30
Nov
2012
Friday Five – Worst Endings
Welcome to the Friday Five. Each week I help you get to now me a bit better with the help of a top five list. This week I list my five most disappointing endings.
Endings tend to be difficult. Sometimes you don’t want your favorite things to end, but they invariably must. Hopefully when they do end, it’s in a satisfying fashion. But a lot of times ending tend to be abrupt and leave you feeling more upset than sated.
- Star Trek: Nemesis – I went to this with no prior knowledge, and had no idea Data was going to die, until about 30 seconds before it happened, when I was like “Wait a minute . . . ship ready to blow up . . . Personal transporter . . . Oh noes!!!!!”. I understand why they did it, but I still wasn’t expecting it. It’s not the tearjerker that is the ending of Wrath of Khan, but it still gets me every time. Fortunately in the expanded universe, which isn’t bound to an aging actor, he was able to be ‘resurrected’, if you can call it that when you bring back an android.
- Dark Skies – This was supposed to be NBC’s answer to The X-Files (While we’re at it, X-Files’ ending was thoroughly disappointing as well, it never had any closure at all either). I only got into it later after it was canceled, because Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager’s busty 7 of 9) was on it. It was planned to be this long going series following an alien conspiracy throughout the sixties as they slowly invade, but it only lasted 20 episodes, and the last scene offers no closure whatsoever, and takes the classic cop out ending of a closing monologue over a fade out.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion – The very definition of a WTF ending. All kinds of awesome monster mecha battles up till episode 24, then a crazy deep dive into psychoanalysis and metaphysics and the nature of being.
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – John Conner time travels to an alternate future where no one knows who he is? This opened up so many new possibilities, while answering none. I’m still furious about it to this day. Wheres the novel/comic to keep this alive? It’s a real shame Fox chose to end this and keep Dollhouse. Yeah, that worked out real well.
- Star Trek: Enterprise – So the final episode is all in the holodeck and actually takes place during an episode of The Next Generation? We never get to see the actual crewmembers of the title show who aren’t holograms, and one of the main characters gets killed just because? I can see what they were going for, but they failed on just about every front. Again, in the expanded universe, they kinda ignore everything about that episode and its suckiness.
 JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.
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