Looking into the future, if the Song of Ice and Fire books continue to go downhill, I’ll probably stop watching the TV series.
Really? You can’t watch any of a show that has essentially no story lines that last longer than a few episodes at most, a show that is self-admittedly about nothing, just because you did not like the episode that happened to be the last one? That seems a little extreme, don’t you think?
Alphas.
The second season had my favorite character spiraling down into the darkness, down down and further down all season, and the season finale had a tiny moment of a hint of possible inner peace but not quite, and then he’s involved in a terrible accident which could either be fatal or turn him into an alpha…cliffhanger, so tense!
And then it was cancelled.
It would have been one of my favorite shows ever had it been renewed – what could have been a silly superhero show was far more intelligent and emotionally involving than it had any right to be – but now I can’t watch it again.
I just need to know if he lived, all right?!
Shrug. It wasn’t a conscious decision, I just don’t have any interest in re-watching them ever since I saw the finale.
Egad. Yes, you can see I didn’t stick with Bones very long. I meant Booth and Bones. Somehow Booth became “Castle” in my brain.
I have no explanation for that.
I’m fairly confident that when the Mad Men finale happens, I won’t feel let down by it. Because what’s to let down? There’s no mystery, so a resolution doesn’t need to happen. It’s 100% real-world, so I can’t see a meta-reveal. All I can see happening is that I may dislike the resolution for one or two characters. I’ll probably be pretty satisfied overall, though.
I don’t have the books in front of me for a definitive answer, but the show was supposed to originally be ongoing much like Danger Man and run 26 series episodes if I remember correctly. The first 13 episodes were going to be the first series but it got cancelled early so the whole thing ran as one complete 17 episode series, the 17th episode being written against time due to the cancellation.
For what it’s worth I love “Fall Out” and its prelude “Degree Absolute”, the one I can’t stand is “The Girl Who Was Death” with the silly Napoleon Chase in the light house - although I love seeing the 60s cars like the Lotus and “You Have Just Been Poisoned” in the bottom of the beer glass.
Ha! You are assuming we will get another book before the show finishes up.
I agree with X-Files, but they jumped the shark long before the last episode. I also agree with House, I just couldn’t stomach House throwing away his medical career or Chase becoming the new House. The way Chase’s marriage ended was pretty bad too.
Law and Order ended for me with Jerry Orbach’s death. I can only watch episodes with Orbach now. Same with Law and Order: CI with Goren leaving.
Gorem and Eames came back. I actually kind of enjoyed the ambiguity of the final final ending.
Don’t need to watch all the Logan or Dr Malcolm eps either, just skip around the last season with only Gorem eps. You might be pleased. Or not. YMMV!!!
I went ahead and tried to rewatch an episode of BSG last night…yeah. No can do. Knowing that all the silly prophecies, Baltar’s hallucinations, associated ill-conceived religious glurge, etc., are all “true” (in universe) really just ruins it for me.
I don’t think I have ever watched all of the series of a show and then watched the last episode and thought, “Oh, I hate this show now.”
In my case, I watch a show for a while and love it, then start to think that it is stupid.
House. Liked it at first, but then the love stories fucked it up. It stopped being about some radical doctor that cures patients against all odds and more about so and so trying to get back together with so and so, and about House’s drug problems.
Revolution. How many times do we need to see the same people get captured, escape, rescue each other, and be pissed at each other all the time. Also, superhuman fighting ability–stupid.
Grimm. Oh man, how I wanted to like this show. But it was/is so predictable. Main character defeats new monster. Romance aspect doesn’t help.
Heroes was already down the drain before I’d seen the last episode, so I can’t say if that counts or not.
Same with Dexter. I know most people have a problem with the finale, but between the hallucinations of past dead characters giving him advice, and Deb being fine with Dexter’s secret, things were already too out there for me.
That 70’s Show is another. It’s been so long since I’ve seen any episodes, but didn’t the last few seasons essentially lose Eric, Donna, and Kelso? And that stupid love triangle with Randy just came off as desperate. Still a great show, but kinda faded in the later years.
Suprisingly, Breaking Bad is one of the few instances where only the finale let me down. Ozymandias was the high point, then everything got slower and slower (which was the point, of course). I didn’t like that the Whites got the drug money, that the Aryans wouldn’t bother them ever again, that Jesse was safe, and that Walt died on his own terms knowing all of this. It seemed too good a way to go for a character so despicable. IMHO, “Granite State” was a better episode for a finale. You’d have Walt dying alone with his money, knowing that his family hates him, and that they may never truly be safe. A complete 180 from his original goal. To be fair though, it isn’t really the finale that’s made me apprehensive to re watching the show. I’m just a bit burned out after 5 years of such a gripping experience. There’ll never be another BrBa.
Looking towards the future, I can see that The Boondocks’ finale is gonna be disappointing. Losing Aaron McGruder as the Showrunner was the worst thing that could’ve happened to the show.
I take that episode as No. 6 spelling out (in the subtext of children’s story) exactly why he resigned, and No. 2 being so dense as not to see it. He knew they were watching, and he “told” them exactly what they wanted to know, knowing they’d miss it.