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If a show tells you it’s building to sonething, then fails to deliver, it has disrespected all the time and effort invested.
See:
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
How I Met Your Motherbsg was wierd because the showrunner forgot about the series, and wanted on the ill fated caprica, plus him being a mormon made the whole show wierd, because he wanted a GOD-centric(think any other shows with angels/demons/god related material) ending to the show. the og series never had that kind of crap.
The OG series was also a Mormon analog.
Or when it ends on a cliffhanger just to get canceled. That really ruins how I feel about a show.
both sga and sgu were cliffhangers, sad.
I’m still super salty about SGU, that show was just starting to find itself when they cancelled it.
I personally, just ignore the ending, and appreciate the amazing time I had leading up to it. xD
Disagreed, there are many shows that spend seasons building on the ending that if the ending is really bad, it makes the rest of the show feel pointless.
GoT comes to my mind with this. The whole show are these giant buildup to the war in the north, the dragons, Westeros power grabs, Jamie’s character arc, children of the forest, and other cool concepts that ended in a pathetic wet fart of a final season. It makes watching the show feel like a waste. when you know at the end its just a wet fart.
Having the white walkers built up as an unimaginable threat for the entire series only to be toppled by catapult Arya was the biggest wet-fart turd on a wagyu steak dinner.
Unimaginable horrors beyond your comprehension Ends up just being some popsicle ass MFs who all die when the lead Mcfrozen nuts gets shanked.
LMAO @ Lead Mcfrozen Nuts!
Grim comes to mind. It ended so abruptly I just regret watching it at all.
Ugh why did you remind me of this? Grimm was such a good show only to just fucking nosedive right off a cliff one day.
“Surely if I satirize people who trash my favorite show, it’ll make me feel better about how it took a shit at the end.”
Was it Game of Thrones? If so, don’t worry, that’s not applicable either way,
because
it was always shit.
Nah first few seasons of GoT were peak TV. Then they shit all over it.
Dog shit adaptation of dog shit books, nothing but trash from beginnig to end. It was always going to go out like a bitch.
That doesn’t sound like a criticism, it sounds like the show was never to your taste and never would be regardless of its actual quality.
Thankfully I have some, which reinforces that I’m right.
I’m sure you’re always right aren’t you. I hope we become better strangers, you seem like fun.
Originally I was going to make the bon mot that it’s clearly not true because I was wrong for assuming you weren’t an imbecile. Funny, right? That’s went right out the window after I saw you get bell curved to genius savant status by actual imbecile @Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world. Deliberately misinterpreting you in a failed attempt to score a point for their yippie boomer obsession with agitprop is so embarrassing I feel like I need to take my monthly shower early.
You OK hon? Did I hit a nerve? Taking your time to mention someone in a completely unrelated comment is top tier lunatic behaviour, friend. Hope you find a way to deal with your issues xxx
Really putting the “ass” in comparison there. Also, if a person say… wrote a best selling beloved children’s book series, but then heel-turned into a piece of shit, it absolutely does ruin their entire body of work for a lot of people.
Like, this happens, what is the comic even talking about?
Responding from a month in the future, just scrolling this artist’s post history.
They’re just a decent artist with bad critical thinking and story-telling skills. I really hope they stop posting bcos holy shit this stuff is cancerously bad and it is consistently on the front page.
Really feels like the comic artist wrote ‘died like an idiot’ to argue against himself in bad faith from the get go
Context can certainly change over time. If Rudy Giuliani died in 2002, he’d be remembered as ‘America’s Mayor’.
How cruel a joke it must be for a God to create beings that crave consistency in a universe where the only consistent thing is change.
meh. if people report that the ending of a show was terrible, i’m not going to watch it, no matter how “good” the rest of it was.
similarly, if someone turned nazi at the end of their life, i’m calling them an asshole, no matter what they did before that
also, comparing tv shows to people’s actual lives is a dubious half ass analogy
What a stupid logic.
Every single person of note in Canada, lauded for building something good in Canada, for all Canadians, is eventually found to have cursed out a left-handed albino otter one day on a Monday, and is thus Satan incarnate.
Here we chastise people in glass houses from throwing stones; but we also don’t respect a redemption story or long-lasting contributions in case Buddy had a bad day once.
The last season of GoT invalidated all of the growth that was witnessed in all the previous seasons, ruining the story.
How I Met Your Mother’s last season broke a spell that was over me, thinking that any of the characters were decent people. And allowed me to look at the whole thing without any of the nostalgia that carried me throughout the show. Was a young adult with questionable opinions that got better as I got older. The show seems to have never done so. And so I can say that the bad season did ruin the rest of the show, as I may have never given it a critcal eye if they had written it better.
I remember reading all the alleged leaks on freefolk for s8, couldn’t believe they’d be accurate, some of them just seemed too dumb to be real.
By e3, so much of them had been correct (well, at least from the parts of that episode I could see), I just embraced it. Was a far more enjoyable experience for me, at least got me through the remainder of it. Cracks showed before s8 (once they ran out of book material I think is when it stated), but there was so much dumb shit that final season.
We used to do rewatches, my partner hasn’t touched it since then and has said she probably never will, s8 just ruined it for her (she also leaned into the spoilers after e3)
JK Rowling.
Like a punchline is to a joke, the ending is the most important part of a story. The conclusion gives the journey meaning. Blowing the ending can - and often does - retroactively ruin an entire narrative. This comic is akin to saying “a bad punchline doesn’t ruin a whole joke.” It does. In the same way, a bad or missing conclusion undermines the narrative as a whole.
If a story doesn’t have a satisfying conclusion, then I would say starting the story is pointless.
in the same way, if someone cures cancer and fucks one chicken…
I heard it was an osterich. Allegedly.
Meanwhile you have BNA:Brand New Animal, A show with an ending so bad it taints everything that leads up to it. I have never seen a show undermine its own message like that.
Except that isn’t the same logic?
A show’s ending is the culmination of its plotlines. A bad ending essentially invalidates all the plot development of the show.
Similar logic applied to a human would be if someone spent all their life trying to cure cancer and told everyone about how they were about to release the cure to then, suddenly, abandon the project, destroy all research so no one else can use it, and fuck off to retire in Tahiti.
And then a brick wall fell on that guy and his sister in Tahiti.
Shows all sort of suck after about the 5th episode. They all start doing filler at some point.
You should go back and watch network television shows. There’s so much post-commercial recap, start of the episode recap, “gotta fill my 43 minutes” and “gotta make 20 episodes” filler that you will greatly appreciate modern streaming shows.
We absolutely do apply these to people. Kevin Spacey? Bill Cosby? Jeffrey Epstein? Jared Fogle? Joe Paterno? Louis CK? Chris Brown? P. Diddy? Harvey Weinstein? OJ Simpson?
This list is irrelevant. Most of these people’s lives didn’t end with their major controversies as the comic references.
What if your achievements are mediocre and your views conform to the most popular, for your whole life.
Is that worthy of damnation?
Flip side, the guy that killed Hitler also caused the deaths of millions of people all over the world including approximately 6,000,000 jews. Like, his whole thing ended on a high note. Does that invalidate all of the bad beforehand?
Nah, you don’t get credit for suicide.
But to your broader point, it takes a lot of work to right something that’s bad. Someone who has a troubled youth but does their time and spends years rehabilitating their image may be remembered for their later years, while someone who is a terrible person and then says something nice on their deathbed is likely to only be remembered for the bad.
Tying back to the shower thought, a show can start out bad and get good (Star Trek TNG, Parks and Recreation,) but a show whose only good episode is the finale is unlikely to be remembered fondly.
