June Fandom Meme Question 7
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potentiality_26What 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.
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.
