We’re taking a look at the season ending in the spring of 2015 with some kick-ass awards.
Up for grabs is the Finale MVP, Finale That Should Have Lasted Two Hours (and the companion award, Two Minutes), as well as Best Cliffhanger, Most Anticlimactic Finale, Most Amusing Scene, WTF Just Happened and the Best and Worst Character Exits among others for 17 total awards in all.
Without further ado, hang onto your hats TV Fanatics, depending upon your television taste and how you play favorites, this could get rough!!
Finale MVP: Eddie Thawne on The Flash
Finale MVP: Eddie Thawne from The Flash totally deserves the Most Valuable Player award. He had been told by the Reverse Flash that he wouldn’t amount to anything important. Eddie tragically, but heroically, proved Eobard wrong by taking his own life, thus preventing his villainous descendant from existing.
Best Cliffhanger: Kidnapped Baby on Jane the Virgin
Best Cliffhanger: It was no secret that Jane and Rafael were going to welcome their baby, but what happened after the baby was born on Jane the Virgin was the big shocker. Drug Lord, Sin Rostro kidnapped their baby boy and neither parent knows that he is gone. What she wants with baby and how long it’ll take Jane and Rafael to figure out will keep me in anticipation all summer.
Biggest Finale Shocker: Ragnar’s Trojan Horse Stunt on Vikings
Biggest Finale Shocker: On Vikings Ragnar Lothbrok took the idea of a Trojan Horse to a whole new level when he pulled a long con on the Franks. The moment he threw the lid off of his own coffin and stabbed the bishop through the neck was a highlight of the season. That all the other characters (excepting his son Bjorn) were in the dark about the plan added to the drama, and made for an excellent finale.
Finale That Should Have Been Two Hours Long: Revenge
Finale That Should Have Been Two Hours Long: The series finale of Revenge had its somewhat satisfying happy ending with Emanda and Jack literally sailing off into the sunset together, but it all felt too rushed. The finale tried to do too much in too short an amount of time, which generally felt unsettling. Spin-off for Nolan, please!
Finale That Should Have Been Two Minutes Long: Arrow
Finale That Should Have Been Two Minutes Long: The Arrow finale had a couple good minutes. Barry visiting Nanda Parbat to save the day and Diggle punching Oliver in the face come to mind. We can watch Diggle punch Oliver over and over and over. Let’s!!
Most Anticlimactic Finale: Nashville
Most Anticlimactic Finale: Nashville pretty much played out exactly like everyone expected it to. There’s something to be said for paying off your plotlines, but something to be said against paying them off in exactly the way every single audience member predicted.
Character Who Needs to GTFO (or Totally Nonessential Character): Camille on The Originals
Character Who Needs to GTFO (or Totally Nonessential Character): Unfortunately, this one goes to Camille on The Originals. There was so much potential with this beautiful and brainy blonde at the start of the series, but she’s spent two entire seasons pandering to man tears without a point or purpose of her own. She’s mostly only being kept around as a pseudo-sorta-kinda love interest for Klaus, but no one seems to be biting on that particular romance. Time for Cami to GTFO.
Most Amusing Finale Scene: Barry Allen showing up in Nanda Parbat to save Team Arrow.
Most Amusing Finale Scene: Barry Allen showing up in Nanda Parbat to save Team Arrow. Jokes about hot tubs and “for real dungeons” were just the light-hearted break Arrow needed to start off its super heavy finale, not to mention Felicity outing him to one of the world’s biggest villains.
Most Tear-Jerking Finale Moment: Spreading Zeek’s Ashes on Parenthood
Most Tear-Jerking Finale Moment: The finale of Parenthood allowed Zeek to die at home with his family, just as he should. But the most tear-jerking moment in that finale was the flash forward, when the kids spread his ashes over the baseball field and played one last game with their dad. Perfect.
Finale WTF Just Happened Moment: Simmons Melds Into…Huh? on Agents of SHIELD
Finale WTF Just Happened Moment: Simmons getting sucked into the liquid alien rock thing on Agents of SHIELD. WHAT THE HELL? Forget the fact that we don’t even know what that thing is, what in the world did it do to Simmons? Is she dead? Absorbed? Worse? We must know!
Best Profession of Love: Castle’s Speech
Best Profession of Love: Castle’s speech to to his friends and family in the finale was so very touching, but the most touching part was his profession of love to Kate, “Seven years ago, I thought I would never write again. And then you walked through the door, and my whole world changed. You were right – you said I had no idea. But now I do. This is because of you. Because of us. Always.”
Most Romantic Finale Moment: Hook & Emma Tackle Hug on OUAT
Most Romantic Finale Moment: It has to be Hook and Emma when she returns from the alternate dimension to find him alive on Once Upon a Time. Her tackle hug/kiss was the sweetest of the sweet, and even if she couldn’t muster up those three little words in the moment, their reunion was the BEST!
Romantic Finale Moment We Wish Hadn’t Happened: Rachel marrying Jesse on Glee
Romantic Finale Moment We Wish Hadn’t Happened: Rachel marrying Jesse on Glee. Not because there’s anything wrong with Jesse, he’s a fine second choice, but that’s all he could ever be. Cory Monteith’s tragic death meant that we couldn’t get the finale we were meant to have with Rachel and Finn together.
Finale Drama King or Queen: Erin Lindsay on Chicago PD
Finale Drama King or Queen: Erin Lindsay quitting her job on Chicago PD. We get that she’s feeling a lot of self-loathing since Nadia was killed, but now she hates herself so much that she doesn’t believe she deserves to stay in the profession that she loves? That’s cold. Brutal even.
Most Unexpected Finale Death: Juliette on Grimm
Most Unexpected Finale Death: Juliette met an abrupt end in the Grimm Season 4 finale; it wasn’t so much her death that was shocking but that nobody cared and many viewers applauded her death. The bigger shock will probably be that her death likely won’t be long-lasting and she’ll almost certainly be back (hopefully with more purpose) for Grimm Season 5.
Worst Way to Handle a Main Character Leaving: Derek on Grey’s Anatomy
Worst Way to Handle a Main Character Leaving: We get it: Patrick Dempsey wanted off Grey’s Anatomy, leaving Shonda Rhimes with the quandary of how to write off the show’s male lead. But here is what we don’t get: How do you skip ahead a full year immediately after the show’s biggest-ever death, essentially erasing McDreamy from our McLives and making us McPissed off forever?
Best Way to Handle a Main Character Leaving: Elena on The Vampire Diaries
Best Way to Handle a Main Character Leaving: Julie Plec could have had Elena’s memories compelled away and she could have had her leave town forever. But that would have been too easy, and it would have left fans clamoring for her return. So Plec instead could have a killed off a newly-human Elena… but that would have taken the series down a permanently dark path, and it wouldn’t have been fair to long-time viewers. How did Plec walk this fine line? She took advantage of the show’s supernatural setting, leaving Elena in a state of unconsciousness that won’t last forever. But will last for the duration of the series. A job well done.
