Has the bad ending of American TV dramas become the norm? The higher the audience's expectations, the greater the disappointment

This past weekend, two phenomenal American TV series came to an end. The Big Bang Theory, which ended first, made the audience cry and laugh on the sofa, calling it "perfect". Game of Thrones, which ended three days later, made the audience want to send knives to the creators.

Data from the United States shows that tens of millions of Americans may have their work affected in order to watch the finale of Game of Thrones: "5.8 million people plan to take leave on the night of the broadcast, and 10.7 million people may be absent from work the day after the finale is broadcast. The loss to companies may be as high as $3.3 billion."

For many viewers of American TV series, the finale of a series that has accompanied them for many years is like the end of their youth. When the sitcom "Friends" ended in 2004, a large projection screen was set up in Times Square in New York to show the final episode outdoors.

However, most of the time, the endings of TV series are not always as satisfying as those of "The Big Bang Theory" and "Friends". People who often watch American TV series may have discovered this a long time ago - for great TV series, bad endings are the norm.

Especially those dramas that are too grand and have too many foreshadowings. The more grand the beginning and the more complicated the clues, the higher the chance of disappointment in the end .

Perfect endings always have similar good intentions, but bad endings have their own reasons. The male lead of House of Cards was once involved in a sex scandal, which eventually dragged down the entire show, and the new president was even complained by fans that he "couldn't survive more than three episodes in a palace drama"; Lost suddenly turned into a horror movie at the end, and some people believed that the Hollywood screenwriters' strike that year was responsible for this.

"This is the problem with the filming mechanism of American TV series." A "Game of Thrones" fan lamented after being hit by the finale. If a movie is badly made, its reputation will decline, and fewer people will go to the cinema the next day. However, viewers of genuine American TV series either bought memberships of video websites in advance or subscribed to paid channels, so they cannot return the TV series even if they are not satisfactory.

The creators have already made money, so there is nothing binding that can require them to always be at their best and take the audience's expectations seriously.

There are not many film and television drama creators who can ignore all external interference for the sake of their works. Anyone who can do this is admirable. But then again, if there is no capital, there probably won't be so many authors and works.

The game of capital is like "Game of Thrones". You can't rely on the players' high moral character as the only hope. Some people firmly believe that the bad ending of "Game of Thrones" is because the two main creators of the series will be invited by Disney to shoot the new trilogy of the "Star Wars" series. So for these two people, "Game of Thrones" has become a business that needs to be sold quickly. After all, more lucrative contracts can't wait.

In addition to capital, there are too many other factors in the creative system of film and television dramas that will affect the plot of the drama.

George R.R. Martin, the author of the novel A Song of Ice and Fire, was originally a screenwriter, and he was fed up with Hollywood's system. He once publicly stated that he would rather write a book alone, and as an author, he was the only one who could have the final say over everything he wrote. When he was a screenwriter on a crew, if he wanted to avoid being told what to do by others, he had to climb to a higher position in that system.

It is common for external factors to cause a bad ending. One of the main actors of Criminal Minds had a fight with the main creators on the set, so his role was completely removed from the series. This long-running drama, which has lasted for 15 years, will also usher in its finale this year.

Most of the audiences are helpless and can only express their dissatisfaction through petitions. As of the broadcast of the finale of "Game of Thrones", the number of overseas fans requesting a remake of the last season has exceeded 1.3 million. Domestic fans have launched a campaign on Weibo to write the ending for the screenwriter. Fans have been imagining how the plot should go, and some of their ideas seem more reliable than what is played out on the screen.

It is true that the level of the series' creators is not as good as that of the original author. George Martin created a huge world, but after losing the support of the original work in the fifth season, the IQ of the characters in "Game of Thrones" almost plummeted.

After the eighth season of Game of Thrones aired, the Rotten Tomatoes rating continued to decline

The characters who have gradually grown up over the past 9 years are suddenly beaten back to their original form. Some characters begin to do things that they are unlikely to do, but there is a lack of sufficient motivation behind their actions, as if the screenwriter forced them to do it - in fact, the screenwriter forced them to do it.

In the last 6 episodes, the characters are rushing towards the next dramatic conflict, ignoring details that the screenwriters think are unnecessary, as if to say: No time to explain, let’s just end it!

The plot logic is inconsistent, and the characters lack motivation - if those great dramas were the same from the beginning to the end, they would not have so many fans. For the audience, it is like seeing a child who always scored 100 points in elementary school suddenly start failing in middle school and directly handed in a blank paper for the college entrance examination.

Even the most critical audiences find it hard to deny that Game of Thrones was a thoughtful series from the beginning. A story was once talked about with great relish among the fans - when the two creators of the series went to the original author Martin, hoping to get the filming rights, Martin asked them what they thought about the life experience of an important character in the book, and the answer to that question has not been mentioned in the original book to this day.

That day, Martin got a satisfactory answer. Thus began the filming journey of a great drama, which has moved countless audiences year after year, and at the last sharp turn, sprained the audience's back.