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[apocalypsos]

Well, it's season finale time, and I've seen some good reactions to finales and some really pissed-off reactions. So I was just curious ... anybody feel like venting about any finale that's made you angry? Squeeing over great entertainment is one thing, but complaints and bitching are far more amusing. ;)

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[valerie]

Is it sad that I actually can't think of any finale to be mad about? :P

TAR was exactly the ending I wanted to see. VM rocked, of course. And as of yet, there's no other finales in my shows that have aired... CSI's tonight and I hope it's decent, DH is Sunday and I'm sure it'll kick ass, and Lost is next week... well, there's the one I have the best chance of being pissed off at :P

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[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

Stumbled in here from Friend's Friends and felt the need to contribute... hope you don't mind...

There was one part of TAR's finale that pissed me off beyond beilef. The flight from Puerto Rico to Miami. You know some producer picked up a phone and called their partner at American Airlines and said, "Help! If these people(Joyce/Uchena) don't get on the flight then we have no compelling end to the show" No airline is going to blow their on time departure rating without a really REALLY good reason, and two standby passengers with a film crew doesn't strike me as a good reason to put the jetbridge back out and reopen the plane.

Other than that the finale was good by me.

Re: Stumbled onto this via FoF

[valerie]

Don't mind at all - what is LJ if not a public forum?

And you raise a good point about the whole flight thing - I was disappointed that U/J won that way instead of a proper race, but I wouldn't have wanted Romber to just waltz to the finish line, either. And while I think the cameras probably contributed to AA pulling the plane back (mainly to give themselves positive publicity), I don't think a producer got involved. After the whole quiz show scandal of the 50's producers do NOT want to influence an outcome at all. Unless you're Mark Burnett :P

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[denial-girl.livejournal.com]

I highly doubt the producers had anything to do with Uchenna and Joyce getting on the flight. Often the pilots do actually have a lot of power in deciding who to let on a flight (just watch a few episodes of A&E's Airline). And considering all the bad stuff that has happened on that show that went on wihtout interference, like Freddy and Kendra winning last season and the whole Jonathan and Victoria debacle, I can't see the produers getting involved this season.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I've bitched about this recently, and it's a very succinct sort of thing to bitch about, but..

Star Trek: Voyager.

I liked Voyager. I stopped watching for a while in the middle, there, but I came back for the last season because I missed B'Elanna and Tom and Harry and OH GOD THE DOCTOR YES. We'd waited years to find out what happened when they got home - because, frankly, they WERE going to get home, it was just a matter of 'when' - so how do they end the series?

WITH VOYAGER MAKING IT TO EARTH ORBIT.

So what happened next?! What year was it? Did anybody's families hold out hope the entire time? Did anyone wait? I know some of them moved on, but THROW US A FUCKING BONE, PEOPLE! Details! COME ON!

And I didn't even watch more than two episodes of Enterprise, but the finale pissed me off anyway. It was so convoluted and insulting and nothing made sense and "fucking appaling" and HUH WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

[raindroproses.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, the JAG series finale pissed me off SO much. *grinds teeth* It just drove home how incredibly horrible the show had become. Who the fuck lets a coin toss decide their future?

Jesus. It's like, "Mac, I love you, and although I've been an immature, selfish asshat for the past nine years, let's get married and move to London and have lots and lots of babies!"

"Oh, Harm, I love you too, but remember, I might not be able to have children, but I bet if you close your eyes and wish really, really hard, we'll have a miracle baby! Oh, and I don't really want to give up my career, but I'm not going to press this issue very hard, since I'm a weak and needy woman who can't live without her man."

"Really? But you're the little woman. You should stay at home, barefoot and pregnant. However, since I'm a kind and caring kind of guy, why don't we let a coin toss decide?"

"That sounds wonderful, sailor! I'll go put on my red evening gown, you put on your dress whites, and we'll gather with our friends and tell them about the next part of our fucked-up relationship."

...

I. Hate. That show. So incredibly much. And this makes me sad, because it was my very first fandom.

[finnystix.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. JAG wasn't my first fandom (or ever a fandom, for me), but I used to watch it all the time, until early in the 8th season. That's when I just couldn't watch anymore.

But, of course, I had to see how it ended, so I watched, and... ugh.

[hereticorp.livejournal.com]

Enterprise.

I mean I know the whole series has been pretty lackluster, but the last two episodes seemed like the writers just completely fucked off and they had to hire interns who had maybe seen the show twice and had NO idea of where the story arc was going.

They didn't resolve any dangling plot strings, and they tried to draw people in with guest appearances by Riker and Troi. It really seemed like they just didn't care anymore, and I can't say I really blame them.

[callie-chan.livejournal.com]

The ending of Star Trek: Whichever The Hell One It Was That Ended Less Than A Week Ago.

I mean, I'm not a fan of the show--you can tell because I don't even know which Star Trek it was. I never really watched it, and the only reason I saw the finale was because I happened to be in the room doing something else while my dad watched it.

But making the whole crew (minus two people) a holographic pastime for the aforementioned two characters who were actually real people? Incredibly cheap. Suddenly everything that made the series good (if there was anything) doesn't matter, because it didn't actually happen, and the characters people might have liked aren't even real people in their own canon. And if it pissed ME off, who could care less about the series one way or the other, I can only imagine the series' actual FANS' reactions...

Star Trek's been around for years and it's got a massive fanbase. They deserved better than that.

(Apologies if I spoiled anyone, but really, if you don't want to see this sort of thing you shouldn't be reading a thread on season finales anyway.)

-Callisto

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

I'm reserving venom for after tonight ("CSI"....I don't like some of the rumors I've heard) and "24" on Monday. I have a very bad feeling that "24" is gonna kill off one of my favorite characters, at which point I will draw down the wrath of my hurricane-drawing abilities and smite the hell out of the writers and producers.

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

You and me both. "24"'s about the only actual drama I'm committed to any more, and if that particular character goes down my scream of rage and angst will be unparalleled.

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

I was so happy during the last ep, but then the last five minutes.....grrr.....not liking where that looks like it's going.....

[onefishjyuufish.livejournal.com]

I don't actually watch tv, so the last finale I watched was Angel's series finale on DVD.

...Which, for the most part, was awesome. Except for killing Wesley off. He wasn't even my favorite character, but it just... ARGH. I know they did it because it was the finale, but I wouldn't ever want it to continue without Wesley, in movie form or a miraculous 6th season. Also that no humans survived to fight with Angel. Gunn was, I think, pretty obviously ready to fall down and die at the end there. *sigh*

[liliaeth]

well it's a nice contrast to Chosen, where only the humans survive *grumble*, esp. since they were the ones I most wanted to die*grumble*

[liliaeth]

Just the new ones, or are the old ones good as well?
Cause I can give you a pretty long rant on why Chosen sucks.
Other than that. I liked the season ender of Joan of Arcadia, the only suckfactor is that apparantly the show's cancelled*grumble*

[denial-girl.livejournal.com]

Angel and Buffy... because random "deaths" not dealt with properly do not a finale make.

The TARs where Flo/Zach and Freddy/Kendra won because ew.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

DC Meetup info!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/foresthouse/206931.html

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder. I almost forgot to print out the directions. :)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Oh no! We don't want you getting lost.

Also if you want to give me your email address I can send you my cell phone number just in case.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

I hated the series finale of Forever Knight. It's all an elaborate fever dream in my world.

Without A Trace

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

That was a wildly inappropriate way to end a season. I was not terribly impressed with the ending scenes of CSI either. I felt the focus was on the wrong characters/plot. But whatever. WaT pissed me off no end. And I'm in fear of NCIS on Tuesday. I'd like to know who over at CBS has decided it's open season on the sexy boys? Fuckers.