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The Bob Newhart Show famously ended the series by saying the whole show was nothing but a dream.
Weirdly, didn't one of the Star Treks reveal to be just a holodeck sequence?
Enterprise.
I personally think it’s a great ending, even though it was intended to be a cliffhanger for the next series before cancellation, but a lot of fans didn’t like the ending of Quantum Leap where it was said that Sam never made it home.
imma go with sopranos.
Dexter. I noped out after the Season 3 finale where they (John Lithgow's psycho killer character) killed his wife. My gf kept watching, and was predictably pissed when they killed the sister in the series finale. I laughed like hell. I will not be watching the reboot.
sgu, sga, sg1 was past its prime and needed a ending as the people working on the show felt it.
both sgu and sga were cliffhanger endings that unfortunate problems like mgm losing money and bankrupting to lower vierership and cancellation. according to the showrunners, and writers they were going to be more arcs being revealed if they continued the next season for both shows.
Oh, yeah defo, that ending is terrible. Great series, but I wasn't given it's chance to die.
after the series ended, the showrunners/writers went in an interview, and reddit. saying that season 6 of atlantis was going to have those aliens from deadalus variations show up and reveal themselves to main universe atlantis, im guessing thats why they foreshadowed those aliens in "deadalus variations" by pointing to the insignia of the aliens, plus Replicator wier also was foreshadowing in ghost in the machine episode "advanced species in the milky way that kept themselves hidden from the wraith", they definitely were setting up season 6 to have more interesting plots.
for sgu they said/writers were alluding the creators of the berzerker drones/carriers being created by one of the novus colony humans centuries ago in season 3. Plus the OP planet builder aliens plot. they did a AMA on reddit, stargate sub.
Warehouse 13 for me, only good part is the meta speech at the end by one of the actors angry about the end being here so suddenly
Dr Who. It was going great, the 4th doctor was the best ever, and then they ended the entire thing with him regenerating into Tristan Farnon. Don't think they made any after that.
Babylon 5 (whole last season actually); just ran out of gas.
Didn't they famously get cancelled in season 4, then greenlit for the final year?
Yes, so they used all their best ideas.
However, we got a bunch of Bester episodes, so if kinda has a place in my heart. It's just not as good as Season 4, which was spectacular.
One that made me feel like I had wasted time watching the show was How I Met Your Mother. It was a fun show and really picked up in quality in seasons three - five. They could have ended the show in season 7, really, if they had planned for it. Season 8 was kind of a bore, and season 9 was bad, as all of the season took place over a weekend. And when we got the finale of the show... I was so tired of holding on to what might come that it really hit me negatively how they ended it.
That being said, Game of Thrones ended so poorly that I was baffled as to how haphazard and dull the writing and storytelling was that I, just like a lot of others, held on to hope that the last few episodes might bring things all around. (Morgan Freeman as Narrator - It didn't.) While cracks were showing since late season 6, the finale of that show was horrible. The payoffs didn't come, and everything just felt so rushed, watered down, and a tremendous feeling that content was missing from the season, if they were to help make sense of the finale.
I see a lot of hate for the HIMYM finale and... I truly do not get it. I will not praise it as a cinematic masterpiece, because it isn't. But it is an ending that they have been building up since the very beginning, and it makes perfect sense given the characters and what they went through. There are a lot of show endings that cannot claim that at all, with random last-minute additional arcs or forgetting things from earlier seasons. I haven't seen any of that in HIMYM. So yeah, I think it's a decent ending overall, and I truly do not understand the hate it gets.
As for GoT; yeah that went into shitshow territory from season 7 for me personally.
How I Met Your Mother. It was a fun show and really picked up in quality in seasons three - five. They could have ended the show in season 7, really, if they had planned for it.
I heard they were being cancelled after 7, and thus were on target to wrap it up by then, but then got the cash to do the last season and found themselves short on material but needing to end it properly.
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It's the one where the show was cancelled by the idiot studio and we never had any closure to the show so many of us really loved.
I was considering replying with something like this. We will never really know book.
The 2400?
Outer Range, I’m so pissed that show got canceled.
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