Why are there mid season finales

Are we going to see any of the former stars come back for this final season? Then add in the fact that a spinoff with Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride has already been announced, so we know that they make it — so, to put it mildly, you have parameters. How do you work within those?

So, for example, not everybody gets the same number of episodes guaranteed to be on the show. That was important to her, and we felt like that was amazing for her, and so, we wanted to try to make all that work, so we had to kind of like bend the story a certain way to make that work. We promised to give her a big re-entry into it. Is it done? DEADLINE: In coming to that conclusion next year, with the next eight episodes debuting in February , the painful and perhaps vengeful relationship between Negan and Maggie still remains unresolved, even with the Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan characters effectively teaming up in the last few episodes …still a lot of, for lack of a better expression, psychological, and romantic tensions built into them, no?

KANG: We were just really interested from the beginning of the season in telling the story of Maggie and Negan, particularly because when you have two people that have the kind of history that they do.

No one stands in the way of Daryl protecting his family. TWD pic. Five hours for all your shows? Ten hours for everything you watch? The holidays make this sort of appointment-viewing even more difficult than it already is, so consider the winter finale an early Christmas present from the networks.

Time is money for both them and you, after all. More importantly than scheduling, though, is content. What many critics of the winter finale boom overlook is that these much-hyped episodes are improving what typically hinders most traditional TV: Pacing.

While quick to point out how television has changed and audiences are more accustomed to watch what they want when they want to, they ignore the reason why binge-watching has become so popular. People want to get to the good stuff. Things must happen now. Winter finales pick up that pacing. Abbey also learns that his mother is dead. Volume 4: Everyone learns about what happened between Mike and Lucy , and Daisy blurts out that she still has feelings for Mike.

Volume 5: Tess graduates from high school. Volume 6: Lucy returns and allows Augustus to move in with her, Abbey and Daisy break up, Paulo and Rachel break up, Paulo asks Lucy out on a date, and Lucy declares that she wants nothing to do with Mike anymore. Kirby Adventure ends most of its chapters with a Wham Episode. Master Of Puppets: The KAS are forced by Master Green to fight their dopplegangers, some of which survive the chapter and stick around for the rest of the series.

Like the games it was based on, RPG World ends its discs on a big cliffhanger: Disc 1: Cherry reveals she's an elf, and Galgarion appears and knocks everyone out. Disc 2: Galgarion kills Reka. Web Original. The first ended with the 12 episode epic "lonelygirl15 Season Finale", the second with the four-part story "Bloodlines". Red vs. Blue ends all of its seasons on a pretty grand note, resolving its major plotlines while adding a cliffhanger for the next season to resolve. Season 2: O'Malley takes over Lopez's body, shoots Tucker, and runs away.

Upon learning that both teams have the same Command officer, the Reds and Blues team up to stop O'Malley, only to be sent to completely different locations. In case that's not enough, Donut and Tex are stuck together, and Tex wants revenge for what happened in the Season 1 finale. Season 4: Tucker gives birth to an alien, Sarge calls for a calvary ship that crushes Donut, and O'Malley leaves Doc for an unknown host.

The finale ends with the Reds plotting against the Blues again, Caboose trying to bring Church back, and Wash and the Meta's fates unknown. Oh, and it turns out that the Director's name is Leonard Church.

He shoots Lopez and Donut, and takes Simmons hostage. Season 8: The Meta is finally defeated, and Wash becomes a good guy again. However, Church locks himself in the Epsilon unit so he could save Tex, waiting in his Blood Gulch memories until she appears.

Season 9: Church is rescued from the Epsilon unit against his will, leaving Tex there in the process. He learns that Agent Carolina is responsible for his rescue and needs his help to take down the Director. Season Carolina and Epsilon confront the Director, but ultimately decide not to kill him, especially when we learn that Carolina is his daughter. Once they leave, the Director deletes all of the Freelancer files and commits suicide. Season The Federal Army and New Republic hold a truce, as Epsilon deduces that Charon Industries, which has been a big enemy of Project Freelancer for many years, is behind Felix and Locus's attempted genocide on the people of Chorus.

The episode ends with Church sacrificing himself to power the Meta's old suit to help the Reds and Blues fight their way out. Cinder finally reappears with Mercury and Emerald.

Season 2: Beacon Academy unites to stop the Grimm invasion that Roman caused, culminating in Roman being arrested. We also learn that Adam is working with Cinder too. However, we learn that Professor Lionheart of Haven is allied with Cinder.

We also see a teaser of next season with Oscar meeting Qrow for the first time. Oh, and we finally see a glimpse of Summer Rose. Scott The Woz ends all of his seasons with an ambitious Christmas episode, with the biggest being Season 2's "It's Awesome, Baby", a big alternate universe episode with musical numbers, a giant mecha battle, and tons of special effects.

However, this results in Squirtle and Bulbasaur getting the rights themselves rather than the producers, meaning that they're now in charge of the show's direction. Season 3: The special guest for this episode is none other than Arceus, and Mew appears for the first time since the Season 1 finale. Season 4: The final battle between Squirtle and Raichu, with Bulbasaur finally learning how to mega evolve. Raichu admits defeat, making it clear that he'll stop trying to get revenge.

Season 5: For the 50th episode, Hoopa appears and teleports Squirtle and Bulbasaur around to meet some of their previous guests. However, during this tour, they end up angering Mewtwo , who now wants to kill them.

Sonic for Hire tends to end its seasons by setting up the next one: Season 1: Sonic is turned into an eggplant, while Tails is stuck in a coma. The fact that such an episodic series ended its season with a cliffhanger was a twist in and of itself. Season 2: Sonic kills Mario and becomes the new mob boss. Season 3: As the main cast splits apart, Sonic and Tails fight over who should be the mob boss.

Tails blows up the money and the business forcing Sonic to get back to work. Season 4: The movie is revealed to be a scam so that Sonic can blow up the theater with Tails in it.

The theater blows up with the entire cast in it, and Sonic and Tails getting blasted off to space. Season 5: Fox gets his ship back as Sonic and the group crash-lands back on Earth, destroying Sonic's home in the process. Season 6: In an attempt to save the universe, Sonic resets everything, turning everyone into pixels.

However, an alive Sheridan hacks into Masa's arm to make him kill Lucks, framing him for murder, and promises Tari's abilities to none other than Evelyn. Even more, MD-5 go on the run while Belle stays behind with Masa, only to run right into Marco, whose intentions for them are left up in the air. Western Animation. The season 2 finale of Danny Phantom ends one of the biggest ongoing Story Arc in the show: Vlad's quest to obtain Danny as his protege and son. It ends with him throwing off a HUGE Villainous Breakdown and the next season has the two in completely different circles.

Beast Wars : "Other Voices" - the Vok decide that the Maximals and Predacons have contaminated their experiment, and activate their Planet Buster , which will destroy the entire planet by detonating every energon deposit. Primal stops it, but at the cost of his life Transformers Animated : "Megatron Rising" - after eleven episodes as a scheming head, Megatron regains his body and makes his move for the Allspark, eventually forcing Optimus to shatter it, scattering fragments of it everywhere.

Teen Titans ended every season with an epic two or in one case, three parter: Season One: "Apprentice" I and II - Slade blackmails Robin into being his apprentice by threatening to kill the other Titans.

They eventually break Robin free and curbstomp Slade's ass. Cyborg defeats Brother Blood and goes back to the main Titans. The Titans are forced to ally with Slade to stop him. Beast Boy leads the remaining heroes in a rescue attempt that leads to an epic Final Battle. Episode 26 of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is the season finale and it ends in a cliffhanger. The gang has been fragmented by the revelation that Fred's dad, the Mayor of Crystal Cove was the Big Bad all along and isn't his real dad, so he's broken the gang up to find who he really is.

Meanwhile, his engagement to Daphne is now in indefinite abeyance, Shaggy is being sent to military school, Scooby is being sent to a farm, Daphne is taken home to wallow in misery and Velma is taken home to stew about not coming clean to her friends about who Angel Dynamite really is.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic : The first season finale, "The Best Night Ever", features the main characters attending the Grand Galloping Gala, which has been built up in several previous episodes as the biggest social event in Equestria, only to be disappointed in various ways.

The second season finale, "A Canterlot Wedding", blows the first season finale out of the water in terms of excitement. It's a two-parter that revolves around central character Twilight Sparkle's brother getting married to royalty, and features an evil shape-shifting Emotion Eater impersonating the bride and hypnotizing the groom, a huge fight between the Mane Six and an army of mooks, and a climax that involves a force-field bolstered by The Power of Love. The third season finale, "Magical Mystery Cure", is a Musical Episode revolving around Twilight accidentally switching the cutie marks and destinies of her friends, ruining their lives.

This gets resolved by the end of the second act, but sets up a stunning third act, wherein Twilight fulfills her own destiny by becoming an alicorn, and is then crowned as Equestria's newest princess.

The fourth season finale, "Twilight's Kingdom", like the season 2 finale is a two-parter. They deal with the escape of Lord Tirek — possibly the most terrifying villain in the franchise — and the attempts to defeat him. Which involves, among other things, Twilight being granted the power of all the other Princesses and engaging in the single most impressive fight sequence in the show's history, the Golden Oaks Library being completely destroyed , Tirek ultimately only being defeated when the Mane Six unlock the box they got from the Tree of Harmony and gaining Rainbow Power , and finally, Twilight gaining her own castle and being declared the Princess of Friendship.

The fifth season finale, "The Cutie Remark", is another two-parter.