# Fictional Series that ended with the most disrespect to the fans or network/publisher
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**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390 "2007-05-17T00:41:52Z")
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/1 "2007-05-17T00:41:52Z")
What series - comic book, novel, TV show, book, video game, etc. - ended with the most disrespectful ending for the fans? Which gave the fanbase (or the network or publisher that was funding it) a gigantic middle-finger with its conclusion?
I was reading about how the soap opera “Another World,” when it was canceled in the nineties, basically spent the last several episodes showing the most beloved characters being brutally murdered at the hands of a random serial killer. I guess the fans are _still_ upset about it.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/2 "2007-05-17T00:45:09Z")
_Quantum Leap_.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/3 "2007-05-17T00:48:01Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
_Quantum Leap_.
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Explain? (not that I don’t believe you, I just don’t recall)
I wasn’t a fan of **St. Elsewhere** but I hear people were pretty pissed that the whole series turned out to be in the head of an autistic boy…
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/4 "2007-05-17T00:49:45Z")
Sam never makes it home.
_St. Elsewhere_ was a bit of a pisser, too.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/5 "2007-05-17T00:51:07Z")
A lot of the fans of “Enterprise” were pissed off about its final episode. I was kind of lukewarm about “Enterprise,” but I can see why the devoted fans were annoyed.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/6 "2007-05-17T01:05:28Z")
I really hated the way the Inspector Morse books ended. Grr. I don’t know that it really counts as disrespect and not just “not to my taste” though.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/7 "2007-05-17T01:06:26Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud]
A lot of the fans of “Enterprise” were pissed off about its final episode.
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**A BIT? A FRIGIIN" BIT! ARGHH!**
Everyone knows Admiral Tucker tied at the age of 101 in a bar room brawl in New Orleans house of ill repute.
Bastards.
Yes.
_Space Above or Beyond_ killed or injured everyone when it was canceled.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/8 "2007-05-17T01:15:16Z")
**Blakes 7**. A truck ending designed to make it absolutely certain the show couldn’t come back again. Especially since the ending shows up as a single episode after a long hiatus: they couldn’t just cancel the show; they had to bring it back to kill it off.
All the characters were killed in the end, even those who had long quit the series (Jenna, for instance). People have rationalized that a few survived, but the intent was clear.
Although, oddly enough, everything still fit the theme of the series.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/9 "2007-05-17T01:16:54Z")
They seemed to go to great lengths to make a movie for Deep Space Nine difficult. Killed of the best villian, Gul Dukat. Made Sisko into a supernatural being, if not dead. Spread the other characters to the ends of the Earth, er, galaxy. Ended the Ferengi way of doing business. ☹
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/10 "2007-05-17T01:39:51Z")
_The X-Files_. The last episode was a fucking _clip show_ with dialog written by an angsty 14-year-old girl.
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### Author:  [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/11 "2007-05-17T02:16:26Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
_Quantum Leap_.
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What? Oh no…no no no no no…I thought that final episode was incredible. Ah well, different strokes…
Since comics was mentioned in the OP, may I humbly suggest **Wanted**?
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/12 "2007-05-17T02:22:36Z")
**Roseanne**
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### Author:  [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/13 "2007-05-17T02:31:37Z")
Dark tower by Steven King
I’m still soooooo pissed off about it I don’t even want to talk about.
I hate you Steven King. I would you ruin the best set of books you ever wrote?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/14 "2007-05-17T02:38:19Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou]
**Roseanne**
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Heh, I was going to suggest this, the last two years was Roseanne being self-indulgent and a once great show stinking beyond compare. I was glad Goodman said goodbye before the end.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/15 "2007-05-17T02:42:43Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
Since comics was mentioned in the OP, may I humbly suggest **Wanted**?
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Never read it (no interest in it), but I’ve heard about the ending, and it definitely fits the OP’s criteria. I’m dreading the movie version that’s in preproduction.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/16 "2007-05-17T02:46:47Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
**Blakes 7**. A truck ending designed to make it absolutely certain the show couldn’t come back again. Especially since the ending shows up as a single episode after a long hiatus: they couldn’t just cancel the show; they had to bring it back to kill it off.
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Terry Nation did that on purpose: the BBC was about to start filming **Hitchhikers Guide** , and their already microscopic budget wouldn’t stretch to three SF series { **Doctor Who** being the third, of course}. Upon being told that **Blake’s 7** was being cancelled with no possibilty of renewal despite its relative popularity, Terry decided that it was gonna be _cancelled_ but good, to the extent of bringing people back just in order to kill them.
I agree that the ending fitted quite well with the rather nihilistic feel of the show, though: The Liberator and its crew were never more than minor irritants to the Federation, and eventually they were just crushed like bugs - the bad guys won!
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### Author:  [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/17 "2007-05-17T02:53:20Z")
_Seinfeld_ fits the bill.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/18 "2007-05-17T02:54:18Z")
“Farscape” came to a very unsatisfactory ending that infuriated some fans (including me). But a Farscape TV movie that was released later made up for the crappy ending of the series.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/19 "2007-05-17T02:57:33Z")
Nobody’s mentioned _Angel_ yet?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-series-that-ended-with-the-most-disrespect-to-the-fans-or-network-publisher/404390/20 "2007-05-17T02:58:34Z")
**Angel** ’s finale was dead solid **perfect.**
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