There have been two spinoffs, and the second one hasn't ended yet. So for the people who say Dexter should have died/been exposed/caught/shamed at the end... well... it hasn't ended yet.

Also, the books are wilder. In the last one I read, the little boy and girl of Rita's were getting into killing. The little girl says "I don't kill because I'm a girl, so I'm just the lookout for my brother." The brother kills animals, the girl watches out, distracts anyone who might come around, basically runs interference for him. IIRC they're twins and maybe the book tried the whole "psychic twin connection" stuff? It's been a while. The book just gave creepier vibes than the previous ones and I quit there.

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Also let's not forget Cyber Doakes! That was wild.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Star Trek: Enterprise was not in the list. 0/10 article.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

For me it was The Man in High Castle. That ending made zero sense. To me it was weak and left a ton of things unanswered.

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I was satisfied with the LOST ending. At least enough for it not to be #2 behind GoT. I know it was polarizing but its not even in the same league as the mess of GoT.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The problem with the LOST ending was, it wasn't planned. They wrote themselves into a corner.

I'm good with the ending, too. I'm also good with people roasting them for it. And I'm also good with situations like in FROM where Harold Perrineau said he wouldn't work with them (same people) if they didn't have the ending pre-planned in advance. They even poke fun at the LOST ending in one of the early episodes, implying it won't go that way.

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

All fair. But the LOST ending didn't ruin the entire series, like GoT's did. Like, the ending of GoT retroactively made the rest of the show unwatchable, whereas ive watched all of LOST a couple times, and it's still great.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I never understood the hate for the Lost ending either. Made sense to me.

off the top of my head at least Battlestar Galactica should be on the list instead.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

I completely agree on both points. BSG is one of my favorite shows but yeeeesh that ending is not a point of pride.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I watched Lost well after it came out (during the pandemic) and I thought the ending was fine. It wasn't a great ending, but it didn't ruin the show. It doesn't make the rest of the show terrible, just makes the ending weird but ok.

Similarly the ending of How I Met Your Mother, if you just ignore the last episode then the show is still great. Sure the ending is bad, but the show isn't ruined.

Now that's not true for Game of Thrones. That show builds to the ending and when that ending goes nowhere, or character motivations are completely wrong, that is a failure.

Now Dexter is weird. While the last season was kind of a mess, had Dexter just gone off into the sea and died, I guess that would have made sense. But really the whole season was rough, so anything they did wouldn't have worked. BUT! They left the door open. Recently they followed up. The newest Dexter has been pretty entertaining.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually think it is in the same league. It was a total cop out ending.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

what was the cop out? the entire "flash forward" world was built to set up that ending.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Supernatural !!! The penultimate episode should have been the last one. The last episode was total trash. I am still mad about it.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

To be fair, it probably should have ended many times, and kept going, heh.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Me too, but to be fair Covid fucked up the episode they wanted. They claim the final episode was going have guest stars from everyone who ever was on the show.

I hated the ending but worse is I stuck with that show for 15 years even after it should have ended in season 8. Closes the gates of hell would have been a great ending. Or even season 11 would of also made a good one with Sam using Death weapon to slay Dean. The show just went on to long. But I watched every episode when they aired. I stay loyal all the way. Even after it went off the rails.

Was it to much to ask that writers for the show at least be fans of the show and watch past episodes. They fuck up a lot past episodes by ignoring things that had happen or dialog that took place in earlier episodes.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Dispatches From Elsewhere.

This was so good for 9 whole, long ass episodes, and then the last episode just shat all over every single thing that had happened previously and resolved nothing, because it had to be meta and a dumb allegory for writing a script while overcoming alcoholism and it didn't even make sense so it just meta-ed itself again to get out of having to tie up a single god damn story line.

Seriously though, the first episode is fantastic and beautiful and I do recommend watching it, but just don't go past that because you will get invested in the story and have all your hopes crushed as not one iota of it pays off.