Your biggest TV disappointments?

[VanyaHargreeves]

For me I watch American shows almost exclusively so it's

Heroes

A near perfect first season, hit badly by the writers strike the following year and just never recovered.

Lost

The final season. Invested so hard in this show and the last series is just hours of them wandering about in the jungle with torches to reveal what you suspected in series 1

*House Of Cards
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So great when it started.
Obviously the production was put in a no win situation by Kevin Spacey, but even making allowances for that the last season may be one of the worst series of TV I've EVER seen. Total nonsense and an absolutely shit ending.

Game Of Thrones

I was a DIE HARD fan of this series, and not even I can defend HOW bad the final series was. They just threw away everything they spent years building story wise for shock value and spectacle. Unforgivable. It was obvious that the showrunners had tapped out, and they should've passed it on rather than run it in to the ground.

Anyone else?

Urgh Game of Thrones too. I feel totally totally cheated and a bit bereft. I feel like the whole damn show has been tainted by that crappy ending, in fact the whole last series was shit. 😭🤬
Actually the battle for winterfell was epic but after that it all went so badly to shit and I still haven’t got over my disappointment.

How I met your mother. 8 seasons building up to who the mother was then an entire season dicking about on one weekend. Then they squeezed the entire mother backstory and their life together into a few minutes. Then quickly got rid. I was irrationally annoyed Even though I sort of saw it coming.

Still not over the Bran The Broken bollocks

For 3 fucking years all he's told people is that Bran Stark doesn't exist anymore and he's the Raven

But no, he's King Bran

Why?

Because it's a good story

Oh do fuck off

Totally Bran can fuck right off! It was like they fired the whole writing team and had a bunch of school kids put that ending together without having watched the show. All those years of stories and character development to lead up to that; what a waste 🤯😤

Dexter got silly

Game of Thrones, what a disappointment that was!

Lost

The Captive, loved it... until the final episode. Didn’t like the “natural justice” ending .... I felt really short changed!

Silent witness got ridiculous. How involved the pathologists were getting in investing crimes, getting involved in every aspect of the case was daft. Shame as the early series were great,

Oh and the final season of Once Upon a Time

Breaking Bad. Everyone said how great it was. I thought it was crap.

How I met your mother has got to be the most disappointingly rushed crime against television finale's ever shown on air! I now utterly refuse to watch any of the episodes because I know my mind will aimlessly wander to how shit the ending was and I'll just make myself cross thinking about it.

Toby from the West Wing and what he did in the final season. Even Richard Schiff said Tony would never have done that. It made me so sad.
In fact, a few aspects of the final seasons. I'm sure Josh would have asked Toby to go with him when he went with Santos. He asked Leo who was more attached to Bartlet than anyone else so he'd definitely have asked Toby.

Oh @Fantababy I could talk about West Wing all night, I recently did a full rewatch

The Toby thing... agreed Toby never would have done it he was always the first to chew someone out for misconduct. But that scene, the one where he tells CJ after we've seen her sweat for days, is so beautifully acted.

The real shocking thing in a rewatch is the level of sexism both casual and direct in the language used about CJ, Donna and Ainsley primarily, which I didn't notice at all when it was first broadcast.

It dies down in the later series, but it just wouldn't make the air in todays environment

Also, how times have changed around homosexuality in a very short space of time

LOST

I will never forgive that show. I was so heavily invested. Leaving us on so many exiting cliff hangers and then a whole year to wait to each new series.

Only for it to to end in the shittest possible way. Here were so many cool fan theories out there hey could have worked on yet they chose the crappest ending ever.
I was raging.

Better call Saul

He’s a great actor. It’s a great character. But his spin off show was SO BORING. It was literally like watching paint dry before your eyes. Grey paint.

@OrangeTwirlGate

I think that what went wrong is that they focussed on the idea, the concept and the pilot more than where it would go

It's popularity meant theories took over the internet and they had to deny that people had guessed right

So they did this wishy washy end which was the popular theory in essence whilst still saying it wasn't even though that didn't make sense.

They should just have admitted that some people had guessed right "but we aren't saying who" because denying it and then doing it was so anticlimactic it was like a giant fuck you to the fans

Vanya they talk a lot about the casual sexism in the West Wing Weekly podcast. I hadn't particularly noticed initially, but it is quite noticeable now. In a way CJ having that job is quite forward thinking, but it's ruined by the way they talk to and about her at times.

Deadwood. Just ended. And then they tried to appease us with a movie and it was such a crushing disappointment, it would have been better to just leave it be.

I've never done the podcast, I think I'd gone through Series 1 again before I remembered its supposed to be good. Next rewatch I'll listen along as I watch I think

Yes "CJ's a good girl" is in episode ONE. She's a professional woman working at a high level in her 30s.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about Heroes, so much wasted potential

Lost... they kept saying no they're not all dead. Every season they insisted. Shite.

Agree about Toby in The West Wing. I reckon it was the NASA guy who let slip to CJ "That's the civilian shuttle" and that Toby was covering both for him and so as not to get CJ into trouble for looking into it.

His not going with Josh to work with Santos was prob partly a generational thing, let the young ones have their day. Plus Leo knew that despite the pardon, Toby would be a target for the opposition in Santos' campaign and Toby would have agreed.

I'm with you on Heroes and Lost - I stopped watching the latter when it finished on Channel 4 and went to Sky I think and couldn't be bothered with it. Grateful I missed what was to be an awful ending.

I'll add Fortitude to the mix. First few episodes were great then it just went a bit bonkers. Vowed not to watch the 2nd series... but like a fool I did. I don't remember if there was a 3rd series but I'd definitely given up on it by then if there was!

Huh? @Fiderer

Toby doesn't get pardoned til after Leo's death and hadn't committed the crime before Josh and Leo joined the Santos team

Toby was annoyed that Josh didn't come to him, and he was substantially younger than Leo

I was also thinking like Fantababy - "He asked Leo who was more attached to Bartlet than anyone else so he'd definitely have asked Toby."

I may be extrapolating that Toby wouldn't have gone to the Santos White House even if asked after the election and pardon! Forgotten he was miffed. He also thought Josh was abandoning Bartlet.

One scene I fast forward is the scene in the house with Andy where she says about him being so sad.

Could do with a re-watch. We used to have some great TWW threads with all sorts of discussion and trivia, am def rusty.

Battle star galactica- really shitty half arsed ending, simmilar to GoT (though not quite as bad).

Daredevil- loved the first and second season, full of action and exciting. The third season was just him sat in a church talking to some nun!

Fortitude- piece of wank.