It is hard to end a show. Why does nobody put Lost on these memes? That seems like the quintessential one
MarkVHun on
You can see many shows decline as they go and can well asume they will have an ass ending.
Head_Ad_1643 on
Haven’t seen the boys ending yet but Game of Thrones needs a much bigger sword. Their flop was WAY worse than any of the others. They were a bigger show and had the worst ending of them all.
THEPIGWHODIDIT on
Classic case of too many cooks with poor pacing towards and of the ending.
GoT is still peak collapse though. Never seen a franchise die so quickly as it
Interesting_Buy6796 on
Walking dead finally ended? Let me guess, with out aiming for anything the first seasons aimed for and it’s just been the end of this baseball bat guy
SageLeaf1 on
Not pictured: Doors of Stone
Gangsta-Penguin on
The Walking Dead didn’t exactly fumble its ending, it just kinda never ended
allhailkircules on
Dexter needs to be at that roundtable
-__-zero-__- on
Westworld is another dud.
livingthedream9x on
Stranger Things ending wasn’t bad compared to the others. The other’s ending would be better off just not having a last episode.
CordiallySuckMyBalls on
Two out of eight episodes were deemed “filler and bad” but Episode 7 I thought was decent. We still have one episode to go so as long as they stick the landing there’s still a shot it will end fine.
Personally I’ve liked the season, especially the lighter one where we more or less got one more episode that was “a day in the life”kinda vibe, even though that’s the one everyone hates. I think it’s nice to do just one last episode like that rather than make everything nail biting.
SJGDragon on
Walking dead wasn’t that bad, the final season was a bit of a let down but the final episode was decent enough.
ilikechihuahuasdood on
Stranger Things was good though
Toram_Eldin on
Let me add Heroes to the mix. Absolutely loved the first season or two. And then… well, if you haven’t watched it I would suggest watching it. Even given the lackluster ending, I still enjoyed it overall.
ZombieLover01 on
It hasn’t even ended yet for fuck’s sake.
Azure_Hearts on
LOST
awetsasquatch on
Need to add How I Met Your Mother in there – 12 years later and I’m still pissed at the choice of ending.
alien_farmer1 on
Last season of THE BOYS is actually really good. Especially Soldier Boy character is just perfect for the series. Only downside is that now Homelander seems like a useless character.
Totaliss on
the walking dead and the boys were fumbling for years before this. Stranger things last season was a mess and a half and somewhat disappointing but it was decent.
davesucksdonkeyballs on
The Boys is not even done yet and I’ve enjoyed the last season so far.
Alecaria on
Coming from an author: Endings usually need to hit three elements at once: External values (usually the final battle), internal values (usually love or ‘finding themselves’) and perhaps most importantly: philosophical values (societal changes).
The problem is that philosophical values are difficult to implement, because they are often very abstract, and the author needs a lot of time to create fitting symbolism throughout that acts like a representing vessel of the narrative’s philosophical values. Usually, therefore, the authors/directors/screenwriters kinda get a little lazy and saying something like: “The audience is too stupid to notice.” which is just lying to themselves to avoid doing the hard revisionist work. A decent writer will have payoff in external values. A good writer will have payoff in internal values. A masterful writer will have payoff in philosophical values.
If an ending falls flat, well… we all know why: The writers didn’t plan far enough ahead.
elmatador12 on
The Boys finale hasn’t even aired?
ZombifiedSoul on
I’ve come to the conclusion, that most TV writers are fucking hacks.
JamJm_1688 on
I wish to add Ragnarok, a norwegian series to this table for being the coolest myth-inspired show ive ever seen that also managed to invalidate literally everything it had done since the first episode with the last episode’s explanation literally breaking its own continuity in several ways to make >!”it was just an hallucination” !<fit as an ending
The worst part is the show wasnt bad until that last fucking episode, like seriously, they ended the second to last episode with an open-ended truce that i genuinley consider to be the real ending because what do you mean the blatantly mythologial stuff that has happened for 2-3 seasons now >!was JUST a hallucination???!<
>!(for context, basically all the norse god’s spirits reawoke in the modern era and the whole series was basically going through mythological scripture but now modern, however APPARENTLY because of a death that the mc witnessed in the first episode, it was just all him poorly handling reality or something. now i could accept this as a reasonable ending if done right, but as i mentioned, there were several suspiciously magical things that affected the word around him in was that actually ripples in others lives to the point that we only recognize one of the side characters BECAUSE of that, and thats not the worst part, several leading things happened BEFORE this “traumatizing” event, which was barely traumatizing outside of someone who had been his friend for barely a week turning into cooked meat for being poor with a parachute, she’s 18-ish, of course she may make mistakes, if they gave the death more focus, or more reason to be traumatic i would totally accept that but that was just so… tam) !<
Sorry for the rant, all spoiler marked are spoilers
Adventurous_Web_7961 on
Take Stranger Things off this list. . most people emjoyed the ending. even for the small amount of people that didnt its no where near the level of these other shows.
XarmtheinsaneX on
I think Lost deserves an honorable mention.
hanlando on
Am I the only one who doesn’t hate the boys?
EghtBitKid on
I’m confused I keep seeing memes about the boys ending being trash but isn’t the last episode coming on the 19th?
FrozenChocoProduce on
Leave Stranger Things out of this. The ending might have been controversial, but several parallel universes ahead of GoT!!!
fafej38 on
Tbh the walking dead fumbled like 16 times before fumbling the ending
Affectionate_Bear1 on
From what I am hearing, you could include Good Omens to this list
Rohkha on
Just shows that it seems to be easier to write a great story than it is to finish it. If you don’t stick the landing, your performance could have been the best ever, you’re still not qualifying.
Puzzled_Baseball_251 on
LOST
ChrispyVGC on
Attack on Titan and How I Met Your Mother need to be on here
dillondally on
What’s wrong with the boys? Maybe I’m not being critical enough or something but I’ve found it to be pretty solid
rolekrs on
People need to stop crying about the source material and just fucking learn to understand that TV shows are going to differ from the books
Scooby-Skywalker on
“12 Monkeys” had the best ending ever and overall show arc . Challenge me!
yungcelly27 on
Its the hype!
Just enjoy things with your friends and stop glazing anything man-made.
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It is hard to end a show. Why does nobody put Lost on these memes? That seems like the quintessential one
You can see many shows decline as they go and can well asume they will have an ass ending.
Haven’t seen the boys ending yet but Game of Thrones needs a much bigger sword. Their flop was WAY worse than any of the others. They were a bigger show and had the worst ending of them all.
Classic case of too many cooks with poor pacing towards and of the ending.
GoT is still peak collapse though. Never seen a franchise die so quickly as it
Walking dead finally ended? Let me guess, with out aiming for anything the first seasons aimed for and it’s just been the end of this baseball bat guy
Not pictured: Doors of Stone
The Walking Dead didn’t exactly fumble its ending, it just kinda never ended
Dexter needs to be at that roundtable
Westworld is another dud.
Stranger Things ending wasn’t bad compared to the others. The other’s ending would be better off just not having a last episode.
Two out of eight episodes were deemed “filler and bad” but Episode 7 I thought was decent. We still have one episode to go so as long as they stick the landing there’s still a shot it will end fine.
Personally I’ve liked the season, especially the lighter one where we more or less got one more episode that was “a day in the life”kinda vibe, even though that’s the one everyone hates. I think it’s nice to do just one last episode like that rather than make everything nail biting.
Walking dead wasn’t that bad, the final season was a bit of a let down but the final episode was decent enough.
Stranger Things was good though
Let me add Heroes to the mix. Absolutely loved the first season or two. And then… well, if you haven’t watched it I would suggest watching it. Even given the lackluster ending, I still enjoyed it overall.
It hasn’t even ended yet for fuck’s sake.
LOST
Need to add How I Met Your Mother in there – 12 years later and I’m still pissed at the choice of ending.
Last season of THE BOYS is actually really good. Especially Soldier Boy character is just perfect for the series. Only downside is that now Homelander seems like a useless character.
the walking dead and the boys were fumbling for years before this. Stranger things last season was a mess and a half and somewhat disappointing but it was decent.
The Boys is not even done yet and I’ve enjoyed the last season so far.
Coming from an author: Endings usually need to hit three elements at once: External values (usually the final battle), internal values (usually love or ‘finding themselves’) and perhaps most importantly: philosophical values (societal changes).
The problem is that philosophical values are difficult to implement, because they are often very abstract, and the author needs a lot of time to create fitting symbolism throughout that acts like a representing vessel of the narrative’s philosophical values. Usually, therefore, the authors/directors/screenwriters kinda get a little lazy and saying something like: “The audience is too stupid to notice.” which is just lying to themselves to avoid doing the hard revisionist work. A decent writer will have payoff in external values. A good writer will have payoff in internal values. A masterful writer will have payoff in philosophical values.
If an ending falls flat, well… we all know why: The writers didn’t plan far enough ahead.
The Boys finale hasn’t even aired?
I’ve come to the conclusion, that most TV writers are fucking hacks.
I wish to add Ragnarok, a norwegian series to this table for being the coolest myth-inspired show ive ever seen that also managed to invalidate literally everything it had done since the first episode with the last episode’s explanation literally breaking its own continuity in several ways to make >!”it was just an hallucination” !<fit as an ending
The worst part is the show wasnt bad until that last fucking episode, like seriously, they ended the second to last episode with an open-ended truce that i genuinley consider to be the real ending because what do you mean the blatantly mythologial stuff that has happened for 2-3 seasons now >!was JUST a hallucination???!<
>!(for context, basically all the norse god’s spirits reawoke in the modern era and the whole series was basically going through mythological scripture but now modern, however APPARENTLY because of a death that the mc witnessed in the first episode, it was just all him poorly handling reality or something. now i could accept this as a reasonable ending if done right, but as i mentioned, there were several suspiciously magical things that affected the word around him in was that actually ripples in others lives to the point that we only recognize one of the side characters BECAUSE of that, and thats not the worst part, several leading things happened BEFORE this “traumatizing” event, which was barely traumatizing outside of someone who had been his friend for barely a week turning into cooked meat for being poor with a parachute, she’s 18-ish, of course she may make mistakes, if they gave the death more focus, or more reason to be traumatic i would totally accept that but that was just so… tam) !<
Sorry for the rant, all spoiler marked are spoilers
Take Stranger Things off this list. . most people emjoyed the ending. even for the small amount of people that didnt its no where near the level of these other shows.
I think Lost deserves an honorable mention.
Am I the only one who doesn’t hate the boys?
I’m confused I keep seeing memes about the boys ending being trash but isn’t the last episode coming on the 19th?
Leave Stranger Things out of this. The ending might have been controversial, but several parallel universes ahead of GoT!!!
Tbh the walking dead fumbled like 16 times before fumbling the ending
From what I am hearing, you could include Good Omens to this list
Just shows that it seems to be easier to write a great story than it is to finish it. If you don’t stick the landing, your performance could have been the best ever, you’re still not qualifying.
LOST
Attack on Titan and How I Met Your Mother need to be on here
What’s wrong with the boys? Maybe I’m not being critical enough or something but I’ve found it to be pretty solid
People need to stop crying about the source material and just fucking learn to understand that TV shows are going to differ from the books
“12 Monkeys” had the best ending ever and overall show arc . Challenge me!
Its the hype!
Just enjoy things with your friends and stop glazing anything man-made.
The Witcher? Lost?
Westworld