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I was committed on seeing the whole scrubs series but when season 8 ended it had such a great closure I just couldn't make myself to keep watching.

Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?

Speaking of kids no Quantum Leap either. It's ending was also terrible.

When I saw what the list was about, Lost was the first series that came to mind.

Probably excluded if it missed the minimum 7.0 average rating for the series, which it would have if we take the numbers on Lostpedia. I have no idea if those are accurate though, since it shows the final episode having better rating than all other episodes in the final season.

They changed the format in the last season and did a bunch of smaller myths and the build-team was less involved. They basically knew they weren't going to do any more, so none of the cast were invested.

The 15th season didn't include any of the original cast. Not even Adam and Jamie.

I think the other reply to you may be talking about previous seasons, after the build team left, but that's not the season that's being marked as last in the image. I'm a bit iffy on how the seasons are numbered, but I believe the build team was gone for seasons 13 and 14 with just Adam and Jamie hosting, then season 15, the final one, was the one with two completely new hosts.

I wish I still had my writeup on that last season, and especially the episode How Your Mother Met Me, which I think was a genuinely terrible episode that removed all depth from the Mother, and the only reason I think it got any praise was because of the ukalele rendition of La Vie En Rose at the end.

But yes, that entire season undid 8 years of character development for most of the characters, spent the entire season building up to the Barney & Robins wedding, which it then immediately undid, spent an entire season overdeveloping Barney to being a genuinely good person whose whole persona was a simple act of benevolent revenge...only to undo it and have him revert back to being a POS womanizer (until he knocks up some lady), gives us this big buildup for Tracy only to mention in passing that she died...like seriously it was about 7 seconds, and show Ted literally and figuratively letting go of Robin once and for all...only for him be like "oh yeah if was you i loved all along at the end.

The biggest mistake they made was calling it Season 9.

Had they made a spin off style show with a slightly different name and called it season 1, I bet the viewers would have lowered their expectations and had more time to accumulate to the new cast.

It was meant to be a spin-off called "Scrubs: Med School" and would have been better received in that light.

There was a massive change in cast, new set and setting, a move to academia, etc. It wasn't Scrubs, but a spinoff featuring Turk and Cox.

Legit I've never had a desire to rewatch any of it since the ending.

I remember seeing leaks being posted on freefolk and thinking no fucking way these are real, realising they were, and then shitting on the rest of the last season with my partner, only way we got through it.

I use Game of Thrones as a textbook example of how to write a show with a diverse set of characters, locations, and motivations (in the early seasons all those moving pieces fit together remarkably well), and also how not to do that, with all the plots going to pieces and the characters and their motivations falling apart in the last couple seasons.

It's pretty amazing how strong the show starts and how hard it screws the pooch by the end.

I'm not sure how you could capture the cultural significance of the show in this type of graph.

Season 9?

Hmm.

Don't seem to ever recall a season 9.

However, season 8 finished the series off with a banger, and introduced me to a fantastic song in the process.

Personally I'm glad nobody ever did something dumb like try to shoehorn in a spinoff at the end, that would have been a disaster.

I know I am in the minority, but I loved the last season and its ending.