(Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.

[u/MeepMan324]

1. Two and a Half Men's final episode teased Charlie Sheen's character coming back and going to harm the other characters whilst also having insults to his character and Charlie Sheen himself. It's clear the director had a grudge and the ending where his character comes up to knock then get crushed by a piano before it cuts to the director before he says "winning" before getting crushed by another piano
2. This was an upbeat animated show about a magical teen princess. The writers desperately wanted a romantic endgame for her and her best friend, but the way they got there was essentially multiversal omnicide. To stop a villain, the main character unilaterally decides magic is the root of all evil and destroys it entirely. By doing this, she casually commits mass genocide against every purely magical being in the multiverse. It also triggers a massive apocalyptic event that violently crashes different dimensions together into a chaotic hellscape. But the show frames this horrific, mass-extinction catastrophe as a sweet, triumphant ending just because two teenagers get to hold hands in the rubble (Star Vs The Forces Of Evil)

[u/irihS]

obligatory game of thrones karma farm mention

[u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir → u/irihS]

D&D rushing the ending to do Star Wars is what GoT them fired from Star Wars.

[u/licoricenipple → u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir]

They didn't get fired from Star Wars specifically. Disney shut down every single A Star Wars Story movie project at once, when they had about 8-10 in various stages of development, ~6 months before the GOT finale in response to Solo bombing, Episode 9 becoming a mess and the decision to launch their own streaming service and retool movie projects as TV. This included James Mangold's Boba Fett movie (which eventually was given to Jon Favreau as the TV show Book of Boba Fett), Stephen Daldry's Obi-Wan movie (which was given to Joby Harold as the TV show Obi-Wan Kenobi), David S. Goyer's Jabba the Hutt movie (cancelled), Laeta Kalogridis's Knights of the Old Republic movie (cancelled), Kevin Feige's unspecified movie (cancelled), J. D. Dillard and Matt Owens's unspecified movie (cancelled), and Rian Johnson's trilogy (never entered pre-production, this call came during its early planning) in addition to Benioff & Weiss's.

By the time the GOT finale aired, Benioff & Weiss had long abandoned Star Wars and were in negotiations with Netflix for what became 3 Body.

[u/FlyingDutchman9977 → u/licoricenipple]

While I agree that they weren't 100% to blame for losing Star Wars, if they hadn't botched the final season of Game of Thrones, they could both be having much more lucrative careers than they're having now. At the very least, they could be working on their own Game of Thrones spin off, but they'll likely never touch the franchise again. No matter how you slice it, they back the wrong horse and lost severely.

[u/ExternalPromotion542 → u/FlyingDutchman9977]

They had the writes to executive rpoducer titles on every gollowing GOT title afterward regardless of time spent on said projects and they have concientiously chosen not to collect on that because they know how much it would tank those efforts at reviving the franchise.

[u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir → u/licoricenipple]

Thanks for the information. I guess all of that was just announced to the public when the finale rolled around.

[u/Jonaskin83 → u/licoricenipple]

3 Body is so fucking good, I recommend that show to everyone.

[u/MH360 → u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir]

[u/RaisedByBooksNTV → u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir]

I see what you did there.

[u/ebietoo → u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir]

Ha ha!