Have you ever loved a series/francise so much that you DIDN'T want to see it continue?

[Relish in Chaos]

For comic books, Fullmetal Alchemist and Watchmen. Two artistic masterpieces with such complete and tightly constructed storylines that any sequel would likely go against whatever message it was trying to put across (especially in Watchmen?s case, which is probably why so many fans were against Before Watchmen).

For TV shows, Heroes should?ve ended after its first season (the later seasons were, frankly, underwhelming) and Scrubs should?ve ended after its eighth season (seriously, what was the point after JD had left the hospital? It is his story, primarily).

For films, the Toy Story series. If they make a fourth film after the bittersweet ending of that perfect trilogy, I will hunt down the man who commissioned it, tear out his tongue, and choke him to death with it.

For video games, Crash Bandicoot. Ever since Naughty Dog left, it?s turned to shit, and the PS1 and GBA games are the only ones I bother even playing now.

 

[knight steel]

have you ever loved something, either a game or movie or tv show franchise, so much that you actually didn't want to see it continue any further?

Hmmm. Only retrospectively.

I'm always willing to give new things a chance - especially if they're based on something I love.

But if they fail to live up to what has come before... I just pretend they don't exist.

I pretend a lot of things don't exist:

-The last half of Death Note was never made. Timeskip? What timeskip?

-A Huge part of the Naruto anime doesn't exist for me. Was it in the Manga? No? Then it didn't happen. Ditto Bleach - except with that one I have to fudge over some of the Manga too. Butterfly? Really!?

-Heroes? There was only one season.

This is also my stance on the subject,but instead of pretending they don't exist I instead pretend they are in an alternative/parallel universe this allows me to enjoy the good parts that come from them without it interfering with what I consider the True cannon ^_^

 

[babinro]

No.

If a show continues past the point of being good it often still squeezes out a few gems from time to time.
I'd rather hate the option to see those few diamonds in the rough then be left wanting more.

The Simpsons is a prime example.
The show has long since lost it's magic but many episodes still entertain and a few even feel classic.
I've missed the majority of episodes in the last 10 years but there was one where Lisa took up writing a book in an Ocean's 11 style episode that was fantastic. Easily as memorable as classic baseball or hockey episodes in days passed.

I should point out that I've never seen a show comeback and be successful in my eyes:
- Futurama: AMAZING show but pretty weak since coming back
- Family Guy: I wasn't crazy about it before but these days it's not even worth watching on a commercial break.

I hear Arrested Development is coming back. I look forward to watching the new episodes but it'll amaze me if the show is half as good as it was originally. Still, I'd rather have the option to watch it then no option at all.

 

[JayRPG]

I can honestly say that I have never had this feeling.

I sat here for about 30 minutes actually thinking about it, thinking about why I have never had the feeling like "Yeap, that's enough, that was perfect" and I think I nailed it.

My favourite TV shows, movies and games are generally* my favourite because of a certain character/s and I would do ANYTHING, go through ANYTHING to see them in action one more time.

I was livid when heroes was cancelled, even though I HATED the last season, but I wanted another one just to see Sylar in action.

Charmed is one of my favourite shows of all time and I love all 8 seasons mainly for the cameos Julian Mcmahon still makes through-out the series after his character dies.

Even if I know there is little-to-no hope the character/s will be included in the next installment, if there ever was one, I still want there to be a next installment to give them a chance to bring the character back;
Case in point: Push (Movie) -

Spoiler

Victor Budarin, the badass mover, died toward the end but I still want to see a sequel in case it's actually a prequel or they bring him back somehow

I pretty much obsess over certain characters, Anti-heroes are usually my crux (Vegeta, Seto kaiba, Kratos Aurion, General Beatrix, Snape, etc), I would kill to see them in something new, even if their stories have already been perfectly told.

 

[babinro]

My above comment was for T.V. For gaming the answer is a resounding, "NO!"

We see great games from franchises that have seemingly passed their peak all the time:
- Megaman 9, Megaman 10, Megaman X
- Metroid Prime 1 & 3
- Mario Galaxy, Mario WiiU
- Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter 4
- Pretty much every EA sports games have their standout years
- WWE No Mercy
- C&C Generals

 

[Ciarang]

Simply: No

In the rare event that I do love a series/franchise/etc I'd like to follow it through to the bitter end. If I do become obsessed with something I generally don't see how awful something may become, and I'm simply happy to see familiar characters/storylines again.

 

[Ymbirtt]

I have that opinion about a lot of things, actually. I like watching things finish. Portal is one of my favourite games of all time, and Portal 2 was bloody awesome too. I don't want a Portal 3, because Portal 2 ended well and wrapped everything up nicely for me, I'm happy to play the odd user-created level from time to time, but as far as I'm concerned the story's finished and I don't need it to continue.

I had the same thing with the Harry Potter books and the Mass Effect series. Even though I found both of their ultimate endings pretty disappointing, that doesn't mean I want those endings retconed and re-written so that more stuff can happen. Those endings happened, and that's fine, and I'd much rather the authors said "And that's your lot, none of this ever again", rather than trying to leave things open for another sequel just in case they changed their minds.

 

[Ziame]

StarGate should have ended right there when Anderson wasn't fit enough to carry it on. Vala and that other dude are so lame it hurts. And they could have wrapped up the Ori in 8/9 season.

Atlantis is pretty cool though

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[Johnny Novgorod]

Star Wars, obviously.
Is this thread about videogames? I still claim Star Wars.

 

[Worgen]

I'm really surprised no one has said mlp since the fandom was all.

Spoiler

About the whole alicorn Twilight thing.

Eh, I figure most people calmed down about it after seeing the episode; even though the views on the episode are mixed at best. Perhaps all that Derpy in the episode calmed peopled down? I was more worried about the implications of Twilight being a princess rather than an alicorn really. Is the show still going to be framed in the same way? Are "friendship lessons" over and a new type of episode structure is introduced? I figure it will be more or less the same, but I hope they do it without any copouts.

My biggest worry about s4 is that they will just have her lose her alicorn status and wings etc etc. Most shows try to maintain the status quo so they can be watched in any order but Twilight going alicorn upsets that in a very distinct way. I'm hoping they keep it so we get to see Celestia do more, now that we have a cannon reason for her to be in the background, grooming Twilight for her to go princess, we should see Celestia be able to take more of a hooves on approach to things.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

have you ever loved something, either a game or movie or tv show franchise, so much that you actually didn't want to see it continue any further?

Hmmm. Only retrospectively.

I'm always willing to give new things a chance - especially if they're based on something I love.

But if they fail to live up to what has come before... I just pretend they don't exist.

I pretend a lot of things don't exist:

-There was only one Matrix movie.

-The last half of Death Note was never made. Timeskip? What timeskip?

-Dark Knight Rises? Nope, that doesn't exist either - there were only two Batman movies with Christian Bale.

-A Huge part of the Naruto anime doesn't exist for me. Was it in the Manga? No? Then it didn't happen. Ditto Bleach - except with that one I have to fudge over some of the Manga too. Butterfly? Really!?

-Heroes? There was only one season.

I used to be more of a completionist - but now I pick and choose what I want to keep. Makes buying a series a lot cheaper and I don't have to keep wading through the third-rate flotsam and jetsam that pretends to be part of the original's world.

Well I don't that's a particularly good idea. I understand if you don't want to count them as canon, but outright denying their existence just makes you look... um, for lack of a better non-offensive word, silly in conversation. Just saying. Also I'd prefer not to be put in that position
Incidentally was Dark Knight Rises really that bad? IDK I haven't seen it.

Star Wars, obviously.
Is this thread about videogames? I still claim Star Wars.

This could be for anything. Books, TV, video games, movies, you name it.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Dead or Alive. I haven't played the newest one, granted, but from what I've heard, it's quite dated for a fighting game. If so, and they keep doing that, eventually Dead or Alive will be in reality what non-players already consider it, nothing but fanservice. DoA 4 does have a decent fighting system, and a brutal difficulty curve. I'd hate to see those get taken away for the sake of becoming what some people already say the game is.

Also, I don't want to see it end, but I really hope that they make a new Metroid game without Sakamoto. If he's involved with the next one, it's an automatic pass for me. Until they get a new director, I don't want to see any more Metroid games. Does that count?

 

[Dangit2019]

-breathes in-

Firefly, Halo, Sonic, Star Wars, Tarantino movies, Breaking Bad (after the final season of course), Finding Nemo, scrubs after Season 8, Call of Duty (I still love mw1 and 2), etc.

Also, I don't think Mlp is at it's swan song point (far from it actually), but if it or any other good show gets to a high point, I want it to die before it starts stagnating like the aforementioned Scrubs.

 

[DanielBrown]

I thought the first 14 or so episodes of Prison Break(they only planned that many, but continued to 81 due to popularity) were awesome. After that it just dragged on and on, always with the same tiresome formula:
Brilliant, overly complicated plan.
Something goes wrong.
Fixed in the last second.
Something goes wrong again.
Fixed, but now they have a new problem.

Every damn episode. Really wished they would've quit while it was still worth watching.

 

[Lionsfan]

Scrubs.

Season 9.

I didn't want that. Nobody wanted that.

Wasn't that the med school one? Yea i'll role with that, they should have stopped it after 8 then. Although the reason it was planned to stop

Spoiler

JD leaving and all

was complete bonkers.

The reason he left;

Spoiler

wanted to live closer to his kid, and would have to travel half an hour more to his job. REALLY?! get up a bit earlier in the morning you lazy ass

For the rest i usually don't like stuff ending when i like it. But most of the time i do in hindsight if (or rather, when they eventually) fuck it up


EDIT; Some poster just reminded me of 2 and a half men. I saw one episode after charlie left, dear god it was awful.

I can see it both ways, on the one hand, yeah just wake up a little earlier. Since I know people who commute almost 2 hours for their jobs, 30 minutes really isn't that much.

And it was a bit much to see all of the sadness about him leaving. I kinda get it, one chapter of your life is closing and all, but it's not like you can't drop in for a beer or something, you're not moving across the country.

On the other hand though, if you offered anybody the chance to cut down their commuting time, I'm sure everybody would say yes no problem

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Also, I don't want to see it end, but I really hope that they make a new Metroid game without Sakamoto. If he's involved with the next one, it's an automatic pass for me. Until they get a new director, I don't want to see any more Metroid games. Does that count?

Personally, I think Metroid should've ended with the Prime series. Actually I didn't really like Fusion all that much either. I could go on quite a rant about all the parts of Fusion that didn't make any sense.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I felt that way about the X-Files because it started getting kind of terrible in its later seasons. Especially after David Duchovny left.

 

[Dr. Doomsduck]

Game of Thrones (books). As the writing continues, his roots in screen writing are coming through more and more, and very late introduction of supposedly important characters doesn't work in a novel setting (and arguably won't work in the television series either). Also, it's been drawn out to the extent where, when it finishes, it could end as just a really overblown mess, rather than the fantasy epic that it started out as. I'd hate for it to end up a failed experiment really.

So yeah, end soon please, regardless of how much money the publishers are throwing at you. I appreciate that in television, a series can potentially be drawn out forever, but not in books. Stop.

Yes! I was so fucking annoyed with all the new 'important' characters. My mind just went, who the hell is this and why should I care? Personally, I don't think he should have strayed from established characters.

 

[Pawkeshup]

I just can't bring myself to play Halo 4 because of this. I'm sure it's solid multiplayer experience, but I play Halo for the single player campaign and the story (Yeah I know, I'm a freak of nature).

You are doing yourself a great disservice not playing it. Honestly I am a late comer to the series, but Halo 4 stands on its own in a lot of respects, but I love the commentary about the characters. And the ending is the stuff of legends. Tropey legends but still legends.