skillzdadirecta Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Name some series that nailed the landing when ending their runs, some that didn't quite make it, and some that shit the bed. I'll start off NAILED IT Six Feet Under The Wire Breaking Bad The Shield Mad Men Spartacus DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT The Sopranos Battlestar Galactica The Office SHIT THE BED Lost Penny Dreadful (Great series but the last couple of episodes damn near ruin the whole series) That's all I got so far... I'll see if I can think of some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Nailed it Black Sails Breaking Bad Six Feed Under Americans Merlin Supernatural (nothing happened after season 5, what are you talking about?) Smallville (they started wondering in later seasons, but landed it at the end) Didn't quite make it Battlestar Galactica (got me in the feels, and simultaneously annoyed me) Shit the bed Lost House of Cards (I never even finished the final season) Sons of Anarchy (similarly, I never even finished the final season) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 NAILED IT Breaking Bad The Wire The Shield Star Trek TNG The Americans Angel Halt and Catch Fire DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT The Sopranos The Office Deadwood(series) Buffy SHIT THE BED Lost Seinfeld Star Trek Enterprise House of Cards, whole last season is an abomination Dexter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 All this thread is doing is reminding me that I rarely, if ever actually finish full runs of shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted May 3, 2019 Author Share Posted May 3, 2019 Oh yeah let me add a couple that I forgot... NAILED IT Gotham SHIT THE BED Dexter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Some others that nailed it: Cowboy Bebop Fullmetal Alchemist Futurama (original run, don't really remember the ending of the extended run) The Last Airbender Another that didn't: Neon Genesis Evangelion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Gah! How did I forget Halt and Catch Fire for nailed it? That last season nearly emotionally broke me though. Those of you who watched it know what I'm talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Nailed it Mortal Kombat: Conquest Star Trek The Next Generation Star Trek Deep Space Nine Star Trek Voyager Angel Buffy The Vampire Slayer Hell on Wheels Spider-Man The Animated Series Quantum Leap Frashier Cheers Seinfeld The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Family Ties Shit The Bed Last Man on Earth Colony X-Files How I Met Your Mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonseeker Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 NAILED IT Breaking Bad Mad Men DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT Battlestar Galactica House of Cards Damages Bloodline The Night Of Banshee Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles SHIT THE BED 24 Dexter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 4 hours ago, elbobo said: NAILED IT Breaking Bad The Wire The Shield Star Trek TNG The Americans Angel Halt and Catch Fire DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT The Sopranos The Office Deadwood(series) Buffy SHIT THE BED Lost Seinfeld Star Trek Enterprise House of Cards, whole last season is an abomination Dexter 28 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: Nailed it Mortal Kombat: Conquest Star Trek The Next Generation Star Trek Deep Space Nine Star Trek Voyager Angel Buffy The Vampire Slayer Hell on Wheels Spider-Man The Animated Series Quantum Leap Frashier Cheers Seinfeld The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Family Ties Shit The Bed Last Man on Earth Colony X-Files How I Met Your Mother I think TNG and DS9 had two of the best finales ever. Especially impressive for a time when not too many series attempted, let alone succeeded, in having finales that summed up the series so well. If there were a rating between "nailed it" and "didn't quite make it" I would put Buffy and Voyager in there. Good finales that tick all the boxes, but didn't quite have that emotional punch that the best finales have imho. Like both of you, I would put Angel in the "nailed it" column. How I Met Your Mother and Enterprise are funny because if you ignore the right things, they actually have pretty good finales. If you count Terra Prime as Enterprise's finale it goes from being godawful to decent. If you ignore the last little reveal in HIMYM, it's a pretty good finale. I think the general gloominess of it isn't so bad, it's the total unnecessary arbitrariness of the last thing that fucks things up. And both these endings were so bad, the series runners after the fact basically said, "if fans want to ignore them, they can". The relaunch novels retconned These Are the Voyages damn near out of existence(it's all a hologram, so it's all only as reliable as the historical record) and an alternate ending to HIMYM was included after the huge backlash. Just now, Dragonseeker said: NAILED IT Breaking Bad Mad Men DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT Battlestar Galactica House of Cards Damages Bloodline The Night Of Banshee Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles SHIT THE BED 24 Dexter I would put Sarah Conner Chronicles in a "did as good as you could expect with what they were given" along with Jericho. Both series that shouldn't have been cancelled when they were, and were probably truncated because they had a lot more story to tell. I think they were both series that struggled because of the damn writer's strike. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted May 4, 2019 Author Share Posted May 4, 2019 2 hours ago, TwinIon said: Some others that nailed it: Cowboy Bebop Fullmetal Alchemist Futurama (original run, don't really remember the ending of the extended run) The Last Airbender Another that didn't: Neon Genesis Evangelion Holy shit I can't believe I forgot Cowboy Beebop! Add Samurai Champloo to that as well for nailed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I missed that someone mentioned Futurama. It was especially cool on it's original airing. Fry asks Leela, "Wanna go around again?" and then the pilot aired right after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 5 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT The Sopranos Battlestar Galactica The Office 5 hours ago, legend said: Didn't quite make it Battlestar Galactica (got me in the feels, and simultaneously annoyed me) I still maintain that the BSG ending would have been sooooo much fucking better if they'd kept it exactly the same but just skipped the Angel Six/Angel Baltar Times Square scene at the end. It would have been a much more powerful ending if they'd just cut to credits after the camera pulled back on the scene of Adama sitting on the hill next to Roslin's grave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 From the examples given so far, Dexter is my vote for biggest shit show of an ending. I can't figure out how they thought that was a good idea. Remember? Remember this bullshit!? A lot of the episodes in the later seasons are pretty bad so I guess it doesn't surprise me looking back now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 5 hours ago, elbobo said: SHIT THE BED Star Trek Enterprise Demons/Terra Prime was an amazing finale for Enterprise I don't know what the fuck you're smoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyser_Soze Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Came to see Dexter on shit the bed and leave satisfied Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emblazon Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Fuck the ending of Merlin. Fuck it hard. Fuck it hard right up its shitty ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5timechamp Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Holy Shit Dinosaurs They owe me a season Mortal Kombat Conquest Cemented my hatred for certain characters How I met Your Mother They didnt wind up together WTF! Wonder Years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Just came to post that Fullmetal Alchemist CRUSHED its series finale but I see someone beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, Mercury33 said: Just came to post that Fullmetal Alchemist CRUSHED its series finale but I see someone beat me to it. I need to watch that series. Doesn't it have two different versions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 What is the prevailing opinion on Chuck's finale? I remember liking it at the time but in retrospect it seems like kind of a copout. Also, while I have my suspicions about how well it holds up, I feel like that show was really emblematic of it's time and place in recession and late war-on-terror America. Obligatory Twin Peaks The Return nailed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGamble Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 10 hours ago, Remarkableriots said: Nailed it Mortal Kombat: Conquest Star Trek The Next Generation Star Trek Deep Space Nine Star Trek Voyager Angel Buffy The Vampire Slayer Hell on Wheels Spider-Man The Animated Series Quantum Leap Frashier Cheers Seinfeld The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Family Ties Shit The Bed Last Man on Earth Colony X-Files How I Met Your Mother I hated the voyager finale. There was no reason not to have a cool 4-5 episode arc like DS9 had(six, I believe) and there were plenty of wasted episodes in Voyagers last season. If Enterprise had ended with Terra Prime, it would have been amazing. Or even if the last episode hadn’t tried to be a new TNG episode, and just played that story out on his own. And showed Archers speech! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGamble Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I just hope the Deadwood movie ends great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 8 hours ago, 5timechamp said: Holy Shit Dinosaurs They owe me a season Mortal Kombat Conquest Cemented my hatred for certain characters How I met Your Mother They didnt wind up together WTF! Wonder Years Shao Khan winning was the perfect way to end the series! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Was that like a YouTube show? Never heard of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 My Name is Earl would have nailed it. There was this TV show called Awake. Only had one season and got canceled. But there was an ending filmed in case that happened. The show about about Draco's dad living in two different realities. In one, his son died. In the other, is wife died. Well, he entered the other reality by sleeping. If his wife was alive when he went to bed, when he awoke his son would be alive. He wasn't sure which was real and I think he was trying to figure it out. And then the show got canceled. So, in the series and season 1 finale it had Draco's dad wake up with both his son and wife alive. Everything was just a bad dream. "Just a dream," endings are pretty shit but this was pretty good and it worked really well. Most canceled show don't get closure but this did and it was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 On 5/4/2019 at 12:38 AM, Remarkableriots said: I need to watch that series. Doesn't it have two different versions? It does. There is a lot of overlap in the beginning, but they go in rather different directions by the end. I think people say that the second run (Brotherhood) is better, but both are worthwhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 On 5/4/2019 at 4:41 AM, Remarkableriots said: Shao Khan winning was the perfect way to end the series! I remember this show being on and I think I watched an episode or two, but it was too cheesy to me at the time. According to this... this wasn't supposed to be the actual ending, but a cliffhanger. https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Mortal_Kombat:_Conquest Quote The series originally aired on the WB Network and was later picked up by Turner Network Television, which aired the remaining new episodes as well as broadcasting the previous ones in syndication. The show was very popular, but according to the show's developer, Joshua Wexler, this resulted in higher budget costs for the show than anticipated. The cancellation was not announced at first and rumors of a second season circulated. However, TNT pulled the plug on the show leaving it with a cliffhanger ending. It was said that the last two episodes were a dream Kung Lao had, making what happened not true. The cliffhanger ending would have been resolved in the second season, which would have summed up the series and corresponded with the MK timeline. Also... this. Quote Guest stars Angelica Bridges, Sung Hi Lee, Dana Hee, Jamie Pressly, Renee Tenison, Kathleen Kinmont, Candace Miller and Suzanne Stokes all posed nude for the adult magazine, Playboy. Another guest star, Eva Mendes, was also featured doing an interview in one issue. Due to budget constraints, the costuming department was unable to afford any bras for the female cast members. Suuuuuuuuure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 The only finale that has ever retroactively ruined an entire series was how I met your mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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