Of course the REAL ending is that the military packed up, flew off planet, & dropped a couple of 500 giga-ton nukes on the entire Navi species and their flying velociraptors too. After the radioactive dust settles, the military puts on their Haz-Mat suits, pisses on the ashes of the elder tree, and mines whatever they want out of Pandora. James Cammeron simply ended his movie too soon, this is the crap that happens after that dude opens his eyes.
In the Hobbit it explains that the Eagle creatures are actually part of a tribe independent of any humans, wizards, etc.
They were friends of Gandalf, but they weren't going to offer him help unless he really needed it.
Ending to book 6. Book five they introduced Sci-fi Elements to explain a fantasy novel, while caused alot of warning lights to go off, but i kept reading anyway. Mainly because they didn't trade out swords and sorcery for assault rifles. Book six...urghhh, basically destroyed any small shreds of mystery and credibility to the entire series, and went the Christianity route and made everything linked to God (As well as the whole moral "Love god, cause god is god. Bla bla bla, christianity bullplop etc etc). Plus, every (minus one) character dies in the end for no apparent reason (AKA. Pulling an evangelion). Up until then the series was great, making it so that i only count the first three books as happening and discount the others
I am in the middle of book 6 of the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I liked the first couple books. But I had a thought last night while reading that nothing is really happening. I mean I could of condensed 6 500+ page books into a 100 page short story and still would of gotten everything. I guess I am just not happy with the pacing and the fact bad things continually happen to the main characters to the point that its become almost comical.
TV Shows: Heroes - Lost just to name a couple. They have AWESOME first seasons and then.... nothing. They keep these shows on but pull Firefly? WTF
I liked it. I like how he beat communism and then was all like suck my dick im Richard Rahl.
5 was atrocious.
By the 7th book, people are reading for A. the story, and B. a love of, and loyalty to the characters. Spending the entire 7th novel to creating an unlikeable clinger on was the stupidest idea ive ever heard of.
By Chainfire I had given up on Goodkind as a decent author.
Since this thread begins with anime, I'll keep it going. Samurai Champloo had the worst final episode of any anime, ever. This wasn't a case of the studio running out of money and having to throw something together (Evangelion). This was simply a horrible turn in the storyline. If I knew how to do one of those 'spoiler boxes' that everyone else seems to know how to do, then I'd go into more detail.
Basically the point of this thread is to ask, what movies/TV shows/games/books have you watched/played/read that you loved up until one particular point that either completely ruined the movie or just lessened your opinion of it a bit?
What got me thinking of this specifically was the anime Death Note and its ending. I personally love Death Note. It's one of my favorite manga. Yet, the ending really (in my opinion of course) brought down the feel of the entire series.
What pissed me off most of the last volume of Death Note was
the entire last bit in which Light and Near are revealed to be outsmarting one another during the final chapters. Specifically, I mean when it is revealed that Near switched Death Notes from Teru and gave him a fake one which means no one will die if he writes their names in it.
Light's thoughts at the time are shown and when he realizes what's happened, he exclaims to himself "Exactly as I planned it!!"
How exactly? How can someone plan that far ahead in the future and perfectly predict another's actions of whom he knows nearly nothing about? It was a bit too far fetched for me and for some reason, I didn't think Near doing the same was hardly as contrived as Light's seemed to be.
But overall, the last volume left me somewhat disappointed and actually lessened my opinion of the anime/manga despite me loving every volume before.
Oblivion was great until the king of the beginning got killed.
His Dark Materials Trilogy (Golden Compass/Northern Lights, etc, etc.) was good until it got the idea of killing God and being nonsensical in the last book (yes I'm an atheist, but it made no sense on killing God).
Halo was great until it introduced The Flood.
BioShock was great until the intro ended and I found it was a rather dumbed down version of System Shock 2, with plot and all.
And every game was good before I played basically, with a few notable exceptions.
Actually a really good slasher film...until you realized that the main character had multiple-personality disorder and she was the slasher the whole time. It just made no sense, it was stupid as fuck, and unlike Shutter Island, it just ruined the entire movie for me. One of the worst twists ever.
Who ran them off the road? who gets a BJ from the decapitated head in the beginning? there was a couple times where a seperate person HAD to be present for the story to continue that cant be explained with, it was her all along.
Heroes - after the first season it just got gradually worse
Stargate Atlantis - first 2 seasons were great then it started sucking
Stargate SG1 - from season 8 onward it just got worse and worse and ... you get the point
Farscape - liked the first 2 seasons but after it just became crap for me
Star Trek Enterprise - again, loved the first 2 seasons but after it was meh ...
Dexter - great first season and then just gradually got worse, the 3rd was horrible and the only thing that made the 4th kinda decent was the ending
Black Cat - it was a fairly decent anime about an assassin and then the main male character became good and omg he turned in to an idiot...
Death Note - to me it was never that great of an anime but it was nice and the battle of wits between Light and L was interesting enough but then L died and it all went to hell ...
D.Gray-Man - one of my favorite anime/manga up until it changed format, it changed the drawing style, released only once a month, skipped the hell forward and I didn't even know WTF happened and how it got to this point and just really shat all over a great manga
House M.D.- Loved the show but then the entire make a competition to find new assistants season (sorry can't remember what season it was) kinda ruined it for me, it wasn't bad it just made me lose interest, I'm thinking of starting to watch it again though ..
In the Hobbit it explains that the Eagle creatures are actually part of a tribe independent of any humans, wizards, etc.
They were friends of Gandalf, but they weren't going to offer him help unless he really needed it.
Jade Empire is a great game and the story is top notch
UNTIL the plot twist so bad: one of your earliest party members, Sagacious Zu apparently knows something but they never ever tell you what and why. Then the emperor turns out to be already dead and he betrayed his brothers who were gonna betray him so the emperor can get the power of gods. And after you kill him your master kills you surprise surprise. Apparently he aint the guy who saved but the older brother of the emperor. Now that much the plot is still good until in a cutscene they show your masters face 20 or so years ago:he hasnt aged a day and he already looks like that he is ready to kick the bucket. Then stuff happens, they tell you about something that will never be explained or mentioned. Now you go out to take your revenge. Your master apparently got his own dragon in the basement bleeding. What it helps him, we dont know or will know. You either free to the drago from her bondage and not fight your allies or harness her power and fight your allies. And why you fight them? Do they betray you? No, the dragon brainwashes them but leaves you up to 3 allies, figure that out. Now you go for your master. He gives you some bad mushroom hallucinations and the mentioned Sagacious Zu who left your party about an hour or two ago, comes to your dream thing somehow and does something or other. Now you kill your master or he cowers and lives and you will be remembered as a "hero" or kill and become the supreme ruler of china.
Bottom line: what, why, where and should i care so close to the end?
The only ones I can actually think of at the moment is are Condemned 2 and Far Cry 2. Condemned 2 lost me at the super powers and the cult; Far Cry 2 lost me at the fact that it started to repeat itself about 4 hours in.
I was completely psyched for No More Heroes 2, loved 1, 2 should've been better.
But nooooooo, now all the minigames, the funniest part of the game, if not a little bland, is now 8 FREAKING BIT!
I hate Suda 51 and Grasshopper for life now. I honestly hoped they wouldn't do this! I hate them forever and ever and I'm glad I didn't preorder.
@Julianking93: If you want bad Death Note, did you see the live action movie? Completely ruined it there... then to have an L spin-off movie?
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The Wheel of Time- Books 6-10 RJ couldn't see the sunlight due to the fact he so far up his own characters asses. Thankfully he relieved this for 11-12.
Thanks, I just started book 6 and now I'll have a bad review looming over it. It's seeming very busy right now to the point that I'm having to reread some things to pick up on a few points. Like which Forsaken are dead, which are only half-dead waiting for Miracle Max to revive them so they can storm the castle, and which are frolicking about with lords and ladies as footstools.
Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. It's a great book, but the ending is a bit odd.
The greatest sword in the world, the most powerful artifact of all mankind, the only thing in the world able to defeat the most evil of evil bad guys, and its power is to make you see the truth? The most evil of evil bad guys is defeated because he merely touches it and realizes that the truth about himself is that he doesn't actually exist? Furthermore, from the start the main character gets a super weapon that literally vaporizes anything to do with Brona, the bad guy. It really plays out like a God Mode hack. A super weapon with limitless energy that can only be controlled by the main character. But he's told not to use it too much because Brona can see when he uses it, though Brona can't come out during the day, nor can his evil minions.
I really liked the book as a whole. It took the Tolkien idea of mystical races and turned them on their heads. I just think the concept for the Sword could have been thought out a little more.
Alan Wake. I loved every second of it up until it's ending... Then it ended and I had no more story to love. Very sad.
But in all seriousness, I loved Family Guy up until it was revived the second time. Can't even get a chuckle these days.
Another good example would be Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, though to be fair, I kind of lost interest in that due to scheduling conflicts. A.k.a. I missed a lot of episodes and just haven't bothered going back through to watch them.
And to go against/with all of the Deathnote answers, I loved it up until the ending, which I thought was fine (though better in the anime, surprisingly) for what it was.
But I've always been a Kira supporter, so I wasn't a fan of how it ended. Explains why I prefer the anime ending though. I think it leaves Light some dignity, instead of begging for help.
Ok. So this topic is all about shit that got ruined. But I just wanna pay a quick homage to The Shield. seven seasons of pure genius. From start to finish the shit fucking rocked socks. The ending (not giving anyhting away) was insane. Out of everything i talked about with my friends no one predicted how it went down. Pure Genius. Off topic but idgaf.
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