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Lost is less than a week away and quite frankly this writer is giddy with joy at the thought of revisiting the island. But, if history has taught us anything it’s that sometimes – just sometimes – a show’s finale season can suck. Hard.
In this somewhat pessimistic spirit we’ve assembled a few of the most disappointing season hurrahs ever to grace screens. Pray Lost doesn’t go the same way as these candidates below.
Star Trek: The Original Series – Season Three
Yep, season one changed the genre as we know it, and the second season equally so; it’s just a crying shame that the third couldn’t have made it a hat trick. Instead, fans were faced with a condensed block of episodes, most of which lacking in purpose or coherence. Some blame the Friday night death slot for the series’ eventual cancellation – we prefer to blame the shoddy scripts. This one still hurts forty years after it ceased transmission.
Quantum Leap: Season Five
When you put this show under chronological scrutiny it is obvious that the quality was taking a leap – downwards. Come season five things weren’t looking so rosy for this once ace programme. But what makes this final season most frustrating is that it was never intended to be the end. It was cancelled without being resolved. All we were left with was a depressing epilogue and a whole lot of unanswered questions. In our minds, though, Sam did make it home.
The X Files: Season Nine
Chris Carter’s series really was the cat’s pyjamas throughout much of the Nineties, so in that respect it is quite heartbreaking to feature it in this list. But not that devastating, mind. Following the crap super soldier plot thread, season nine of The X Files remains an unravelled mess. David Duchovny only appears in two episodes, Gillian Anderson looks more bored than ever and in season finale, ‘The Truth’, all we find out is some waffle about the Mayan calendar and that Mulder and Scully do both believe. Sort of.
Got a final season that sends you mad with rage? Rant it below on the comments board.
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Alias Season 5 was horrid (although 3 and 4 were pretty bad too).
Don’t forget how Pushing Daisies rushed its second season ending – I so could have done with a third! Reaper ended suddenly too without any explanation and who could forget Terminator: SCC’s cliffhanger… This one above all else needs resolved! Oh, and I know it’s not scifi but the Sopranos did the same!
For me Lost’s season 5 was a disappointment because it failed to give realistic answers to some of the questions! I mean couldn’t they come up with a better way to return to the island than the recreation of the accident? So they took Jack’s grandfathers shoes and it’s ok? Eveyone knows that in nature even the tiny difference in a detail in a recreation would lead to million light years difference in the resault! It would be more realistic if they just told us that the island needed them and that IT was responsible for the second crash and leave aside the recreation of the first crash. Also Jeremy Bentham’s episode was a waste. But despite all these I’m still optimistic that the last season will offer satisfactory answers and a great conclusion to the series! Also I personally prefer season 9 of The X-Files than season 7. At least season 9 was scary and dark like the show originally intented to be and had some great stand-alones (yes the mythology was not that great but that was a problem they had since season 6). Season 7 looked like more of a parody than a serious show with all the comedic episodes they had and the comedy wasn’t anywhere near as smart as it was in the first 5 seasons. Also in season 7 I missed the scary elements and the brilliant conspiracy theories that made the series to stand out. But nevertheless X-Files is probably the best series in its kind and I love it despite its flaws.
Season 3 of TOS had some classics and is consistently under rated:
The Tholian Web
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
For the World is hollow and I have touched the Sky.
Fair enough there were some clunkers like Spocks Brain but this is NOT a season to forget! Season 7 of TNG on the other hand has only All Good Things to recommend it.
So there:)
Star Trek Voyager Season 7: Endgame was rubbish. Its a shame that it just stopped. There was no sense of what happened next? To the Maquis? Seven and Chakotay (that was a big mistake), The ex-Equinox crew? The Doctor and holgraphic rights? Seven and Icheb- the ex-Borgs? And of course Captain Janeway (even though we do know that she made an Admiral – back with original hair in the film Insurrection -Star Trek TNG 9). The Voyager crew deserve a movie of their own, as Pocket Books didn’t do it justice.
I have to agree with Nick above re XFiles – the final 2 seasons were pretty weak generally, especially season 9, but some of the standalones were great, and a return of sorts to the dark creepy early episodes, although they had clearly lost focus and original ideas. I also liked the finale for the most part, but it needed to be followed by an action packed all out fight/battle/colonisation etc, which it wasn’t, and a third movie may not happen now unfortunately.
Other shows with weak (ish) finales for me
Millennium – after a crazy, almost drug induced second season apocalyptic cliffhanger, an unexpected season 3 was a bit all over the place, with some brilliant episodes, but the final 2 parter wasnt the best for me. The XFiles crossover episode did provide closure for Frank though, albeit a weak story.
Twin Peaks – weak only in that it will never be resolved!