Worst Cliffhanger Ending Ever
I forgot to mention earlier that I have a guest blog over at RhiReading, all about getting superheroes out of their spandex (and on never-ending series, and whether to model a romance series after a comic book serial).
I noticed that Netflix has the Dark Shadows (1991) series online. I won’t watch it, because I’m still traumatized by the cliffhanger left by the series cancellation. Fourteen years old, and I needed to know what Victoria would say to Barnabas Collins … and we never found out.
THE PAIN! *sob*
The other part of the pain was that I followed Joanna Going to several other shows and movies after that … not all of them were good (Children of the Dust).
(I have a sad history of following actresses after I’ve seen something cheesy-but-comic-booky on TV. Famke Janssen? Yeah. I wish I could say that I loved her after GoldenEye (she squeezed a guy to death with her thighs!) or even X-Men, but it was a movie called Model by Day instead, where she played a vigilante model named Lady X.
Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.
Yeah. And that’s probably all the description necessary. I do think it was a better movie than Catwoman, though. Not that that’s really saying anything.)
October 31, 2010 @ 12:02 am
I’m still traumatized from the cliffhanger at the end of “Soap”!
October 31, 2010 @ 6:57 am
I also hate non-endings in books. Just read Justin Cronin’s The Passage, which is different kind of vampire book and good for about the first 200 pages. Then the characters get killed off, and more ones introduced and killed off, until at last, the book ends with a typed memo about how the final characters MIGHT have been killed in a big massacre. Thanks, Justin. Good to know.
October 31, 2010 @ 9:28 am
I was beyond addicted to Dark Shadows when it aired on Sci-Fi. I heard Tim Burton is directing the Dark Shadows movie with Johnny Depp as Barnabas! *le squee*
November 1, 2010 @ 2:28 pm
I love Joanna Going in the soap opera Another World. Lost track of her after Dark Shadows.
November 1, 2010 @ 2:39 pm
You might be interested to know, if you don’t already, that Johnny Depp is working on a remake of it as a movie and HE plays Barnabas. I’m fairly dying to hear more about it. All your questions will be answered because they’re going to carry it to the full ending. WOOT!