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Head Ninja In Charge said:

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Game of Thrones.

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This.

After the creators ran out of source material, the show took a turn for the worse. I honestly don't blame them as much as I blame GRRM. They did a great job when the books were available, but once they were gone and left to their own devices the show suffered. The man has occupied himself with so many other things that it either impacted his ability to finish the books, or he was already lost, and has just been treading water since then. For example he had a significant role in upcoming video game Elden Ring, so he was building their world rather than finish up what everyone else wants him to finish. Even if he finishes the next book, which I doubt, the only way that the final book is released is if he has been writing them concurrently.

The final episode I hate, but of the final season's 6 episodes there are 2 I absolutely love.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
The Long Night

That being said, I can't bring myself to rewatch the series because the way the show ended just put me off of the entire show. I loved that show, but they really messed it up royally.

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I know GRRM was feeding them how it would end - but it never felt rushed until they ran out of books. The books were 800 pages of packed details that the shows did in 8-10 episodes. Even then the pace felt much slower than the books and left out quite a bit.

The last few seasons were so rushed. I can believe so much of the story going that way...but it just didn't feel believable for most of the story points. Plus - half of the major plot points they had been touching on for years just didn't get resolution.

IMO Lost goes wrong with S4 (shortened by the writer's strike), but especially S5 (using time travel to bail out your aimless show is kinda lame). Given all the missteps along the way, I thought the final season was alright. At the time. I'll have to revisit someday.

What was the HIMYM ending that everyone hates? Would I have to be somewhat familiar with the show to get why it was so terrible?

rhutton125 said:

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IMO Lost goes wrong with S4 (shortened by the writer's strike), but especially S5 (using time travel to bail out your aimless show is kinda lame). Given all the missteps along the way, I thought the final season was alright. At the time. I'll have to revisit someday.

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My joke that I keep dragging along through TexAgs over the last decade is that Frank Lapdius was immortal in Season 7 because you knew they were taking the plane off the island and he's the only one who could fly it. Anytime he was in a conflict scene, you knew nothing bad was going to happen. He could have faced down the Smoke Monster armed with a bazooka and walked away unharmed.

Sea Speed said:

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What was the HIMYM ending that everyone hates? Would I have to be somewhat familiar with the show to get why it was so terrible?

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No you don't have to be familiar to get it.

Big spoilers ahead - PS great show (except for the end).

Depending who you ask it is not as terrible as some say. However I now just pretend one of the alternate endings is the reality - several have been made on the web - or just pretend it ends when he meets the wife.

The issue is they spent nine season building up how he met their mother - the premise of every episode is he is retelling a story to his kids bout his long list of relationship fails before meeting their mother - and then we meet her in the last episode and after a 3 minute montage basically of their great life together over the next few years....she dies.

And he ends up going back with primary other on/off relationship of the show one of his close group of friends who briefly married and then divorced another of their friends.

Sea Speed said:

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What was the HIMYM ending that everyone hates? Would I have to be somewhat familiar with the show to get why it was so terrible?

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The premise of HIMYM was good. But time and time again in most of their episodes they had solid ideas but executed them badly. Which, not a coincidence, mimics the entire course of the series:

Father tells children the tale (which dwells on a separate woman he's over infatuated with) of how he met their mother.

The issue with this series is midway he eventually gets the girl(aunt robin) and the relationship fails. Not only that I think the audience was sick of their craptastic relationship. It was Ross and Rachel all over again.

Even if they ended the series like the Youtube remake you kinda have to think to yourself, "boy, that father really did talk a lot about aunt robin". Which is why they kinda had to end it like they did even though you're completely sick of hearing/seeing ted and robin together.

But they're going to have one magical kiss and she'll get it all back, like Morgan said! And they did. Who cares if it's just my interpretation that she got it all back instantly. I think it's beautiful. You can't take that from me.

All already mentioned, but this is the top of the list by far.
Dexter
How I Met Your Mother
Game of Thrones

Mad About You

Infuriating. The spent a whole series making you buy into the idea of this perfectly cute couple only to ruin at the end to bring them back 30 years later. So dumb!!!!

How I Met Your Mother.

That finale is so bad it makes it impossible to rewatch episodes. Look at shows like Friends, or The Office. You can rewatch episodes, whereas HIMYM it is ruined by the ending.

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the creators/writers [of HIMYM] did NOT have an ending in mind all along like they claimed (or they did, and they saw viewers figured it out and changed it so that it didn't come off predicable). It was about as catastrophic as a finale could be.

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This sums up Lost as well.

the fans figured out in the first season (they were in Purgatory). Writers got all butthurt and said "Oh no... it's not that at all... you are way off".
then purgatory was the answer.

dumb, dumb ending and I hate the writers and the showrunners.
Have never even been tempted to re-watch it because of the way they built up all the mysteries and puzzles, but then punted with "Oh it was always just about characters and not the puzzle/mysteries that filled countless message boards and podcasts and kept the hype going, so we don't really have answers for all that stuff".

Was it purgatory though? The final season's flashbacks (or whatever) seemingly were but the island wasn't. Unless it was like a pre-purgatory purgatory and then you die and go to purgatory and then you have to wake up and go to heaven or whatever.

weird show, huh.

rhutton125 said:

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Was it purgatory though? The final season's flashbacks (or whatever) seemingly were but the island wasn't. Unless it was like a pre-purgatory purgatory and then you die and go to purgatory and then you have to wake up and go to heaven or whatever.

weird show, huh.

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rhutton125 said:

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Was it purgatory though? The final season's flashbacks (or whatever) seemingly were but the island wasn't. Unless it was like a pre-purgatory purgatory and then you die and go to purgatory and then you have to wake up and go to heaven or whatever.

weird show, huh.

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that's how the writers changed it slightly so the people who guessed purgatory after the 3rd episode would be "wrong'

this is the only show I actually cared enough about to get angry that the writers failed so badly with ending the show.

91_Aggie said:

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rhutton125 said:

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Was it purgatory though? The final season's flashbacks (or whatever) seemingly were but the island wasn't. Unless it was like a pre-purgatory purgatory and then you die and go to purgatory and then you have to wake up and go to heaven or whatever.

weird show, huh.

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that's how the writers changed it slightly so the people who guessed purgatory after the 3rd episode would be "wrong'

this is the only show I actually cared enough about to get angry that the writers failed so badly with ending the show.

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That wasn't even the worst part about the last season. They just dropped several "important" story lines or mysteries and then pulled answers out of their butts for others.

Baron Von Flag Smasher said:

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Battlestar Galatica was another one with a horrible ending to me. But it had been going downhill the moment Saul was one of the final 5.

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So Say We All

Farmer1906 said:

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All already mentioned, but this is the top of the list by far.
Dexter
How I Met Your Mother
Game of Thrones

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This is really the only answer.

Dexter effed up so bad they are reviving the show for a new ending.

GOT is the most unforgivable due to how good the first several seasons are. Basically crapped on the following characters' entire arcs in the final season.

Jamie (disgusting)
Tyrion
Jon

Flashdiaz said:

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ALF

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Cannot he said enough.

Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Lost. That was a lazy, out of money, out of time finish. They didn't explain diddly squat. Still pissed about it.

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They explained everything. You had to listen to Jack and his dad's conversation in the church though. It explained EVERYTHING in the five minute scene.

In regards to Full House, that wasn't their planned series finale- just the finale for that season. They thought they would have a season 9 to wrap it up, but despite still rating in the top 25-30 shows, it was abruptly cancelled which didn't give them time to end it like they wanted. There are several articles out there about the reasoning behind it all. I wasn't still watching by this time as I was in college, but did watch the early years and later reruns with my nephew and kids.

Totally agree with HIMYM. Never watched Lost or GOT. I was indifferent to Seinfeld's ending, but do remember thinking that can't be it.

Someone mentioned Mad About You and I agree. I really enjoyed that show and couldn't believe the way they ended it with the time jump and them separated and almost divorced. They saved it in the end, but still. I did just recently rewatch the series while finishing some projects and then found the reboot on Amazon. It was so weird because the reboot just seemed to completely ignore the finale in regards to many of the characters and how their life ended up in the original show. Also, Helen Hunt looked so different that it was distracting at first.

A_Gang_Ag_06 said:

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Flashdiaz said:

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ALF

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Cannot he said enough.

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I did love the irony that when ALF's body was finally discovered, it had been partially eaten by the family's cat.

Baron Von Flag Smasher said:

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Battlestar Galatica was another one with a horrible ending to me. But it had been going downhill the moment Saul was one of the final 5.

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Honestly most of season 3 and all of season 4 were bad i twice tried to watch season and just did not care to finish it.

Season 1 and 2 were good but they got way to lost in mythology even then.

What happened in the ALF finale? The only thing I found on a quick Google search was that it ended with a "to be continued" and wasn't renewed for a fifth season.

Stive said:

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What happened in the ALF finale? The only thing I found on a quick Google search was that it ended with a "to be continued" and wasn't renewed for a fifth season.

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Goverment captures him.

There was a made for TV movie that gave some closure for the whole thing but it sucked too.


Dinosaurs had a bad finale too.

If Amazon FUPs the finale with Rand, then I will never watch TV again except play Deadpool on constant loop.

I think HIMYM either made up the ending as it went along , or it changed the predecided ending because it felt like too many viewers figured out who the mother was.

Either were disastrous strategies.