No Right Answer: Most Depressing Series Ending

[LordLundar]

What about M*A*S*H the final episode involves one of the main characters having a psychotic break because while hiding from North Koreans he snaps at a mother to keep her baby quiet so she kills it so that the North Koreans would not hear it.

This! And those North Korean Musicians that Charles took under his wing.....

Admittedly it had downer parts, but it wasn't a depressing ending. All of the major cast at the end returned home and though they were changed, they weren't in a pit of hopelessness that they couldn't recover from. I would call it at best bittersweet and realistic. They were all ecstatic to return home, but it was tempered with events that occurred while they were there, both good and bad.

 

[mykalwane]

Loved Dinosaurs, that ending was pretty shocking but considering all the episodes that dealt with things like; steroid use, racism, native american displacement, and so much more I guess it's not that out of the norm.
[hr]I gave up on Rosanne long before the whole lotto and heart attack stuff happened.
[hr]I never saw the end of Sliders but I have a feeling it went out with a whimper too. Can anybody fill me in? Is it a contender?

Yea Slider went out with a whimper, not a contender. Nothing really gets resolved. The season before the last one, that is where it should of ended. They combine two people into one for the sake of actors leaving and attempting to have some structure. If I remember correctly the last season didn't have the script writers of the show. Just a lot of bad blood was going on with the producers of the show and the people working on it. The real reason I think the last season is so horrible. Thinking, lets just replace them. We can keep this show going on. Pretty much if you didn't see the end of Sliders, you're better off.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Funny you mention "Big Bang Guy" because The Big Bang Theory is somewhat of a successor to Roseanne.

Spoiler Alert on final episode of Big Bang:
Indian kid gets deported, skinny weird kid discovers he's an alien, Jewish kid tries to take him home but their rocket explodes at takeoff, neurotic kid develops a pcp habit which turns his brain to jelly and he can only talk about breakfast cerial, and the hot chick marries an abusive trucker and has 13 kids with him.
Then it can be the true successor to Roseanne.

Someone needs to tell R* that happy endings don't suck. Lately they've been trying (a little too hard) to end their games on a sad note. And they're not the only ones.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Most Depressing Series Ending

The time after your favorite TV show has aired it's last episode is rough. You've lost a close friend, who you might have been with for years. What series really rubbed salt in the wound by having the most depressing ending ever?

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"And taking a look at the long range forecast, continued snow, darkness and extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight. Goodbye." is the last spoken line of Dinosaurs.

But my vote still rest with ALF. Instead of being picked up by his alien friends to be taken to his new home world, he is captured by the Alien Task Force and taken to be dissected.

yeah, but he gets out of it in the end (or I guess rather the beginning). So I cant really say its that sad.

 

[K84]

Loved Dinosaurs, that ending was pretty shocking but considering all the episodes that dealt with things like; steroid use, racism, native american displacement, and so much more I guess it's not that out of the norm.
[hr]I gave up on Rosanne long before the whole lotto and heart attack stuff happened.
[hr]I never saw the end of Sliders but I have a feeling it went out with a whimper too. Can anybody fill me in? Is it a contender?

Yea Slider went out with a whimper, not a contender. Nothing really gets resolved. The season before the last one, that is where it should of ended. They combine two people into one for the sake of actors leaving and attempting to have some structure. If I remember correctly the last season didn't have the script writers of the show. Just a lot of bad blood was going on with the producers of the show and the people working on it. The real reason I think the last season is so horrible. Thinking, lets just replace them. We can keep this show going on. Pretty much if you didn't see the end of Sliders, you're better off.

Gawd. the whole show went to hell after they killed off .....a certain character.
And then the kidnapping of....a certain other character, which we see later on in a episode, fused/combined with some alien tech, only to die?......i gave up on Sliders quite fast after they started to replace...almost everybody.

Also, the ending of ...nobody knows this one, because everybody hates it i guess...
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040.

What happens with Priss, standing naked in the desert, with no means of contacting anyone?
It just ends there....

- Dungeons and Dragons (never finished)
- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. (never finished)

 

[Smeatza]

In my opinion, Blackadder Goes Forth had the most depressing ending of all. Considering the entire rest of the series had been a funny, snarky comedy, the ending to the very last season takes a very depressing turn.
In the last episode, it is finally time for the final push over the top and and out of the trenches. Captain Blackadder desperately tries to get out, only to have his last attempts end in failure, Captain Darling is sent to the front by General Melchett as a "gift", when he wants nothing more than to stay OUT of the trenches, and Lieutenant George is very gung-ho about it all... until about five minutes before they are all going over the top, when he suddenly realizes that he too is scared by the prospect of dying. The last we ever see of them is when they charge out of the trenches, into the enemy's gunfire, with the theme slowly and melancholy playing in the background, before the whole scene dissolves into a field of poppies. No credits whatsoever, The End.

You forgot the most touching part.
When Baldric announces he has a cunning plan a few seconds before going over the top and instead of hearing it out and taking the piss, as Blackadder has been doing for the entire history of the program, he simply says "I'm sorry Baldric, it will have to wait" and they go over the top to their almost certain death.

No other TV show or film I've seen has been able to effectively portray the futility of war as well as that.

Blackadder goes forth has the most depressing, yet most poignant ending, hands down.

 

[Ohlookit'sMatty]

I had watch both these shows when I was growing up but I couldn't remember the ends so I youtubed them and boy was that a mistake. . . Gods damn they are depressing! Especially Roseanne, I have found memories of this show and they all came flooding back when I seen how it ended

Thanks guys for a trip down memory lane

-M

 

[Hitchmeister]

At least they left Dinosaurs open for a sequel. The Baby could thaw out and become the Dinosaur Captain America. Or is that more depressing?

 

[lithiumvocals]

I'd like to nominate Clone High, though in retrospect it might be more infuriating than depressing. But still:

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the main character runs and searches everywhere at his prom for the love of his life, only to find that she just fucked his main rival in a meat freezer(long story). Then the principle of his school leads the remaining student body and the government agents sent to collect the students and apprehend him(longer story) into the freezer to be frozen by John Stamos. Everyone inside the the room is frozen solid, with Abe Lincoln and Joan of Arc staring into each other's eyes for forever.

I think what's saddest about this ending is that the show was cancelled after its first season. It should've gone on for much longer

 

[Sergey Sund]

In terms of bad endings MAKING me depressed ....
Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
They both pull the god-card.
Still, Galactica ends with them destroying all their spaceships (by hard-wiring it into the brain of a main cast member, murdering him in the process), the president of the people dies of cancer, Adama goes into grief-exile, Kara was the angle-o-death-or-something and disappears UNEXPLAINED, most of the main cast is dead and the rest is probably gonna die during the first winter.
Like, you got an entire planet full of people and you got ONE old doctor. Your civilisation is clearly fucked.