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Easy one: ReBoot should have ended, period. Which is to say, the Big Honkin' Cliffhanger should have led to that missing final story arc as planned.

I was gonna say it should have ended with Season 3 and not tried to cram two seasons' worth of story into three hours, grossly mischaracterizing some of our favorite characters in the process, but that's just me.

I'm not sorry Season 4 exists, but I would much, much rather they had done it better and given it the time it was supposed to have. And finished it.

With an actual ending instead of just tapering off into a string of plot holes and non-sequiters culminating in an inexplicable explosion yes, I am still bitter.

Some got an ending! Sort of?

In books and games that followed.

Poor Atton.

Tbh, I'm almost glad that The Old Republic didn't tell us what happens to Atton, given the unremittingly grim nature of the endings it provides for everyone it remembers.

But that doesn't let Obsidian and LucasArts off the hook. Mostly LucasArts.

For Gene, I think it ended exactly as it should have done. The job comes before personal feelings, and what had to happen, happened. He ended alone, but still working, and with his world still intact.

I think others might not feel the same about other characters, but for me, I'm happy with it.

~cough~ BAR FIX EVERYTHING.

Five years ago.

Spectacularly.

Before everybody at Valve went off to make hats for Team Fortress 2 instead.

/bitter

First off, a round of applause for Muji for doing this for all these years. Thanks for making the start of the workday a little more fun!

And best of luck to our new DE Overlord!

Anyway...

Kirk's overall canon ended with Will Riker watching holovids of Enterprise, followed by cancellation and a reboot. Anything would have been better than that. Kirk's personal canon ended with a really silly death. It should have ended with him dying in battle, and with him getting a statue (because all heroes deserve statues).

Knox's canon sputtered to a halt in the form of Batman and Robin, followed by a reboot (see a trend emerging)? It should have ended with much better movies. Imagine if Chris Nolan and not Joel Schumacher did those last two films. Maybe he would have found room for Knox? (I am trying to find a way to insert a version of Knox into TDKR.)

Charlie's overall canon ended with the entertaining but inexplicable Flashpoint miniseries. Followed by a reboot. (It's a trend!) It should have ended by not ending (and I'm saying that as someone who likes at least some of the New 52 DC). Charlie's personal canon ended with his death, and I am okay with that.

Howard Stark's canon is a long way from ending overall, though his story ended before we ever met him in the first Iron Man film. I would like to see more of him in WWII, though. The way it should end is with Galactus coming to eat the Earth, and Iron Man and Banner instead of the FF stopping him. (Anyone else hear that false rumor that Marvel was looking to trade the extended to Daredevil to 20th Century Fox in exchange for Galactus and Silver Surfer?)

Cy's canon ended with the Titans returning to an ever-changing Jump City but the mission the same as ever. Followed by a partial reboot with the new chibi Titans cartoon. It shouldn't have ended, but that was a pretty good finale.

Gibbs' canon isn't over yet. It should be. Sorry, Johhny, but it's time to let go.

*blushes* Thanks, and you're welcome!

And thank you! I hope to keep y'all as entertained as

muji managed. = ]

Golden Sun ended with the world being saved. The lighthouses were lit, the Golden Sun rose, and sure Felix's hometown got a little bit destroyed, but all the people were safe. And as far as Felix-in-Milliways is concerned, that's the end of canon. (I do feel that if they didn't specifically plan on a sequel to Dark Dawn they shouldn't have stuffed it more full of sequel hooks than party members, but that's irrelevant to MilliFelix.)

Final Fantasy IV has a wonderful ending. Even if I've never actually played through it. (I did get to the final dungeon once! And I've seen the ending cutscenes!)

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic should never end! Well, no, that's a recipe for unmitigated disaster. Actually, possibly the best thing for it would be to get unjustly cancelled sometime in the next couple of years, and then no additional MLP shows for at least twice as long as its run. That way we'd have the memories, untainted by much "they changed it, now it sucks", and the next set would have a chance to stand or fall on its own recognizance.

I'm content with the end of Mia's canon, whether you'd like to put that at the end of Lunar 1 or Lunar 2. Her end is at Lunar 1, with her assuming control of the Magic Guild, appointing her sweetheart Nash as a teacher, and beginning the task of repairing Vane. The Lunar series itself ends with Hiro and company saving the world, followed by Lucia confessing her love to Hiro and returning to the Blue Star alone. After this, Epilogue mode kicks in and Hiro finds a way to go to the Blue Star himself, which succeeds and he and Lucia are joyfully reunited.

Mother 3.....oh holy crap, Mother 3. Without spoiling anything, the whole thing kind of ends on a cliffhanger. I say "kind of" because the buildup of the story does lead it to that ending and, if you pay attention to the dialogue, you know what's going to happen. But it does leave you asking about what's next, at least in the sense of how's, when's, and where's. In any case, I like the ending for what it is because I like ambiguity and the degree of freedom it gives me in certain aspects of playing Lucas.

And now we have the canon mess that is Lohengrin. His backstory, based on the opera of the same name, ends only the way an opera can. He would argue that he would have preferred taking Elsa with him but that's just not how the story goes. His actual story, The Prince and the Raven, was never finished in canon. Not that that matters much for him since he dies before the end, but the Prince and the Raven escape from the book and into Kinkan/Gold Crown Town, where their battle is eventually concluded. Then you have Princess Tutu itself, which has an ending that makes me cry for a number of reasons. I like the ending overall but sometimes feel Duck gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop. The amount of like I have for this ending varies depending more or less on what I'm doing at the time.

Sunshine's canon ended leaving a lot of unanswered questions, but left things open to let you know that the end of the book is most certainly not the end of the story. I like the way it ends, but I would've preferred if it ended with the announcement of a sequel (*shakes fist*). However, there's been news that Robin McKinley is working on a not-actual-sequel called Albion, which I'm excited for.

Yrael's canon is technically still going, but the end of the main trilogy should've ended with some closure between him and Orannis. Grrrr. Still sore about that. Looking forward to the sequels and prequels whenever Garth Nix gets around to them.

Zelgadiss' canon... well, I liked the end of the most recent season, but I do wish we'd get more info in the anime on the other major players on the demons' side. More than what shows up in the only-released-in-Japan light novels and manga, at least. Also, I would like Zel to eventual find his cure, but I know that that could only ever happen at the very end of the story The Slayers is telling, because it's his major motivation.

Well, I'm not sure the Fantastic Four will ever end but the miniseries Fantastic Four: The End had it pretty well nailed down. The Fantastic Four in the far-nearish future had split up but end up back together to help save themselves and Franklin and Val. When the dust settles they realize how much they miss each other and decide to go back to exploring.

Palamedes' canon ended pretty well but I wish there had actually been a few pages of the final battle of his that kept being refereed to in earlier books. It was a total off panel fight and I was so looking forward to seeing him kick some gryphon ass.

I wish Thalia had had more screen time but the books weren't about her so I can't complain too much. I also don't like that a certain other child of Zeus had more powers than she did. I've decided to spin it that her acrophobia keeps her from those powers just cause I believe in equality.

At the last scene with Hank and Raven in X-Men First Class, Hank should have turned back at the last second to try and say "I'm sorry" or "I love you" right before Raven disappeared. In fact Hank should have apologized for the awful things he said to her when he offered her the cure.

Edited 2012-08-09 14:03 (UTC)

Arthurian legends usually end with a dead/dying Arthur being taken into Avalon to sleep until Britain needs him again, the kingdom broken and at war, and Merlin trapped in an impregnable prison by Nimue. (Though that usually happens at the beginning of the story.)

Merlin can end any way but that, please.

Bilbo's canon ends with the Ring destroyed and him sailing to the Undying Lands with the Elves. I'm good with that.

Dakin's canon ends with a look into the future of all the boys. What Posner-mun and I are trying to prevent is the lonely (David) shallow (Stuart) future that the play/movie gives them. I truly loathe that Posner's future is so bleak in the play and only slightly better in the movie. He deserves better.

The Green Man was born when the first blade of grass poked its way through the Earth's crust, and he'll be around until the Earth itself is swallowed by the sun.

Steve's canon hasn't ended yet. He died once or twice but got better. I think as long as publishers find a way to reboot/refashions the stories to suit the current generation of readers, it'll keep going. As far as the movies go, they've only just started. SEQUEL SEQUEL SEQUEL WE GET A SEQUEL IN 2014 AND I'M SO EXCITED I HAVE TO CAPSLOCK. As far as how they should end...you know that poem about Sherlock Holmes, about how it's always 1895? I'd like the movies to end with a sense that even if the adventures are over, the Avengers will always be there.

I like it when the good guys win, what can I say.

...you know that poem about Sherlock Holmes, about how it's always 1895? I'd like the movies to end with a sense that even if the adventures are over, the Avengers will always be there.

YES. THIS. SO MUCH THIS.

And eeeeeeeee sequel!

And dammit, I keep missing Steve's EPs in bar ~~because I'm lazy and haven't done the OOM I need to do before I bring Jack in the bar~~ but EEE SO MUCH LOVE.

Edited 2012-08-09 15:30 (UTC)

Hee, thank you :D.

DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THE ENDING OF SKYWARD SWORD

SOMEONE MADE THIS FOR A REASON

Edited 2012-08-09 15:25 (UTC)

HNNNNNNG.

MUST...NOT...RANT...ABOUT...SEASON...8...

lol you know i'd rant about seasons much earlier than that

LOL well yes, but that was my personal breaking point.

Hasn't ended yet! Possibly it won't ever end, there will just be a cycle of "Aw man the devs ruined the game," and "Oh, this game is fun, Imma play it,"
until the game devs lose interest or an investment firm runs the game into the ground.

Though, a possible ending was spoilered to people who pay enough attention. Apparently the gods will be returning and will start walking amongst mortals instead of being far off in celestial or infernal or whatever planes, so Amascut won't have a monopoly on that anymore. But, members of her pantheon have expressed a desire to deal with Amascut more permanently, so there could be an ending coming for her soon.

I think Villains By Necessity ended exactly as it should have.

Warehouse 13, assuming the writers have enough notice to do it, is going to end with the Warehouse changing host countries. That's pretty much been confirmed by the show runner.

Percyverse, I'm not sure, though I'm still happy with where the first series left off.

Soul Music itself has a pretty satisfying ending; the odds are getting slimmer all the time, but I'd like to see Imp make at least some kind of cameo again before Author Existence Failure kicks in. (Speaking of... in a way, I'm glad Sir Pterry probably won't have a chance to resolve the Death-and-Susan storyline. That can only end in tears, whether Death collects Susan - I mean, he Out Of Cheesed from collecting her parents, and he wasn't as close to them as he is his granddaughter - or Susan taking over the business.)

Harry Potter: NO NO NO NO NO ALL IS NOT FUCKING WELL YOU'RE DOING THE SAME DAMN THING THAT GOT YOU INTO THIS MESS NO NO NO NO.
...I have some. Issues. With the epilogue. To put it mildly. (And with Deathly Hallows in general; among other things, I think Harry either should have stayed dead or pulled a Frodo and never married. I like the implication that it took him and Ginny several years to reach the family-having stage, but still. No one else has been a Horcrux!)
The epilogue I wanted to see, based on what we were given, was 'so how do we keep this nonsense from happening again?'

Once Upon a Time... I have no idea what those guys are gonna do now, but the logical answer is 'and they all lived happily ever after, perhaps even Rumpelstiltskin and Regina, if the latter can be arsed to find her heart again.'

With Marian not dead.

A nice ending for Turtles would be nice.
You know, for a healthy change of pace. Something with a wrapped up story arc, and hints of future adventures. Or even the final death of all the characters. Whatever! Just an ending that isn't: Due to lack of demand this title is being cancelled.

AtLA I really enjoyed the last season, though I think it could have used a few more episodes. Make Azula's break a bit more drawn out if nothing else. Bryke has great plot points and world building, but man their pacing is kind of nutty.

Also: HE'S TWELVE! There didn't need to be more KISSING! TWELEVE.
*cough*

Korra Needed more Bumi.
<.<

Middleman I was lucky enough to be at Comic Con when they did a table read of the season/series finale. It was awesome, and it should have been filmed. So that'd be my suggestion: film the finale.

So that'd be my suggestion: film the finale.

Holy crap, THIS. (AND GIVE THEM THE BUDGET TO DO IT PROPERLY.)

Oh, I dunno, properly?

Not RDR, RDR had a great ending. MoH, not so much.

Hmm. Ms. Marvel was Carol's previous solo title ran for fifty issues and just kind of... stopped really. By the end the writing was all over the place and the art was changing multiple times each issue. Since Captain Marvel just started I really don't want it to end ever, but if it does, I think DeConnick can close it a way that ties together the story she's trying to tell while Carol goes off for more adventures.

For Lady Mary, I just really, really want her to be happy. Mary's pretty much learned to attach her self worth to money and status, but with the show's timeline headed into the decline of the aristocracy, that may not be so much of an option. So let's just say, Fellowes'd better not break up Mary and Matthew, or kill off either of them.

"Rescue Me" ended with me sobbing uncontrollably through bittersweet laughter.

Oh, you mean-- okay. I thought the seven-season run ended really well, and appropriately for what the show was. It was an emotional show, but never sentimental, and so it wasn't a sentimental ending, and I liked that.

"I love you, Tom. ...Not in that way. ...Okay, maybe a little that way."

Heroes I believed ended on something (I guess vaguely like what I'm doing now) with the characters going public about their abilities. But with more me wanting stab everyone in the face. I've liked my version better?

Grim Fandango ended as it should have. Though I'm still pining for a movie adaptation.

Parks and Rec and Korra aren't over. Though I think Parks and Rec should end with a flashforward to Leslie Knope as President of the United States.

I don't know about Korra. I just don't want it to involve any main character death. And I hope Asami [spoiler?] manages to rebuild her company.

Edited 2012-08-09 21:56 (UTC)

YAY STEPH! I am so happy and excited for you. I can't even. ♥♥♥

Oh god. Canons. This is such a loaded topic for me, because while I pull my hair out and make faces at my canons on a regular basis, for the most part the reason I fall in love with a character is the entire journey they take. Even if things don't end up shiny and perfect. So it's a mixed bag! I've never really cared for the phrase "Milliways fix" in that respect. HOWEVER (WARNING: here thar be spoilers...)

Leela - eyeeyecaptain - Due to a resuscitable miracle on the part of Comedy Central, canon is still going! If we're talking about the s4 ender, I'm actually pretty pleased with it. There are a number of things I could say should have happened, but it ended very open and hopeful for Fry and Leela. If we're talking future endings... how cute would a bouncing baby one-eyed Fry be? Or Leela goes down in a blaze of glory, being kickass and saving the universe yet again.
Porthos - srspirate - Either way you look at it, perfect ending. In the book he marries a lawyer's widow and becomes Monsieur du Vallon, whiling away coin and time in pursuit of amusements. In the '93 film, he and his brothers have just saved the ~~world~~ king and fly off into "battle" together (against a petty noble chasing d'Artagnan). Both outcomes = most excellent in his estimation. I sheepishly admit I haven't read Twenty Years Later, though elements were in the film and I know my ever insatiable pup does end up a baron by the end.
Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs - ... Yeah, not becoming a tree. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, CAMERON. I'm not particularly upset with the way her arc ended, even though the headvoice is glaring at me and going I died, how is this in any way okay? Had Grace not died in the "presense of Eywa", she wouldn't have that one fierce turning point in her characterization thatIhavenoideawhatI'mgonnadowith. I figure she would have reestablished the school, and stayed with the O-clan until dying of other causes. Published more, discovered more, maybe found a couple of the cures she was so excited about.
Renee Walker - whathastobedone - ... ... ... Yeah, Renee is the only character I've actively thought "HOW AM I GOING TO REWRITE CANON?" Due largely to the fact that the headvoice moved in after s7. s8 was just a hot mess. It had few and brassy moments, opposed to s7's many shining ones, and in the end Renee was reduced to a prop for facilitating Jack's man-pain. It was such a glaring change from s7 that I'm classifying it as OoC and ignoring it AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME. *HANDS OVER EARS* Renee finds her redemption, she faces down her demons, she comes out on top, and is never treated as a footnote to Jack. They end up working together again on a more permanent basis, and if things happen between them, well. So be it. CANON, DONE.
Ray Carling - flickedmethevs - I'm really happy with Ray's whole arc, actually. In fact, the reason I love him so fiercely is completely the fault of Ashes series 3. I wouldn't change a jot, because then he wouldn't be Ray. Flawed, impossible, brash, and constantly making mistakes; achingly insecure, fiercely devoted, scared, brave, sour and sweet. And in a pub for eternity. Get in.
Lily Bell - maidenofthewest - Canon is still in progress, and OMG GUYS SEASON TWO STARTS THIS SUNDAY sALDGHALDGdshdg SO EXCITED. Ahem. How canon should end... well, not to get into every tiny quibble, fear, hope, and wish, I think it can only end one way for her. At the Pacific, looking back on the monumental things she has accomplished.
Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou - I don't know how to answer this. Part of me says I wouldn't change a thing; it ended perfectly (she's banged up plenty, but she'll fly true). The other part of me is warbling a barely comprehensible "WaaaAAaaaaAAAaaash! D:" And yes, I can convey a D: in my voice? IDK.
Regina Mills - happilyneverafter - Ahahaha. ha. haaaa. WELL, season two will be airing in about a month, but the last four (or five?) episodes of s1 gave me plenty of facepalm moments. From photos I've seen, I'm cautiously hopeful that my biggest complaint will be addressed and remedied in some fashion, maybe? That being the whole Henry arc. I kind of RAGEBLACKOUTed during every hospital scene. As for the future... man, there are so many ways it could go. I'd like to see some redemption for Regina, but I don't know how that would be possible without Daniel or Graham. Mainly, I want to see what Rumpel is planning.

In sum: FEEEEELINGS.

I WAS TOTALLY WONDERING WHEN S2 HELL ON WHEELS WAS GONNA START

*writes self Post-It notes and sticks them all over computer screen*

(ETA: GODDAMMIT, TOMMY, STOP THINKING ABOUT HITTING ON LILY BELL JUST BECAUSE SAD LADIES ARE HOT)

Edited 2012-08-09 23:06 (UTC)

OSDKLGHSDGSHLrGTSDG THIS SUNDAY. HERE, HAVE THE OFFICIAL TRAILER SO YOU CAN MUPPET FLAIL ALL OVER THE FACE OF THE INTERNET WITH ME. CAN. NOT. WAIT.

Me? Obsessed? Pfffff. No. Not at all. I don't know what you are talking about. (OK, so I have something like 6 completed OoMs sitting in a folder, alongside 3 in-progress OoMs, and that only covers the first 3 episodes, and I've been twitching for months but THAT DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING.)

Buahaha, Tommy. This sad lady aristocrat is giving you A FACE. It clearly says Do Not Enter. Which means they should definitely thread sometime! :D?

Futurama keeps doing the "let's have a heartwarming open-ended season finale in case we don't come back" thing. It's nice, but I want a definitive ending eventually, dangit.

Yeah, Futurama has never done 'definitive' well. On the one hand, I love canons where literally anything could happen without lasting repercussions. On the other hand, a little consistency and a natural arc would be nice!

It's good to know that everybody else is bitter about their canon's endings too. Clone High also ended on a cliffhanger. A horrible, horrible cliffhanger that involved a love triangle. Or square rather. And John Stamos leading a congo line into a freezer. (It wouldn't have been bad if there had been some closure)

The creators said they'd bring it back if they can raise enough money to buy the rights back from MTV but I think they're saying that to get us to stop bugging them. Also they know they'll never raise 5 million. (Which seems cheap to me for a show but what do I know?)

Other than the fact that it ended TOO DAMN SOON, Brisco's canon ended exactly as it should have. (It still bugs me that they left the Brisco/Dixie relationship thread hanging, but it wasn't really their fault. :/)

I'm not sure how I want Psych to end. The show's got a pretty clear character arc, but there's a lot of ways they could go with it.

Reno's ending was a shitfest, if I may be blunt. It was a total non-ending. Clem had technically been dead for a year by then, which is an entirely different rant, but I'm still pissed over how bad it was. Reno should've ended either with EVERYONE dying except for the mayor or with Clem and Garcia getting married, Jim finally getting a promotion, Jonsey and Raineesha re-hooking-up, Junior getting a lifetime subscription to Penthouse, and Trudy getting the cat of her dreams.

On the other hand, Brisco's ending was utterly perfect. It can't get any better than he and Comet galloping away - I only wish Dixie had been on that saddle with him.

Psych and FIM haven't ended yet! But my ideal ending for Psych is simple: A flashforward in a tone similar to the one used in the show's flashbacks. Jules and Shawn, now married with a six-year-old daughter, move back to Santa Barbara after six years of being away (my preferred reason why: Shawn, in a major act of maturity, follows Juliet to her new job when she gets transferred back to Miami). They're greeted by Gus, his wife, and their daughter. While the girls know of each other and the couples constantly Skyped, they're wary of each other - until they realize they have a vast knowledge of pop culture in common. Running off to play, they traipse through the backdoor into a large, joint yard. It's implied that Shawn and Gus are finally living in their side-by-side-houses with an adjoining backyard. The dads watch their kids play proudly for a moment - before joining right in. They aren't ENTIRELY mature!

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