Current Events > Erase one finale: Game of Thrones, How I Met Your Mother, and Dexter

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Erasing means the finale won't exist anymore. There is a slot for a new last episode to be produced, but whether or not that happens, and how, is not up to you.
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didn't Scrubs have a shitty finale as well
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The only one that was ruined strictly by the final episode was HIMYM

For Dexter and GoT it was the season(s) leading up to the finales
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TheGoldenEel posted...

The only one that was ruined strictly by the final episode was HIMYM

For Dexter and GoT it was the season(s) leading up to the finales

I felt like the finale for HIMYM was fine. Showed mom, she was awesome, etc.
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Changing the GoT finale doesn't fix the rest of Seasons 7 and 8
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HylianFox posted...

didn't Scrubs have a shitty finale as well

Depends on what season you consider the finale. At the end of one season (I forget which one), was when most of the cast left. Most fans think of that as the true finale with follow-up seasons being a spin-off with the same name, sine the season after that was about all new interns.
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mech dragon posted...

HylianFox posted...

didn't Scrubs have a shitty finale as well

Depends on what season you consider the finale. At the end of one season (I forget which one), was when most of the cast left. Most fans think of that as the true finale with follow-up seasons being a spin-off with the same name, sine the season after that was about all new interns.

nothing ruins a show quite like continuing after it comes to a satisfying conclusion

see also: After M*A*S*H
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Dexter deserves a new ending

Dexter had a bad entire season, so changing just the final episode probably won't work. Gotta be HIMYM, then.
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Never saw Dexter. Was disappointed by final GoT season and its finale. Was disappointed in the final season and then downright insulted by the HIMYM finale. So HIMYM for me
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Dexter, but then again that show had a massive decline in its second half of existence so it wasn't as hard to stomach since it was already the shits.
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HIMYM

HylianFox posted...

didn't Scrubs have a shitty finale as well

The season 8 finale, most commonly referred to as the main show finale, was perfect.

"Season 9" / "Scrubs - Interns" was pretty bad, but not HIMYM ending level of bad
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himym has a version of the finale that just ends at them meeting, so i just treat that as the real one.

dexter's finale is worse, but i cared about got's more.

got.
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HIMYM finale is a shitshow with a bunch of retcons and unanswered threads along with destruction of character development

final season was shit overall except for mom eps
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GoT wasn't half bad everything considered. The season itself was crap though.
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

TheGoldenEel posted...

The only one that was ruined strictly by the final episode was HIMYM

For Dexter and GoT it was the season(s) leading up to the finales

I felt like the finale for HIMYM was fine. Showed mom, she was awesome, etc.

killing off the mom and having him wind up with "aunt" Robin was so fucking ridiculous. The entire series shows them as completely incompatible on a relationship level. So he finally meets the mom who actually gets him and finds his pedantic personality likeable. I look at their relationship like Ross and Rachel. Two toxic people who never can get it right and keep trying and the logical audience knows they shouldnt be together. So you have this great mom character introduced. People like her. She makes the unlikable main character somewhat tolerable. And then they go and make him wind up with an equally unlikable character. It's not HIMYM it's HIBYAR.
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chrono625 posted...

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

TheGoldenEel posted...

The only one that was ruined strictly by the final episode was HIMYM

For Dexter and GoT it was the season(s) leading up to the finales

I felt like the finale for HIMYM was fine. Showed mom, she was awesome, etc.

killing off the mom and having him wind up with "aunt" Robin was so fucking ridiculous. The entire series shows them as completely incompatible on a relationship level. So he finally meets the mom who actually gets him and finds his pedantic personality likeable. I look at their relationship like Ross and Rachel. Two toxic people who never can get it right and keep trying and the logical audience knows they shouldnt be together. So you have this great mom character introduced. People like her. She makes the unlikable main character somewhat tolerable. And then they go and make him wind up with an equally unlikable character. It's not HIMYM it's HIBYAR.

comparing HIMYM to Friends is very apt

I swear nobody enjoyed either of these shows for their lead characters (I know I didn't). HIMYM had NPH and Jason Segel, while Friends had Matt Perry and LeBlanc
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Speaking of HIMYM, make sure you watch the bloopers

They're fucking hysterical because NPH and Jason Segel just act like themselves

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lol....people actually think GoT finale is anywhere near as bad as these other two shows.

I've moved on from Robin!

Ehh, turns out the whole show is a ploy to get with Robin
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Behaviorism posted...

I've moved on from Robin!

Ehh, turns out the whole show is a ploy to get with Robin

Nah, more like Robin didnt want kids and now that his kids are not like, super young and stuff, it makes sense they might try again?

They never stopped loving one another, they just wanted different things from a relationship. After 16 years that can change. Or however old the oldest kid is...
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There were a ton of hints that the mother was dead throughout the series, so leaving that out kind of makes no sense. The finale was rushed and I hate the Robin hookup aspect, but the mother's death was heavily foreshadowed, and worked pretty well.
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dotsdfe posted...

There were a ton of hints that the mother was dead throughout the series, so leaving that out kind of makes no sense. The finale was rushed and I hate the Robin hookup aspect, but the mother's death was heavily foreshadowed, and worked pretty well.

It wasnt heavily foreshadowed until the last 2 seasons with certain episodes that could have been taken either way by the audience.

The mom is dead theory was just like any other time it was used in a show.

The final two season it really picked up steam because certain episodes did allude to that being a possibility.

But it was still a terrible way to end the show. And him winding up with aunt robin was just the kick to the reproductive organs to most fans.
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Game of Thrones since I don't give a shit about the other options here. I picked other and vote for Samurai Jack though.
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"People change"

that's why things more or less stayed the same in terms of character development

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Dexter had a bad entire season, so changing just the final episode probably won't work. Gotta be HIMYM, then.

So did GoT
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Sage JJ posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Dexter had a bad entire season, so changing just the final episode probably won't work. Gotta be HIMYM, then.

So did GoT

Dexter's finale was far worse than GoT's
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What other finales belong with this group of disappointments?
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mech dragon posted...

What other finales belong with this group of disappointments?

Sopranos.

Nothing "artistic" or creative about that trash ending.
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Behaviorism posted...

mech dragon posted...

What other finales belong with this group of disappointments?

Sopranos.

Nothing "artistic" or creative about that trash ending.

Sopranos ending wasnt bad.

Tony died, it's very much implied the guy wearing the members only jacket whacked him and the setting up of that scene shows a lot of views that can be conceived as first person from tony.

When the screen went black he was killed.
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TheGoldenEel posted...

For Dexter and GoT it was the season(s) leading up to the finales

Half of dexter was okay, then it went bonkers. You could have made an okay ending out of dexter training a protg instead we get a lumberjack who survived a hurricane at sea

Game of thrones is fine, you'd have to extend seasons to fix the problem there. The plot points themself are fine.

Idgaf about how a sitcom ends.
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Season 7 of Dexter was great, don't care what y'all say.
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Other: Star Trek: Enterprise

GoT and Dexter were both trash well before the finale so ditching the finale would just kill some fun memes, Star Trek: Enterprise was a pretty dang good show particularly in S3-4, the finale is totally unnecessary and just detracts from the show, the show is actually a much better and totally complete show without the finale. I don't even consider the finale to be part of my head canon. It's the perfect finale to erase because adds nothing and actively ruins existing things.
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chrono625 posted...

Tony died, it's very much implied the guy wearing the members only jacket whacked him and the setting up of that scene shows a lot of views that can be conceived as first person from tony.

When the screen went black he was killed.

Even if you interpret the ending as that, who did it? New York settled with Jersey, so there's no reason to kill him. Who did it? Eugene's wife? And ending abruptly like that? David Chase was trolling, plain ans simple

Just plain old dumb. There's a definitive conclusion, there's an ambiguous ending and then there's that crap
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Behaviorism posted...

chrono625 posted...

Tony died, it's very much implied the guy wearing the members only jacket whacked him and the setting up of that scene shows a lot of views that can be conceived as first person from tony.

When the screen went black he was killed.

Even if you interpret the ending as that, who did it? New York settled with Jersey, so there's no reason to kill him. Who did it? Eugene's wife? And ending abruptly like that? David Chase was trolling, plain ans simple

Just plain old dumb. There's a definitive conclusion, there's an ambiguous ending and then there's that crap

Taken from a few year old reddit thread and it's absolutely plausible.

Little Carmine probably gave the order to Butchie with Paulie's consent. There are a few hints in the final few episodes

Butchie originally planned the three hits on the Soprano crew in a barber's shop (where Paulie is specifically mentioned as not a target.) Then in Made in America Paulie walks into Satriale's with a box of barber scissors (the 30 pieces of silver)In the final sit-down Butchie keeps looking towards Carmine before making a decision (as he is the new heir-apparent of the Lupertazzi crime family)Little Carmine looks sad and says "It didn't have to be this way"Paulie shakes Butchie's hand behind Tony's backWhen Paulie calls Tony to tell him Carlo is missing, he says they were supposed to see Butchie "to run down a few items."Little Carmine had been "crying the blues" over Tony's feud with Phil because it was hurting his incomeWhen Butchie bumps into Tony at the hospital he says "We gotta stop meeting like this!"Paulie is wrecked with guilt over something important in the final episodePaulie has a dream where he sees Pussy's ghost and he asks him "When my time comes, will I stand up?" This is in the same episode where Tony begins to doubt Paulie's true loyalty after realizing he used to give Soprano secrets to Johnny Sack (i.e. New York)Mikey Palmice's ghost telling Paulie and Tony 3 o'clock

These in aggregate make me believe that it was the new boss Carmine Lupertazzi's decision to whack Tony. He couldn't continue business with Tony after the graphic way that Phil was executed in front of his family - his capos and soldiers would never stand for it. So Carmine gave the nod to Butchie to finish the original plan of decapitating the Sopranos and doing business with what is left. And while I don't believe Paulie was involved with the planning of the hit, he was informed about it. As Tony's under-boss, Paulie would presumably be the new head of the family - but he would have been a puppet of New York who betrayed his friends and would die alone not long after.

Carmine ordered the hit, Butchie executed it and Paulie knew about it.
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In retrospect, Dexter wasn't that bad of an ending imo. Game of thrones was fine. HIMYM was truly a spit in the face against the very premise of the show.
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chrono625 posted...

Little Carmine probably gave the order to Butchie with Paulie's consent. There are a few hints in the final few episodes

Butchie originally planned the three hits on the Soprano crew in a barber's shop (where Paulie is specifically mentioned as not a target.) Then in Made in America Paulie walks into Satriale's with a box of barber scissors (the 30 pieces of silver)In the final sit-down Butchie keeps looking towards Carmine before making a decision (as he is the new heir-apparent of the Lupertazzi crime family)Little Carmine looks sad and says "It didn't have to be this way"Paulie shakes Butchie's hand behind Tony's backWhen Paulie calls Tony to tell him Carlo is missing, he says they were supposed to see Butchie "to run down a few items."Little Carmine had been "crying the blues" over Tony's feud with Phil because it was hurting his incomeWhen Butchie bumps into Tony at the hospital he says "We gotta stop meeting like this!"Paulie is wrecked with guilt over something important in the final episodePaulie has a dream where he sees p****'s ghost and he asks him "When my time comes, will I stand up?" This is in the same episode where Tony begins to doubt Paulie's true loyalty after realizing he used to give Soprano secrets to Johnny Sack (i.e. New York)Mikey Palmice's ghost telling Paulie and Tony 3 o'clock

These in aggregate make me believe that it was the new boss Carmine Lupertazzi's decision to whack Tony. He couldn't continue business with Tony after the graphic way that Phil was executed in front of his family - his capos and soldiers would never stand for it. So Carmine gave the nod to Butchie to finish the original plan of decapitating the Sopranos and doing business with what is left. And while I don't believe Paulie was involved with the planning of the hit, he was informed about it. As Tony's under-boss, Paulie would presumably be the new head of the family - but he would have been a puppet of New York who betrayed his friends and would die alone not long after.

Carmine ordered the hit, Butchie executed it and Paulie knew about it.

The problem with the entire theory is that the whole show establishes that Paulie loved Tony, even if he was disappointed/upset with him a number of episodes
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Behaviorism posted...

chrono625 posted...

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The problem with the entire theory is that the whole show establishes that Paulie loved Tony, even if he was disappointed/upset with him a number of episodes

Did you mean to remove the spoiler tags?
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Never saw HIMYM. The plot outline of GoT's final episode isn't that terrible, but the writing and tone is stupid. Dexter needed for the entire series to go in a different direction for it to be good.
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I wonder what the poll results would be if only people who were fans of all three shows could vote.
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GoT. It's by far the worst finale. Pretty much ever.
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

They never stopped loving one another

there was a whole episode about ted letting go of his feelings for robin
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GoT ending was okay, but didnt deliver for the high expectations of the show and the whole last two seasons went by too quickly to wrap things up well.

HIMYM ending was definitely a slap in the face, but the ending made sense in context, I guess. It makes the show feel like a lie.

Dexter ending is just really fucking dumb and makes no sense. Why is he a lumberjack? I dont remember the explanation of who is taking care of his son. I dont see how it adds up at all.
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Sopranos.

Such a good story just to have that ending...

I don't care what the theory crafting is or what people think was implied, it did not happen so there is no closure.

The most disappointing ending ever.
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bump
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