# My Own Worst Enemy--Ended with no resolution **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353 "2008-12-16T04:11:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/21 "2008-12-17T01:34:45Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > How about Tru Calling? > > Brian Good example. It was really getting interesting just as it ended. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/22 "2008-12-17T01:47:27Z")
Yeah, I saved about 7 episodes on my DVR. I was hoping that maybe the Sci-Fi channel would like to take over MOWE, but that’d be a longshot, wouldn’t it? Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/23 "2008-12-17T01:58:06Z")
**Earth2** ended not only without resolution but on a season cliff hanger. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/24 "2008-12-17T02:04:10Z")
Didn’t _Dark Angel_ end on something of a cliffhanger, or am I misremembering? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/25 "2008-12-17T03:01:28Z")
**Twin Peaks**. The final episode was supposed to be a season cliffhanger, but the show ended at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/26 "2008-12-17T03:10:30Z")
_WKRP_, natch. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/27 "2008-12-17T03:27:26Z")
I thought the last episode of Twin Peaks was a temper tantrum because the series was canceled? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/28 "2008-12-17T03:46:25Z")
I’ll add **Dead like me** and **Odyssey 5** to the list. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/29 "2008-12-17T03:52:30Z")
I watch a lot of these shows. _Smith_, with Ray Liotta, Simon Baker, & Jonny Lee Miller as a band of thieves, was cancelled mid-arc. I think last year _Journeyman_ was tossed mid-first season as well. Sometimes you can see the rest of the series online. That’s how I finished _Day Break_ a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Strider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Strider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strider)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/30 "2008-12-17T09:08:02Z")
Two from this year I can think of quickly… New Amsterdam about an immortal guy who has been alive for hundreds of years and can not die because he has a curse on him. The only way to break the curse is to find true love. Kinda corny plot but I liked the transitions from old to new world and the cinematography was pretty good. Breaking Bad about a high school chemistry teacher who finds out he has cancer and starts to make and sell meth to help pay his bills and support his family. This is a copy cat of the Showtime series Weeds but much edgier and darker. Both of these ended without a real conclusion and open plot lines. I guess they just weren’t doing good enough and the networks pulled them. =( -n ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/31 "2008-12-17T12:59:21Z")
> [@Strider](#): > > Breaking Bad about a high school chemistry teacher who finds out he has cancer and starts to make and sell meth to help pay his bills and support his family. This is a copy cat of the Showtime series Weeds but much edgier and darker. [Back in May they announced there would be a second season.](http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/05/breaking-bad-re.html) I couldn’t find a more recent reference, though. I certainly hope it’s still true. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/32 "2008-12-17T13:28:29Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Didn’t _Dark Angel_ end on something of a cliffhanger, or am I misremembering? Sort of, but it really depends on how you define cliffhanger. They never explain exactly what Manticore and the breeding cult were doing, but the show ends with the world discovering the existance of the “freaks” and was a pretty satisfying ending. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/33 "2008-12-18T01:21:31Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I’m still wondering how [Drive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770521/) was supposed to end the season. Would it kill the writers to post an outline somewhere? Seconded. Were the fifth and sixth episodes ever shown? They were supposed to run on July 4, 2007, but I believe they were replaced by a movie at the last minute. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/34 "2008-12-24T01:44:52Z")
There was a show in the late 80’s or early 90’s called _Golden Years_. Stephen King was the writer I think, and it was about an elderly janitor that started growing younger after being caught in a lab explosion. It just seemed to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/35 "2008-12-24T04:01:35Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I thought the last episode of Twin Peaks was a temper tantrum because the series was canceled? There was no last episode and Agent Cooper could never be taken over by BOB and actually be evil lalalalalalalala!!! :: sticks fingers in ears :: ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/36 "2008-12-24T06:56:12Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > John Doe > > IIRC It did get a complete season - it just left things open for the imaginary second season (though from what I heard the planned resolutions were pretty lame) John, don’t you understand? _You_ are the Phoenix! _:: die ::_ John Doe was rad. I just started watching it again on Hulu. Unfortunately there is a (_huge!_) cliffhanger at the end of the last episode, but it’s worth the ride anyway. > [@Strider](#): > > Breaking Bad about a high school chemistry teacher who finds out he has cancer and starts to make and sell meth to help pay his bills and support his family. This is a copy cat of the Showtime series Weeds but much edgier and darker. _Breaking Bad_ is coming back in March. The first season was abbreviated due to the writer’s strike, but the second will have a full run. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/37 "2008-12-24T16:54:16Z")
The Pretender. Joan of Arcadia. This is why I won’t watch anymore “mystery” shows, where big secrets are being with-held from the viewers. Lost is the last one. I am not bothering with Life on Mars, I did get sucked into that one about the reporter in SF that kept being sucked back in the past, but that was the last straw. I mean, honestly- the show is canceled, it’s dead, dead dead. So why not just give a interview and let your loyal viewers know what the Big Mysteries were? That’s why I think the dudes who did John Doe suck ass. But Dead Like Me did answer most of the Big Questions, even though it didn’t really reach a conclusion. Wonderfalls is a possible inclusion to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/38 "2008-12-24T17:17:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I mean, honestly- the show is canceled, it’s dead, dead dead. So why not just give a interview and let your loyal viewers know what the Big Mysteries were? > > That’s why I think the dudes who did John Doe suck ass. Why? They did exactly what you asked and gave an interview to let loyal viewers know what the big secrets were. Of course, those secrets blew and would never have been a big enough payoff if the show had ran for years and years. But that’s besides the point… > [@DrDeth](#): > > Wonderfalls is a possible inclusion to the list. No it’s not. When the producers found out what timeslot they were getting, they went about telling a season long complete story. All of the episodes didn’t air, but when they got to DVD there was a resolution. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/39 "2008-12-24T17:35:53Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Why? They did exactly what you asked and gave an interview to let loyal viewers know what the big secrets were. Of course, those secrets blew and would never have been a big enough payoff if the show had ran for years and years. But that’s besides the point… > > No it’s not. When the producers found out what timeslot they were getting, they went about telling a season long complete story. All of the episodes didn’t air, but when they got to DVD there was a resolution. Ok, yes, they did for John Doe, but the answer sucked ass so badly my mind blanked it out. 😛 You’re right though. Like I said “possible”- but if you think it has a complete resolution- what was the force behind the talking plastic animals? God? Big JuJu? Jaye was nutso? ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353/40 "2008-12-24T17:58:47Z")
John From Cincinnati - fantastic show (a little off the wall and sort of hard to grasp right away) but, canceled, without development, just when it was getting more solid and getting somewhere. \>.\< [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-own-worst-enemy-ended-with-no-resolution/477353.md?page=3)