What is your LEAST favorite final season?

[bigdaddy]

Yes I stole this from the favorite final season topic.

I was watching Will and Grace earlier and it used to be such a good show and then it went to hell. The final season was a drama and not a comedy, Will and Grace just fought all the time. Will's dad, who had been fine with Will being gay for over 20 years all of a sudden hates the fact his son is gay. They of course fight and then 5 minutes later Will's dad is dead! The whole thing was just horrible bullshit.

Then of course there is Rosanne. Nothing more needs to be about that.

Right off the bat that's all I can think of.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Star Trek TOS's third Season is weak, and Twin Peaks went from being the most talked about hit series to pure tripe almost overnight.

 

[auntiehill]

Chef! The first two season were brilliant. The last.....not so much. They tried to "Americanize it" and just killed it outright.

The A-Team. Not exactly a brilliant show to begin with, but at least it was silly fun. The last season was HORRIBLE. Not fun, just embarrassing. The network canceled it halfway through and didn't want to spend any money on the last few episodes, so they took the entire intro from a season 3 intro and stuck it onto a season 5 show. They copied an entire Starsky and Hutch episode and just changed the names. It was just painful.

Then there's also the X-Files. I couldn't even watch it anymore. Home Improvement really forgot to be funny for most of the last season and Roseanne......well, the less said about it, the better.

 

[bigdaddy]

Home Improvement's last season wasn't great, but I don't think it was terrible, plus the last episode was pretty fun.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Yes, The A-team was so bad I forgot about that. They were Robert Vaughn's angels and the show just got stupid.
a desperate attempt to save themselves.

 

[byron lomax]

Oz, Homicide, the X-Files, they disappointed me.

 

[23skidoo]

There have been a number of cases where a show, as a last gasp, has tried desperation measures to reinvent itself. Often this results in cancellation.

I agree the A-Team definitely counts (although the Man from UNCLE reunion episode was a hoot).

If you consider Galactica 1980 to be a second season of the original BSG, then that definitely counts.

I'm tempted to suggest Season 26 of Doctor Who, which ended the original series, but one of the stories, Curse of Fenric, was brilliant, so it wasn't "bad enough" to qualify.

But giving it some thought I would have to say the second, final season of Dark Angel is my least favorite. I loved this show during its first year. I never missed it, I thought it had a great feel to it, some interesting stories, and a teen aged Jessica Alba. What wasn't to love? But the second season turned me off so badly that I dropped the show almost cold turkey. It was as if they decided to break everything that made the show interesting. It's the closest I've come to the attitudes I've seen some people express regarding various Star Trek series they've abandoned, or nuBSG, or Doctor Who. For me, there was something about that second season that rubbed me the wrong way so badly, I just lost interest completely. Evidently I wasn't alone as the show didn't come back for a Year 3. Not long ago I saw the second season DVD set for sale at Wal-Mart for $10. Even knowing it had Jessica Alba and a pre-Jericho/Birds of Prey Ashley Scott, not to mention Nana Visitor in the cast, I wasn't interested, even for $10.

Alex

 

[Goji]

Earth Final Conflict was the one that hurt the most to watch. The X-Files' final season was slightly easier to endure, but that finale sure made up for it. Ouch.

 

[23skidoo]

The X-Files' final season was slightly easier to endure, but that finale sure made up for it. Ouch.

There's an entire thread to be had on the topic of shows that should have quit while they were ahead.

Alex

 

[payndz201]

The final season of Charmed was dismal. Yes, I'm sure a lot of people will snark that the entire series was dismal, but screw 'em, I thought it was a lot of fun.

Until season 8. A massive budget cut (painfully obvious in the cheapo VFX, lack of location shooting and limited sets), a bored/frustrated cast (everyone involved thought that season 7 would be the end and they could move on to other things, until it was unexpectedly renewed), writers who had used up all their good ideas, one of the main characters (Leo) being written out for most of the year and another (Darryl) disappearing entirely, and a hateful Scrappy-Doo being introduced in the shape of Billie the teenage witch made it a pretty miserable experience.

The last five minutes of the penultimate episode and the actual finale were surprisingly decent, but didn't make up for all the crap leading to them.

 

[Harvey]

Star Trek, easily. There might be ten watchable episodes in that season, and only half that episodes I would describe as "good" or better.

 

[Mr Light]

X-Files... EFC... (from what I hear) Andromeda... Babylon 5... since B5 is my all time favorite show I find its final season to be the most disappointing.

 

[tharpdevenport]

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Little focus or care about the other two of hte main three. Buffy in a "mommy" role (even dressing and looking more like a mother in her 30's). Shitty potentials. That horrible potential that hooked up with Willow. A big finale that did nothing to destroy or prevent the big bad from coming back and trying again, so it was all for not.

Of course we did get THIS super fantastic, amazing score cue from the season's main composer, Robert Duncan, so ... not all for not.

 

[bigdaddy]

Andromeda

I said worst finale season, not worst final four seasons.

 

[Hermiod]

The X-Files. Despite being a huge fan back in the day, there are some episodes I can never bring myself to watch again. In fact, I still haven't watched my season 8 or 9 DVDs that I bought years ago.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Parts of season seven were so bad, particularly the overall "men are evil and hold back the true power of women" message from the final episode, that they've changed my opinion about the entire show to the point where I'm thinking about disposing of my DVDs.

Oz. Not terrible by a long shot, it's still better than 99% of other dramas, just not really close to its previous level of quality. Sort of like Darth Vader before and after he got burned up - still powerful but not as much as he could have been.

 

[lennier1]

There's several extreme examples that come to mind.

Earth:Final Conflict jumped the mother of all sharks after season one but there aren't any words to describe how much the last season sucked.

BSG 1980 is pretty much self-explanatory as is the last season of B5 (although the latter one is a long behind-the-scenes story).

Knight Rider is also quite guilty of this but at least it brought closure to the Michael/Stevie plot line.

A-Team had a pretty useless final season as well, same as Airwolf.

I could include the X Files but that show should have been put out of its misery several seasons before.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The HBO series "Rome." Yeah, I know it was only two seasons long, but that second season was awful compared to the first.

- Boring character development that seemed to take forever (amazing when you consider that it was only ten episodes)(seems to be a common problem with HBO shows, even the best ones like Oz).
- They switched actors for only one character, going from a good actor to a mediocre/average one at best.
- Only the character to switch actors actually ages, he goes from 15 to 25 while every other character stays the same age.
- They raced through history at break-neck speed.
- We're made to see that each and every character is capable of doing despicable things (nothing wrong with that per se). But then, at the very end, they try to make us feel sympathy for the most despicable character of them all, Atia. Throughout the two seasons she has used her two children to further her political ambitions, had her son-in-law murdered in cold blood, prostituted her daughter, prostituted herself, forced her son to "use the services" of a prostitute against his will, extorted massive amounts of money from the Roman public, distributed pornographic material in order to harm a rival, hired men to strip naked,beat, and humiliate said rival in a public street, kidnaped and tortured said rival, allowed her daughter to be prostituted again, had an affair with another of her son-in-laws, had one of her daughter's friends raped simply because she didn't like the girl, had said friend's father murdered in cold blood for the same reason, and publicly humiliated her daughter-in-law. HMMMM... sorry, I feel no sympathy for this woman simply because she didn't end up with the man of her dreams.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Well, it's got to be Space: 1999. All the sublime brilliance of season 1 pissed away in a series of complacent, formulaic, generic sci-fi cliches.

 

[Jax]

should it end in 2010 then Heroes

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Earth Final Conflict was the one that hurt the most to watch.

Agreed. The studio wanted a more simplistic good vs. evil story, so all of the main aliens were killed and replaced with the eeeeeevilllll Atavus, which were basically space vampires. Also, since they knew that they had enough episodes to sell into syndication, they slashed the budget to nothing, which is why they got rid of Liam Kincaid & Da'an and why the entire thing looks like it was shot in a closet.

The last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is just depressing. All of the characters are yelling at each other all the time. Xander loses all of his screentime to Andrew. And it all focuses WAY too much on Spike.