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gehayi

30 Days of TV Meme -- Day 26

Jun 26, 2010 00:40

Day 26 - Season finale that made you say, "OMG WTF?!"

There are two season finales that I've seen that are the epitome of this. One I've only seen on the Internet, as I didn't watch the show, but it deserves special mention because it involved the extinction of an entire species.

First runner-up: The season finale of Dinosaurs.

( In which the world is destroyed by a plastic fruit factory. )

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scrollgirl June 26 2010, 06:50:02 UTC

Dude, that Dinosaur finale is messed up. Very WTF, and yet... kind of brilliant at the same time.

gehayi June 26 2010, 06:58:11 UTC

You know what's even more messed up? This was co-produced by Jim Henson Television with Walt Disney Television. The production company of the Muppets and the House of Mouse. Unbelievable.

mount_oregano June 26 2010, 17:41:28 UTC

I thought the Dinosaur finale was hilarious, and since it was a satiric comedy show, I thought it was a great ending -- rather final, though. But we always knew the dinosaurs would go extinct somehow.

On the other hand, I'm still angry about Forever Knight. Very angry.

Oh, and Battlestar Galactica was bad, too.

gehayi June 27 2010, 04:37:21 UTC

But we always knew the dinosaurs would go extinct somehow.

Well, yeah. I just didn't expect extinction to be the ending for an animated comedy. But maybe it works better if you've been watching the show rather than just seeing the final scene online.

On the other hand, I'm still angry about Forever Knight. Very angry.

Oh, thank God, I'm not the only one who's still angry!

Oh, and Battlestar Galactica was bad, too.

What happened? Aside from Kara Thrace becoming an angel, which just makes me headdesk.

sunnyskywalker June 28 2010, 00:34:10 UTC

gehayi June 28 2010, 04:22:32 UTC

Well, the good news is that they finally got to Earth. Where they discovered the cave men who, through a miracle of convergent evolution, were EXACTLY THE SAME SPECIES as the humans from the 12 colonies, despite having totally different origins as far as anyone knows.

Okay, I think that rates a You Fail Biology Forever.

They decide to ditch this whole civilization and technology thing and start from scratch, wandering merrily away into the grasslands with sleeping bags. And from what we know, no medicines, hunting tools, seed for crops, etc.

That's just fucking stupid. If you've got an advantage over the wilderness, you bloody well use it, because Nature is mean and there is no guarantee that you will survive without that advantage. You don't just wander away and leave every possible tool behind you. My only conclusion is that they were high.

And the guy who got shot in the head to become a prophetic goo-bath dweller flies the fleet into the sun, because...Um...what's the point of the suicide mission that sends him into the sun? ( ... )

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hayet June 28 2010, 16:42:47 UTC

I *knew* you'd pick Forever Knight when you mentioned WTF endings.

I kinda liked it, actually. I mean, vampire/mortal romances always end in either the mortal being vamped or the vampire being cured, but there's never a resolution of "this just isn't going to work out" in between. Sometimes it IS doomed.

Of course I wasn't involved in the fandom at all so I had no idea that the writers were promising happy endings. But if Nick couldn't be cured, there could BE no happy ending. In this world an immortal vampire's life is a damned one, even if you want to be good.

Which isn't to say the entire last season wasn't a big WTF, but I've always had respect for such a ballsy finale. It's so totally unexpected! And a refreshing change from the romantic vampire trope (Twilight, ugh). Horrifying, but ballsy all the same.

I also had no idea Dinosaurs ended that way. Good grief.

gehayi June 28 2010, 17:29:51 UTC

I think that the romance could have been doomed without wholesale slaughter. Honestly, I wouldn't have minded Natalie dumping Nick.

In this world an immortal vampire's life is a damned one, even if you want to be good.

Except the writers DID come up with a cure of sorts, which screws with the idea that there couldn't be a happy ending. (And I'm not talking about Nick and Nat, as I have a horrible time shipping vampire/human pairings. It's one of my major squicks. I really do NOT get the appeal of falling for an animated corpse that's on a permanent liquid diet. I'm just talking about the basic premise--that Nick could become mortal again.

Of course I wasn't involved in the fandom at all so I had no idea that the writers were promising happy endings. Oh yeah. Writers, directors, producers. Everyone was saying that it was going to be a great and satisfying ending, the deaths were going to be explained, everyone who seemed to have died wasn't going to turn out to have, Nick would get the ending he so desperately wanted, everything ( ... )