Finale’d
I had another comic lined up for today but after watching season finale for The Riches Season 2, I kind of lost my shit and felt an overwhelming need to do this comic instead. Don’t worry, I’ll run the other comic this week.
See, I came to The Riches late. I didn’t do the smart thing and check as to whether or not the series ends on a cliffhanger. WHY DIDN’T I CHECK? I loved the show. The story, the cast, the presentation, everything about The Riches floats my boat and what do they do? They build this awesome story and HANG ME OUT TO FUCKIN’ DRY? WHY FX!? WHY!?
Don’t get me wrong, if you haven’t seen The Riches, I still recommend watching it but just know that some questions will go unanswered.
I hate the not knowing.
So that’s it. From now on I am going to research shows before I dive in. Great shows are great shows but I like resolution.
Also: There are 4 days left on the Kickstarter. 4 DAYS!
COMMENTERS: Which shows burned YOU?
Kyle XY, The Middleman, Firefly, Getbackers, Human Target, The Middleman, John Doe, Dresden Files, Finder, The Middleman. If you can tell which one I think everyone should watch, then my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.
At least with Dresden Files you have the great books to fall back on.
I believe you mean at least the Dresden Files is a great series of books in spite of the terrible show loosely based on them 😉
People always say Firefly, but it didn’t end on a cliffhanger at all. My number one: Twin Peaks. WOW what an ambiguous ending.
No kidding on Twin Peaks. I recently went back to watch it again and walked away with WTF-Face.
Same.
Agreed. Twin Peaks hands down.
yea but atleast twin eaks got finished off with a movie
Firefly’s “ending” that is serenity is a bit burn-y… but it doesn’t have to be the end of firefly, per se. I mean, they could put eps for firefly before or after serenity and make a “real” end, methinks.
That’s not to say that Serenity isn’t a shitton better than just having Firefly “end” as it did, though…
I was burned in a different way by Angel. That whole last season with the law offices really screwed with me, but the last scene left me and my best friend calling each other as soon as it was over with “Did you fucking see that?!” Suddenly, we wanted more.
Good thing it was continued in comic books. Same with Buffy.
And I thought the end of Angel was awesome. But I was still glad to see the comics.
To go out on a tangent a bit: .Hack//Sign was one that really got me. The whole storyline flowed wonderfully, led to an absolutely epic revelation… and then suddenly fast forward to the future where The World is all sorted out. GAH!
Keep in mind that in many instances, a series will not find out that it’s coming to an end until the network airing it decides to cancel, and the producers are caught unawares, believing that they have time to tease out a long story arc. This was the case with THE RICHES, as well as all the series Adam mentioned above. It’s in cases like this that the old say, ‘Ars Gratsia Pecuniam,’ definitely hits you where it hurts…
For me it would have to be Will Traveler, The Black Donnallys, or Reunion. All of them excellent, all of them canceled before their time. At least WT and BD made it to the end of an Arc in the story. Reunion you still dont know who the killer is and now never will.
Stargate Universe.
Stargate Universe definitely ends on a pretty terrible cliffhanger. Show was okay to good, but the ending is a gut punch. Jericho is another that ends just as it seems like stuff is about to really hit the fan.
Definitely Pushing Daisies for me, that show left me wanting so much more AND dangling from a cliff.
Stargate Universe, Cupid (the 1999 version, didnt care much for the 2009 remake) and Quantum Leap.
I have ranted more than I care to admit in regards to the Quantum Leap series finale. I saw it when it originally aired. I was a fan. A hardcore week-to-week fan and when they flashed that little caption up on the screen I LOST MY SHIT. LOST. MY. SHIT. To this day I STILL get worked up over it. It was a knife to my heart. A FLAMING HOT DAGGER OF BETRAYAL.
Twin Peaks.
My gawd! Why didnt I see this coming…
Farscape. For loo long before they were able to do The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries, that cliffhanger was just…. a punch to the gut.
The Middle Man.
What I love though is that the creators are still coming up with episodes. They’ve got the next five seasons written out.
Also, Brian, The riches ended on a cliff-hanger because of the Writer’s Strike. If that hadn’t happened we would have gotten us a sweet little ending and maybe more seasons.
Well farscape is the classic pissed off it ended show. Crog Mandoon was fun but didnt get past season 1. The Dresden Files show, tho as bad an adaption of the books as the wolverine movie was to the comic, i was still disappointed with it ended after 1 season.
Love it.
For the exception of Firefly, which I would have wanted to know more about the Hands of Blue, I can’t I’ve seen much of the series stated before. But actually, I like when some series leave you with an open ending. One of the last I’ve seen doing this is “Apparences” (a french series that aired in Quebec last winter) where the end bring more questions that there was at the beginning.
Alf… what a horrible implied ending and then that tv movie that somehow made .everything worse
God damned Eastwick.
This has little to do with cliffhangers, but there are two series in different forms of media whose endings are so similar and leave such terrible tastes in my mouth: Bone and Escaflowne. They both build these great stories which you find yourself helplessly engrossed in, build it to a climax…HUZZAH! Then the heroes/heroine fuck off back to their old life.
I’m not familiar with Bone but yeah I never understood why Hitome gave her wishing necklace to Vann. She could have lived with him on Gia and used it to occasionally visit her parents back on Earth.
Whoops misspelled Van and Gaea. My bad.
Anything by Chris Carter, especially X-Files and Millennium. He just doesn’t know how to end a damn story. The shows have great characters and really great moments, but nothing ever gets resolved—it’s just one enigma after the next.
Oh god… How I met your Mother.
I didn’t even see the last episode; I only watched the first season. but one of my friends kept telling me that the finale was horrible so eventually I gave in because I figured if it was THAT bad I didn’t want to slog through nine seasons.
I won’t spoil it here in case anyone IS willing to watch it all despite knowing it sucks but… How I met your Mother is for me what Mass Effect 3 was for other people.