12 Sci-Fi TV Shows Let Down By Terrible Endings

This one almost feels unfair, as the series Battlestar Galactica deserves some serious kudos for trying to inject something resembling moral complexity into the Star Trek style set-up that it trafficked in. The show offered none of the easy ethical answers which Trek’s utopian reality often settled for, and the characters were by and large refreshingly well rounded and believable figures.

This only served to make the eventual finale all the more frustrating, though, with the once-deeply human Starbuck turned into goodness incarnate in a move which aimed for transcendence but instead hit somewhere between saccharine sentimentality and overwrought emotion. And that’s to say nothing of Roslin’s ignominious exit.

It’s an ending so bizarrely out of place that even Game of Thrones scribe George R.R Martin found it impossible to hide his disappointment, calling out the show’s clumsy deus ex machina as both a fellow writer and a fan.