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The Dexter finale, the Lost finale and various books that I thought had a lot of potential but just...never lived up to it.

I'm watching Dexter. Could you spoil me and tell me why you don't care for the finale? Is it the whole last season or just the last episodes?

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Coincidentally, I just read this article about the Dexter finale.

https://tv.avclub.com/dexter-remember-the-monsters-1798178011

And it's the whole last season(s), plus the finale, which was even worse than you thought it was going to be.

massive spoilers, obviously

The Revenant. What a let down. Leo Dicaprio was the least interesting character in that movie.

Bioshock 2. It was just so boring compared to the first one AND Infinite.

Recently? The Goldfinch. It's my best friend's favorite book of all time, and one of my co-workers got excited when she saw I was reading it. I'm floundering around page 100. I just cannot. It's all sound and fury to me.

Oh goodness! I bought that on my Kindle for a reduced price and was so happy that I got a discount. That book was so dull! I was (and still am) a very disappointed Donna Tartt fan.

NAYRT

Are you a Donna Tartt fan, or a The Secret History fan? Not saying that to be judgey, I just feel like The Little Friend was even more likely to be found dull than The Goldfinch. Did you not find it dull?

I...liked most of The Goldfinch? But was deeply dissatisfied with the last couple of chapters, to the point where I was almost pissed off when I got to the end. But I can definitely see why someone might find it dull. I'm a fiction masochist who made myself read a fuck ton of "the classics" in my early twenties, so now almost nothing is dull by comparison, but yeah The Goldfinch certainly wasn't overly lively.

Both a Tartt fan and a Secret History fan. I own a copy of the Little Friend but haven't gotten 1/4 of the way through.

How I Met Your MOther final. Nothing beats that.

The biggest disappointment would have to be the second X-Files movie. I was OBSESSED with TXF at the time, and the excitement and build-up in the fandom was intense. And then the movie was, imo, terrible. Which I probably should've seen coming a mile away, but we were all so hopeful that they'd come back and nail it, after the not-great final seasons.

I had fallen out of the fandom by then, so the second movie crept up on me. I didn't think it was good, but I hadn't had a chance to form any expectations. I figured they had a low budget to stick to.

I figured they had a low budget to stick to.

You're right, the budget was 30 Mil - less than half of what FTF's budget was ten years earlier.

It was mainly the characterization that really broke my heart, though. The plot wasn't very good, and it was pretty weak that the whole colonization threat was just swept under the rug, but I could've lived with that, if Mulder and Scully had felt like the characters I fell in love with. But IMO they were pale and lifeless compared to the characters they once were.

I mean, I fully acknowledge that with how intensely fannish I was at the time, it's likely that nothing the canon did could've fully satisfied me. That said, it could very easily have been a whole lot better than it was, that's for sure. :/

there have been too many of them for me to pick one.

The Golden Compass. God, I was so excited by the previews, and honestly, it... did a lot right? The casting was SPOT. ON. The visuals were incredible and immersive. Even the acting itself was really really good! It's just... god, they botched the story so badly it was unforgivable. I couldn't believe it. I knew going into it that they were probably going to go easy on the religious allegory, but I didn't think they'd kill it entirely. And everything else they fucked up and rearranged, ugh. And putting the ending there. AHH I'm still mad about it.

Also the score absolutely fucking sucked? So that didn't help, lmao.

I'm tentatively excited for the BBC miniseries coming up, but ugh, I don't want to get my hopes up. Also I'm admittedly going to be low-key upset that Ms. Coulter isn't still being played by Nicole Kidman, because dear god she was perfect.

The Hannibal novel.

I'd gone to a midnight release, started reading in the car on the way home using the flashlight in the glove compartment. Read all night.

... and then around chapter 90 threw the book across the room in utter disgust.

The Cursed Child. That thing was exactly why I never wanted a continuation of Harry Potter in the first place. I remember after the last book, everyone was all "oh no, I want a book eight." I knew it would be something like that.

Actually, that's not true. I couldn't have possibly envisioned anything quite as crackalicious. But I had serious reservations, apparently with good reason.

The irony is that I do think TCC would've been fine as a crack fanfic or something. But not as something we're apparently supposed to consider canon.

I feel this way about everything after the books.

Mad Men, though I actually like the finale now. I think I just wanted something very different from what it ended up delivering, and it took me a while to come to terms with it.

The Samurai Jack finale still irritates me. It could have been epic but instead it was rushed and many opportunities were wasted. Also the Game of Thrones finale for the same reasons.

Legend of Korra. I loved ATLA, and there were parts of LOK that I didn't hate, and I do understand it's a very different story set in a different time, etc. I just hoped that it would still have some of the same charm as the original series, and for me it didn't.

Pacific Rim got WAY built up for me.

I love the How to Train you Dragon movies #1 and #2 to bits, even though they contained bits that made no sense I liked the cartoon series just fine, I thought I would like the 3rd movie too, I came out of it wanting to like it but... no. I'll have to admit that I hate it, and I'm twice as depressed, because the franchise is over, and because it's over in a terribly let-down way.

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