprise D. I don’t know if that meant the whole series took place on the E-D or if it was just that part of the last episode. That’s the only part of Enterprise I ever watched.
It was just that last episode. IIRC, Riker was having trouble deciding on a difficult course of action and used the holodeck to examine Archer’s actions at the founding of the Federation.
ALF’s creators Tom Patchett and Paul Fusco purposely wrote the finale to have
to pressure NBC to renew for another season (or at least angle for a movie) to resolve the cliffhanger.
They actually succeeded, but 6 years later.
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.
BTW. I voted for Roseanne. I actually liked the last season, and would have been fine with it being just a story. But undid a heck of a lot more of the show.
BTW, anyone know why I thought there was something about Star Trek in one of those episodes?