I've been thinking about this lately.
There have been shows that either had bad endings, or were ended prematurely. 99% of the time, it seems to be creative direction, and that's a good thing. If a creator has a certain vision for their work & they execute it, you can't really help it if the mass opinion doesn't match up with that of the creator. It happens.
But I feel like, recently, there have been a couple of examples of shows being ruined on purpose, or at least, for really awful reasons. The obvious example of this is Game of Thrones, where the showrunners deliberately limited the show's runtime, despite both GRRM & HBO being willing & able to keep the show running for much longer than eight seasons, simply because they were both over the show, had a deal with Disney to make Star Wars films, and was working on a deal with HBO to make a Confederacy fanfiction show. What's worse, you can see the deliberate lack of care with the cinematography (Starbucks cup & water bottles being left in shots), rushed developments with both characters & events in the plot, retcons (the prince of Dorne???), etc. And with subsequent interviews & that one panel they did, David Benioff & DB Weiss exposed themselves as wildly incompetent, and the fallout (which not only affected fans of the franchise, but even affected the cast) was what probably led to them losing the Star Wars deal & Confederacy show talks falling apart.
And since I mentioned Star Wars, I feel like The Rise of Skywalker falls under this umbrella. It could be the result of Disney not having a plan & entrusting their biggest franchise outside of Marvel to two different people with wildly different visions, but TROS feels extremely malicious to The Last Jedi. I don't think TLJ is a good film at all, but I will say it at least had interesting ideas - the deconstruction of The Force, Rey's lineage not being important, etc. TROS takes a big dump on all those ideas, while also being bad in its own right. It honestly feels like the modern trilogy is a slapfight between two kids arguing over who gets to play with the coolest toy.
Anyways, are there any other examples of this?
There have been shows that either had bad endings, or were ended prematurely. 99% of the time, it seems to be creative direction, and that's a good thing. If a creator has a certain vision for their work & they execute it, you can't really help it if the mass opinion doesn't match up with that of the creator. It happens.
But I feel like, recently, there have been a couple of examples of shows being ruined on purpose, or at least, for really awful reasons. The obvious example of this is Game of Thrones, where the showrunners deliberately limited the show's runtime, despite both GRRM & HBO being willing & able to keep the show running for much longer than eight seasons, simply because they were both over the show, had a deal with Disney to make Star Wars films, and was working on a deal with HBO to make a Confederacy fanfiction show. What's worse, you can see the deliberate lack of care with the cinematography (Starbucks cup & water bottles being left in shots), rushed developments with both characters & events in the plot, retcons (the prince of Dorne???), etc. And with subsequent interviews & that one panel they did, David Benioff & DB Weiss exposed themselves as wildly incompetent, and the fallout (which not only affected fans of the franchise, but even affected the cast) was what probably led to them losing the Star Wars deal & Confederacy show talks falling apart.
And since I mentioned Star Wars, I feel like The Rise of Skywalker falls under this umbrella. It could be the result of Disney not having a plan & entrusting their biggest franchise outside of Marvel to two different people with wildly different visions, but TROS feels extremely malicious to The Last Jedi. I don't think TLJ is a good film at all, but I will say it at least had interesting ideas - the deconstruction of The Force, Rey's lineage not being important, etc. TROS takes a big dump on all those ideas, while also being bad in its own right. It honestly feels like the modern trilogy is a slapfight between two kids arguing over who gets to play with the coolest toy.
Anyways, are there any other examples of this?