The Most Unsatisfying Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Disappointing Tv or Movies

[CommanderRaytas]

Lost was okay for me, but BSG just didn't make any sense imho - it bothered me for a number of smaller reasons and bigger continuity problems. Lost, however, had a fine wrap-up as far as I was concerned. It's a subjective thing, opinion, because all shows have problems, but whether they bother you or not depends on many factors.

It's funny how people keep blaming J.J. Abrams for the problems in Lost when all he did was write the first episode.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I understand that. My mother also watched Lost and she hated the finale.
I don't think it's the case with my mom, but I think a lot of people didn't like/understand the whole thing with the "flash-sideways" storyline being after everyone had died over the next X number of years. A lot of people seemed to think it was saying they were always dead. I took it as kind of saying that they will always be connected to each other, and that their final happy afterlives were all being together again.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

To be fair, it was a little confusing, but since I was thorougly entertained by the show, that didn't bother me.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yeah, I understand that. My mother also watched Lost and she hated the finale.
I don't think it's the case with my mom, but I think a lot of people didn't like/understand the whole thing with the "flash-sideways" storyline being after everyone had died over the next X number of years. A lot of people seemed to think it was saying they were always dead. I took it as kind of saying that they will always be connected to each other, and that their final happy afterlives were all being together again.

Honestly, it drove me a little nuts how many people misinterpreted the ending. I suspect that many people were already so invested in their own "they were dead all the time/they're in Purgatory!" theories that they insisted on imposing them on the finale anyway.

Granted, that final shot of the crashed plane (which was reputedly added as an afterthought to the closing credits) didn't help matters . . .

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

@CommanderRaytas: "Tom and Banana..."

As for Sheppard: Did you like him when he played Icheb's father on VOY?

 

[Marc]

Oh yeah, it's not perfect. In retrospect that "and they have a plan" at the start of every episode kinda sticks out like a sore thumb when you rewatch it Obviously the Cylon stuff had to be made up along with the way, but I think the final thing about Earth was always there. A lot of clues in the Season 1 finale I noticed, Opera House etc
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maybe they did have a plan, but there's a military axiom - no plan survives the first contact with the enemy. the cylons didn't expect a decommissioned battlestar to lead humn survivors away from the colonies.

But yeah it might have been a mistake by the producers to go with the "they have a plan" line but at the same time real world factors probably played a part (having to meet budgets/schedules, writers strikes, things being dropped because they sounded fine in the writers room but on paper didn't work let alone on screen and the all-too human bad decisions).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

the cylons didn't expect a decommissioned battlestar to lead humn survivors away from the colonies.

You're forgetting the part where one of the Cylons (Aaron Doral) planted a tracking device right in the middle of Galactica's bridge. So I'm guessing they DID plan for exactly that.

 

[Marc]

You're forgetting the part where one of the Cylons (Aaron Doral) planted a tracking device right in the middle of Galactica's bridge. So I'm guessing they DID plan for exactly that.

Or it could have been placed after the galatica escaped.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

@CommanderRaytas: "Tom and Banana..."

As for Sheppard: Did you like him when he played Icheb's father on VOY?

I thought Sheppard was underused in that VOY episode, but he couldn't help himself and brought some swagger into the role, which was fun to watch. The accent was atrocious, though.

 

[DarKush]

Some of the most disappointing genre stuff I can think of:
-Transformers movies
-The Phantom Menace
-Hancock
-I Am Legend (only the ending; the rest of the film was pretty good until the dog died)
-Wild, Wild West
-Event Horizon (great production values, promising cast, weak story and characters)
-Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (I was with it-good or ill-until the last season, but the show never really lived up to its potential)
-MANTIS series (I really liked the pilot movie but I checked out a later television show and it just felt watered down)
-Dollhouse (just didn't really get it or care though I like Eliza Dushku)
-Avatar
-Tron Legacy
-Superman Returns
-Agents of SHIELD
-Schumacher Batman films
-Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions
-The Hobbit trilogy
-Battlestar Galatica (last half of Season 3, and I barely watched Season 4)
-Caprica (very uninteresting until the last several episodes)
-Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning
-Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Enteprise (I don't hate them now as much as I did back in the day, but because of that old anger I felt I needed to include them).
-V remake (I was into it at first, life got in the way, but when I tried watching season 2 it just wasn't grabbing me).
-The Mummy 2 and 3 (more so Mummy 2 because I had higher expectations then)
-Alien v. Predator
-Aliens 3 (I like it more now than I did back in the day)
-Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1

Dishonorable mentions (some of these I can't say are bad, it's just maybe if I cared enough to watch more of them I might like them):
-Sleepy Hollow
-Fringe
-DaVinci's Demons
-Fallen Skies
-Defiance
-Star Trek Into Darkness (I was disappointed very much at the time, but its still a watchable film with some things going for it)
-Star Trek Nemesis (Ditto on the watchability of Nemesis)
-Prometheus (Raised too many questions, though good production values and talented cast)

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Gawd, I'd completely forgotten about Wild, Wild, West. I saw that one in 1999 and instantly tried to ban it from my memory. It was sooooo bad.

 

[dahj]

^^
Had anyone told me that a movie with a giant robot spider could suck so much I would not have believed them...

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I know, right? Especially because the trailer looked good, iirc, and the Will Smith song was serviceable. The song was actually popular, while the movie bombed spectacularly.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I still laugh when I see reruns of the original Battlestar Galactica. It was purely a poorly conceived, attempted rip off of Star Wars. I remember the hype from the network concerning this television dog. It was so bad it barely lasted 1 season.

 

[theenglish]

^^
Had anyone told me that a movie with a giant robot spider could suck so much I would not have believed them...

And remember that that giant robot spider was originally planned for Superman Lives.

 

[RandyS]

I dunno about "all-time"; but the ending that frustrated me the most in recent memory was NuBSG. I just felt they never knew what to do with Baltar after his acquittal and the twist were they just summarily dumped the fleet to be very unconvincing.

Yeah. Unlike most fans of the original, I actually welcomed Ron Moore's version when it was first announced. Then I saw it.

Ugh.

That entire show was such a total write-off failure on every level, I'm getting pissed just thinking about it again, and I haven't even seen it in years.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I thought the miniseries was awesome and that a lot of what followed was very entertaining. I just get mad at the last few episodes, really.

 

[Set Harth]

I still laugh when I see reruns of the original Battlestar Galactica. It was purely a poorly conceived, attempted rip off of Star Wars. I remember the hype from the network concerning this television dog. It was so bad it barely lasted 1 season.

As a kid I loved it.

 

[Ethros]

I know there's no arguing with RandyS about nuBSG, god I remember his posts in the BSG forum... "ooh I hate and don't watch this show but I'm gonna post about it 20 times a day and rant and rave about it"

But that's the kinda thing I'm talking about people hugely overreacting, "failure on every level." Right, so even just things the costumes, or the excellent for-TV special effects, or Bear McCreary's outstanding scores, or the acting of people like Eddie Olmos and Mary McDonnell, episdoes like 33, Pegasus, Lay Down Your Burdens, Exodus, Collaborators, etc etc.
If you don't like it and it's not your cup of tea that's fine, I mean I tried watching Sherlock which has won a tonne of awards and is a huge hit, but I really just couldn't get into it and it wasn't for me. But to say something like that is a "failure of every level" simply because you don't like it...
Ok sure, whatever ...I just think people like that come of like a 14 year old internet troll.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

^ Word.

The music in the show is awesome. I adore the amalgamation of the original themes with Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower in the season 3 finale.