I hate season-finale cliffhangers on TV.<\/p>\n
No, you don’t understand. I hate<\/em> them. Not in the "Oh, the producers are such geniuses, I hate them in a good<\/em> way," like you feel when a writer pulls a particularly clever, devious trick. I mean I really hate them<\/em>. They piss me off, and the fact that they’re becoming standard fare pisses me off even more.<\/p>\n They irritate the crap out of me. Occasionally<\/em> there’s a good reason for them, like in a series that’s one long continuing story (i.e. Babylon 5). But most of the time? They’re cheap gimmicks. There’s rarely any good reason why you can’t complete a full, satisfying arc over the course of a full season. And that includes the ending.<\/p>\n I’m not saying that every last plot thread has to be tied up; a TV series is ongoing, and there should be ongoing plot points and character developments. But that’s a far cry from a three-month-long "to be continued."<\/p>\n I have never dropped a show I liked just because there wasn’t a cliffhanger to draw me back next season. And I have never continued watching a show I dis<\/em>like just because there was<\/em> a cliffhanger. But I have<\/em>, on occasion, dropped a show I was liking because a season-ending cliffhanger rubbed me the wrong way. (Not often, I admit, but it has happened.) And slightly more often, a lingering cliffhanger has pushed me over the edge into dropping a show that was on my personal "bubble."<\/p>\n They used to be only occasional. I remember how shocking it was when Star Trek: the Next Generation did it with the Best of Both Worlds two-parter. (If you don’t remember what that was, get off my lawn, you dang young-uns!) But then, as I said, it became more and more standard. Now? Now, based on what I’ve seen for myself and what I’ve heard, I think every single show I watch is ending on a cliffhanger this season, with the possible exception of Mythbusters. (And at this rate, I wouldn’t put it past them to find some way to do it there, too. :-P)<\/p>\n And it’s freaking annoying!<\/em><\/p>\n I’m already either coming back next season or I’m not! Quit annoying me like this, or I’m going to start leaning a lot more often toward "Not." \ud83d\udc7f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hate season-finale cliffhangers on TV. No, you don’t understand. I hate them. Not in the "Oh, the producers are such geniuses, I hate them in a good way," like you feel when a writer pulls a particularly clever, devious trick. I mean I really hate them. They piss me off, and the fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}