What makes you say that HIMYM should've ended? Do you think they could've cleanly wrapped the major arc up in less time than they've used?
'So, I was at X, and the most beautiful woman in the world was there, and we really hit it off.' I ended that series' major plot arc in a ****ing sentence. Seriously, the worst part about that show is that it's supposed to be a story, but clearly isn't.
Xiaolin Showdown. And Jackie Chan Adventures. Both of those went on waaay too long. Same with Pokemon (though that's a given).
I kind of agree with Jackie Chan Adventures... the Oni Mask season just felt like filler while the writers figured out how to get back to the original mythos. and the [final] season with Dreigho's son and new group of cronies- ...the hell?
The mixed-up Talisman Hunt p.2 was pushing it, but was still enjoyable with the original buffoons as the fill-in Dark Shadow Warriors.
the series should have ended with the Book of Destiny 'movie'
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Fringe missed a perfect finale in the end of Season 3: All the conflicts were resolved, the Observers were still mysterious and slightly scary, Peter came full circle and Walter was finally willing to sacrifice him. Instead we got an interesting but obvious attempt to gain new viewers in Season 4 (by 'soft rebooting' the series) and Season 5 had some great emotional moments but just went off in a completely random direction.
Anime almost always goes on way too long. DBZ is the perfect example, the Frieza arc or the Cell arc could have been perfect ending points, but we went on for another 80 or so episodes...
Battlestar Galactica's discovery of Earth as a burned out wasteland was perfectly bleak. I really would have loved that to end the series, rather than the pseudo-religious nonsense of the final season.
I agree that Buffy Season 5 was a pretty perfect ending. Seasons 6 and 7 had great individual episodes and even arcs, but as a whole the quality wasn't as high.
I would argue that Heroes, Lost and X-files didn't have any finales or perfect 'ending' spots for the series.
Supernatural Season 5 was a pretty perfect series finale, although the quality of the show has picked back up since then I doubt they'll find another perfect stopping point.
As for Smallville, I'm not sure any of the finales would have served as well as the Series finale as the actual series finale did.
Teen Titans and not the 2nd series based on it that's currently being aired on Cartoon Network, the ending was a HUGE cliffhanger that left more questions than answers. The series never explained how Terra doesn't remember Beast Boy anymore and for that it ended way too soon.
There was an in-universe tie in comic that lasted 52 issues, it may or may not have answered that, dunno. I do know that prior to the New 52 crap DC is currently running, the storyline that plot point was pulled from involved her being revived from her stone prison in the future with amnesia, and time travel or something.
OT: Pretty much everything on network TV keeps getting milked until it is no longer profitable to do so. Does Beware the Batman count as something continuing too long? They dropped a Green Lantern show, and Young Justice, for yet another Batman franchise. Only this time instead of using the big names, they appear to be using jankier counterparts to fulfill the exact same role. You could replace Anarchy with the Joker and absolutely nothing would have changed. Brave and the Bold did the C list right, by turning the camp up to 11.
Stuff I wish got one more season to wrap it up: Samurai Jack, Symbionic Titan, Thunder Cats(the new one), Tron: Uprising, Motor City, My Name is Earl, etc.
Stuff that has yet to grow old: One Piece. 606 episodes, a half dozen OVAs, a dozen movies, and we've only hit the half way point. Keep on truckin' Oda!
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There's definitely some good ones listed here already. Only one I would add is Stargate SG-1. The first few seasons were really very good with a great story and mythos. But they should have wrapped it up before the end of Season 5. Instead it ran for 5 more mostly painful seasons.
And actually that reminds me of Babylon 5. A fantastic show that had four really great seasons and wrapped up almost every major plot point and story arc at the end of season four. Then it got extended for a fifth season and it was like they didn't know what to do because the story was already finished. The last season was terrible. Thankfully it did semi-redeem itself with a great final episode.
As for Smallville, I'm not sure any of the finales would have served as well as the Series finale as the actual series finale did.
Did you actually feel the finale it got was good? Personally I thought it was rather weak. I think season five or six could have ended it just fine by not doing a cliff hanger (either by making the final episode longer or doing one more) and by having a proper ending to the story of a young, pre Superman CK. By having him simply say goodbye to his childhood and leave the farm to start his post childhood, pre Metropolis journey.
I see Samurai Jack has been mentioned at least once. Supposedly GT is working on a movie that wraps up the series.
X-Files. Loved the show as a kid, but they decided to drag it along with their main characters missing in action or completely gone in the final seasons. I never felt satisfied by its ending (I also never watched the movies though, so I don't know if those actually cleared anything up).
I agree that it's not true for TNG, but I felt that DS9 ran long, largely due to approximately nothing happening for the first 2.5 seasons. Every other episode was about Miles O'Brien, arguably one of the most boring characters in the history of the franchise.
@Fluffy: Agreed, House ran way too long. That was a 4/5 season show at best.
Also, Star Trek might very well have too many spinoffs. I couldn't stand Voyager, and not just for the usual sciencey bits that make me go mad (A crack in the event horizon? Gravity does not work that way! A six-year-old knows gravity does not work that way!), but I absolutely hated Chakotay, for not only being a bad stereotype, but for being a stereotype and completely out of context! (And even inventing a few new stereotypes. Why is Chakotay a vegetarian? Indians have a bad history with animal rights activists that the writers would've known about if they'd done any serious research. For that matter, what is a vegetarian when replicators run on the MST3K mantra?) Enterprise was just unwatchable.
Oh, Degrassi: The Next Generation. If you've seen the original, basically the theme was:
Every show must have an issue.
Loads and loads of characters
Over-the-top antics
An A plot, B plot, sometimes C plot format
Now, the original Degrassi Junior High went on as long as it should. Actually, they skipped a season and went straight from grade 11 to the series finale.
The reason for the spinoff as described by Linda Schuyler was because she wanted to do an episode about school massacres. So they started a new series about Spike's daughter Emma. The show went downhill from about a third of the way through season 4 onward (largely as its new purpose was to answer the question "How many love triangles can we have in one episode before it's officially an orgy?"), introduced a kid who would be quite welcome on certain infamous subreddits in season 5, went into full-on "we'll make this show horrible and shoehorn this ship in just so you like the ship" mode in season 6, and did the Saved by the Bell: The New Class thing in season 8.
(As a bonus, Degrassi fights stereotypes. The kid who brings a gun to school isn't a Nazi; in fact, his only friend's Jewish. He is, however, an avid D&D player because let's bring back moral panics from before the audience was born.)
Two and A Half Men is still on, minus 1 of the men and the 1/2 is away at boot camp? What the frag?!
Supposedly Ashton Kutcher is the "half" now, because his character's mentally a child. He's a blatant Mary Sue whose problems include that he's rich, he's single, and he has a huge *****, but he's actually more likable than Charlie was at certain points.
Anime almost always goes on way too long. DBZ is the perfect example, the Frieza arc or the Cell arc could have been perfect ending points, but we went on for another 80 or so episodes...
Depends on the anime. Some series are intended to have very linear myth arcs, and as such, tend to be very short. This is ones like Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Others, like Dragonball Z, become more and more about filler episodes. Note that Dragonball went from a cutesy version of Journey to the West to a kung fu series to the qi blast that was Dragonball Z.
Battlestar Galactica's discovery of Earth as a burned out wasteland was perfectly bleak. I really would have loved that to end the series, rather than the pseudo-religious nonsense of the final season.
There was a lot of pseudo-religious nonsense in the original series. There's a reason NDNFilter (an extra-lulzy word filter of my own creation) mutates "Mormons" into "Cylons". "LDS" becomes something else, though.
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We can add Dexter to one of these lists. The show probably should have just had 1-2 more episodes at the end of Season 4 and been done with it, Seasons 5-8 were just generally bad(well, I liked the Julia Stiles season, but mostly in a vacuum..it didn't really add that much to the series itself).
The way that the current season of Castle is panning out, i'm thinking it should have ended last season. With Beckett and Castle engaged and Beckett now a federal agent, the series has veered from it's premise of "crime-writer-following-female-detective-for-inspiration"
Two leads going from a platonic relationship to romantic is a sign of writers painting themselves into a corner. It's a reason I stopped watching Bones.
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We can add Dexter to one of these lists. The show probably should have just had 1-2 more episodes at the end of Season 4 and been done with it, Seasons 5-8 were just generally bad(well, I liked the Julia Stiles season, but mostly in a vacuum..it didn't really add that much to the series itself).
YES. Dexter is the BIGGEST example of a series that missed it's ending. Seasons 7 and 8 were just... ugh, and not watchable as a week to week experience.
Seasons 5 and 6 were okay, but Season 4 was so good, and the ending so fitting, that in my mind it will always have ended there.
The way that the current season of Castle is panning out, i'm thinking it should have ended last season. With Beckett and Castle engaged and Beckett now a federal agent, the series has veered from it's premise of "crime-writer-following-female-detective-for-inspiration"
Two leads going from a platonic relationship to romantic is a sign of writers painting themselves into a corner. It's a reason I stopped watching Bones.
I thought that the romance aspect was fine last season for Castle, I just don't know where they can go with it this season. Like the show practically requires Beckett to give up being a federal agent to make any sense, but at the same time, the underlying story arc that they seem to be creating requires her to continue being a federal agent. I don't really get it.
And Bones just straight up ran out of 'side story arcs' and the story has just been miserable. The S5 finale would have been a perfect series finale for that show.
Battlestar Galactica's discovery of Earth as a burned out wasteland was perfectly bleak. I really would have loved that to end the series, rather than the pseudo-religious nonsense of the final season.
Battlestar Galactica's timing was right, it's just that they completely blew the ending.
I thought that the romance aspect was fine last season for Castle, I just don't know where they can go with it this season. Like the show practically requires Beckett to give up being a federal agent to make any sense, but at the same time, the underlying story arc that they seem to be creating requires her to continue being a federal agent. I don't really get it.
I can see Beckett quitting her job as a federal agent, especially with all the political "turn a blind eye" she encountered in the first episode- that she's bound to encounter through out the season.
Another problem with Beckett being a federal agent, is it's forcing the writers to find someway to include Esposito & Ryan in some manner. I don't even know if Cpn Gates or the coroner are still part of the casting.
The only way I can see this remedied- is if Beckett is transferred to the New York department and works with the NYPD.
Though, I will quit the show if Beckett gets pregnant- though, I can see that as the finale.
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Others, like Dragonball Z, become more and more about filler episodes.
Nonsense, this is Naruto you are talking about. I read all manga chapters and seen all episodes, I'm therefore save to say that your "it became more and more about filler episodes" is BS. Dragonball Z, however, does indeed have a fair share of filler.
The story of the Dragonballs jumped the shark with either the introduction of powerlevels (so the first episode xD), or rather the inconsistency of it (the enormous leap of power from Radditz 300, to Vegeta 8000 or 16000? (besides the point), to Freeza 1,000,000. To top it, the story has been week with Goku saving the day on each last minute. Still, the series has been thoroughly entertaining. Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu are three fantastic villains. The fights are awesome, and just the feeling of unreleased power released by emotional struggle and hard work is just a boys dream, I guess...
I for one don't care that it ran as long as it did, because like I mentioned before, Dragonball Z jumped the shark when it basically started. If anyone could have surpassed the Saiyan saga and says that the series should have stopped after Freeza... Well, then you either haven't followed the Db story, or you like inconsistent story telling, or you are just following a popular internet opinion.
YES. Dexter is the BIGGEST example of a series that missed it's ending. Seasons 7 and 8 were just... ugh, and not watchable as a week to week experience.
Seasons 5 and 6 were okay, but Season 4 was so good, and the ending so fitting, that in my mind it will always have ended there.
I completely agree that it missed its ending, although i disagree that season 4 finale would have been a good series finale. Dexter should have been hunted by Miami metro in its last season, getting extra crazy in the process by killing some colleagues, and either committing suicide or killed by cops at the end. Both the ending of season 4, but also of season 7 were perfect set ups for this. In hindsight, I would have preferred a season like this after season 4 since I then would have never been confronted with the horror of season 5, 6, 7 and especially 8.
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hey i have managed to evolve my axolotls by feeding them thyroid glands the thyroxine contained in these gland is enough to change these water dwelling creatures into land based creatures
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Tay, that's not evolution. It's metamorphosis. Evolution means descent with heritable modification – individuals cannot evolve, unless they're Pokemon.
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I completely agree that it missed its ending, although i disagree that season 4 finale would have been a good series finale. Dexter should have been hunted by Miami metro in its last season, getting extra crazy in the process by killing some colleagues, and either committing suicide or killed by cops at the end. Both the ending of season 4, but also of season 7 were perfect set ups for this. In hindsight, I would have preferred a season like this after season 4 since I then would have never been confronted with the horror of season 5, 6, 7 and especially 8.
I meant the best finale that we actually got. I would have much preferred someone other than Doakes to be able to put together the big mystery of how their murder suspects keep disappearing.
All it would take is someone comparing computer searches to missing suspects/missing persons reports and BAM! He's caught. I really thought Hacker kid was going to do it, but that plotline kind of just fizzled.
Regarding your hacker idea: it would also made sense regarding the fact that the skins of the persona in the game he was building were revolved around dexter's life. This sort of implied that he found out dexter was dirty. It would have been interesting indeed to see how this guy could toy with dexter or could blackmail him or whatever. Imagine Louis saying: "If I do not log in each evening at midnight on my home made website each day, an automatic email will be send to Miami metro with blablabla..."
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Another show that maybe missed its ending is community. I really disliked season 4. The only reason I could enjoy it was because I like the cast and their efforts so much (beside pierce/chevy chase). The second half of season 3 was really over the top as well. Anyway there will be another season and I really hope it will be the last one, and I hope it will be fantastic. Dan Harmond is back as showrunner so we'll see.
I'm most offended by the ok writing, but terrible management of popular British shows as well. The three shows i mean are Merlin, Robin Hood and Misfits.
Merlin for the sole reason that basically 80% of everything that happens is filler because his secret can't be known. In the last episode his secret is revealed to Arthur, but off course too late. It thus actually felt that the show didn't even start. Imo it jumped the shark when at the end of season 3 i think both the king and gaius should have died, leading to their replacement by arthur and merlin.
Robin Hood was just utter bull**** after lady Marian died. The ****... She did "reappear" in the last episode of season 3 for 2 seconds. The writers better could have better found a way to write her out of the show, that she stayed in the promised land for protection, or to fight, or whatever, and then let her pop up in the final episode.
Misfits became a trainwreck after season 2 and was quite enjoyable before that, most notably because of the guy who stars are the character Nathan.
For one other british series I have high hopes, Sherlock Holmes, and I hope it will be as great as it has been until now. I am very hesitant to start the new series Atlantis which is a replacement of Merlin, because I fear that the pattern of either Merlin or Robin Hood will repeat itself.
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Posted by: Tay Collins | January 20, 2010 6:45 AM
Tay, that's not evolution. It's metamorphosis. Evolution means descent with heritable modification – individuals cannot evolve, unless they're Pokemon.
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Battlestar Galactica's timing was right, it's just that they completely blew the ending.
Haha, that was not a completely blown ending in the least, at least as far as the characters go. I think they all got satisfying conclusions, particularly Roslin/Adama, Boomer and Saul/Ellen. Some of the overall story conclusions (Earth and the Colonials/Cylons being our ancestors, RDM getting the idea for the show from the Angels, etc) were hinky, but they got the important stuff right - the emotional resolutions to the characters' journey. And that can save an otherwise uneven ending. It's also why ending BSG at the end of Revelations would have been a mistake - a lack of resolution for both plot (What about Cavil's Cylons? Who was the final Cylon? What was the significance of the Opera House visions? etc) and characters. It was a superb end to the first half of season four, but not an ending for the show as a whole.
'So, I was at X, and the most beautiful woman in the world was there, and we really hit it off.' I ended that series' major plot arc in a ****ing sentence. Seriously, the worst part about that show is that it's supposed to be a story, but clearly isn't.
I kind of agree with Jackie Chan Adventures... the Oni Mask season just felt like filler while the writers figured out how to get back to the original mythos. and the [final] season with Dreigho's son and new group of cronies- ...the hell?
The mixed-up Talisman Hunt p.2 was pushing it, but was still enjoyable with the original buffoons as the fill-in Dark Shadow Warriors.
the series should have ended with the Book of Destiny 'movie'
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Fringe missed a perfect finale in the end of Season 3: All the conflicts were resolved, the Observers were still mysterious and slightly scary, Peter came full circle and Walter was finally willing to sacrifice him. Instead we got an interesting but obvious attempt to gain new viewers in Season 4 (by 'soft rebooting' the series) and Season 5 had some great emotional moments but just went off in a completely random direction.
Anime almost always goes on way too long. DBZ is the perfect example, the Frieza arc or the Cell arc could have been perfect ending points, but we went on for another 80 or so episodes...
Battlestar Galactica's discovery of Earth as a burned out wasteland was perfectly bleak. I really would have loved that to end the series, rather than the pseudo-religious nonsense of the final season.
I agree that Buffy Season 5 was a pretty perfect ending. Seasons 6 and 7 had great individual episodes and even arcs, but as a whole the quality wasn't as high.
I would argue that Heroes, Lost and X-files didn't have any finales or perfect 'ending' spots for the series.
Supernatural Season 5 was a pretty perfect series finale, although the quality of the show has picked back up since then I doubt they'll find another perfect stopping point.
As for Smallville, I'm not sure any of the finales would have served as well as the Series finale as the actual series finale did.
Maybe, but that's largely because they needed a couple seasons to find their footing.
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There was an in-universe tie in comic that lasted 52 issues, it may or may not have answered that, dunno. I do know that prior to the New 52 crap DC is currently running, the storyline that plot point was pulled from involved her being revived from her stone prison in the future with amnesia, and time travel or something.
OT: Pretty much everything on network TV keeps getting milked until it is no longer profitable to do so. Does Beware the Batman count as something continuing too long? They dropped a Green Lantern show, and Young Justice, for yet another Batman franchise. Only this time instead of using the big names, they appear to be using jankier counterparts to fulfill the exact same role. You could replace Anarchy with the Joker and absolutely nothing would have changed. Brave and the Bold did the C list right, by turning the camp up to 11.
Stuff I wish got one more season to wrap it up: Samurai Jack, Symbionic Titan, Thunder Cats(the new one), Tron: Uprising, Motor City, My Name is Earl, etc.
Stuff that has yet to grow old: One Piece. 606 episodes, a half dozen OVAs, a dozen movies, and we've only hit the half way point. Keep on truckin' Oda!
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And actually that reminds me of Babylon 5. A fantastic show that had four really great seasons and wrapped up almost every major plot point and story arc at the end of season four. Then it got extended for a fifth season and it was like they didn't know what to do because the story was already finished. The last season was terrible. Thankfully it did semi-redeem itself with a great final episode.
Did you actually feel the finale it got was good? Personally I thought it was rather weak. I think season five or six could have ended it just fine by not doing a cliff hanger (either by making the final episode longer or doing one more) and by having a proper ending to the story of a young, pre Superman CK. By having him simply say goodbye to his childhood and leave the farm to start his post childhood, pre Metropolis journey.
X-Files. Loved the show as a kid, but they decided to drag it along with their main characters missing in action or completely gone in the final seasons. I never felt satisfied by its ending (I also never watched the movies though, so I don't know if those actually cleared anything up).
Also, Star Trek might very well have too many spinoffs. I couldn't stand Voyager, and not just for the usual sciencey bits that make me go mad (A crack in the event horizon? Gravity does not work that way! A six-year-old knows gravity does not work that way!), but I absolutely hated Chakotay, for not only being a bad stereotype, but for being a stereotype and completely out of context! (And even inventing a few new stereotypes. Why is Chakotay a vegetarian? Indians have a bad history with animal rights activists that the writers would've known about if they'd done any serious research. For that matter, what is a vegetarian when replicators run on the MST3K mantra?) Enterprise was just unwatchable.
Oh, Degrassi: The Next Generation. If you've seen the original, basically the theme was:
Now, the original Degrassi Junior High went on as long as it should. Actually, they skipped a season and went straight from grade 11 to the series finale.
The reason for the spinoff as described by Linda Schuyler was because she wanted to do an episode about school massacres. So they started a new series about Spike's daughter Emma. The show went downhill from about a third of the way through season 4 onward (largely as its new purpose was to answer the question "How many love triangles can we have in one episode before it's officially an orgy?"), introduced a kid who would be quite welcome on certain infamous subreddits in season 5, went into full-on "we'll make this show horrible and shoehorn this ship in just so you like the ship" mode in season 6, and did the Saved by the Bell: The New Class thing in season 8.
(As a bonus, Degrassi fights stereotypes. The kid who brings a gun to school isn't a Nazi; in fact, his only friend's Jewish. He is, however, an avid D&D player because let's bring back moral panics from before the audience was born.)
Supposedly Ashton Kutcher is the "half" now, because his character's mentally a child. He's a blatant Mary Sue whose problems include that he's rich, he's single, and he has a huge *****, but he's actually more likable than Charlie was at certain points.
Depends on the anime. Some series are intended to have very linear myth arcs, and as such, tend to be very short. This is ones like Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Others, like Dragonball Z, become more and more about filler episodes. Note that Dragonball went from a cutesy version of Journey to the West to a kung fu series to the qi blast that was Dragonball Z.
There was a lot of pseudo-religious nonsense in the original series. There's a reason NDNFilter (an extra-lulzy word filter of my own creation) mutates "Mormons" into "Cylons". "LDS" becomes something else, though.
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Everyone and their mom knew the show was over once Grissom left. But no, they had to keep it going.
Two leads going from a platonic relationship to romantic is a sign of writers painting themselves into a corner. It's a reason I stopped watching Bones.
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YES. Dexter is the BIGGEST example of a series that missed it's ending. Seasons 7 and 8 were just... ugh, and not watchable as a week to week experience.
Seasons 5 and 6 were okay, but Season 4 was so good, and the ending so fitting, that in my mind it will always have ended there.
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I thought that the romance aspect was fine last season for Castle, I just don't know where they can go with it this season. Like the show practically requires Beckett to give up being a federal agent to make any sense, but at the same time, the underlying story arc that they seem to be creating requires her to continue being a federal agent. I don't really get it.
And Bones just straight up ran out of 'side story arcs' and the story has just been miserable. The S5 finale would have been a perfect series finale for that show.
Battlestar Galactica's timing was right, it's just that they completely blew the ending.
I can see Beckett quitting her job as a federal agent, especially with all the political "turn a blind eye" she encountered in the first episode- that she's bound to encounter through out the season.
Another problem with Beckett being a federal agent, is it's forcing the writers to find someway to include Esposito & Ryan in some manner. I don't even know if Cpn Gates or the coroner are still part of the casting.
The only way I can see this remedied- is if Beckett is transferred to the New York department and works with the NYPD.
Though, I will quit the show if Beckett gets pregnant- though, I can see that as the finale.
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I'm not sure they completely blew the ending, but it does make a case against an hour-long wrap-up.
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Nonsense, this is Naruto you are talking about. I read all manga chapters and seen all episodes, I'm therefore save to say that your "it became more and more about filler episodes" is BS. Dragonball Z, however, does indeed have a fair share of filler.
The story of the Dragonballs jumped the shark with either the introduction of powerlevels (so the first episode xD), or rather the inconsistency of it (the enormous leap of power from Radditz 300, to Vegeta 8000 or 16000? (besides the point), to Freeza 1,000,000. To top it, the story has been week with Goku saving the day on each last minute. Still, the series has been thoroughly entertaining. Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu are three fantastic villains. The fights are awesome, and just the feeling of unreleased power released by emotional struggle and hard work is just a boys dream, I guess...
I for one don't care that it ran as long as it did, because like I mentioned before, Dragonball Z jumped the shark when it basically started. If anyone could have surpassed the Saiyan saga and says that the series should have stopped after Freeza... Well, then you either haven't followed the Db story, or you like inconsistent story telling, or you are just following a popular internet opinion.
I completely agree that it missed its ending, although i disagree that season 4 finale would have been a good series finale. Dexter should have been hunted by Miami metro in its last season, getting extra crazy in the process by killing some colleagues, and either committing suicide or killed by cops at the end. Both the ending of season 4, but also of season 7 were perfect set ups for this. In hindsight, I would have preferred a season like this after season 4 since I then would have never been confronted with the horror of season 5, 6, 7 and especially 8.
Posted by: Tay Collins | January 20, 2010 6:45 AM
Tay, that's not evolution. It's metamorphosis. Evolution means descent with heritable modification – individuals cannot evolve, unless they're Pokemon.
Posted by: David Marjanović | January 20, 2010 8:55 AM
I meant the best finale that we actually got. I would have much preferred someone other than Doakes to be able to put together the big mystery of how their murder suspects keep disappearing.
All it would take is someone comparing computer searches to missing suspects/missing persons reports and BAM! He's caught. I really thought Hacker kid was going to do it, but that plotline kind of just fizzled.
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Regarding your hacker idea: it would also made sense regarding the fact that the skins of the persona in the game he was building were revolved around dexter's life. This sort of implied that he found out dexter was dirty. It would have been interesting indeed to see how this guy could toy with dexter or could blackmail him or whatever. Imagine Louis saying: "If I do not log in each evening at midnight on my home made website each day, an automatic email will be send to Miami metro with blablabla..."
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Another show that maybe missed its ending is community. I really disliked season 4. The only reason I could enjoy it was because I like the cast and their efforts so much (beside pierce/chevy chase). The second half of season 3 was really over the top as well. Anyway there will be another season and I really hope it will be the last one, and I hope it will be fantastic. Dan Harmond is back as showrunner so we'll see.
I'm most offended by the ok writing, but terrible management of popular British shows as well. The three shows i mean are Merlin, Robin Hood and Misfits.
Merlin for the sole reason that basically 80% of everything that happens is filler because his secret can't be known. In the last episode his secret is revealed to Arthur, but off course too late. It thus actually felt that the show didn't even start. Imo it jumped the shark when at the end of season 3 i think both the king and gaius should have died, leading to their replacement by arthur and merlin.
Robin Hood was just utter bull**** after lady Marian died. The ****... She did "reappear" in the last episode of season 3 for 2 seconds. The writers better could have better found a way to write her out of the show, that she stayed in the promised land for protection, or to fight, or whatever, and then let her pop up in the final episode.
Misfits became a trainwreck after season 2 and was quite enjoyable before that, most notably because of the guy who stars are the character Nathan.
For one other british series I have high hopes, Sherlock Holmes, and I hope it will be as great as it has been until now. I am very hesitant to start the new series Atlantis which is a replacement of Merlin, because I fear that the pattern of either Merlin or Robin Hood will repeat itself.
Posted by: Tay Collins | January 20, 2010 6:45 AM
Tay, that's not evolution. It's metamorphosis. Evolution means descent with heritable modification – individuals cannot evolve, unless they're Pokemon.
Posted by: David Marjanović | January 20, 2010 8:55 AM
Haha, that was not a completely blown ending in the least, at least as far as the characters go. I think they all got satisfying conclusions, particularly Roslin/Adama, Boomer and Saul/Ellen. Some of the overall story conclusions (Earth and the Colonials/Cylons being our ancestors, RDM getting the idea for the show from the Angels, etc) were hinky, but they got the important stuff right - the emotional resolutions to the characters' journey. And that can save an otherwise uneven ending. It's also why ending BSG at the end of Revelations would have been a mistake - a lack of resolution for both plot (What about Cavil's Cylons? Who was the final Cylon? What was the significance of the Opera House visions? etc) and characters. It was a superb end to the first half of season four, but not an ending for the show as a whole.
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