Unresolved Shows

[Aragorn]

With Twin Peaks, didn't they know they got axed and still went ahead with their finale?

Which, of course, was touched upon in the extremely messy prequel (to the entire series!!!) where Vision Annie tells Laura Palmer that the good Dale is in the lodge (and Laura knows neither Dale nor Annie). Yeah, that really fit in to the movie's plot.

 

[Snaploud]

Mister Sterling

 

[Marc]

The Prisoner
The Tripods (thanks to michael grade)

Problem was that The Prisoner was resolved as far as Patrick MacGoohan wanted it and that with the major mindfuck we got.

With the The Tripods at least we had the books to so those who read them before the series was made knew how things were to end.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

With Twin Peaks, didn't they know they got axed and still went ahead with their finale?

Which, of course, was touched upon in the extremely messy prequel (to the entire series!!!) where Vision Annie tells Laura Palmer that the good Dale is in the lodge (and Laura knows neither Dale nor Annie). Yeah, that really fit in to the movie's plot.

Then again, what film or series has David Lynch ever done (other than The Straight Story) which actually had a coherent, understandable plot?

 

[ALF]

Max Wright (who played Willie Tanner, and by coincidence has the same name as the man who created SimCity)

The same last name as Will Wright anyway...

Oh sugarshits. That's right, there I go again.
I should wake up for a bit before posting.

 

[Reverend]

Ok, for those here who seam to be 'Jeremiah' fans; does it get any better after episode 7? I ask because I'm watching it now for the first time and six and a half episodes in I'm considering ditching it. I can't quite put my finger on what's bothering me about it but there's something not right and it's starting to bug me. I could say it's a bit on the preachy "hit you in the face with a sledgehammer" moral side and the world stared off like an interesting concept but already the moral ambuguity seams to have flown out the window and become a "cowbows and injins" (with M16s) setting. Please tell me it get's better!

 

[Non Sync]

John Doe

Talk about leaving everyone hanging after dropping a hugh twist.

After the cancellation, the guys behind the show explained what John was, and how they would have continued the show. Click if you want to know

May be it was better that it was cancelled...

 

[auntiehill]

Dark Skies and S:AAB definitely and Red Dwarf.

Dark Skies
and that show intrduced me to Jeri Ryan.

Wasn't she also in The Sentinel tv series?

Yes, she was. She was the evil Sentinel who tried to--and nearly did--kill Blair. That bitch!

That must be why I've never liked her in anything.

She was in Dark Skies in 1996 and appeared in The Sentinel in a two-parter that started in 1998.

And, yes, I watch waaaaaaaay too much TV.

 

[TheSeeker]

John Doe

Talk about leaving everyone hanging after dropping a hugh twist.

My thoughts exactly. To this day I'm pissed that show was canceled.

 

[Hugo Rune]

To whomever said Quantum Leap - No, no, no, no, NO!!!



Perfect ending for me (though I can get why others disagree with me)

The non-endings which have bugged me include:

Deadwood - those two TV movies are never being made. A great shame. The show could have been legendary if allowed to finish its story.
Carnivale - The second season is probably one of the finest pieces of TV ever to air, and the direction it was taking was mythical, lyrical, elegant and also kind of horrific. Again, could have been legendary.
John From Cincinatti - I have no idea what this show was about and I'm not sure if it was really even going anywhere. But, gosh-darn it I wanted more wierdness.
Now & Again - One of the few shows able to combine drama with whimsy without coming off as cute or cloying. I simply wanted more of the leads' interaction
4400 - I appreciate there are books coming, but one more season of TV would have been infinitely more satisfying for me

There are a whole swathe of other shows which I would like to see more of, but shows like Firefly were lucky enough to get an actual resolution. So I look at the thing as a little mini-series and movie with the major storyline neatly wrapped up. Similarly, Dead Like Me, a show I could have done without being cancelled, still has an emotional level of closure at the end of its season. The upcoming TV movie might be a little treat, but not wholly necessary for closure.

And then of course there is The X-Files a major unresolved show. But what they left open simply doesn't appear to interest the fans. Hence why I've not seen it on everyones' list (or at least I don't think so)

If I could have one though, it would be Carnivale. The show was simply, well, magic.


Hugo - Every Prophet in his house.

 

[ALF]

Deadwood - those two TV movies are never being made. A great shame. The show could have been legendary if allowed to finish its story.

John From Cincinatti - I have no idea what this show was about and I'm not sure if it was really even going anywhere. But, gosh-darn it I wanted more wierdness.


Hugo - Every Prophet in his house.

Mr Hugo:
Deadwood... agreed... but even in it's mostly completed state, I would argue that it's still legendary.
John From Cincinatti... supposedly "JC" is Jesus Christ for modern times as if he could walk and talk again before end of the world. He surfs (walks on water) heals, and provides (everything that comes out of his pockets is what is needed in a given situation). He always references "my father's words.

For anyone who watched the series go by and thought,
a) this is weird and it sucks
b) this is weird and it's awesome
it is certainly worth another look, knowing WTF it is supposed to be.

"I just heard David Milch say, the show is like what would happen if God wanted to talk to us with relative urgency."
http://jfc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Monad

 

[Christopher]

Although I'm glad there are 4400 novels continuing from the end of the show (particularly since they're written by colleagues of mine), I actually think the show's final episode worked fairly well as a finale. Sure, it was the start of something new, but it was also the end of the show as we'd known it, a moment of transition and resolution. That isn't necessarily a bad way to end a story. I mean, plenty of stories' endings are actually new beginnings: Casablanca, 2001, Wall-E, etc. So I wouldn't call it as unresolved as some of these other shows.

 

[dave_R_treker]

The 4400

This will be resolved in novel form. There are already two 4400 novels out that are set during the series, and there are two more coming up that continue on from the finale.

Though I am glad that the story is continuing in the novels, I would still have liked another season or two.

Sliders.

Rembrandt jumps into an unstable vortex as an attempt to return home and save the world. We'll likely never know what happened to Remmy after that vortex sputtered out and closed.

I was going to mention Sliders myself. I hated that "finale" for that reason. I was with the show from the very beginning all the way to the end, and they end it like that?

I would like to forget the entire final season happened. It was not the same after Jerry O'Connell left the show.

 

[Christopher]

I would like to forget the entire final season happened. It was not the same after Jerry O'Connell left the show.

It was still better than the back half of the third season. Heck, being waterboarded would be more enjoyable than watching the back half of Sliders' third season.

And while the writing wasn't as good in S5 as in S4, the cast in the final season was actually quite appealing and had a great rapport, as good as the original cast had. And while the loss of Jerry O'Connell might have been a drawback, the loss of Charlie O'Connell was a huge plus.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Two come to mind that ended as their creators intended, but still seemed wildly unresolved to me:

Angel. Who lives? Who dies? What happens? (I believe the story is continued in comic books, but I'm not much of a comic reader and don't really care to start now.)

The Sopranos. WTF? The screen just goes blank?

 

[stj]

This is a cancelled series but just in case---

Spoiler: the 4400 series

I don't think The 4400 finale worked as a series closer. Seattle was essentially taken over by Jordan Collier and massive numbers of new 4400s were created, threatening a lethal confronatation with the national government. And, the hero was left looking at a syringe of promicin. Take the shot or not?

On the one hand, a test for promicin susceptibility was found, preventing the 50/50 gamble. On the other hand, a blocking agent, ubiquinone, was found. Deadlock!

Nobody knows even now the nature of the catastrophe, which might have been the mere existence of promicin powers, the monopolization of promicin powers by an elite or the failure of promicin powers to appear sufficiently early in history or possibly something else entirely. (This seems unlikely---the reluctance of both parties to explain anything most likely means ) This means not one character (or viewer) knows the significance of their positions.

Further, the series aimed to leave the impression that, apart from Tom, Diana and Marco, was equally guilty of evil or misguided behavior. True, the idea that Dennis Ryland also had, in the end, a mixture of good motives and bad is absurd, but it is hard to know what else is meant when the hero, an officer of justice, keeps relating to him as a personal friend who had a falling out. The hero also referred to the promicin movement as "revolution!" and the finale is entitle Great Leap Forward.

The obvious suggestion is that the real series finale ends with Tom arresting Jordan and the 4400s returning to normal, with all future factions equally denounced. The extraordinarily novel idea that the future might actually change is flirted with, and it would have been interesting to see. But in either case, the finale as of now, simply doesn't address these issues. Everything is up in the air. I don't see a new beginning.

 

[sidious618]

While I'd have loved Carnivale and Twin Peaks to continue I rather like their endings in a way.

The 4400 I wish had continued but I don't know if I'll end up reading the books. I'll have to hear how they are and if its the way Behr actually wanted it to go.

Invasion was another one I wanted to see the ending of and didn't.

 

[RandyS]

Sliders.

Rembrandt jumps into an unstable vortex as an attempt to return home and save the world. We'll likely never know what happened to Remmy after that vortex sputtered out and closed.

Sliders was left unresolved after the first season. The rest of that show was shit.

But back OT:

Earth 2.

 

[dave_R_treker]

Sliders.

Rembrandt jumps into an unstable vortex as an attempt to return home and save the world. We'll likely never know what happened to Remmy after that vortex sputtered out and closed.

Sliders was left unresolved after the first season. The rest of that show was shit.

The second season wasn't too bad. Once it moved to the Scifi channel it went right down hill.

 

[Luminus]

Spider-Man (FOX 90's)
Sliders
Surface
Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Alf
Jason and the Wheeled Warriors