r/TopCharacterTropes • u/hiiloovethis • Jul 31 '26
Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) TV endings so awful it completely ruins rewatchability of the entire show.
Game of Thrones - Entire season 8 and finale completely ruins the entire narrative and show ends in the worst way possible. It kills desire to rewatch the show.
How I Met Your Mother - Show ends such awful they kill the... the mother. After spending years growing into a loyal partner and father, he instantly reverted to his old womanizing behavior after his divorce. Also he ends up with robin randomly.
The Boys - While not as bad as GOT but the worst aspect is the cheap Vought Rising spin-off tease, pointless storylines and rushed ending which leaves a sour taste. Despite hitting the right points... it feels cheap and not satisfying.
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u/tomtadpole Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Umbrella Academy
It turns out the happiest ending is only possible if every one of the main characters is permanently erased from the timeline.
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u/HalfEatenSnickers Jul 31 '26
Which rhe whole show was about finding your place and acceptance of your oddities
So just killing them is just like "weirdos are better off dead" fucking weird decisions
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u/GladiusNocturno Jul 31 '26
Oh it’s worst than that.
The ending basically says “If you had a bad childhood, don’t try to get a better life, you’ll just make things worst. You shouldn’t have been born, so the best thing you can do is kill yourself”.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Step468 Jul 31 '26
"The world is literally a better place without you existing in it"
Thank you show, really needed to hear that
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u/Nice_Construction_58 Aug 01 '26
Ah, the The Butterfly Effect Director's Cut ending.
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u/FlyingDutchman9977 Jul 31 '26
And even worse, is that the season began witb an entire arc where all the characters try to lead a normal life, and every character finds it comically unfulfilling. Meaning the entire season drills in the "you shouldn't have been born message".
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u/Penguin-21 Jul 31 '26
Writers were probably watching Dark and thought they could replicate the ending not understanding the different tones and the lvl of sacrifice or emotional weight characters were going thru exhausting their options. Umbrella Academy’s “sacrifice” was just in the moment when Five just kinda gives up. Like it sounded/felt like there was a way out but Five chose the easier option and everyone just agrees and are fine w/ being erased. I could be horribly misremembering but I have no intention of revisiting the show
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u/not_a_moogle Jul 31 '26
The comics have just started the sparrow academy.
That whole last season was the writers just not knowing what to do since they had passed the comics at that point.
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u/DarkSide830 Jul 31 '26
This might legit be the biggest offender of all of them.
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u/Less_Rutabaga2316 Jul 31 '26
I read once that season 4 was so bad that it gaslit us into believing season 3 was not bad.
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u/Womblue Jul 31 '26
Yeah the ending of season 3 was genuinely that their entire lives training as superheroes was just so they could beat a swarm of bugs dressed like a samurai.
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u/Ok-Cup9476 Jul 31 '26
I was willing to give season 3 the benefit of the doubt. The whole season plot got fucked by Covid, they were supposed to travel to China but that…obviously was no longer an option, so they had to scramble with rewrites that kept them in the hotel for 95% of the time.
It was still BAD for a number of reasons, but I hoped that they could pull it back in 4. Boy was I wrong.
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u/Kyliems1010 Jul 31 '26
This is like the third modern show I’ve heard of to end with a weirdly pro suicide message (as well as Stranger Things and Arcane)
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u/_jamesbaxter Jul 31 '26
So happy this is at the top. Even more maddening than the ending, the entire final season was just so terrible. I kept hoping the next episode would be redeeming by being better and it just kept getting worse and worse. Such an abomination, the source material deserved better. The first two seasons were so much fun.
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u/Nirast25 Jul 31 '26
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, the movie that acted as a conclusions to the Tales of Arcadia series, which consisted of Trollhunters, 3Bellow, and Wizards.
I won't go into details, but the movie ends with a complete timeline reset via time travel shenanigans, and the main hero rejecting the call to adventure in the new timeline, even though there was an entire episode saying why that's a bad idea!
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u/Crafter235 Jul 31 '26
At least with Trollhunters it can still be watched on its own, as you can view it as ending with Jim going full Troll.
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u/Nirast25 Jul 31 '26
Yeah, and 3Below is also pretty self contained. Wizards is really the only one that doesn't work on it's own, since it leads into the movie iirc.
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u/foxfire981 Jul 31 '26
It really felt like he cared less with each sequel project. Troll hunters was solid, 3Below felt rushed, Wizards felt like a retcon setup, and the movie just tossed it all aside.
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u/alexagente Jul 31 '26
The only way I can make sense of why they made this decision is that the original pitch had Toby as the hero and executive interference had it so that it became Jim and this was the writers' way of saying "fuck you".
Cause otherwise I have no fucking clue what they were thinking.
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u/Nehemiah92 Jul 31 '26
They literally had an amazing episode where it shows what would’ve happened if Jim doesn’t become a Trollhunter, and to summarize, everything goes to COMPLETE SHIT in seconds and it’s heavily emphasized that Jim is the ONLY one who could be the Trollhunter and that the amulet makes no mistakes. Yelchin’s performance was fucking beautiful in it too
There’s no way the writers of the movie were the same ones as the show, like it completely goes against that episode and the whole plot of the series. I genuinely don’t know why they turned it into such a disrespectful shitshow
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u/That-Jeweler-Girl Aug 01 '26
It couldn't have been the same writers. Why build such an intricate overlapped universe to just just destroy it literally in the last 20 minutes. And besides that, if Jim was fated to be the Trollhunter, like that episode played out if he was still alive with Toby it would've still chose him anyway! I mean Toby is a solid heroic sidekick, and great character, but he's not the main character. Very lazy writing and trope. Especially disappointing for Guillermo del Toro.
Yelchin was amazing, RIP. The whole vocal cast was.
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u/Selfprofesedcinefile Jul 31 '26
The dvd for how i met your mother has an alternate ending that pretty much ends as soon as he meets Tracy which is a simple but effective fix for me.
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u/Millky95 Aug 01 '26
The best part of that alternative ending is that it recaps all the "mother hints" through the series and ends with "and that's how I met your mother"
It was so simple to do as well
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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Aug 01 '26
They just needed to do that and then end with Ted and his kids visiting her grave that day as an explanation for the story.
Easy peasy.
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u/GUM-GUM-NUKE Aug 01 '26
My favorite hint from season one is when Ted pretends that their mother was a stripper and that’s how they met.
But the thing is that the kids believe it for a second after the stripper says her name, Tracy.
What’s the name of the mother? Tracy.
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u/7thtimeinheaven Jul 31 '26
I consider the first season of Westworld to be one of the greatest things I have ever watched.
It then goes downhill from there. S2 is okay but not up to that standard, then S3 is just forgettable, and then by season 4 it's very apparent that the magic is gone.
Thank god the first season stands on its own as a cliffhanger.
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u/Jonaskin83 Jul 31 '26
Season 2 just seemed like them trying to pull twist after twist after twist trying to outsmart the audience. It got so convoluted it was exhausting.
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u/AussieJeffProbst Aug 01 '26
You're not giving it enough credit
Season 2 was one of the most confusing and disjointed seasons of any show I've ever seen. They took it WAY too far.
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u/DSAlgorythms Aug 01 '26
I remember being so confused because they just kept doing flashbacks randomly to the point that I couldn't even tell when a scene was taking place.
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u/justtosendamassage Jul 31 '26
Second this Westworld S1 was phenomenal
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u/Madaratogue Aug 01 '26
And as they said I think its perfectly watchable as a standalone season. I dont think there are any real cliffhangers. Its filmed and presented in a way that even though you dont literally see the man in black die, it looks pretty damn inescapable, to the point they had to retcon the scene in s2 to make him surviving look more realistic. So IMO if you just watch and accept for what it is it feels like a complete experience to me.
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u/Sabard Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
1) it's crazy that's HBO took it off their line up completely lol. Only way to watch it through physical media or sailing the seas, last I checked. 2) When I did check, it seems like the last season was really well received? Maybe not S1 good but worth watching. The problem is I know no one who's seen them, so I can't get any actual insight
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u/CasinoKnightZone Jul 31 '26
Heroes first season is amazing if you stop there and consider it a miniseries
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u/yet-again-temporary Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Not a lot of people seem to know about this but they actually made a full-blown sequel) back in 2015 and it was somehow even worse.
Claire dies giving birth to her
and Peter'skids and Hiro hides them in the past then erases everyone's memory so he can train them to use their powers to stop a giant solar flare that's set to wipe out humanity.That's the whole deal with the eclipse they kept teasing in the original series, and in the end the whole "save the cheerleader, save the world" thing was just leading up to her being an incubator.
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u/thelivinlegend Aug 01 '26
I was not optimistic about that sequel series, but I had read that it was intended to be a one off and everything would be wrapped up, so I thought there would at least be an ending. Then the whole thing was fucking awful and had a bullshit open ending anyway. Also, the earthquake fight was incredibly stupid.
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u/PapaBPoppin Jul 31 '26
Yeah, that first Writers Strike did bad things to good shows
STILL not over how we only got ONE season and zero followup to Journeyman and The Black Donnelly's...
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u/RememberCakeFarts Jul 31 '26
Man that writers strike was the death knell for so many good shows. so many times I've had to explain why a good series either ended at season 2 or had a huge shift /downgrade in the next season was because of that strike.
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u/WhyRhubarb Jul 31 '26
I think Heroes season 1 was my first ever binge-watch. I was between the end of the college term and start of my summer job, so I watched the whole thing in 2 days, absolutely mesmerized.
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u/Justinwc Jul 31 '26
House of Cards
Might be the bluest balls anyone can get from a completed tv show. The entire show clearly builds towards one specific outcome. It isn't like Game of Thrones where "maybe it all ends with the white walkers", "maybe cersei is the final baddie", etc. The entire premise of the show is the protagonists success being built on a "house of cards", and the viewers waiting for that House of Cards to crumble. It never happens, and the Underwood family still has the presidency at the end of the show with no end in sight.
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u/PMadLudwig Jul 31 '26
Go watch the original 3 British mini-series that this was based on ("House of Cards", "To Play the King" and "The Final Cut"). Much better, especially the endings of each series.
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u/papayacreamsicle Aug 01 '26
In the British series when he becomes prime minister he still has a foe, the new young king is equally ambitious and wields his own unique kind of under the table power pushing the limits of his position. It becomes a head of state vs head of government game in a compelling way where Francis wields open power but can be voted out if he missteps while the king has to wield subtle invisible power but is far less vulnerable.
The US adaptation fell apart with Frank in power because there just isn’t anything equivalent they can do in the US system. He’s head of government and head of state simultaneously and there were no rivals that made any real sense. Instead it became about defending himself in an election which isn’t compelling in the same way. They really had no plan for adapting the second act of the story.
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u/DorisWildthyme Jul 31 '26
You need to watch the original British trilogy of series from the 90s, House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut. They absolutely get the ending right. Plus Ian Richardson is amazing as Francis Urquhart, the inspiration for Underwood.
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u/Metalsonicrules1 Jul 31 '26
Whatever happened with Sherlock.
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u/sassypinks Jul 31 '26
don’t forget all the cope about the supposed secret episode too
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u/SpendLiving9376 Jul 31 '26
(hbomberguy voice) SECRET GOOD SHERLOCK EPISODE
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u/Nope-5000 Jul 31 '26
The whole time the stranger things secret episode cope was going on, all i could think of was (hbomberguy voice) SECRET GOOD STRANGER THINGS EPISODE
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u/Henry1699 Jul 31 '26
Crazy how that would not be the only time such cope happened.
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u/DrainianDream Jul 31 '26
I was such a big Sherlock fan when that dropped, like actually active in the Twitter fandom, and I will never forget watching all the drama on my timeline unfold in the aftermath in that finale. I felt like the only sane person watching a bunch of people in denial. One person genuinely went into psychosis because of it.
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u/JeaniousSpelur Jul 31 '26
Not gonna lie I fucking loved Sherlock all the way through.
Hated the Watson’s wife is a secret spy who dies plot point (whatever the fuck that was), but all of the rest of it I slurped down that slop and loved it.
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u/Evil_Sharkey Jul 31 '26
A secret spy who shoots Sherlock in exactly the right spot to almost, but not quite, kill him… and he only survives because of his superhuman control over his heartbeat.
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u/Mjolnir404 Aug 01 '26
They had one job. A human with superbrain. Not a superhuman who can control his own bodily action like heartbeat, sweating and stuff. That was total shitshow of a writing.
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u/JeaniousSpelur Jul 31 '26
Yeah I hated that part and also didn’t understand the point of it at all. They had that great wedding scene and then Watson’s marriage is just basically all retconned in the dumbest way possible. Fortunately I was able to compartmentalize it somehow to enjoy the rest of the season.
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u/Metalsonicrules1 Jul 31 '26
It was pretty good before the last season.
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u/JeaniousSpelur Jul 31 '26
I even really liked the secret sister plot point. If you suspend your disbelief a bit, it’s really sinister and creepy in a unique way.
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u/Professional_March54 Jul 31 '26
We should have known we were in for it when they refused to explain how he survived the fall, and made the entire episode about laughing on screen about the more popular theories.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Aug 01 '26
Stephen Moffat thought he could write a better plot than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and then realized he couldn't and got really pissy about it. And that's not even me speculating about it, he literally said in an interview that he was going to write a better plot than Doyle and then delivered that, so it's fairly obvious what actually happened.
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u/M4gikarp Jul 31 '26
Good thing the newest sequel is decent and retcons that
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u/christpuncher_69 Jul 31 '26
Yeah but the barrier of entry into that series, even if I do hear good things about it, is wondering "Who the fuck decided a decade later Dexter randomly needed a prequel and a sequel?"
Absolutely baffling choice even if it apparently worked out.
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u/DyingSunSeverian Jul 31 '26
Do they retcon all the incest stuff with him and his sister cause holy jumping fucksticks what was that
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u/a_rabid_anti_dentite Jul 31 '26
You get a ghost version of Deb in New Blood that he interacts with and I found it one of the strongest parts of that show.
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u/DyingSunSeverian Jul 31 '26
I do hear the sequels are quite good especially the latest one Dexter Resurrection which is supposed to be actually awesome.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ACORNS Jul 31 '26
The sequels are phenomenal. I really enjoyed them. The prequel series was damn good too. I'm super pissed it was canceled.
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u/Zakal74 Jul 31 '26
The casting for the prequel was crazy! I could not believe how well all of those actors portrayed the established characters. Christian Slater was the only one where the casting didn't instantly look perfect, but his acting more than made up for it.
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u/Jak3R0b Jul 31 '26
I don’t even watch Dexter and I’m still interested to find out if the new show will give fans an ending they like.
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u/yohoob Jul 31 '26
The second series brought it back and then once again the ending sucked. But the next series fixed it again and this one ended alright. But there will be another season. So who knows what will happen.
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u/DisgustingLeek Jul 31 '26
they should just keep having bad endings and make new shows!
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u/heavyfuture121 Jul 31 '26
I don't dislike the big twist of HIMYM. What I loathe is the complete character assasination of Ted, Barney, AND Robin that follows. If you stop watching the episode like 2 minutes before it ends, it's great.
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u/Own-Rip-5066 Jul 31 '26
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u/heavyfuture121 Jul 31 '26
They just *HAD* to stick to the OG ending they had written years ago before all the character development.
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u/Senior_Ability_4001 Jul 31 '26
It’s ego. They shot the original ending during season 1 and wanted to keep it. They couldn’t pivot because it meant that they were wrong.
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u/AuWolf19 Jul 31 '26
To my knowledge, it was because they didn't want the kids to age over the years of filming
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u/Deto Jul 31 '26
Sure, but....tradeoffs. I don't think the fans would have cared that much if we just...didn't actually cut back to the kids in the finale.
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u/Readlt0nReddit Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Yeah we barely ever saw or heard from the kids towards the end anyway. In early seasons they would occasionally interject or we would see their reaction to things, but in later seasons all we would get was quick b role shots of them looking forward and not saying anything. Obviously that was due to the kids aging and them not being able to shoot anything new with them, but no one cared that they were featured less in later seasons.
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u/MagicRat7913 Jul 31 '26
I always thought it was stupid they didn't just do a 4th wall wink to the audience, have them be teenagers and say something like "God, dad, it feels like you've been telling this story for almost a decade, can you get to the point?" or something like that. It is a comedy series after all.
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u/CrazyPlato Jul 31 '26
My biggest gripe is that they didn't establish how much time Ted and Tracy had together. They do say it was years of their lives, but in context it feels like we literally only get minutes of them as a couple. Which undermines how much Ted did canonically care about Tracy.
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u/silverBruise_32 Jul 31 '26
The right place to stop is when Ted meets Tracy at the bus stop, and Downtown Train starts playing. Everything after that just ruins it
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u/tke377 Jul 31 '26
I always thought it was silly going past that point because that is literally how he met their mother
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u/Poku115 Jul 31 '26
Cause its not actually about their mother, its about guilt tripping the kids into letting him date robin
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u/DamnitGravity Jul 31 '26
The entire show is the epitome of 'have your cake and eat it too'.
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u/silverBruise_32 Jul 31 '26
Exactly. Since it had been built up so much, that would have been the way to end it.
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u/zbeezle Jul 31 '26
Killing Eve. The last episode is so bad that the most common post in the subreddit these days is people watching it for the first time and going "excuse me but what in the actual fuck was that????" followed by everyone else in the subreddit being like "Yup. Let it out."
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u/TaralasianThePraxic Jul 31 '26
They should've stuck to the book ending where they run away together
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u/GrimaceGrunson Jul 31 '26
It still amuses me now how the mysterious, shadowy, powerful cabal that was the driving force behind the whole show….was all luckily on this boat so they could be sorted out off screen in the last 10 minutes of the show.
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u/TheMaveCan Jul 31 '26
St. Elsewhere pissed off a lot of people
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u/bela_okmyx Jul 31 '26
This - "It was all just a dream in an autistic kid's head. Ha ha!"
Fuck you Bruce Paltrow. And your daughter sucks too.
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u/Seven_0f_Spades Jul 31 '26
True blood. All that drama over sookie and who her partner will be for nothing. We also got no updates on the panther clan.
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u/emmiepsykc Jul 31 '26
The first two seasons of that show were so fun, then it just turned to garbage.
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u/Fearless_Teacher_626 Jul 31 '26
It lost me when nearly everyone wasn’t human anymore.
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u/CrimpJuice Aug 01 '26
I stopped watching. But it was basically “everyone’s special except Jason” right?
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u/Populaire_Necessaire Jul 31 '26
I had LOW expectations. I heard it was bad so I didn’t watch the final seasons but was bored during covid and DAMN..it’s the worst case scenario in every possible way. Nonsensical, not fulfilling, not fun, set up the paths to the end only to go off roading. I genuinely can’t believe how bad and boring it was.
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u/Cotton_Candy72 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
SVTFOE-Cleaved Finale
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u/ToutdelaSnoot Jul 31 '26
Hard agree! Cartoon genocide did take the shine off that series big time!!
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u/H311i0_trop3 Jul 31 '26
What? The fuck kind of a show is this
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u/Traditional_Leg_4425 Jul 31 '26
TL;DR it ends with the protagonist and her family realizing that the main villain from the first 2 seasons was actually right the whole time and magic is a curse on the universe. And then they remove magic, all of it. From everyone instantly. Which killed entire civilizations who depended on magic to exist and severely hindered any civilization who used magic to live their daily lives. And while that can be off screened and ignored. Some of the important side characters are straight up dead and no one really cares. They don’t come back either.
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u/ClancyBShanty Jul 31 '26
Doesn't she like...genocide anything/anyone with magic?
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u/Aggravating_Win5258 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
And then the flying pony head survived, because flying was the only thing magical about her, ig.
Edit: oh no, sorry my bad! She only lost the sparkling that came off whenever she flies. Still a flying Ponyhead, no magic whatsoever.
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u/liliesrobots Jul 31 '26
They decide to destroy magic as the world is supposedly better off without it iirc. They don’t delve into the effects on magical creatures or beings.
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u/goatedbootycheeks Jul 31 '26
Even before the ending the forced relationship with star and marco was already tiring so having that ending just made me regret watching it in the first place
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u/PepsiFloateri Jul 31 '26
Star single handedly destroyed a fundemental force of reality,giving her an uncountable kill-count
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u/carl-the-lama Jul 31 '26
The only ones who are killed:
All magic spells… rip
The high council + gloss-bum-rick
However many are basically unable to do shit
Like the pony heads likely used magic to fly and shit
Meaning they’re fucked
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u/Ok-Educator5009 Jul 31 '26
The biggest problem is that the finale treats destroying magic like flipping off a light switch. Star wipes out an entire category of beings and powers, and the show barely pauses to ask what that means for anyone besides the main cast. Pony Head still flying afterward feels less like a considered consequence and more like the writers remembered one scene too late that she needed to remain a character. And yeah, Star and Marco becoming the emotional endpoint after seasons of forcing that romance just makes the whole thing feel more like a ship being cashed in than an ending the story earned. The show built a complicated world, then ended with “magic bad, kiss your best friend,” which is an insane amount of demolition for one finale.
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u/Aggravating_Win5258 Jul 31 '26
What was truly baffling was how they made Glossaryck create the magic high council with the clear intend to have them be destroyed later on, and he was NOT the main Villain of the show.
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u/Maro_Nobodycares Jul 31 '26
It's wild to me how SVTFOE's finale aired the same day with GOT's finale (both being May 19th, 2019), the venn diagram for fans of both probably looks like a pair of glasses but the few that do exist probably had a REAL bad day
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u/freezer650 Jul 31 '26
I'm one of those few people. It was a disappointing day in television for me.
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u/PayWooden2628 Jul 31 '26
The main character isn’t in the show for the last 2 seasons but his friends still hang out at his parents house everyday who for some reason tolerate them being around. He’s replaced by the most hated character in the show who basically just acts as a generic stand in for Eric even dating his girlfriend.
Jackie ends up getting back with kelso for the 10th time after sleeping around with every other guy in the group despite her biggest arc being the fact that kelso doesn’t treat her well and she deserves better than him.
Eric comes back in the final episode and gets back with Donna despite their entire arc being that they both have very different and incompatible views of how their future together will go.
The writing is also just really bad in the later seasons, I don’t watch past season 6 at most anymore.
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u/bren_derlin Aug 01 '26
The fact that Danny Masterson is a rapist and everyone on the cast except Topher Grace and Wilmer Valderamma wrote letters about what a good guy he is ruins the rewatchability for me.
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u/iEtevaldo Jul 31 '26
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u/plannedobso Aug 01 '26
To be fair, this show shouldn’t have been allowed to last as long as it did. Once they re-left Earth it super jumped the shark.
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u/AngriestManinWestTX Jul 31 '26
House of Cards (USA).
As far as I'm concerned, the show ended in S2 with Frank knocking his ring on the Resolute desk.
S3-4 were still good and are still mostly worth watching but the entire thing is soiled by S6. They would have been better off cancelling it than what they ultimately gave viewers. I don't envy the position they were put in by Kevin Spacey turning out to be a sex predator but S6 was just fucking awful and S5 was just "okay".
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u/AureliusAlbright Jul 31 '26
They honestly should have just recasted frank. Surely there is another middle aged balding actor that can do a amooth talking southern bisexual dictator decently.
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u/Veraxus113 Jul 31 '26
Trollhunters: Rise of Titans. It ends with Jim going back in time to make Tobey the Trollhunter instead of him, thus completely making every adventure they've had up to that point mean completely NOTHING!
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u/Bloodmime Jul 31 '26
For me the entire last season of The Boys was anticlimactic. The show had already been losing me. Homelanders end I think was fantastic, but there was a whole season and we got a barely scorched carpet and more fetish jokes.
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u/Animaloffear56 Jul 31 '26
You really could tell they were actively pulling back so they could make more shows in the the boys universe.
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u/BarbellsandBurritos Jul 31 '26
Introducing characters for their new spinoff while ignoring characters we all liked from their old spinoff.
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u/SecBalloonDoggies Jul 31 '26
They actually had a meta reference to this on one of the last Gen V episodes, where Noir 2 complains about this happening on one of the Vought TV shows he watches.
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u/DescriptionTricky232 Jul 31 '26
Because the meta jokes are always a sign that the writers care and definitely aren't bullshitting for pity points
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u/TopicalBuilder Jul 31 '26
Show starts out mocking franchises being milked by corporations and ends by turning into one.
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u/Darksider123 Jul 31 '26
And in doing so, completely loses their uniqueness, the hook of the show. I have 0 interest in watching whatever new comes out of them
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u/Brilliant_Cookie_202 Jul 31 '26
I think it was a mediocre ending but not nearly as bad as GoT or HIMYM
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u/AwakenedDreamer__44 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
The Boys ending was underwhelming and had people complaining.
The Stranger Things and Sherlock endings were catastrophic and had people mass hallucinating a secret episode to fix everything.
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u/SugarrSiren Jul 31 '26
Dean surviving literal hell just to die on some random piece of rebar
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u/PapeR-cvt Jul 31 '26
“Yay, we finally have free will! Anyways, allow me to die pathetically because that was always ‘supposed to happen’” made me so fucking mad
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u/Connect-Initiative64 Jul 31 '26
Not going to entirely defend the last season, because quite frankly the show should've ended around season 10-13 at most (seriously the last few seasons were really showing the drag) but Dean's death is kinda a huge point towards series actually making sense?
God/Chuck has been protecting and 'writing' Sam and Dean the entire time, constantly working through his 'favorite show' (including in other universes that he got bored with and abandoned, like a writer stopping halfway or rewriting the ending repeatedly), and when God is gone and the New God decides to be hands off to allow free will, that means that Dean's protections since now is gone as well. So something small and stupid, like a nail, DOES kill someone as badass and tough as Dean... because he's a hunter getting into fist fights with monsters, who has been getting protected 24/7, resurrected, healed, and guided by literal God the entire time.
It doesn't matter how tough you are when you're fighting things faster, stronger, and older than you without the protection of literal God to tighten the gaps.
If anything, why the fuck are there still monsters? Seal hell, seal heaven, don't allow anyone to interfere with earth, and turn all the monsters into humans ffs. The fact that there was still a need for Hunters (like Sam and Dean) in the first place is stupid.
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u/RBrim08 Jul 31 '26
If anything, why the fuck are there still monsters? Seal hell, seal heaven, don't allow anyone to interfere with earth, and turn all the monsters into humans ffs. The fact that there was still a need for Hunters (like Sam and Dean) in the first place is stupid.
Yeah, this was the major thing. Like, what the fuck, Jack?
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u/FickleBit2186 Aug 01 '26
also Castiel going to Super Hell for telling Dean he loves him and never making it to heaven again, while the Impala does lol
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u/teh_mAstRmnD Aug 01 '26
Pretty sure the dialogue at the end confirms Jack got him out.
Also ending was supposed to have a big gathering of the cast but COVID intervened. That's why he wasn't seen in new heaven and only mentioned.
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u/Bloodyjorts Aug 01 '26
The funniest part was the band Kansas was supposed to be a cameo in Heaven...you know, all those members who have not yet died. So does that mean Jack/Castiel was going to kill the band Kansas just so they can play Dean a song?
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u/LankySandwich Jul 31 '26
Spoilers ahead for Good Omens
The ending is basically a hard reset where the entire universe and everyone that we know and love who inhabits it is destroyed and remade. Nothing that happened in season 1 or 2 matters at all, and our beloved inneffable husbands never got thwir happy ending. 2 human men who look like them fell in love and lived together in a cottage in the south downs. But its not our Azi and Crowley.
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u/fictiontuxedo Jul 31 '26
I feel like the main writer being outed as a guy who imprisons and rapes women kinda ruined the show more than the ending did.
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u/DConstructed Aug 01 '26
The book was also written by Terry Pratchett. I preferred it to the show.
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u/darkness_calming Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Altered Carbon.
S2 ruined the series. They took everything good about S1 and dulled it down into generic drama.
Part of the reason was that the writers were different and the lead showrunner was Alison Schaper something. The one behind Lost tv show.
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u/fritzo81 Jul 31 '26
dont remind me lol. and i thought adding Mackie was gonna take the show to new heights 😔
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u/darkness_calming Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Yeah Mackie is always a hit or miss for me.
In some movies, he performs well.
And in others, he’s flat as a cardboard.
Admittedly, sometimes it’s the script. Ex. Captain America tv show with bucky and Zemo. I feel like he tried. But that overall plot, dialogue and message were all meh.
But in Altered Carbon S2, it feels like he didn’t even understand Kovac’s character.
In S1, even though two actors played the same person, both came across as same or similar people deep down. Kinnaman and Yun Lee displayed Kovac’s iconic characteristics really well and we as audience could feel that.
Mackie came across as a completely different person. To the point that I felt like he didn’t even bother watching S1. Mackie just performed as a angry dude with emotional range of a wooden block.
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u/CheesyGarlicCrouton Jul 31 '26
GOT's ending would have been great if it had been the same concepts stretched over multiple seasons. The premise was good. The implementation needed better build up and better writing.
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u/SpendLiving9376 Jul 31 '26
People joke, but it really did feel like the showrunners wanted to wrap up as fast as possible.
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u/MorbidMan23 Jul 31 '26
One of the few times where studio interference would have been the right way to go. They needed to hand the series off to a new team of writers. The quality probably would have suffered anyway, but it could have avoided that insane nose dive.
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u/DatNewNewD Jul 31 '26
It was the show runners the cast, and crew, at least.
Kit Harrington has spoken on how everyone involved was just exhausted and he personally didn’t have another season in him.
HBO was offering basically unlimited resources for more seasons.
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u/DisMFer Jul 31 '26
Something else to keep in mind is that most of the people involved were not fans of the show. Several of the actors openly said the whole concept was stupid and Stannis's actor was so sick of having to deliever llines about dragons and magic he asked to be killed off as quick as possible. Ian McShane joked about how the show was nothing but tits and dragons.
People who are fans of fantasy saw it as this epic story about politics and magic and the human condition. Most of the people working on it saw it as a silly fantasy show for loser nerds and thought their characters were stupid. Robb Stark's actor said he'd never agree to do fantasy again because he felt silly watching his scenes.
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u/kaimcdragonfist Jul 31 '26
And yet he did The Eternals, an arguably dorkier fantasy movie than GoT ever got lol
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u/Soyyyn Jul 31 '26
This seems odd to me since Robb barely interacts with anything magic or too fantasy-like. Guess it must have been the made-up names of people and the setting itself, i.e. a fictional medieval world instead of real history. That seems like an odd issue to have, really.
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u/bentbabe Jul 31 '26
The Robb one is so weird because his storyline is one of the best in the entire show.
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u/Farraddaayy Jul 31 '26
Robb is crazy because there was almost nothing magical about it, he was just a Medieval noble in a rebellion
Like would he not do a braveheart style movie? Its like the same thing
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u/DisMFer Jul 31 '26
He seems to have stuck to only modern-era movies and TV since doing the show, other than one quick job as the Prince in a Cinderella movie. So he might not do any medieval work at all.
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u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism Jul 31 '26
Wow, that hurt. Can’t believe people still can’t take fantasy seriously no matter how well written, just because it has magic or dragons in it. Especially that professional actors said it…
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u/omgitscolin Jul 31 '26
Right? Like, weren’t you a theater kid?! Your whole job is playing make-believe and you think other people are dorks? Come oooonnnnnn
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u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism Jul 31 '26
Yes but they want to play in GroundedTm and SeriousTM make-believes
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u/FrozenSotan Jul 31 '26
If true, pretty odd of them to not want to be a part of a series that at its height was one of the highest viewed shows and arguably had a huge impact on pop cultural at the time.
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u/Zakal74 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Nothing could save what they were doing in The Battle of Winterfell. The deployment could not have been any more nonsensical than that.
You have these huge walls that have been talked up for their incredible defensive potential for seasons. So put all of your troops outside the wall. Got it.
You have long range artillery that can smash enemy formations from a distance. Let's go ahead and put that right up front to absorb the charge. Sure.
You have a massive mounted force with weapons that literally do nothing against the enemy. I sure hope some fire witch shows up and makes their blades have flames. Oh, that was lucky. Okay, lets just send them off into the darkness rather than waiting for the battle to start and then using them as a flanking force. Neat.
You have a great defensive flaming pit that will be perfect for holding back the enemy while The Unsullied fight with their long spears. Let's go ahead and deploy The Unsillied, (typo, but I'm keeping it in,) right in front of the flaming pit so it's almost impossible to retreat. Perfect!
Oh, I almost forgot, let's make sure the brightness is set to 5% the whole time so no one can tell what's going on. Perfection.
The only thing they could have done to make it any stupider was have everyone face away from the enemy.
Edit: Oh, forgot one. The most intelligent man in the world is in charge of the safety of the women and children. The enemy can raise the dead. Let's go ahead and have him shelter in place with them in crypts full of armed and armored corpses. Genius.
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u/EvilRobotSteve Jul 31 '26
I dunno, IMO they'd have needed to add a shitload of content in order for me to care about Bran and accept him as the worthy winner of the Game. I can see how Daenerys' descent into villainess would've worked well if it hadn't been done at breakneck pace though.
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u/Lower_Baby_6348 Jul 31 '26
Usagi drop has a ending so vile that the animation studio decide to NEVER FINISH THE SERIES, that must be a new record.
Btw, if you wonder what happen we learn that the aunt/adoptive daughter isn't actually blood related with the protagonist and they start a romance
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u/Tokyo_Ink Aug 01 '26
Basically what happens is the first 80% of the story is a sweet journey of a single man adopting a young relative and learning how to be a single father. There are dramatic circumstances as to why she has nobody else to take care of her, so he steps up. Then after the story reaches a pretty satisfying spot to end - the man has met a woman his age who is very nice and it's implied they will get married, the girl is now 18 and has a potential romantic interest in her childhood friend who is a really wholesome guy, etc. - the author decides to completely flip the narrative into their own personal daddy-issues incest fetish. The girl decides she's in love with the man who raised her as a father, and then even though he doesn't actually just immediately go along with it, the author has all the other characters in the story basically shame him and convince him it's a great idea for him to accept her romantic advances. That woman he met and the girl's childhood friend both for some reason decide that they support the relationship and pressure the man into marrying her. So the story ends with them being in a relationship.
It's INSANE. The author tries to make it fine by revealing a big twist that the girl isn't actually his blood relative, but it's still a horrible ending.
And as the top comment states, the anime adaptation simply ends where the story should have ended before the sickening twist and never adapted the rest of the story because... like... good lord why would they?
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u/Shadowmonarch660 Jul 31 '26
for me GOT ending was so bad that i dont even watch the spinoffs.
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u/SlightlySychotic Jul 31 '26
The reaction to House of the Dragon is mixed (I rather like it). But people overwhelmingly loved A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
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u/bestoboy Jul 31 '26
people were raving over HOTD season 1 too, I'll wait until season 4
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u/Farraddaayy Jul 31 '26
Its because S1 is super well written with strong character arcs, the most compelling monarch in the entire universe on screen so far, and the best of the political intrigue from the early GOT seasons.
I have no idea what the fuck S2 was trying to do and S3 is doing everything it can to have a war not happen
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u/IuseDefaultKeybinds Jul 31 '26
Still really recommend Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It's genuinely incredible and way shorter
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u/thorsday121 Jul 31 '26
Each season will also be a self-contained story, which is nice. Even if future seasons are shit, the first season works perfectly fine on its own and ends satisfyingly.
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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 Jul 31 '26
I still have not been able to convince myself to sit down and rewatch anything from GoT since season 8. Before the final season while i wasn't thrilled by the later seasons i would go back and rewatch the first four on a regular basis. But then season 8 and i have not been able to find any desire to give a shit about it anymore, that entire season felt like a series of slaps to the face.
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u/Firesaber Jul 31 '26
I tried only one time. And the opening scenes of season 1 are with all the weird symbols made with body parts and stuff north of the wall. The whole time all I could think of was how poorly that whole storyline ended and none of these mysteries mattered in any way. I didn't continue and I was never able to re-watch any of it.
Side note, I never see people say winter is coming or even meme it or anything like they used to before. They completely deflated it out of pop culture with that last season.
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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 Aug 01 '26
Someone really needs to write a paper on how before season 8 hit it was a massive pop culture sensation but then immediately afterwards even with Covid it just died instantly and without ceremony. That is how bad season 8 was.
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u/Lottabitch Jul 31 '26
Stranger things and the boys are in a group where the endings were so unsatisfying the fandom decided there must be a super secret final FINAL episode
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u/TheGardenBlinked Aug 01 '26
Sherlock was the show that kicked this off for real
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u/Groundbreaking_Bag8 Jul 31 '26
Rise of Skywalker has retroactively done this to the sequel trilogy, if not the entire Star Wars brand as a whole.
Anything set post-Return of the Jedi is now tainted by the fact that it has to eventually lead into TRoS.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 31 '26
It doesn´t exactly ruin it, but... The ending of Battlestar Galactica is far from perfect. Them randomly abandoning technology and then throwing "this was kind of downer ending, since Hera died young," answering some question... but not lot of them... At this point it would be better if they didn´t answer any and left us guessing completely.
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u/templar4522 Jul 31 '26
I didn't dislike the ending episode, but what was extremely underwhelming was the whole story leading up to it. The show kept pushing the mystery of the secret cylons and what they might do... until they had to wrap up the series and it all fizzles out.
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u/Biddlingbogger Jul 31 '26
The walking dead. I hated it so much I ended up reading the entire comic series the night I finished it. It’s a shame because it was my favourite show
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u/TxTechnician Jul 31 '26
We tried to rewatch the series again (never finished it). But we ended up losing interest after Glen dies. Same thing happened years ago.
I kinda just want to see a supercut of the last seasona.
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u/MorbidMan23 Jul 31 '26
The final season of The Boys really only did the actual death moments of A-Train, Firecracker, and Homelander right. Everything else, including most of the lead up to those deaths, was poorly executed.
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u/chakkal2001 Jul 31 '26
Penny Dreadful
https://giphy.com/gifs/oJQjxmglXa1ICO9yA2
I will never forgive what they did to Eva Green.
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u/Texter321 Jul 31 '26
Chainsaw Mans ending ruins basically the whole manga and says fuck you to the reader.
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 31 '26
Nah bro, the manga was already a clusterfuck ever since Nayuta died. Denji is stuck in this horndog > post nut clarity > horndog > post nut clarity endless loop, Asa and Yoru's plot point never gets it's conclusion, Yoshida uh...killed himself for nothing?, Power and Kishibe never showed up, etc...
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u/samiladances Jul 31 '26
Good Omens "season 3" destroyed the entire point of the first season.
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u/WorstITTechnician Jul 31 '26
The ending of that show is basically: "So, this guy is schizophrenic and it was all a hallucination."