I don’t think I even watched it,“Hall told The Daily Beast in 2014.
“I thought it was narratively satisfying – but it was not so savory.”
All that emotional capital was quickly squandered when he was the man handing out the roses.
Showtime
rubbed everyone on and off the TV the wrong way.
into the final moments.
Barney and Robin got divorced!
ABC
Barney had a kid!
Ted married The Mother (Tracy)!
The Mother got sick and died!
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And then finally?Ted asked out Robin?!
That was downright unacceptable.
SPOILER: They were actually in a spaceshipgoing to Mars.
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Trapped in surrealistic dream sequence at the Bada Bing!
where his mother dances endlessly on stage?Something.
And then there was that long, shocking, infamous cut to black.
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Viewers were, to put it mildly, divided.
It was like an abstract painter who unveils a giant inkblot critics and the faithful cry ‘‘Brilliant!’’
and the masses say ‘‘That’s it?!’’
MTV
for letting Chris Daughtry get eliminated.
RIP, Soul Patrol.
Sydney wakes up disheveled on the streets of Hong Kong.
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She meets Vaughn in a safe house, so relieved.
Except wait, he’s wearing a wedding ring.
And wait again, she’s been missing for almost two years and was presumed dead.
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Why would Vaughn give up on the love of his life after just two years and marry someone else?
Just when we thought they were going to be together, what a rug-pull.
A fond look back.
Diabolically clever, but it left the audience feeling stung by the thing it loved.
In her actual reality, everything from couplings to characters' sexuality was different.
Except, wait a minute wasn’tDinosaurssupposed to be a family comedy?
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Its relentlessly grim conclusion had some jokes, but mostly, it was a tonally inconsistent bummer.
The Sinclairs deserved better.
The promise that Sam’s ‘‘next leap would be the leap home’’?
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As much as we enjoyed Sam’s adventures while they lasted, the final title card (‘‘Dr.
Sam Becket[t] never returned home.'')
signaling the too-good doctor’s purgatorial fate retroactively soured the series.
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Worst of all: Sam was in control of his leaps.
In this light, he wasn’t even Job for Job was ultimately rewarded he was a self-imposed Sisyphus.
Now that everyone has forsaken him, maybe the world would be better off without J.R. Ewing?
J.R. fingers the trigger of his pistol while his saintly brother Bobby enters Southfork.
A gun shot fires, poor Bobby (Patrick Duffy) freezes and cries ‘‘Oh my God!’’
And so the long-running series famous for its brilliant ‘‘Who Shot J.R.?’’
cliffhanger left fans frustrated by the limp open-ended question of whether J.R. actually shothimselfin the end.
(Spoiler: He didn’t.)
And, in fact, the story was eventually continued six years laterin a TV movie calledProject ALF.
No one should have to wait that long to know the fate of Gordon Shumway.
Practically everyone in Britain watched the finale and pretty much no one was satisfied.
It was barely worthy of a season ender, forget an unexpected series finale.
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