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TV Shows That Had Disappointing Finales

• TV Shows That Had Disappointing Finales

• TV Shows That Had Disappointing Finales

  jesslloydfan > 01/05/2012, 00:50

  Basically TV shows you liked that had terrible open endings either due to cancellation or just blatantly bad writing.
  (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
  Thought i`d give a warning just incase i reveal more detail than i mean to.
  
  There are a few that spring to mind to me pretty quickly,
  
  Battlestar Galactica, the remake was a good series most of the way through, dragged in parts but the ending to that was terrible it was trying to be really clever, but just was a total fail to me.
  
  Heroes, This one was more due to cancellation, very annoying open ending, but then the way the writing for that went up and down in quality, it was probably a mercy cancellation.
  
  Lost, this one sort of falls in the middle for me, parts i liked, parts i didn`t and seemed kind of pointless, the main story wrap up i liked despite not revealing everything, but the flash sideways parts (which i did like mostly) were essentially pointless and could easily have been removed without affecting the story.
  
  
  

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  da1nonly_42 > 01/05/2012, 14:12

  I thought the finale to Lost was VERY disappointing! In the last couple of seasons, I knew that anything they put forward in the last episode wasn't gonna make sense. There was no way they could justify the weird goings on over the previous 5 seasons. However, I did expect the show to go out with a bang.
  But it seemed to lack any of the tension or drama that made Lost so brilliant.
  And of course, I wasn't happy with the explanation, but that wasn't my main gripe.

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  LucY789 > 05/05/2012, 07:54

  I agree the finale of lost was very disappointing, it didnt end with the excitement and overall wow factor that i think they could of made it with, so overall i was very sad that the show came to the end i watched every episode but the finale was disappointing xx

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  uknighthawk91 > 05/05/2012, 09:53

  Yeah Lost for me too, don't get me wrong i loved Lost and thought it was a brilliant series but yeah it did kind of leave me feeling disappointed. They should have left it as a cliff hanger or something it would have annoyed me if they had of done that but it would always be remembered for something other then how now it's just sort of renowned as the show that ended poorly.

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  jesslloydfan > 05/05/2012, 10:43

  The Lost finale doesn't seem to be very popular, the only one anyone else has mentioned on the thread lol, granted it wasn't perfect, but it was probably very hard to write an ending to every plot strand, one thing i would have liked to have been mentioned give a name to the man in black.

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  humiliateme > 05/05/2012, 19:18

  i can't comment on lost as i never actually watched it lol! well technically i watched the first episode, possibly the first two episodes and i really wasn't very interested. i did then have my doubts about giving it another chance as so many people were saying it was the best thing ever on TV but then i heard the ending was terrible so i never bothered trying to watch it again.
  
  one that stands out for me is the program Life, i really liked it a lot and it had a interesting story, it got the balance of drama, comedy etc.. spot on in my opinion and then it got cancelled so it ended with a massive cliff hanger without even tying up a single part of the story. but that was more the fault of it getting cancelled than it was it just having a bad ending.
  
  i'm sure there's more but that's all i can think of off the top of my head.

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  uknighthawk91 > 06/05/2012, 04:08

  (05/05/2012, 19:18)humiliateme Wrote: i can't comment on lost as i never actually watched it lol! well technically i watched the first episode, possibly the first two episodes and i really wasn't very interested. i did then have my doubts about giving it another chance as so many people were saying it was the best thing ever on TV but then i heard the ending was terrible so i never bothered trying to watch it again.
  
  one that stands out for me is the program Life, i really liked it a lot and it had a interesting story, it got the balance of drama, comedy etc.. spot on in my opinion and then it got cancelled so it ended with a massive cliff hanger without even tying up a single part of the story. but that was more the fault of it getting cancelled than it was it just having a bad ending.
  
  i'm sure there's more but that's all i can think of off the top of my head.

  
  Lost is/was bloody fantastic, i loved watching it and still enjoy watching the re-runs. I wouldn't let the ending prevent you from watching it cause there is hours of quality TV to enjoy. Keeps you on the edge throughout and you really get into the characters and their stories. Brilliant series just not an ending that lived up to it's hype to be fair

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  jesslloydfan > 06/05/2012, 14:51

  Yeah Lost is still a great program, even if the ending isn't quite as good as maybe it could have been.
  Another show that had a bit of a dissapointing finale was The 4400, it was just so open ended, nothing was wrapped up, but that was due to be cancelled, which it didn't really deserve, it was a good sci fi show.

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  mrhlayer > 06/05/2012, 19:33

  There was a time in the mid-90s when the X-Files was HUGE, then it jumped the shark just after the film release and died a slow agonising death. I stayed with it, but in the end it kind of fizzled out. The last episode, "The Truth" didn't tie up any loose end, just created more dangeling threads that made little sense.

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  Friday > 24/05/2012, 22:52

  Space Above and Beyond.
  
  Came out while the X-Files was kicking the crap out of everything else and was 2nd in the US TV charts.
  Some smart ass decided to cancel it after 1 season, so they rushed a big cataclysmic, let's kill most of the cast ending.
  
  It was on stupidly late here so I was seriously pissed at the time after waiting until the wee small hours to see it.
  
  
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