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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 446003" data-attributes="member: 27">I would suspect a lot of people who enjoyed the show are hoping that a good ending will justify their decision to follow the show.  I mean, no one wants to feel they've wasted their time.  More often though, the fans pin their hopes on a good ending because their allegiance to the show has been tested in the later episodes/seasons, hoping the good ending will be remembered rather than an image of "limping to the finish line".  The problem I see is that the same writers/producers in charge of those lackluster final seasons/episodes are the ones tasked with producing that finale.  They might be tired, lacking any new ideas, ready to move on, maybe even a bit resentful of the higher-ups who ended the show.  For every producer who decides the fans deserve a good ending, there are likely five times as many who see the show as just another job and it never even occurs to them that fans deserve anything.There are certain shows that are developed with a planned life span, with the beginning, middle and end all mapped out in advance.  American TV networks tend to hate this model because they want to have shows that just keep on going well past their sell-by date (Lost was a debacle in part because the network wanted them to deviate from their plans).  Producers also tend to shy away from these types of shows because there is no guarantee they will be allowed to play out the show's entire arc (for example: Soap had a five-year "Bible" of stories mapped out but was cancelled in the fourth year, leaving tons of cliffhangers and angry fans).  Every show has its own peculiarities, though.</blockquote>

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