Anti-climaxes in TV
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Just wondered what you guys would consider the biggest anti-climaxes in television; I'm talking about the Doctor faking his death in the Teselecta and Sherlock not even telling us how he faked his. That sort of thing.
Just wondered what you guys would consider the biggest anti-climaxes in television; I'm talking about the Doctor faking his death in the Teselecta and Sherlock not even telling us how he faked his. That sort of thing.
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This thread was a bit of an anti-climax for me personally. It's in the TV forum so that counts, right?
Tbh I have forgotten how it ended now
All the build up to 'whodunnit' and being told that the answer will be totally unexpected....
And then finding that the 'villain' was the one most of us suspected (but discarded because that was too obvious...).
When I look back at Broadchurch, I wonder why so many of us stayed with it throughout and discussed it endlessly on here.
It was okay as a TV series, but really it wasn't great.
What's with the attitude?
Excellent ending so hardly anti-climatic
The way the initiative vanished from Revenge
And there is talk of a second series!
Olivia Colman will not be in it as the shame of it being her husband would be to much and they could not possibly be friends with her.
David Tennant will not be in it as he was sacked (if I remember rightly?)
Unless they take the GBP as fools? Mmm
I have to disagree i thought that ending was pure class and we still never know whether Tony bought it or not
Thought the Sherlock death resolution was very good too.
Lost was terribly disappointing, there were so many ways it could have ended and they picked the worse.
a lot of people say lost was an anti climax but I thought it was brilliant I mean what exactly would you have liked to happen at the end?
At the end of season 2 Conrad told Victoria that the Initiative was simply a group of wealthy business people who created atrocities to then profit from them. At the start of season 3 Nolan reveals that all but I think 1 member (plus Conrad) have been arrested.
I think in season 2 they got carried away with the whole Initiative thing and just wanted to wrap it up quickly and get back to basics.
I liked how that turned out.
Similar to Mad Dogs in that it started off so well and then became dull
That's the whole point, I watched the show religiously for years and am left wondering what happened. It was self indulgent.
Tony was shot? Really?
But Sopranos was very clever. There were no fireworks, just an illustration of exactly what life would be like for Tony from now until his death. It used the language of cinema/television to make us draw significance to insignificant facts:
A furtive restaurant guest that might have a gun hidden away..
A non-phone call from Meadow, suggesting something might have happened to her..
Then, Meadow herself reversing into the parking space, with the camera focusing on the tyres, clear Cinematic-speak for 'THERE'S A BOMB UNDER THE CAR!!' Etc.
We know that at some point they will almost certainly catch up with Tony and kill him. But before that time, his life will be a case of continually looking over his shoulder, mistaking everyday events for ominous signs.
And when, finally, one of those events does turn out to be significant, there'll be no grand build-up. It'll just be a case of <pop> End of Tony. Fade to Black.
Very clever and, as far as I'm concerned, a very satisfying ending.
Or a load of completely self indulgent shite that ruined the ending for millions of fans.
One or the other.
They appear to have all lived happily ever after. How dull.
Except the show isn't ending. Series 3 is being planned.