June Fandom Meme Question 7

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What fandom that got a series finale was the LEAST appropriate/least satisfying.  Bonus: How would you have fixed it?

Okay, so, there are a lot of bad finales out there (and bad sequels, and bad last books) and between Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones there's also been a lot written about what makes an ending bad.  So I feel like I should have a more elevated answer than the one I'm going to give.  But I looked back over every finale I've ever hated, and the one I found myself still most angry about was Warehouse 13. 

So.  Warehouse 13.

I actually have little to no memory of this finale.  How, then, can I be angrier about it than any other show, you ask?  You see, Myka and Pete got together, and it was like a black hole of "worst idea ever" so heinous that it sucked up everything else and obliterated it.  I don't even remember how many episodes into the final season they started building that nonsense up.  It happened, and my brain had to turn itself off just to cope.

(If you- uh- liked Myka and Pete getting together, you can probably guess that this is not the post for you.  Go in peace)

What kind of big bad did they fight in the finale, and did they win?  I don't know.  Myka and Pete got together.

Did the warehouse survive and who ended up working there?  I don't know.  Myka and Pete got together.

What happened to Artie, Claudia, Steve- the non- Myka and Pete characters to whom I once had some kind of attachment?  I don't know.  Myka and Pete got together.

I do remember H.G.'s sendoff, if you can call it that.  After I had to suffer through an entire episode trying to convince me how MFEO she and her new boyfriend were, they dismissed that relationship with a single line of dialogue and just went "oh she has a girlfriend now", which read as this incredibly disingenuous attempt to hang on to representation points like "we really want and support relationships between women just, you know, not these women because no matter how much subtext there was or how many times the actresses themselves said they were in love, Myka and H.G. were never gonna get together."  And I don't need my ships to be canon, often I think it's better when they're not, and I was totally prepared for this one not to be canon either.  I was not prepared for Myka and Pete to get together.

There was never any chemistry between them, never any suggestion in the previous seasons that we were meant to think there was chemistry between them, and never anything about either character that even vaguely made it seem like they were a good match.

Anyway, as you probably guessed, my fix is easy.  Don't have Myka and Pete get together.  Boom.  Then at least I'd know what happened in the finale and whether it was good or not. 
 

Also, shout-out to Kingsman: The Golden Circle.  Not the finale of the franchise, but the finale for me. 
  

Comments

[corvidology]

I've had more friends upset by the ending of Warehouse 13 and How I Met Your Mother than any other endings combined and I didn't even watch either of them.

You mean there was another film after Kingsman: The Secret Service? I believe you are mistaken. (You'll get the same reaction from me about Ashes to Ashes. Not. Part. Of. My. Canon)

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Oh How I Met Your Mother. I haven't seen it either, and yet I still know exactly what happened and why people were so mad.

Was that second movie just a fever dream I had? What a relief!

(I never even watched Ashes to Ashes, lol)

[thisbluespirit]

I watched W13 long after and knew what was coming, and it was still very WTH. (I mean, Pete always had a bit of thing for Myka, but she never returned it, so, yeah. If they'd worked up to it, they might have got there, but they... really didn't.)

But I knew going in and binge-watched so wasn't annoyed... but I still can't remember what happened to anyone else. I think everybody ele's endings might have been okay even? :loL:

[potentiality_26]

That makes me wonder if I would have been less annoyed if I'd known going in. Maybe, but I kind of doubt it. The show spent such a long time going "this really isn't going to happen, cross our hearts" that I probably just would have gotten mad then, knowing they were going to do it anyway.

[squidgiepdx]

> Myka and Pete got together, and it was like a black hole of "worst idea ever"

A-FREAKING-MEN! Don't get me wrong, the stuff that happened in the episode a couple previous, where they were sucked into the characters of a telenovela was AMAZING. But that was the characters they were playing. But Pete & Myka together? Good god, why? IT MADE NO SENSE. I mean they literally had an episode where they explained why they would never be a couple (where they bronzed Jinksie, Myka used Marylin Monroe's brush - THAT one). So are we supposed to just ignore all that? BLAH!

[potentiality_26]

Exactly!

They spent so long saying it would never happen, and I was so into having a male/female friendship and partnership that wouldn't turn into a romance, and then they were like "NEVERMIND!" and I felt very betrayed.

[chamilet]

That sounds very much like what they did with Chakotay and Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager!

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It's very similar! I even thought a bit about Voyager's finale when planning this post, though overall I like that finale well enough except for the Chakotay/Seven parts. I am still upset about it, though. No matter how many times I rewatch Voyager, it never makes more sense.

11th hour pair-offs just aren't great lol!

[a_phoenixdragon]

OMG...so much this!

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<3

[verdande_mi]

I didn't even remember they got together before you reminded me! Totally agree with you though!

[potentiality_26]

Forgetting seems like the way to go!