The hiatus is nearly over and we thought it might be an interesting discussion topic for our podcast at the end of August to discuss those shows that have had us talking all summer.What do you think has been the best cliffhanger this summer? This is your opportunity to vote and and discuss in the comments below. We will discuss the results in the podcast and will be using some of your comments during the recording.
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I voted Fringe.
ReplyDeleteIt's all we have talked about on the podcast and all I am looking forward to being explained when it returns
Do Misfits and South Park count? Those are the only ones that come to my mind tbh
ReplyDeleteI'd also vote V but since they'll never resolve that cliffhanger it would be stupid to vote for it.
You can put them in other. This is jsut to give us a general idea on what everyone thought was the best.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Fringe.
ReplyDeleteI think TVD had a few cliffhangers bigger than the kiss, namely Jeremy suddenly seeing his dead ex girlfriends.
I can't decide! It's a tie between Bones and Castle! I bought into Emily saying they were unlikely to write her pregnancy in on Bones and it was still shocking. She and Booth slept together finally! I still can't believe it, tbh. Long wait until November.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought Castle would be able to take the bullet in time for Kate. I definitely didn't expect the "I love you".
Penny/Raj was a big surprise and I kinda ship it now.
Supernatural's was a shock too. God!Cas freaked me out.
HIMYM wasn't a surprise. We had been calling that it was Barney or Robin (and both) getting married for months.
House's finale was just stupid.
The Office's finale was okay.
I know, but seeing as Misfits ended in 2010 and South Park is only on a season break I wasn't sure.
ReplyDeleteCastle :D
ReplyDeleteI still count it as part of the previous season of shows. Just the majority of them finished in the summer.
ReplyDeleteFringe.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. At least that was a real Cliffhanger as opposed to more or less shocking revelations for the other ones I've seen (Castle, Supernatural, Chuck...)
Fringe is the only one leaving me to wonder how they're going to shape the soming season. And FFS: Where is Peter Bishop??!!
Rizzoli & Isles! The way Rizzoli shot herself was epic!
ReplyDeleteK, I voted for South Park then :P
ReplyDeleteI don't think that South Park will pick up where it left off. It'll be like every other episode and things are kind of reset to normal.
ReplyDeleteFringe.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right knowing Stone and Parker.
ReplyDeleteI still hope they somehow resolve the story.
That happened in 2010, though, so I don't think it counts.
ReplyDeleteit doesnt matter to much. We are just interested to see people's opinions and what has people talking. If the show hasnt returned yet it still is kinda a cliff hanger :) :)
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones 1st, Fringe 2nd.
ReplyDeleteHas to be Fringe. Epic ending to the season!
ReplyDeleteWith every other cliffhanger, I can at least try and figure out how it will be resolved, but Fringe just has me completely stuck. Where is Peter?!
ReplyDelete"You will bow down and profess your love unto me,your Lord,or I shall destroy you."
ReplyDeleteI rest my case.. ; )
Castle! definitely didn't expect the I love you... and now the cliffhanger isn't that she will die... but whether she will remember what he said... when is it september?
ReplyDeleteSupernatural.
ReplyDeleteI definitely did not see that one coming. Sure I knew that Castiel was gonna break open Purgatory and absorb all those souls to become uber powerful and defeat Raphael. But proclaiming himself God?
Guess he got tired of being the wayward son, waiting for his Father to give him a sign from wherever He is. So he decided to take matters in his own hands and declare himself God, going about rectifying the million little things that he finds should be gone and smiting left, right and center.
"... I'm not an angel anymore. I'm your new God. So you will bow down and profess your love unto me, your Lord, or I shall destroy you."
The tone he uses while saying this always gets to me; it gives me goosebumps.
FRINGE! I literally yelled WTF at my tv!
ReplyDeleteIt has to be Fringe. Can't wait to see how they deal with a Peter who never was.
ReplyDeleteThat has to be Hawaii Five-O never expected that ending!!!
ReplyDeleteFringe, of course :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see how they're going to resolve that cliff-hanger in the Fall...
Castle always Castle.
ReplyDeleteThere were a lot more dramatic/"oh holy crap" cliffhangers ie. Fringe, Castle, Bones etc but for me the best cliffhanger was The Mentalist with Jane killing Red John, I mean it was done so beautifully and calmly.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if I was going for the one that made me literally make a WTF face for like 2 days - it's Fringe.
Easily Fringe, but the supernatural cliffhanger was pretty damn good too!
ReplyDeleteSupernatural - Cas is God
ReplyDeleteFringe. Without a doubt.
ReplyDeleteVampire Diaries, but not the Delena kiss, it was the Anna & Vicky thing that had me in shock
ReplyDeletei seriously just sat back in shock for 5 minutes afterwards
absolutly the last thing that i expected
Fringe
ReplyDeleteSo this will be a FRINGE podcast is what you're saying? XD
ReplyDeleteNo series had a cliffhanger like Fringe did this year. A few others tried, but brought ti to the same kind of level as multiple timelines and universes in peril, enemies trapped together, and of course the biggie..... finding out one of the main characters "never existed".
TBBT's was fun, SPN's was predictable, and Game of Throne's may be new to TV, but the ending was 14-years old... IT is known.
Voted for Castle... but Fringe's, TBBT's, HIMYM's and GG's were great too. and also SPN's. Bones' was WTF? I would have prefered the previous episode as finale season... Vincent *Sigh*
ReplyDeleteI voted to Fringe despite this episode IMO was one of the poor episodes of the show. I did that because no other show becomes equal to what Fringe have achieved this year, and second, no other show has a better cliffhanger :)
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of people rewound and played that line a few times saying WTF?!?!? over and over each time!
ReplyDeleteI think I just stared at the tv for like 5 minutes after it ended, completely blank, except for the WTH in my head.
ReplyDeleteFringe.
ReplyDeleteEspecially now after hearing Josh Jackson's take on it.
So stoked for Sep 23rd, can't wait.
Hands Down Castle, I mean yes we all know she'll live but Beckett has a boyfriend and Castle told her he loved her. It's romantic drama that had us Caskett shippers yelling FINALLY and YES! despite the tears in our eyes
ReplyDeleteHIMYM.Of all the shows I watch,Barney's wedding was the only cliffhanger that actually changed things a lot.I mean,Penny and Raj were an one night stand,and that's pretty much it.The Delena kiss was meant to be a goodbye,but now that Stefan is the one leaving,I don't think is going to do much difference.I didn't like House's finale.Gossip Girl is still a little undefined.Who is pregnant,Blair or Serena?Are they really pregnant or it was a false positive?
ReplyDeleteI think the biggest cliffhanger was from Fringe,the Peter thing.But I don't watch Fringe,I just read it somewhere,so I didn't vote for it.
Castle!! ;D
ReplyDeleteSupernatural !
ReplyDeleteFringe.
ReplyDeleteI would have voted Game of Thrones, but I think there's a fine line between a cliffhanger that moves you forward (a la Game of Thrones) and a cliffhanger that demands resolution (a la Fringe). The Dragons make you want to see what happens next, but the part of the story leading to the dragons has been told in a nice well-contained season.
Even then, the Fringe cliffhanger is only barely closer to the immediate resolution kind. It isn't like they'll address Peter's disappearance in a few moments at the open of the Season 4 premiere.
House/Castle are more in the vein of the traditional hook/"I WANT THIS SPECIFIC SCENE TO BE RESOLVED NOW". Can someone say Season 3 finale of Star Trek the Next Generation!?
Bones and NCIS :)
ReplyDeleteWow can i just say wow. I was only expecting maybe a few coments and a few votes. We are currently just under 1000 votes!!
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone for the comments and voting so far. im not going to reveal the winner but there are 3 in contension and it is pretty close (you are talking 10 votes between 1st and 2nd).
We are going to have lots to talk about i think
Fringe of course
ReplyDeleteCastle! Though I also considered voting for Fringe
ReplyDeleteFringe.... way better than any other so called "Cliffhangers"
ReplyDeletefringe and supernatural follow by vampire diaries and bones for bonus the mentalist.
ReplyDeleteCastle, of course !!!!
ReplyDeletei am agree with you those two ghost creap me out looks very kinki and divius bad mojo uuuuyyyy poor jeremy.
ReplyDeleteLemme guess, FRINGE, Supernatural and Castle?
ReplyDeleteI saw all three and they were all at least good IMO, but only one shocked me and caused a migraine trying to figure out what just happened... or didn't just happen... or never happened...
Damn Fringe-ache is back.... need Advil and coffee.... and for September to come faster.
Fringe, no doubt. GoT and the Dragons was also awesome, but nothing could have been more unexpected or OMGish than Peter not existing, IMO.
ReplyDeleteWould be really intersting. I personally considered "You're Getting Old" as one of the best episodes and endings they ever did although or maybe just because it was pretty different.
ReplyDeleteI agree!
ReplyDeleteTHE GOOD WIFE
ReplyDeleteIt's halfway through season 2 right now...
ReplyDeleteI think you forgot the part where Castiel snaps his fingers and an archangel was ripped into oblivion...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Fringe, they left me choking on my lasagna, literally.
ReplyDeleteI have to say my top 3 fav shows House, TBBT and Grey's.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely voted for Fringe, but The Mentalist was another one that took the entire concept of the show and completely flipped it on its head. I have never seen so many people (including myself) who went from threatening to stop watching the show to dying to see what happens next.
ReplyDeleteI went with Fringe. The "what happened to Peter" question has been discussed all summer and has seemingly been, in one form or another, the most asked question to producers and cast, not to mention all the press coverage it has received.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Castle cliffhanger but the ever-present downside to a cliffhanger like that is that you know everything will be fine because they're not going to kill off a lead character on a dramedy procedural. It takes away a lot of the suspense.
ReplyDeleteThat's the predictable thing. I would love it if they really did kill off a main character like that. Not Beckett specifically, but in the interest of keeping everything fresh, it wouldn't be a terrible decision. Game of Thrones can pull it off, but that's because the story is so huge that "main characters" tend to change from episode to episode.
ReplyDeleteHahaha. Good stuff mate. Good to see it has generated a decent amount of interest!
ReplyDeleteWe've already recorded one one the start of this week. This topic will be in the one afterwards :)
ReplyDeleteSo, voted Supernatural, but it looks like I'm in for a treat when I'm done catching up on Fringe. I've watched the first season now, and I love it. Thank god for vacation and bad weather. I also love Barney's getting married, even though it wasn't that big of a suprise. Loved the Buy More, the Delana + ghosts thing, some of the GG stuff.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Fringe, which was really a great final few moments...
ReplyDeleteI choose Supernatural, of course. It did what a cliffhanger is suppose to do and left us with so many questions. Not only about Cas being the "new God' and how this will affect the boys, but Sam's remembering hell and what it will do to him. Of course with Misha's questionable status on the show we have that to ponder throughout the Hellatus as well. Supernatural's finales always leave us with our heart in our stomachs, and thats what its all about.
ReplyDeleteSupernatural and Fringe are on level par for me. Both of them left me absolutely speechless.
ReplyDeleteI voted for HOUSE because it's the only one I saw : - )
ReplyDeleteIt was schocking, stupid, terrible, horrible, but you want to know what's next.
Definitely went with Fringe. It left me sitting there with my eyes popping out of my head and my jaw on the floor.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't classify any of the others, for shows hat I watch as "cliff hangers" None of them involved me hanging off a cliff waiting to see what was gonna happen. All of these shows (Bones, Castle, GoT, Supernatural, Chuck, BBT, HIMYM, and Vampire Diaries) all ended their season by giving be a good teaser as to what stories I'm going to see next season. But that how could you stop there feeling? Only Fringe did that for me and that's how I define a cliffhanger.
TVD's cliffhanger wasn't even a cliffhanger
ReplyDeleteThe Chuck cliffhanger was Morgan as the Intersect, not the Buy More's fate.
ReplyDeleteFringe! - Supernatural on second place for me.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Fringe. A main character DISAPPEARED FROM EXISTENCE. You can't top that!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the HIMYM spoiler... Thank YOU SpoilerTV :(
ReplyDeleteWhat about The Mentalist??? Seriously? That was the first show that popped into my mind when I read 'cliffhanger'! How could it be that you could not vote it directly!?
ReplyDeleteLooks like we will have some good stuff to chat about!!
ReplyDeleteSupernatural of course. It was the ultimate finale. Jared Padalecki showed tremendous acting ability playing the slivered of his own soul and psyche fighting each other to rejoin to try become to whole so he could reach his brother in time help him against Castiel who doing something really crazy. Castiel taking in the souls of Purgatory so he defeat Raphael and prevent another Apocalypse was incredible. Sam, barely holding himself erect, trying to kill Cas with an angel killing knife and finding out that Cas was no longer an angel was surprising. Cas declaring himself to be god and demanding that the bow and worship him or suffer the consequences was quite a cliff hanger. I would go with that. It has left a very disturbed fandom on the fate of Castiel. Hellatus has been difficult. The writers of Supernatural are very good at doing this to us. It's why love it.
ReplyDeleteVampire Diaries!
ReplyDeleteBut not just because of the kiss but also the thing with Jeremy. Anna and Vicki coming from the death was also pretty awesome.
I am completley pissed off by bones and booth finally sleeping together and the writes just not sowing it I mean, Seriously? after all we've waited for it?
ReplyDeleteSupernatural for 6 years has had fantastic clifhangers
ReplyDeleteFringe – Peter, who’s Peter?
ReplyDeletei voted supernatural, Cas becoming a God no one really saw that coming
ReplyDeleteFringe.
ReplyDeleteCastle.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Fringe, as it was a great twist to end the season on and though Fringe really push the boundaries. I also loved the ending to game of thrones but as I have read booked I know what was going to happen.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Supernatural. Castiel is my favourite character and to see him become God was such an amazing twist for the show. Fringe came a close second.
ReplyDeleteHawaii Five-0 had the best cliffhangers.
ReplyDeleteJane shooting Red John in The Mentalist. Easily the most shocking. This has nothing to do with my Mentalist bias either, I LOVED the Castle and Fringe cliffhangers also.
ReplyDeletehands down, The Mentalist .. it left stunned for a whole week
ReplyDeleteFringe! I think it's the best cliffhanger i've seen since Lost... :)
ReplyDeleteI voted "other", even though I did vote for a show that's already included in the list: Supernatural. But to me, Sam having his soul back and no one knows anything about what could possibly happen now was an even better cliffhanger than Cas going ... well, insane.
ReplyDeleteI love your comments. I agree with this 100%.
ReplyDeletefringe
ReplyDeleteCastle!
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