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.)
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Date: 2011-01-25 02:48 pm (UTC)But the thing that kept me coming back was the heart of the show - the story of Allison/Joe and their three kids. The best parts of the show was the family life. Especially towards the end, when the "mystery of the week" would be so cliche and phoned in.
A rarity on TV anywhere--and I cynically wonder if that contributed to its failure at all.
You know, I'm not part of the "Medium" fandom either. And I there were whole chunks of seasons that I skipped out on. (Sometimes, the crimes would become too much for me.)
But the thing that kept me coming back was the heart of the show - the story of Allison/Joe and their three kids. The best parts of the show was the family life. Especially towards the end, when the "mystery of the week" would be so cliche and phoned in.
I don't know. Could be? I saw it more like a situation where the writers were trying to go out with a bang as opposed to a whimper. No one was really watching the show anymore and the fact that it was cancelled barely caused a ripple. It could be that they were bitter about that and wanted to go out in a memorable way.
I the process, though, I think they screwed over the fans of the show.