12 Sci-Fi TV Shows Let Down By Terrible Endings

Poor Heroes. Was there any worse casualty of the 2008 writer’s strike?

The show’s first season was a ratings smash and was adored by critics upon its arrival on our screens way back in 2006. The show’s then-novel premise of ordinary people from all walks of life beginning to exhibit superhuman abilities the world over was bolstered by a fantastic ensemble cast of both relative newcomers and established talent ranging from future Nashville starlet Hayden Panettiere, Masi Oka, and Jayma Mays, to former Gilmore Girls bad boy Milo Ventimigilia, Ali Larter, and Spock-in-waiting Zachary Quinto.

However, the writer’s strike dealt the show’s second season a serious blow from which it never really recovered, and the tendency to kill off promising characters—as well as resurrecting characters willy nilly—meant stakes were often both too high and not high enough at once. Still, nothing could prepare fans for the disappointment of the eventual series finale.

A cliché big battle which kept the entire returning cast unharmed, ruined fan favourite Hiro’s long running love story, and still somehow managed to screw up the series only effective character, the villainous Sylar, the finale proved not every show deserves another shot.

You know, before the inevitable reboot Heroes Reborn a few years later, that is.