Your biggest "Fuck you" to the audience

[maxben]

I think The Descent 2 did a pretty decent job of shitting all over the perfectly wonderful first movie. If you've never seen The Descent, it's a heartwarming coming-of-age story about a young woman's journey through loss with the help of her five wacky friends.[footnote]Do not ever take any movie recommendations from me. I am a psychopath who seeks out the scariest things ever made. I am empty inside; horror is the only thing that makes me feel ALIVE!!![/footnote]

Oh yes, I fully agree! And if you do watch it, make sure you watch the British release ending and not the American one. It is about the love between a mother and daughter shown through the medium of cake, in the stereotypical happy-go-lucky attitude of all British entertainment since Charles Dickens.

My answer to this question would have to be... Heroes. I am sure everyone will agree but for different reasons. For me? When they gave us ANOTHER guy whose power is flight. Really? That's it? After like 20 supers you just run out of ideas and reintroduce the most boring power? I mean, we have a million superhero powers that have been invented by writers throughout the world, and they couldn't just copy something? Here, awesome plot line! The girl who cant be hurt falls in love not with a guy who flies like her father but a guy who can't turn his overdeveloped empathy off and therefore feels everyone's pain. He later becomes the bad guy and wants to destroy the world to end all the suffering, in a way, but really for his selfish reasons as he wants to end his own pain but is too pussy to just kill himself. BOOM! Season of Heroes done.

Oh and the, "I'm going to be bisexual for like 2 episodes before rejecting women completely as a way to keep the fans". That was a bad bad move for so many reasons.

 

[klaynexas3]

The end of the last season of Legend of Korra. Hell, the last season of LoK as a whole. It threw any chance of a decent, thought provoking story out the window and just went for "how can we one up The Last Airbender," and in so lost any chance of doing it by simply just being a dumb cartoon with stupid people doing stupid things for stupid reasons. The first season tried to actually be its own thing and make a story about the power balance basically like Deus Ex: Human Relations, and it worked. The new season just became a pissing contest of what they felt they could do to just throw complexity out the window.

Oh, and the end of Soul Eater. I don't even want to go into that one.

The episodes of DeathNote after episode 25.

Hell, I'd say the heavy focus on the love story in Sword Art Online is a big fuck you. I just feel like they waste so much potential of what the show is about by focusing on the love plot instead of, you know, the getting sucked into a video game, a fantasy of probably every gamer ever. With exceptions of course.

 

[softclocks]

Mass Effect 3 - your choices dont mean anything
Killing Joke - the exchange between Bats and Joker is nothing really clever
Watchmen-Alan Moore trolling the reader's expectations
AvX crossover - Wanda says more mutants just like that
Xmen-Schism- just an excuse to put Logan in charge of his own school, break up the x-men teams again
Secret Invasion - pathetic excuse to bring back dead characters
Evangelion - creators obviously were stumbling around in the dark
AssCreed 3 - like anybody really cared about Desmond Miles
Fear Itself- just gets Thor away for a year, pretends to kill BuckyCap just to get SteveCap to suit up

Almost forgot:Batman-RIP - sorry you have to get into Final Crisis to see what happens to Batman! grrrr

AvX, Schism, Secret Invasion and Fear Itself were all absolute trash. Why would you expect anything of the ending when the comics themselves are garbage ?

A greater 'fXck you' to the audience would be the cancellation of Squadron Supreme just as they're about to have the huge showdown between Redstone and Blur+Nighthawk.

 

[chocolate pickles]

The last twilight movie (yeah, i had to endure that piece of shit due to my sister wanting to see it). Finally, all these assholes (READ: eveyone) were gonna die - heads ripped off, getting ripped up by wolves. Christmas came early, folks!

Wait, what? it was a vision? They're still alive? you shitting me? I remember some poor guy was sitting behind me, and i just heard chuckle to the girl next to him "it was all a dream?"

I'm not sure if it was a laugh at how hilariously bad the movie was, or a sign that his sanity had finally snapped.

 

[Sutter Cane]

Mass Effect 3 - your choices dont mean anything

So I assume you missed all the parts where say you couldn't interact with certain characters because they had died in your previous save game, or characters potentially living or dying based on decisions you made in ME 2, or the whole situation with the rachni queen, or the after effects of not saving the genophage research if you chose to go in that direction in ME2...

 

[momijirabbit]

Mass Effect 3 - your choices dont mean anything

So I assume you missed all the parts where say you couldn't interact with certain characters because they had died in your previous save game, or characters potentially living or dying based on decisions you made in ME 2, or the whole situation with the rachni queen, or the after effects of not saving the genophage research if you chose to go in that direction in ME2...

He said Mass Effect 3, not 2.

Your choices in 3 had no effect on the ending at all, the only thing that could have been worse is if a menu came up saying "Choose the ending."

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Beware the Batman.

That whole show was a big slap in the face.
It's really hard to completely fuck up Batman but damned if they didn't pull it off.

 

[Nathan Josephs]

the entire second season of darker than black. they take away his powers at the end of the second episode.

why just...why.

 

[soren7550]

Spoiler: Godzilla (2014)

Several times they start building up to an awesome monster fight, and then cut away to the aftermath of the fight.

Legend of Korra - Book 2 Spirits - The pure amount of stupid the characters have been reduced to is insulting on every level.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 3

 

[Mikeyfell]

The biggest "Fuck you" to the audience is Mass Effect 3
end of discussion.
If you disagree the new biggest Fuck You to the audience will be the one I say to you

 

[Mikeyfell]

Mass Effect 3 - your choices dont mean anything

So I assume you missed all the parts where say you couldn't interact with certain characters because they had died in your previous save game, or characters potentially living or dying based on decisions you made in ME 2, or the whole situation with the rachni queen, or the after effects of not saving the genophage research if you chose to go in that direction in ME2...

Everything happened the same regardless of how many characters made it into the third game.
You couldn't make peace if Tali was dead
Everything else happened the same, sure the dialog was different but the events were unchanged.

If Wrex and Mordin are dead you still have to do the whole Tuchanka mission the same as if they both lived
Even if you made the choices that let you save Mordin you never see him again so it doesn't matter

The council setup has less than no effect
and the Rachnai thing just changes the number you get at the end of the mission not the actual mission and you never even see the repressions of it.
Ah, good ol' Mass Effect 3 I forgot how bad it was.

 

[madwarper]

I'd have to go with the Game Overthinker series by MovieBob.

The series was going well enough, then he decided to add an "Antithinker" character, as his representation of the dudebrodude jocks that picked on him as a kid. And, when people criticized the inclusion of the character, he responded by adding Mr. Strawman (literally a floating bale of hay) to voice said criticism, to which he shot and set afire with his NES light gun. After that, I was done with the series. Fortunately, MovieBob's series on the Escapist have yet to jump the shark in such a manner.

 

[FPLOON]

Beware the Batman.

That whole show was a big slap in the face.
It's really hard to completely fuck up Batman but damned if they didn't pull it off.

Wait... It WAS?!
I wasn't able to finish that series because for some reason CN decided to not showcase the rest of the episodes... Are you telling me that I shouldn't wait until Toonami showcases the rest of the series because, in the long run, it would have seemed like as big of a "fuck you" to the fans as Teen Titans GO! is to the original animated Teen Titans series[footnote]Just to set up a compatible example, I guess...[/footnote]?

OT: I know someone mentioned This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, but I can't stress this enough... It's one of those series that you know how it's going to end WAY ahead of time and all you're doing is waiting until it does happen... This goes for both the anime and the manga... and I still own the manga because it reminds me that TokyoPop used to exist, basically... (A really low point in the Gainax anthology, in my opinion...)

 

[Chris Tian]

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I agree that killing a desperatly needed interesting "good guy" character was not the smartest of all things for GoT right now. I hear its because The Viper is not nearly as likable in the books or has less "screentime" there or somesuch.

The whole fight was ridicioulus bullshit from a realistic perspective, but then again nearly every fight in TV&Movies is so that didn't bother me. You are right about the particular situation though, the stupid grab wouldn't even bring a trained fighter to the ground, much less stun him long enough for a bulky, slow, heavily armored and wounded opponent to get up from lying flat on the ground and grab him.

OT: The ending of Mass Effect 3 was, for me, the equivalent of Bioware shouting "fuck you" to my face. It had so many plot holes that it was basically a net, went against everything established so far and was the conclusion to a main conflict that didn't actually exist.

 

[Hochmeister]

How so? I haven't played it, but I'm really enjoying EUIII and was considering picking this up after all the expansions were released.

Every patch wildly rebalanced the expansion limiting mechanics caused the paradox forums to erupt in rage. It's still a good game, but I'd wait and enjoy EU3 another year before picking it up.

 

[jademunky]

I actually got into the Dark Tower because of Insomnia.

Which is one of the reasons the Crimson King is so much of a Disapointment, considering all of the build up he was given in both the preceding books and Insomnia.

Don't get me wrong, the series is still good (though you can skip the middle 90% of book four and miss nothing worth talking about), it's just King apparently decided that he made the Crimson King too forboding and climatic sounding and took steps to remove any level of interest or threat he had once posessed.

To be fair, most of Stephen King's villains are like that. The Stand, It, Tommyknockers, they all feature threats that seem really imposing from far away. Then when the protagonists actually confront them, they fold faster than Superman on laundry day.

I'm unsure how intentional this in on the part of the writer. Possible King is just is not that great at writing that final climactic battle scene.

Personally I think the Crimson King is just a disjointed mess of a villain. "oh he is this evil undead wizard. Or wait, now he is this black orb of pure evil. No better yet, he might be some kind of spider-creature that spawned from the deadlights. No, back to the evil wizard thing, also he will just be throwing bombs off the tower"

 

[Parasitic_Chick]

The ENTIRE 7th season of Doctor Who. Never have I been so appalled by a tv show then when I watched that pathetic excuse of a season. I still think Russel T. Davies and Matt Smith should go and die a slow horrible death.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Here's one I remember from when I was a kid: The debut of Alien X in Ben Ten Alien Force. Up until that point, X was the only alien that had yet to be used, and he was hyped to hell in the week before the episode, if I remember correctly. What does he do for his big debut, you ask? He stops a dam from bursting, and then stands ramrod stiff for the rest of the episode. The excuse they gave is that because he's nigh omnipotent, his body is governed by three personalities (Ben being one of them), and he can't do anything until a majority vote is reached.

Although I like that in concept, it seems like a lazy solution to a lack of ideas for the tenth alien of the new series. I'd much rather have an alien that is demonstrably badass, yet limited, than someone who we are only told is omnipotent, but don't actually get to see much of. Maybe if Ben facing the temptation of using X again was a big plot point in future episodes it would have worked, but they really didn't do anything more with it (for the record, I only watched through Alien Force. I'm pretty sure there were more series after that, but I'd outgrown the show by then, and didn't watch them. Maybe they did more with X then, but I don't know).

 

[ccggenius12]

Wait... It WAS?!
I wasn't able to finish that series because for some reason CN decided to not showcase the rest of the episodes... Are you telling me that I shouldn't wait until Toonami showcases the rest of the series because, in the long run, it would have seemed like as big of a "fuck you" to the fans as Teen Titans GO! is to the original animated Teen Titans series[footnote]Just to set up a compatible example, I guess...[/footnote]?

Eh, it wasn't terrible, you can find the rest of it online if you know where to look. CN will be finishing it later, but internationally it's done. I went into it expecting crap, and was therefore pleasantly surprised. I mean, I can't put my finger on what there was to like, but I don't regret watching it. It says a lot that I consider the intro to easily be the best thing about the show. On the flip side, I can recall quite a lot that was off. They didn't use any of the big name bat villains (unless you count Killer Croc), Katana is his first partner because reasons, Alfred is much more active than in other portrayals, the animation felt a bit weak at times, but mostly, they could have just given us more Brave and the Bold. (Mere words cannot express how much I wish that was still running.) Of course, I managed to make it all the way through "The Zeta Project", so I probably have an inhuman tolerance for DC's mediocrity. If you've already watched the first 20, might as well finish the last 6.
OT: Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated went off the deep end near the end there.

Spoiler

Why did they need to be outright fighting ancient eldritch horrors and Nazi robots? that is NOT what the series is about...

 

[Seracen]

Jeez man, there's so many shit moments in so much of geek culture, whether tv, games, anime, books, or whatnot. Let's not even mention how certain productions end so atrociously, their very existence is one giant middle finger to the fans. Man, I'd be here all day with my list, and plenty of people have stated my thoughts already.

Most recently, there was a moment that MIGHT have made me pissed off in the new Dresden Files book, "Skin Games." However, I am too familiar with Jim Butcher's writing style at this point, and called the troll-worthy scene the moment it was set up.