#wfround1

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

Propaganda is under the cut (671 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Chén Qíng Lìng/The Untamed - 1.50 Episode 50

The mastermind who plans everything has appeared. He's not someone who wouldn't think he would be the one who is behind everything, including Wei Wuxian's comeback. Who would that be?

I nominate this final on grounds of CCP information control, censorship and homophobia. They were so scared of the power of wangxian that they ended up banning ao3 in china and in the show they have to inexplicably have them part ways just to hammer home the no-homo. Plus the show is just kind of objectively bad.... but it rewires your brain all the same

Supernatural - 15.20 Carry On

cw: suicide

After Chuck is defeated and someone takes his place, Sam and Dean go about their life of hunting, but things don't turn out as expected.

1) you know why 2) god. where do i fucking start. this episode completely ignores this large cast of characters that were considered family in order to make it the "just two brothers" show again, scrapping basically every shred of character development shown throughout the course of the show, cutting out incredibly important characters at the last second (i.e. eileen being replaced with blurry wife for no fucking reason, cas not being there at all despite the whole love confession/ dying for dean that happened just two episodes before). in the penultimate episode the boys fight god. the finale? a random vampire from an episode of season one, who up until this point had never been mentioned again. then we have Dean being impaled on a very phallic looking spike and, after a speech about it just being about the brothers, dies. he then goes to heaven, where his father figure tells him his abusive dad is just down the road. he hops in his car (also in heaven, somehow) and drives for the next 60 odd years waiting for Sam to die. meanwhile, sam is moving on with blurry wife and i shown with a son named dean (as seen stitched onto his clothes), and we eventually see sam, now old and clad in the crustiest looking wig i have ever seen, die in the hospital. he goes to heaven, meets Dean on a bridge, and the last shot is the entire cast and crew on the bridge saying goodbye, completely shattering the fourth wall because fuck it, who cares anymore. and this isn't even mentioning everything that happened after. just an absolute mess the whole way through. 3) Random villain from season 1 kills one of the main characters, he goes to heaven and drives around while the other main character gets a montage of growing old a horrible wig. And that's not even all. 4) It abandoned 15 years of series theme and character growth, veered away from the natural story line and failed to resolve major plot threads. Dean deserved better, and so did Cas. See also Jared's terrible wig, Dean jr, Dean driving through heaven for five minutes... 5) Dean dies in the most anticlimactic way, cheap wig, blurry wife 6) There was no Castel :( 7) I mean... 8) destroyed every character arc in one fell swoop. the guy who tried to kill himself and struggled with depression throughout the show ended up killing himself anyway! was cas’s death even important? who was blurry wife? why was the absolute ugliest toddler imaginable cast to play Sam’s son? but in order to truly grasp how decimating this finale was, you have to understand the queerbaiting between 15.18 and the finale. why did Misha post that pic in the onion field with Uriel. why was Misha originally credited to be in 19 episodes of the final season on IMDb. why was . Hrrgghh. 9) Do I even need to write propaganda for this one? Even though it was the series finale we are still here after 3 years 😂 Title said 'carry on', but the fandom said 'nah, time for season 16'. 10) Bad old man makeup and no castiel 11) Everything had been neatly wrapped up in the previous episode. Then they decided "Hey you know what would be great? If we just killed one of the main characters." They killed him for no reason. He deserved to live a full life, have a family, retire, but nope! He met his match in a RUSTY NAIL. Not to mention that there were terrible wigs, blurry wives, and subtextual incest vibes involved.

+ After it aired, one of the actors unfollowed everyone who had anything to do with the episode.

#supernatural #spn #the untamed #cql #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1 #PENIS POLL

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (216 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Gilmore Girls - 7.22 Bon Voyage

Rory gets a job as a journalist following a presidential campaign. The entire town puts on a farewell party for Rory.

No propaganda submitted

Sherlock - 4.03 The Final Problem

cw: death, child death

A dark secret in the Holmes family rears its head with a vengeance, putting Sherlock and friends through a series of sick, manipulative psychological and potentially fatal games.

1) It threw ALL characterization and character growth and development out the window for a """"""shocking"""""" and """"""unexpected"""""" finale. Many say it sucked because the main ship did not become canon. But that was nothing compared to the absolute disaster that was the whole series 4 and especially the last episode and the cheesy freeze frame and speech right at the end. (Not to speak of the weird ass promo stuff afterwards.) Why are you adapting such a famous and repeatedly adapted story if you're not gonna change anything about it? If you're gonna leave it as you started it? They tried to make their own Doctor Who and failed miserably. Sure, it was pretty promising and interesting at the start, but they Had to be clever...

2) Famously so bad that there was a conspiracy theory that there was a secret final episode. It added a secret genius sibling with magic powers for god's sake.

3) Others have said it better, but for me it was the rotting cherry on top of the disgusting cake that was S4. And that after a terribly bland S3...

4) Wrapped up everything poorly, mocked the audience, and didn’t draw on any of the loose ends the writers had made in the same season, or any previous seasons.

+ It was so horrible people thought there was a secret ACTUAL final episode airing the following week

#gilmore girls #sherlock #bbc sherlock #wfround1 #wfpoll #wfr1g2 #polls #poll

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (223 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - 8.09 The Last Day

The squad takes stock of their eight years together and look towards their future.

It just... season 8 had been so bad as a whole, it attempted to touch on the blm movement and did it in an okay at best way and in the wake of it all, i think a lot of people just weren't here for cop shows. The finale tried to bring the magic back with one last heist and it did pull out all the stops but I don't know, it just left me feeling really cold. And the ending being that even though the main character wasn't a cop anymore, that he would return to the station every year for the heist... it just never escapes the cop narrative even after he's left.

Voltron: Legendary Defender - 8.13 The End is the Beginning

Voltron and Honerva come together at the source of all realities in the ultimate battle between good and evil for the survival of the universe.

1) god what to say. for the resolution to one of the most popular shows of the time boy did it not resolve much. it was!!!! so bad!!!! the decisions they made for the characters post-canon, the cop out marriage with some nameless guy, the way the show just ended in ruin. truly, a relic of its time.

2) where do i even begin. such a shitshow and basically destroyed any last vestige of my love for the show. i assume someone else has nominated it and can give a better explanation since im running on about two hours of sleep after being up for 25 hours straight.

#oops forgot to schedule this one #b99 #brooklyn nine nine #voltron #vld #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1 #PENIS POLL 2

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (359 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Danny Phantom - 3.12/3.13 Phantom Planet

When Plasmius' new ghostbuster team outclasses Danny in the field, the boy decides to remove his powers and retire, unaware of an approaching massive asteroid threatening Earth.

1) *points at Phantom Planet* LOOK AT IT! Okay there is a whole ass Power Point presentation on tumblr about why PP sucks major ass, but I can't find it right now. So my sybopsis: Danny just. Decides to give up on his ghost powers. After 52 fucking episodes. He's out. Vlad won. Bye. Except oh no who would've guessed that was all part of Vlad's plan and Vlad reveals his powers to the whole world and takes ALL OF IT hostage (wow such cunning, much intelligence, very smart villain). And he wants money. Not like Maggie, whom he has been pining for for decades. Like I get that it's a children's show and that'd be a bit too fucked up but money? Really? So Vlad fails in making the anti-ghost-meteor intangible. Danny goes into the Ghost Zone POWERLESS and gets blasted by every ghost ever and I guess those people who think that he died to get his powers are right because HE GETS HIS POWERS BACK??? LIKE THAT??? Vlad's plan of using ghost powers on the anti-ghost-meteor didn't work, but using ghost powers on the entire world as the anti-ghost-meteor is about to crash into it does? I thought that meteor negated all ghost powers??? VALERIE GRAY WOULD NOT CHEER AT THE REVEAL THAT DANNY PHANTOM IS DANNY FENTON. SHE WOULD BE INCREDIBLY ANGRY AND CONFLICTED, PROBABLY PUNCH HIM AND THEN LATER APOLOGIZE WHEN SHE ACTUALLY HAD SOME TIME TO STOMACH THAT REVELATION. HOW *DARE* YOU RUIN THAT REVEAL FOR US?! Also what happened to Dani? Tucker becoming mayor is stupid but considering this entire episode, it's also super funny. I let him have that win lol.

2) So bad the fandom disowned it, AO3 fics regularly tag "Phantom Planet didn't happen"

Roseanne - 9.23/9.24 Into That Good Night

The Conners welcome baby Harris Conner-Healy home. Roseanne is delighted Darlene wants to live at home and work on her parenting skills. The family talks about their lives after winning the lottery and are glad they have all come out of it stronger people. Over a pizza dinner, Roseanne suggests they say grace to thank God that Harris survived and the family is together again.

Family and friends gather at the Conner house to celebrate baby Harris' Homecoming and everyone takes a turn chatting with the new addition to the family. Mark and Becky have some exciting news, as do Leon and his husband Scott. During dinner, Roseanne takes time to reflect on each member of her family and reveals she has been writing a book; everything we see is Roseanne's altered version of actual events. Roseanne reveals the true story and admits she changed whatever details she didn't like about her life and the people in it. In truth, the Conners never won the lottery; it was all a fantasy Roseanne created in order to cope with a devastating reality. In the final moments, Roseanne sits alone in her basement writing room. She goes upstairs, passing through the old kitchen and the old living room. Roseanne sits on the old couch with the classic afghan on the back and silently takes in the warmth and comfort of the family home as the lights slowly fade.

Just focusing on the (at the time) series finale and not all the terrible things Roseanne decided to say and be later. This finale sucked. It was built to retcon the entire (admittedly bad) season that came before it as a bizarre fantasy of the titular character after her Husband died. They quickly and randomly undid different characters' development and swapped around couples just because.

#danny phantom #roseanne #wfround1 #wfpoll #wfr1g2 #polls #poll

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (163 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Agent Carter - 2.10 Hollywood Ending

Peggy needs Howard Stark to eliminate Zero Matter as they are faced with a mission none of them could come back.

Just as Peggysous became canon, just as Jack is about to start his redemption arc, they cancelled the show and left all of us on a massive cliffhanger for, let's see, almost 8 years at this point. We need ANSWERS.

Quantum Leap - 5.22 Mirror Image

Sam leaps into a bar with a bartender that's more than he appears. When Sam looks into a mirror, he sees his own reflection. In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, they search history for Sam. Sam learns more about Quantum Leap, and who's responsible for his leaps. Before he takes his next leap, he realizes he must correct something that could affect his personal history.

1) Although Sam wanted to go home, he instead chose to return and inform Beth that Al was still alive. The final caption of the show tells the audience that, in the end, Sam never returned home; with the title card at the end somewhat unceremoniously announcing it, and also with his last name misspelled: "Dr. Sam Becket [sic] never returned home."

2) The whole entire point of Quantum Leap was getting Sam Beckett back home and then he didn’t even get to go back home… and the way we are told this is through one sentence of text on a background. WHERE THEY MISSPELL SAM’S LAST NAME!!!!

3) My mother was very upset that Sam Beckett never returned home to his wife.

+ The finale was filmed to act as a series finale, but the show was supposed to get another season, and got cancelled last minute.

#agent carter #quantum leap #wfround1 #wfpoll #wfr1g2 #polls #poll

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (169 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

The 100 - 7.16 The Last War

cw: gore, ableism, death, war

After all the fighting and loss, Clarke and her friends have reached the final battle. But is humanity worthy of something greater?

Well they started badly by paralyzing the main character's daughter and then having said MC say that she's basically dead so she murders someone right in front of (technically an alien) god who is supposed to be judging humanity to decide if they can "ascend" aka join the alien hivemind or be genocided. This goes poorly but another character salvages it and so humanity basically ends anyway and they all turn into glowing trees (unless they were already dead then no trees for them) Except the main character who is cursed to live alone forever - except that most of the other mains choose to stay with her but they're unable to continue the human race or become trees again so it's lose lose all around

Gotham - 5.12 The Beginning...

Bruce returns to Gotham for the opening of the new Wayne Tower; when Bullock is framed for a murder, Gordon begins to piece together a sinister plot targeting the city; a new figure emerges to be the hero Gotham needs.

1. it's the last episode and it's called "the beginning" (yeah ik it's a prequel it's still a dumb move) 2. you can't just END YOUR BATMAN SHOW by introducing the joker and only showing him for 2 seconds that's dumb as hell too!

#the 100 #gotham #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (330 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Gossip Girl - 6.10 New York I Love You XOXO

In a fashionable farewell to remember, our favorite Upper East Siders join forces for one last soiree; The identity of Gossip Girl is finally revealed.

Chuck murders his uncle so the plot is that Chuck and Blair had to get married in a day and like flee the country. Whether you loved them or hated them, no one wanted them to get married in ten minutes on the street. Dan is revealed as Gossip Girl which makes ZERO sense because he sends tips to Gossip Girl and learns stuff from it ALL THE TIME. It’s literally impossible that he was Gossip Girl the whole time. There’s a timeskip and Dan and Serena are getting married, OH cause no one even cares that he’s Gossip Girl and has ruined their lives over and over, so Dan and Serena get married even though they haven’t been together since they were sixteen!! They don’t even like each other at all by season six. Everyone else’s ending is just tragic. Nate’s whole storyline in season one was hating that his life was planned and he’s going to end up like his dad, and he ends up exactly like his dad and he’s in politics despite showing zero interest in it before. Every character didn’t want to end up like their parents and DID by the end

The X-Files - 11.10 My Struggle IV

cw: people explode and get shot (non-gory, as I recall), character turns into a CGI monster for a few seconds

Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.

1) This finale goes against everything X-Files by leaning way too hard into the supernatural. Scully is having visions; her kid, William, is exploding people with ESP; and the Cigarette-Smoking Man is back after having been exploded in a previous season finale. The Alex Jones comedy pastiche character (played by the Community guy) is somehow still here too. The series ends with William being set in stone as not Mulder’s son, but don’t worry, because Scully is pregnant by him anyway! Also William got shot and fell into a river but survived somehow, but CSM is definitely dead even though he got killed in the exact same way.

2) I can't believe Chris Carter knew Gillian Anderson wasn't going to come back & that this would be the last X-Files ever and he wrote...this

#gossip girl #gg #the x files #txf #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (354 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Angel - 4.22 Home

Lilah returns from the dead to offer Angel and his friends full ownership of Wolfram and Hart.

1) It's the end of the worst season of tv I I can think of. So much on and off screen was just awful. I wish I could bleach any recollection of this from my mind 2) Easy summation of why Joss Wheadon should not be trusted with handling shows at this point. Connor is a horrible character that gets treated like garbage to the endthat despite the interesting premise of him, they don't address his issues and wipe his story to "fix" him and then there's everything with Cordelia that's best described in an essay that unfortunately isn't around but removing her after assassinating her character with everything is a mess and making her comatose to "wipe her away" never sat right and while the concept of Angel working for his worst enemy is a neat concept. it just. feels wrong. it just sucks.

Steven Universe - 5.29 Change Your Mind

cw: characters get stabbed (PG)

After landing on homeworld, Steven embarks on a journey to convince White Diamond to listen to him so he can help the corrupted gems back on Earth.

1) Genuinely just felt like a compact of all the issues Steven Universe had summed up that it tries to be deep and meaningful but felt so bad as a result. 2) "IDC that the interest decided media criticism is cringe or malicious and we all have to pretended Steven universe was some perfect little angel who was the victim of an evil hate campaign. The ending was rushed, horribley paced, had the worst redemption """"""arc"""""""""" in the entire series(yes I say redemption arcs look me dead in the eye and tell me the diamonds weren't redeemed), hideous fusion designs that broke the pre-established logic of fusion, and was some the most insufferable case of millenial writing I've seen. The only postive of the ending was that 10 seconds of james baxtet animation. It compounds all the criticisms people have held for Steven universe for years into a singular 40 minute episode and I'm glad it's considered embarrassing to like this show now. And in case anyone thinks I'm just a bitter 30 year old who was expecting too much from a children's show: I was 15 when the finale aired I was literally the prime demographic I thought it was shit then and I think its shit now”

#btvs #steven universe #su #angel #angel the series #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (57 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - 4.08 Chapter Thirty-Six: At The Mountains of Madness

cw: suicide

The darkest days of the void arrive as Sabrina struggles with grief and regret. Can she summon the strength to overcome an endless cycle of destruction?

Ok so in fairness this entire final season sucked but the real kicker is that in the final scene we learn that after the main character died, her love interest killed himself in order to be with her in the afterlife. Yeah, a teenager committed suicide and we were supposed to see that as a happy ending.

That '70s Show - 8.22 That '70s Finale

It is New Year's Eve and is the last day of the '70s. Kitty is having second thoughts about selling the house and moving to Florida, even though Red thinks she is happy they are moving. Donna has just broken up with Randy and is moving to college. Jackie realizes she loves Fez. Bob decides that he's moving to Florida and open a bait shop. Eric says he's coming home from Africa.

No propaganda submitted

#chilling adventures of sabrina #that 70s show #wfround1 #wfpoll #wfr1g2 #polls #poll

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (107 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Soul Eater - 1.51 The Word Is Bravery!

With her friends fallen, Maka must find the strength to face the Kishin alone. The world is in jeopardy and evil is poised for certain victory - until something stirs deep inside the young Meister's heart.

ugh god it just gave up on any attempt at character development or the ending of the story in any meaningful way. instead of a complex universe journey exploring her bond with soul, and death the kid becoming the new god of death, maka just...wins the day by 'being brave', extremely underwhelming and borderline nonsensical

Torchwood - 4.10 The Blood Line

Jack, Gwen, and Oswald are in Shanghai with Rex and Esther in Buenos Aires. They are at opposite ends of what proves to be the Blessing. The Families' interest in getting rid of Jack is revealed, as is the origin and meaning of Miracle Day. They realize that bringing the miracle to an end will have a cost as some of those who have survived will most certainly die. Jack, the only remaining mortal, shows himself more than ready to sacrifice his life if that's what it takes to end it all. One member of Torchwood will not survive.

Captain Jack's magical blood is necessary to heal a evil vagina running through the core of the Earth, and Bill Pullman's on hand as a cackling supervillain pedophile who dies screaming about how he's going to chase little girls in Hell. But the worst part is, somehow, all of that is boring.

#soul eater #torchwood #wfround1 #wfpoll #wfr1g2 #polls #poll

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (257 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Merlin - 5.12/5.13 Diamond Of The Day

Merlin finds himself facing the future he's fought so long to avoid. / With Arthur's forces outnumbered, Merlin arrives in his guise as the aged sorcerer to defeat Morgana's army with magic. Arthur kills Mordred but is wounded and rescued by Merlin, who reveals that he is a wizard. Arthur is initially hostile but, advised by Gaius, allows Merlin to take him to the healing lake of Avalon. On the journey, Arthur comes to appreciate everything Merlin has ever done for him and eyes him with a new respect, even softening in his attitude to magic, but Morgana is pursuing them. Can they make it to Avalon ahead of her?

1) (spoilers ahead) Arthur found out about Merlin's magic. And before they could talk about any of it, he DIED. Then, while he was dying, he said that he wanted to tell Merlin something that he never had before. He says, "Thank you". But, as Merthur shippers say, if you read the actor's lips, it looks like he's saying "I love you"

2) It was too fricking sad. There was too much dying in your arms tonight.

3) Honestly it's been years since I've seen it but I still regularly think about how they saved their big major character-relationship-redefining reveal for literally the LAST EPISODE. Why would you do that???

4) they started the show with a prophecy about all the great things arthur and merlin would achieve together and ended it by saying "whoops! did we say that? let's just say that happened off screen" as arthur literally dies in merlin's arms. all these promises about how everything will be different when arthur is king and he does absolutely nothing once he's there. one day arthur will know about merlin's magic and see everything he has done for him? yeah for like 20 mins and then he DIES. but he achieved his destiny of waving his sword around and looking pretty <3 and I'm sure there are other submissions talking about the queerbaiting elements (esp in the commentary) and the way they kill gwaine too :(

+ 1) It aired on December 24, ruining all fans' Christmas in 2012 In the DVD commentary, one of the showrunners said, "We did, very genuinely, think of the episode as a love story between two men. Which is what I think it is, jokes and innuendo aside"

+ 2) IT AIRED ON FUCKING CHRISTMAS

Xena Warrior Princess - 6.21/6.22 A Friend in Need

A dead woman from Xena's past sends a monk to ask the warrior princess for help. Xena and Gabrielle travel to the far land of Japa, which Xena visited a long time ago, to face an evil spirit and his army. / When Xena dies in order to fight Yodoshi as a ghost, Gabrielle starts a dangerous journey to retrieve her friend's body and put her ashes into the Fountain of Strength, which will bring her back from the dead.

They undid an entire series of redemption work with one that could only be redeemed with her death an unending torment

#merlin #bbc merlin #xena warrior princess #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (231 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Mr. Robot - 4.13 Hello, Elliot

cw: light mentions of sexual assault and pedophilia (was covered in another episode), dissociation

Elliot gets to Coney Island, and the delusion begins to slip. Mr. Robot reveals the truth.

The writers had a poor understanding of DID and ended up saying a lot of things that were wrong and reiterating information and mindsets that are harmful to those who struggle with DID.

Star Trek: The Original Series - 3.26 Turnabout Intruder

Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise.

1) Kirk switches bodies with a vengeful ex. It's implied that women can't be captains, which adds a layer of misogyny into the franchise. Nichelle Nichols isn't there.

2) Calling "Turnabout Intruder" a finale might be a bit of a fallacy, since TOS was a very episodic show with no real ongoing storylines or major character arcs, but it was certainly a sour note to end an iconic TV show on. The episode is sexist, stupid, and all-around bad as an episode, but as a finale it's even worse. The plot is that a woman is mad that "women can't be captains" in Star Fleet (a fact that was later retconned, so the problem boils down to *she* couldn't be a captain) because they're too silly and emotional, so she switches bodies with Kirk and proceeds to suck at being captain due to being...silly and emotional. It's a real letdown for a show that was trying to be progressive (even by 60s standards).

3) "How should we end our famously progressive sci-fi touchstone? With an aggressively misogynistic episode that establishes women are forbidden from being starship captains because Gene Roddenberry was angry about being divorced? Sure, why not."

+ The show was abruptly canceled rather than allowed to come to a natural conclusion, but finales weren't generally a big deal back then anyway.

#mr robot #star trek tos #st tos #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1

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Welcome to the Worst Finale Tournament

Group 2 of 4

Any finale that was submitted and made it through prelims is included, i.e. my personal opinions are not reflected in this blog

finales can be bad because of bad writing, rushed production, premature cancellation, or anything else.

A bad finale doesn’t necessarily mean a bad episode‚ and vice versa.

Poll posts will include: - Screencap some were submitted but most are just the first result I could get from google - Summary pulled from imdb. NOT meant to be propaganda, just meant to help jog your memory - Propaganda + I'm listing a word count bc I think it's funny - cws and extra context that I got in submissions (if there is no cw that doesn't necessarily mean they don't need one, just that none were submitted)

This is the time to be a hater, but sometimes we only hate because we love so much

I’m sorry they did that to you.

Spreadsheet listing all finales submitted (those in voting are in bold) Link to challonge bracket (includes links to individual polls)

Also, you're always welcome to submit propaganda via my submissions box (can be for or against)‚ as well as any screencaps you feel should be used.

+ Here's the pinned post for the last tournament (Most Episode)

No set schedule this time, but I'll post links to poll groups here

Preliminary polls

Round 1

Group 1

Group 2

#worst finale #tournament #tumblr tournament #wfprelim #wfround1

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (158 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Dexter - 8.12 Remember the Monsters?

cw: blood, gore, death

Dexter is faced with impossible odds as a brewing hurricane makes its way towards Miami.

1) Good LORD. So this show took a real nosedive bc it reached a natural and good conclusion at the end of season 4, so all of the good writers left. But Showtime dragged its corpse around for another 4 seasons. And in the awful finale it ends with him steering a boat into a hurricane and becoming a lumberjack

2) HE BECAME A LUMBERJAAAACCCKKKKKKK

+ Ended around the same time as Breaking Bad and there was some hype in comparing finales but Breaking Bad was a consistently excellent show while Dexter was at beast fun but kinda bad. Truly a hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby situation

Pandora Hearts - 1.25 Beyond the Winding Road

Oscar pays a visit to Oz and tells him to come home. Though reluctant, Oz learns that his father had gone missing for over 10 years. The painting of a Chain on the wall reminds Oz of something.

this may be way too niche of a pick lol, but the manga is sooooo good and unfortunately the anime didn't get to cover like...90% of its best content (it was cancelled relatively early into the manga's run) and so they had to make up a completely different ending than the manga eventually got and it is...Not Very Good. Like even on its own its pretty disappointing and leaves a lot of stuff hanging but then when you compare it to the actual finale of the manga it gets even worse in comparison

+ I'm not 100% whether the series was technically cancelled prematurely or not- the finale I'm submitting is *presented* as a series finale but at the same time it *was* cancelled way before the manga it was based on finished

#dexter #pandora hearts #wfround1 #wfpoll #wfr1g2 #polls #poll

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Round 1 of 6, Group 2 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (424 words) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Doctor Who - 12.10 The Timeless Children

In the epic and emotional season finale, the Cybermen are on the march. As the last remaining humans are ruthlessly hunted down, Graham, Ryan and Yaz face a terrifying fight to survive. Civilisations fall. Others rise anew. Lies are exposed, truths are revealed, battles are fought, and for the Doctor - trapped and alone - nothing will ever be the same again.

this finale is shit!! absolute ass! nothing happens in it for it to justify having such a cool name. the master captures the doctor, shows her a slideshow that amounts to ‘‘you’re adopted!! :)" doctor breaks out of her matrix prison thing by overloading it with memories when the matrix is The Supercomputer and it’s used to hold all memories of all time lords ever? you know, the species whove been doing their thing for a billion years and live up to 10,000 years? the doctors new memories should either already be there or make nary a dent in it. the doctor’s like ‘‘why would they do that! why would they lie?’’ girl they have been lying to you since forever. they killed you once. theyve tried to kill you so many times. they turned you into a fucked up anti time monster that one time. one of the doctors past past selves even told her it doesnt really matter!! what was even the point

Our Flag Means Death - 2.08 Mermen

cw: vomit

Stede, Zheng, Spanish Jackie and the rest of the Revenge crew team up to take down a nefarious common enemy threatening the world of piracy.

1) paced like a runaway train, worst actor kiss i've seen in all my years, weird resolutions for two newly-introduced characters who started with lots of potential but ended up with no narrative payoff. (spoilers) removed a really strong actor/character from an overwhelmingly mediocre cast and caused a giant rift in the fandom with some (falsely) claiming that the major character death was bury-your-gays, homophobic, ableist, etc. and that they were done with the show (we'll see about that), and others claiming it made perfect sense to kill off this character because he was "ready to die"

2) Season 1 was so promising, and set up so much! Season 2 SEEMED like it was gonna fulfill some of that promise... That is, of course, until they squandered all of those loose plot threads, character moments, potential arcs, etc. in a half-assed episode that was basically all filler and ended with one of the most unsatisfying, pointless, and unemotional deaths of TV that gave us all 'Dean with the rusty nail' flashbacks. Even the *seagull* got a better death. Not even the canon ship felt satisfying!! Their kiss and ending was extremely rushed and they didn't actually go anywhere from the end of S1.

3) Least of all it was all very rushed. More importantly Izzy was absolutely fucked and his death didn’t make sense with the writing of the rest of the series. Ed en Stede’s character development throughout the season got thrown away for some ”happy” ending which would’ve been better if they just stayed with the crew.

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Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (231 words) (333 in defense) - may contain spoilers

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propaganda

Battlestar Galactica (2004) - 4.19, 4.20, 4.21 Daybreak (Parts 1-3)

Galactica launches a rescue mission to retrieve Hera Agathon from the "colony", a heavily armed and defended Cylon base located near a black hole. They manage to rescue Hera and, in the end, the fleet finds a new planet to settle on, which they come to call Earth

1) I asked my dad for his opinion on the worst finale ever and he said this one "made him feel stabby" (and then elaborated that he felt like they took every mystery from the show and came up with the worst possible explanations for them)

2) To be fair, the series had started to go downhill before this, but the finale is what turned one of the greatest scifi shows ever into something forgettable. It's kind of hard to pinpoint what was the worst part. There's the reveal that they were looking for prehistoric Earth (our Earth) all along and all humans are descendants of a human/cylon baby. The reveal that a beloved main character was dead for the whole season and possibly an angel as they disappear without a trace. Then showing two other main characters somehow walking around modern day, talking about how they know God (with a capitol G). Also, somehow, Bob Dylan was a space angel/prophet. Go figure. The series was created by mormons and in no place is more evident than in this finale as it makes an odd left turn from scifi to theology.

IN DEFENSE: OKAY, alot of people dislike the Battlestar Galactica (2004) finale but I think while odd, is still a very good way of ending the series. The series throughout subtextually has a very blatant discussion of theology, The Humans have some pantheon that seems to be loosely analogous to Greco-Roman myth and the Cylons all follow one singular god, and even within the Cylon ranks they have debates and beliefs about if faith or logic is better. When Gaius Baltar tries to found a monotheistic religion, humans from across the ship(s) begin to enact violence on his followers. Gaius Baltar has a manifestation of one of the Human-like Cylons in his head throughout the entire series basically up until the end, Often referred to as "Head 6", (though for this I'll call her "Mind 6"), it's often believed that because this manifestation knows so much about things Gaius wouldn't that she is a neural clone of some sort implanted into Gaius, but we see later that this cannot be the case, as Caprica 6, the person Mind 6 is impersonating, is alive and well(-ish), and not only is she alive, but she's got a Mind Gaius who's been doing the same stuff to her. Mind 6 and Mind Gaius are revealed in the finale to be some sort of divine entities. They simply took the form of Gaius and Caprica 6. As far as the "Bob Dylan was a prophet" thing, it's implied by the finale and a few other plot points that Humanity and similar races are bound to repeat a few similar points in identifiable history, as Mind Gaius and Mind 6 look at the rise of research into Artificial Intelligence and one asks to the other if they believe that earth, our earth, will be the one the break the cycle. I don't know what to say about Starbuck though, that shit's wild to me still and I still don't get how to wrap my head around the implications of it.

Skins - 4.08 Everyone

As Emily, Naomi, Pandora, and Thomas make up, the gang become concerned for the absent Freddie and hold his birthday party in his absence. Cook, who has read Freddie's notebook which mention's Foster's obsession with Effy, follows the psychiatric worker home and breaks into his basement, where he discovers a bag containing Freddie's blood-stained clothes. Foster comes in and attacks him but, with a cry of "I'm Cook" the youngster hits him back with the baseball bat and avenges his friend's death.

A character getting randomly brutally killed in the previous episode is the real crime, but the fact that the finale barely acknowledged it and had no emotionally satisfying conclusion or follow-up for that is a capper on it

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