8 TV Scenes Everyone Always Gets Wrong
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00:00 There is no truly, 100% objectively correct interpretation of a piece of media.
00:06 Everyone always has a take, and even if the creator comes down from on high and tells
00:10 their side of the story, it's ultimately just another reading of the work.
00:14 With that having been said, there are people whose takeaway from a work is just, well,
00:18 wrong.
00:19 There are a lot of ways people can miss the point something is trying to make.
00:22 So with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture, and here are 8 TV Scenes Everyone
00:27 Always Gets Wrong.
00:29 8.
00:30 Jerry and Pals Go to Jail in Seinfeld
00:33 The selling point about Seinfeld was that it was a show about nothing.
00:37 While in some cases this was true, what the show turned out to actually be about was four
00:42 funny but absolutely terrible human beings, and their mundane problems caused by them
00:47 being terrible human beings.
00:49 Many fans miss out on this, a running theme you're going to notice on this list, and
00:53 so to them, the ending comes out of nowhere and makes no sense.
00:56 Now, granted, the finale does have quite a few logical flaws.
01:00 Ask any lawyer worth their salt and they'll tell you that the trial is a nightmare of
01:04 legal flaws and fallacies, but the idea was to end the series with Jerry and Pals getting
01:09 their comeuppance for nine seasons of being mundanely infuriating.
01:13 Which puts it quite a bit above other comedies about so-called horrible people who never
01:18 really face consequences for their nonsense.
01:21 7.
01:22 Daenerys Burns King's Landing in Game of Thrones
01:26 The final season of Game of Thrones was a kind of disastrous ending that we don't
01:30 see that often.
01:31 Plenty of great shows have bad endings, but season 8 of Game of Thrones didn't just
01:34 disappoint fans.
01:35 It took a show that ruled the damn world and wiped it off the face of pop culture forever.
01:40 How the show handled Daenerys' fall from grace was not well executed at all.
01:44 But the idea that her burning down King's Landing came completely out of nowhere is
01:48 simply wrong.
01:49 This is a woman who has only ever had and needed one solution for her problems.
01:54 If it's in my way, it burns.
01:56 King's Landing was in her way, so King's Landing burned.
01:59 Daenerys' fall represents a character's most admirable trait, in her case her unwavering
02:03 conviction and belief in her own righteousness, being turned into her greatest failing.
02:08 Turns out that people with that kind of conviction can be real a-holes when they're suddenly
02:12 on the other side of the argument.
02:15 6.
02:16 Number 6's escape in The Prisoner
02:19 The Prisoner is a show that's very easy to get wrong, since its particular type of
02:23 insanity is the kind that looks like they're making things up as they go along.
02:27 Audiences were, understandably, expecting the ending of the show to answer at least
02:31 one question they'd been asking since the whole mess began.
02:34 What the actual hell is going on?
02:35 Well, they didn't get that, because something that audiences missed while asking that question
02:39 is that they're the only ones who give a damn about getting answers.
02:42 Number 6, our protagonist, would just like to not be a prisoner in this madcap nightmare
02:46 of a town anymore.
02:48 Some answers would be nice, which is why we do occasionally see him looking for some.
02:52 But one can imagine that after 17 episodes of getting messed around, Number 6 would really
02:56 stop caring.
02:57 So, in the last episode, he finally manages to escape Number 1 and their cavalcade of
03:02 mind games and manipulations, driving off into the sunset.
03:05 The show was never interested in giving answers, so why should the audience?
03:09 5.
03:10 William's Fidelity Test in Westworld
03:14 The thing about having a cast that's mostly made up of robots that are specifically designed
03:18 to feel and act as human as possible, to the point where they start developing sentience,
03:23 is that the writers can start to play around with who is and isn't a robot.
03:26 Now, if you'd seen the original 1973 movie, or if you're one of those weirdos who read
03:32 the original novel by Michael Crichton, then you probably already know the twist that William,
03:36 the man in black, is one of the hosts and was unaware of it the whole time.
03:40 But the show knows damn well that 90% of you didn't even know there was a movie, let alone
03:45 a book.
03:46 The scene in Season 2 where William is subjected to the staff's famous fidelity test at the
03:50 hands of his supposedly dead daughter Emily, came as a shock to everyone.
03:55 Was he a machine the whole time?
03:56 Then how did he even have a daughter, let alone manage to kill her?
03:59 Well, as it turns out, stated by Emily's actress Katia Herbers, this is the show messing
04:04 with our perception of time again.
04:05 The scene takes place an indeterminate amount of time in the future, where at some point,
04:10 either one or both of them were replaced with hosts.
04:14 4.
04:15 The Ending in The Sopranos
04:17 Man oh man is this ending infamous.
04:20 For those who don't know, seeing as how this ending came a long time ago, the ending
04:24 of the hit HBO series The Sopranos sees our protagonist Tony Soprano sitting down for
04:29 dinner with his family, knowing full well that he's living on borrowed time.
04:33 His mob buddies have deemed him a liability, and are no doubt planning to, well, do what
04:37 the mob does best when they deem someone a liability.
04:40 Except the show never gives you that closure.
04:42 You don't even know, when the door to the diner opens and Tony looks up, that it's
04:45 the mob or his daughter showing up late.
04:47 The screen goes to black right as he looks up.
04:50 And then boom.
04:51 Show over.
04:52 Thanks for six seasons, folks.
04:53 Have fun with Game of Thrones in four years.
04:54 Yeah, people were pissed.
04:56 They screamed that they wanted closure for Tony's story, but the creator of the show
04:59 David Chase held firm, deeming closure to be unimportant.
05:03 Was it his daughter walking through that door or the mob?
05:05 It honestly doesn't matter, says Chase.
05:08 And honestly, we can kinda see his point.
05:09 I mean, obviously Tony's dead, it's just a matter of when it's going to happen.
05:13 It probably was his daughter walking through that door, but Tony can never be sure, just
05:17 as the audience can never be sure.
05:19 However much time he has left, Tony Soprano will live that time terrified of when his
05:23 chickens will finally come home to roost.
05:26 3.
05:27 Steven sparing the diamonds in Steven Universe
05:31 Online discourse about Steven Universe is most aptly compared to a dustbin full of used
05:36 nappies that is on fire.
05:37 Anyone that has an opinion on the show has a tendency to state that opinion in as toxic
05:41 a way as possible, especially if you ask them about the ending to the show's original
05:46 run.
05:47 To a lot of fans, the show's pacifistic nature was always at odds with its galactic
05:50 war premise.
05:51 And to those same fans, the ending is the worst example, with Steven literally talking
05:56 down White Diamond from ruling the universe with an iron fist.
05:59 But it's important to keep in mind a few things.
06:02 One, Steven sparing them is not forgiving them.
06:05 Very big difference.
06:06 Sparing them down was simply his best option because, and the show is quite clear about
06:10 this, fighting the diamonds would have been suicide.
06:12 Steven would have lost, badly.
06:14 Sure, Steven Universe Future would later clarify that he either did or currently does have
06:19 the ability to destroy the diamonds, but that's just not in his nature.
06:22 Also, and this might be a bit of a meta-ing too far, but there is no way that Cartoon
06:27 Network was going to let this show for little kids end with a triple homicide.
06:31 That just flat out was never going to happen.
06:33 2.
06:34 I Am The One Who Knocks in Breaking Bad
06:38 These last two entries are the most egregious examples we have by a country mile.
06:42 Walter White has become an icon, but sadly in the same way that Tony Soprano, Tyler Durden,
06:47 and the last entry on this list have become icons.
06:50 Objects of veneration by a very particular kind of men, who completely miss that they
06:54 are not meant to like these characters at all.
06:56 Just look at how these fans prop up the "I am the one who knocks" scene from Breaking
07:00 Bad as a symbol of badassness.
07:02 When in reality, Vince Gilligan and his team wrote that scene to show Walter as, well,
07:06 what he is; a sad, pathetic man playing what he thinks a badass looks like.
07:11 Which, judging by this scene, is someone who angrily shouts down his own wife when she
07:15 dares to voice an opinion he doesn't like.
07:17 Walter White is one of the most compelling protagonists in television history, but he
07:21 is most certainly not a character to aspire to be, and the rant you all adore so much
07:26 is one of the biggest proofs of that.
07:28 1.
07:29 Pickle Rick in Rick and Morty
07:32 What was meant to represent the epitome of Rick Sanchez's flaws as a character was
07:37 instead co-opted by a fandom hellbent on missing the bloody point of the whole thing.
07:41 Pickle Rick as an episode, as a concept, was made with one purpose; to expose Rick for
07:46 the sad, lonely, emotionally stunted man-child he is.
07:50 He turns himself into a pickle for the sole motive of getting out of having to go to therapy.
07:54 He then goes on this insane adventure where he builds himself a body out of rat guts,
07:58 creates a building full of armed soldiers, blows up that building full of armed soldiers,
08:01 and then finally makes it to his therapy session, where the therapist proceeds to give Rick
08:05 the dressing down of his life.
08:07 Now granted, the fact that Rick takes nothing away from this dressing down but eye-rolling
08:11 annoyance in the long run might be why so many fans miss the point being made here.
08:16 Pickle Rick is a truly hilarious episode of a truly hilarious show, but a good many of
08:21 its hardcore fans don't realise that the episode is laughing at them, not with them.
08:26 And that concludes our list.
08:27 If you can think of any other examples, then please do let us know in the comments below.
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