10 Unforgivable Mistakes That Ruined Great 2013 TV Shows

2. True Blood Did Not Earn Its Season Finale

In much the same way, True Blood spent its sixth season building up a conflict between its protagonist Sookie and her half-faerie/half -vampire suitor, Warlow. That season-encompassing was resolved relatively quickly and anticlimactically in the finale, as Niall held Warlow as Jason drove a stake through him. Since the show resolved the other major plot--the one with Billith and the imprisoned vampires - the previous week, the question that ran through viewers' unsatisfied minds after this was likely: what could the rest of the episode possibly be about? Well, the writers probably wondered the same thing, as the show proceeded to fast-forward 6 months to a time when the characters are all in situations few had expected them to be in. Sookie was dating Alcide and had feelings for Bill again. Bill began writing books and became a major television personality. These two changes hinged on little, and it seems the writers had little idea of where to go, so they used the cheap mechanism of time lapse to lay the groundwork for the next season. More frustrating than the new situations for Sookie and Bill, however, was the reveal that Sam Merlotte had sold his bar and been elected mayor. Little had ever hinted that Sam would ever want to run for mayor; he always seemed willing to just be left alone in his little bar and to make ends meet. Out of nowhere (in 6 months no less) he gave up Merlotte's, which had been a defining hallmark of his character, and started up a political career. Maybe this would've worked if the writers took time to develop the character, but they were too eager to get to this point and to get themselves out of the narrative hole they had created that they allotted no time to character development.