Worst Series Finale EVER
Jan. 22nd, 2011 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanalayla What happens when a show you love goes off air and their series finale is just absolutely terrible? So terrible that you want to pretend that it never happened? That you just want to write a fanfic and pretend that fanfic was the REAL ending?
This just happened to me with the series ending of "Medium". For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, I'll just give a brief synopsis without trying to bore you too much.
"Medium" was the story of a woman who is a psychic and she has a husband, along with three beautiful girls about 11, 5, and 1 respectively. The psychic gets a job with the DA's office and helps them solve cases (usually gruesome and scary cases) using her "gifts".
The fundamental thing that makes this show worth watching (for me) was the relationship between Allison (the main character) and Joe (her husband). They had a pure soulmates connection and were exactly the sort of healthy, sweet, romantic, and loving relationship that you just rarely get to see on TV. (Another example would be the couple in Friday Night Lights.)
They weathered her crazy visions and dreams, they dealt with raising a teenager, tried riding out the horrible economy, etc. They would argue about who would drive the kids to school and they'd figure out what to do when the bills were piling up and the money just wasn't coming in.
And - so - I sat down to watch the final episode of this 7-year series. And what do they do? THEY KILL JOE.
Yes.
I'm still rather upset about this. Needless to say. So, what about you guys? Any show end in a way that made you want to send poop in an envelope to TPTB?
(As a random aside, I realized that I am damn glad that "SV" didn't end in S8. I think that I am DUE the ending we're getting in S10.)
This just happened to me with the series ending of "Medium". For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, I'll just give a brief synopsis without trying to bore you too much.
"Medium" was the story of a woman who is a psychic and she has a husband, along with three beautiful girls about 11, 5, and 1 respectively. The psychic gets a job with the DA's office and helps them solve cases (usually gruesome and scary cases) using her "gifts". The fundamental thing that makes this show worth watching (for me) was the relationship between Allison (the main character) and Joe (her husband). They had a pure soulmates connection and were exactly the sort of healthy, sweet, romantic, and loving relationship that you just rarely get to see on TV. (Another example would be the couple in Friday Night Lights.)
They weathered her crazy visions and dreams, they dealt with raising a teenager, tried riding out the horrible economy, etc. They would argue about who would drive the kids to school and they'd figure out what to do when the bills were piling up and the money just wasn't coming in.
And - so - I sat down to watch the final episode of this 7-year series. And what do they do? THEY KILL JOE.
Yes.
I'm still rather upset about this. Needless to say. So, what about you guys? Any show end in a way that made you want to send poop in an envelope to TPTB?
(As a random aside, I realized that I am damn glad that "SV" didn't end in S8. I think that I am DUE the ending we're getting in S10.)
Medium's Finale
Date: 2011-01-23 07:25 am (UTC)I know of you from "DI". YES! ITA with you about Medium's Finale. I'd been out and didn't get home until after it had started, but I'd set it to tape with my DVR. It was too chaotic to really listen to the show with family visiting, so I just had it on from about half way through. I could hear enough to understand what had happened when it got to the end, and I was APPALLED! I feel the same way that you do about this series, and FNL. I know it's not common for marriages on TV, or in RL, to actually have Loving couples, with or without children, who make every effort to allow their relationship to work.
What Alison and Joe shared was always so heartfelt and Realistic. It was a Huge PLUS for the format of Medium smack dab in the middle of all the 'strange' and 'supernatural' happenings in their everyday lives. I watched it from the beginning after everyone had left and if I hadn't already seen the horrific ending, I don't think I could've watched it all the way from the beginning twice. I felt drained. It was unbelievable that they could do that to us fans. It was as if they had the chance to give us an appropriate ending, but didn't care after the cancellation. I promptly deleted it. I'm shocked that a series I enjoyed so much for 7 years disappointed me so much when it ended.
Re: Medium's Finale
Date: 2011-01-23 09:12 pm (UTC)I hate it. They could have shown us these two grow old together and then go off to eternity in each other's arms. Instead, they tell me that Allison will be alone for 41 years without the love of her life. Even now, I get so sad thinking about it.