Worst Season/Series Finales SPOILERS

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Just got done watching The Office season finale as well The Big Bang Theory and both where pretty lame tonight.

I was especially disappointed by the Office's finale, there was all this build up for finding a new boss and then it ends with a big cliffhanger. I have a feeling that the job is either going to go to Jim or Darrell and I'm leaning towards Jim after what transpired tonight.

The Big Bang Theory was almost as bad and yet you saw it coming.

Another finale I didn't like was Primeval Series 3 but that you couldn't help the producers didn't know the show was going to end up cancelled but I think they did a good job of recovering from it Series IV opened up nicely. Supposedly Series V won't end on a cliffhanger like three did but we'll see.

And finally I have to throw in the series finale for The Sopranos even though I never watched that show I've heard how it ended and I must say that's very very lame.

[Benjamin Haines]

I stopped watching The Office after they resorted to doing a clip show in the middle of the already lackluster sixth season. I saw the most recent Christmas episode from season seven and the characters seemed like they'd become exaggerated caricatures of themselves. That show is running on fumes now, especially with Steve Carell gone.

I thought the series finale of King of the Hill was pretty disappointing. It wasn't a bad episode, it was just really ordinary and could have been put anywhere else in the series. The last scene was the only part with a sense of finality to it, and it featured a completely nonsensical and ultimately pointless revelation about Boomhauer. Bill is still perpetually lonely and Dale is still oblivious to the fact that John Redcorn is Joseph's real father. I think it would have been cool if that ended up being unintentionally revealed to him somehow, much to Nancy's guilt-ridden chagrin, only for Dale to admit that he knew all along and loved Joseph as his son regardless. Real missed potential there.

[Dr Kain]

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[metal_bryan]

The last episode of Grey's Anatomy last night was pretty terrible... Just a real downer all around

However, Bones was VERY good... amazing finish to that episode and season

I know what's coming for the finale of Game Of Thrones, since I'm a nerd for the books, so I know it's going to be the best finale of any series this season

The finale of Glee next week has me worried, but I'm sure it will be good, whether it's happy or sad. That last episode with the funeral was heart-wrenching.

[lhb412]

In terms of network TV watching this was the season I stopped watching House MD and became an enormous fan of Community. This was an improvement in two respects: Community is awesome and Cartoon Network airs new episodes of Adventure Time and Regular Show during the same time slot as House.

-and both Community and Adventure Time had amazing season finales!

[GhostMachine]

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[Benjamin Haines]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

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I get what they were trying to do with the way the Sopranos finale ended - ie, leaving it up the viewer's imagination to decide Tony's fate - but it was a horrible way to end a show, and one of the worst uses ever of a song by Journey.

I'm hoping they eventually do a Sopranos movie - and I mean a theatrical release, not for HBO - that picks up where the finale left off, or takes place some time later, but I'm not holding my breath.

[swfreakjpb]

Lost and Battlestar Galactica. Both ended up sucking big time in the end for me.

Those are the most recent ones that I can think of. A lot of things I like get canceled before they ever get a finale.

[metal_bryan]

I loved the Lost finale.

[Pkmatrix]

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[Green Dragon]

I stayed far away from any Lost discussions, knowing that one day I'll catch up with it....I stopped watching a few episodes into the third season, because I've come to hate sitting down to watch a show once a week and hold myself to a schedule like that.

So, recently I treated myself to the entire series on blu-ray, and powered through the whole thing, and found myself giving in to the wacky craziness of it, the flashbacks, flash-forwards, the unstuck-in-time-shifting, and ultimately the flash-sideways, and just let the whole thing in, and got to love all the characters, good, bad and in-between.

Loved the full usage of tv tropes, cliffhangers, and outlandish storylines, and by the finale, it was a nice way to bring everyone together, but I do have a few gripes, but not to the degree that others do. The religious reunion thing, though sweet, seemed a little cliquish....why not other characters? Lots of holes in logic, but you just don't apply logic to stuff like this.

Plus, the HD footage of Hawaii is something I never grow tired of. I didn't start watching the show until the first season was almost over (thanks to downloads, I caught up quickly), and was completely taken by all the familiar locations; the location for the plane crash scene from the pilot is an intensely personal place, and to see it used like that was very eerie.


Twin Peaks was maddening, back in the day. The series was dropping in ratings, ABC gave up on it, the show's main thrust was removed ("who killed Laura Palmer?") because the tv station demanded that the mystery be solved. Once it was, the show lost direction, AND viewers, and by the time it got its footing again, it was too late. They brought David Lynch back to direct the final episode, and it was insanely dark and weird, and effectively undid every tied up thread in the large cast, leaving a massive cliffhanger that would never be resolved. I'm alright with that today, though. Some things in life have no closure.

[Dr Kain]

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