8 Surprise TV Show Villain Reveals Everyone Hated

8. Final Five - Battlestar Galactica

One of the major issues that comes with building towards a significant twist reveal within a TV show is the fact that its eventual execution has been known to make or unfortunately break a series altogether.

Get it right and audiences will find themselves unable to take their eyes away from your show, see Eddard Stark's Season One Game of Thrones fate. Get it wrong, and you'll have a Battlestar Galactica mess on your hands...

After spending three seasons building up to the moment when we'd finally learn precisely who the mysterious and ancient Final Five Cylons were, those dedicated to the show were left wondering why they'd bothered caring at all.

With the reveal that not only were the Final Five among us all along (in the form of Saul and Ellen Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Samuel Anders, and Tory Foster), but that they had literally no clue of their origins, it became abundantly clear that the showrunners were simply making it up as they went along. Though it must be said that the show's conclusion in general was largely impacted by the 2007-08 writer's strike.

But there's still no escaping the feeling that this was merely an attempt to get their fans' jaws to bounce off the floor and eventually paved the way for more frustrating questions than answers. What a damn waste.