Yeah, but there was no “implicit” about it. It was quite explicit that the bartender at Heaven’s Truck Stop was either God or God’s Mouthpiece.
-Joe
Altruism?
Who are you, and what have you done with Skald?
He was in Enterprise, not Battlestar Galactica.
Can you explain what happened in a spoiler box? I don’t plan to watch the show, I’m just curious what they did in 15 seconds to totally ruin it.
I think that question, like many questions, is best answered with a rocket-propelled grenade.
Those Pod People can spell, so I guess you are you after all.
dammit.
Legend has it that Patrick McGoohan was “forced” to leave Britain because the TV press kept hounding him over what the hell the finale was about. I’m sure that’s an exaggeration, but it’s amusing to imagine anyway.
And it’s not just the finale. The last several episodes were just weird without being entertaining. I sympathize with McGoohan though, as he only ever intended to make 7 of them in the first place, instead of the 17 we ended up with.
No, no. This is a thread about the worst series ending of all time, not the best.
Aeryn Sunn (lead female) and John Crighton (lead male), lovers, are taking some time since beating the season baddie. They are in a boat on the water while everyone decompresses. Aeryn is pregnant, and she is worried about John’s reaction when he finds out. Turns out he’s ecstatic, she’s ecstatic, another couple watching on the ship’s bridge is ecstatic for them (after initially thinking John was mad from his reaction). So, the two main couples have reconciled and are together, John and Aeryn are going to be parents, everyone is happy. Right time to cue series end (and they knew far enough ahead to end at this point). Last few seconds, an unknown ship flies in and blasts John and Aeryn out of the water. Roll credits, your two leads have just died meaninglessly.
Now if we know there will be a next season, we know that they will find a way to work around this stupidity (and it was the weakest season-ending cliffhanger they had in 4 seasons). But fans knew the series was dead, and the TV movie not yet approved. Sure, when it got approved, the first thing they had to do was fix this, which they did in about 15 minutes. Come to think of it, Farscape often ending the season with a decent cliffhanger only to handwave it away at the beginning of the next season.
As a P.S., I know it was very Whedon-like, but in this case it was more like killing Mal Reynolds rather than Book and Wash
I’ve never seen a single second of Lost.
Now I’m contemplating getting the DVD set just so I can see how bad the ending is.
What, was there like a German Scheisse Video style 10-way or something? How bad could it have been?
The last 10 or so episodes were pretty much various curtains being pulled back to reveal ‘a wizard did it’.
The last epsiode…
Had a curtain pulled back to reveal that the final wizard was, in fact, God doing it
-Joe
How about the recent Smallville ending? All that buildup to the Apokolips invasion, then an hour and forty-five minutes of mind-numbingly boring talk about which dad Clark should listen to, then he puts on the super suit and pushes Apokolips away. The End. Yeah, sure, one bone thrown to the viewers in the form of a glimpse of some years into the future, but even that had nothing of substance to say. An utter waste.
I actually would have preferred that. Would have provided the same amount of explanation as the actual ending did, possibly even more. I’m only partly kidding.
Even though I gave up on Smallville a long time ago, this makes me sad.
A big part of the appeal for me was Clark’s rise to super-heroism being paralleled by Lex’s descent into villainy. When Michael Rosenbaum left, so did a lot of the point, IMO. (Though, according to IMDb, Lex was in the Finale. I hope they did something interesting with him.)
I honestly don’t get the hate for BSG’s ending. It’s exactly what was telegraphed for the last four seasons.
I guess I’ll spoiler it
They travel through the grim and gritty galaxy fighting and fucking cylons and are guided by mystical forces to Earth, and we are their descendants. It was obvious this was the series arc from the beginning. Is it because the mystical forces are referred to by some characters as “God” and “angels” rather than “The Light” or some other such crap with a more new-agey vibe?
The Smallville finale was a waste of time for me, just like the past 3 seasons of the show. But Mr. Smaje has kind of a hard-on for the show (even though both of us end up playing games on our cell phones halfway through each episode), so we’ve seen 'em all.
Who knew Superman could be so durned whiny?
…funny.. because I just walked by this actress on the street today… I NEVER got the impression that Judith (?) was a shrew or a bitch. She was vanilla if anything. The joke and drama with her was that she remarried someone who was MUCH MUCH better than our hero. She was always supportive and carrying.
Re: The BSG ending it didn’t bother me. I just assumed that
God was actually a weakly-godlike post-singularity AI that had evolved from the very first cycle of machine intelligence and liked to keep an eye on potential rivals being created by it’s successors
I always thought that Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex was the best part of the show, and it definitely lost a lot when he left.
Yes, he was in the finale, but he was wasted (and by that I don’t mean that the actor was on drugs). He did a great job with the lame material that he was given, but basically all he was given was a speech about how every good villain needs a hero to fight against. It was more of the same frustration for me, a lot of talking but nothing actually happened. I wish they had given Michael/Lex something to DO, have him be, ya know, an actual important part of the plot. Oh, wait, I forgot, there wasn’t really any plot to be a part of . . .