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When A Good Show Has A Bad Ending
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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I think both "the show had 5 great seasons but a terrible ending" is as bad as "the show has 3 bad seasons but the last 2 are great!" are equally bad and reasons that I would not watch something.
It's not like there aren't hundreds of other options.
Babylon 5 was a great show... with this caveat:
Season 1 is slow and you won't know how important it is until you watch 2, 3, 4.
Season 4 is the single best season of sci fi television ever produced, but you have to have seen 2 and 3 to fully appreciate it.
The reason Season 4 is amazing is because they didn't know they were getting a Season 5 so they stuffed 2 seasons worth of television into 1.
Then they got renewed for Season 5 by a different network and were like "Season 5... um... yeah! We totally have a plan for that... Yeah... totally ready to go."
I guess I agree except The Good Place season 1 is a must watch. Later seasons fell off a bit and pushed my suspension of disbelief in places, but if you don't care about the ultimate plot you can just watch S01 and call it a day.