Thats like ending Saw as soon as they enter the bathroom and the doll says "lets play a game" without any explanation on whats going on or whats to come.
It's actually nothing like that. If that were the case, they would've ended the show at episode 12 with the looming threat of the solar flares coming towards Earth. They wrapped up that whole story, and then introduced a potential future plot thread if the creators and NBC ever decide to pick up the story again in some format.
But since you brought up Saw, it's actually more like the
ending of Saw where the story was wrapped up and some characters had the potential to come back in sequels. If they never made another Saw movie, it wouldn't matter, but the ending hinted that the story COULD continue. The same thing happened here.
It's the same way the original series
didn't end in a cliffhanger either. They stopped Samuel, finished the carnival arc, and then hinted at some possible future plotline where people with abilities are widely known to the world with Claire jumping off the ferris wheel in front of live news cameras.
Just because you would like to see where the show goes from the point they decided to end it, it doesn't mean it's a cliffhanger.
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WhenAmyMetSalad
9 years ago
the original Heroes didn't finish. It was cancelled mid season and they set up the ending for something else. You cant say they didn't. it even introduced the next volume with a title during the finale.
Heroes Reborn has the potential of being bigger. that ending didn't say "we're finished" It said "there's something bigger coming" and a big FU because they don't plan on continuing.
Just because you dont consider it a cliffhanger doesn't mean it wasn't. 😱
-On October 3rd He asked me what day it was "What day is it?" "It's October 3rd"-
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Brainlock2
9 years ago
season four/volume 5??
uh, YEAH. it DID finish.
NBC was VERY public that Kring only had nineteen hours for s4, with NO PROMISE of renewal. Kring admits this in interviews throughout the fourth season. and again after it wrapped, while we were all waiting to hear if NBC was going to greenlight a fifth season or not.
He squandered that, with the final handful of eps (post funeral) just padding out uselessly and aimlessly until the final hour, which he wrote and half of that was simply resetting the board to where he wanted things because he was not paying attention to what his writers were up to the rest of the season.
then the Big finale was Samuel and Peter pushing dirt at each other.
As much as that final flustercluck hour turned me off the previous four years, he DID give a somewhat closed ending, but also opened it up to the possibility of changing the series entirely for a POSSIBLE fifth season. Which NEVER HAPPENED.
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WhenAmyMetSalad
9 years ago
They ended the show saying "End of Volume Five" and then "Volume Six: Brave New World" and then Claire falls to her not death and it says "To Be Continued" that's not "finishing" a story. that's called a cliffhanger.
Heroes Reborn didnt make that same mistake by adding a new volume at the end of this series but how it ended was not to complete a story. it was more like completing a chapter.
-On October 3rd He asked me what day it was "What day is it?" "It's October 3rd"-
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Prof_Gotham
9 years ago
Maybe they'll try to try to continue it as a Web comic.
They probably got enough notice that the show was being cancelled. They could have reshot the final scenes.
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Brainlock2
9 years ago
Kring boasted that all the scripts were written BEFORE cameras rolled, and then 85% of the filming was done before the show started airing. This was "good" so they "couldn't second guess ourselves from fan interference influencing our direction again" or some BS.
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