Can be great if done correctly, and that's usually within the same season. Please don't overdo/overuse them please.

Also stick to Rocky/Rambo, cause http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1FaIG1vz3rs/S879y57B_CI/AAAAAAAAE_0/5SAp53mHxmI/s1600/Cliffhanger.jpg svcked.

Yup, I believe I saw that one.

I would say my biggest pet peeve are series that do cliffhangers at the end, and then aren't renewed for the next season, leaving everything left to wonder.

Symbionic Titan left everything too wide open. Young Justice is SUPREMELY irritates me because they built up this story to a perfect conclusion, then throw a curve ball as we see Savage, and G.Gordon talking with Darkseid on Apokalypse. Getting irritated at these jerk produces who only care about a toy line being associated with animated show to rake in more profit. I understand the need for compensation because these shows aren't made for free, but dang there has to be a limit on greed.

Sometimes, a cliffhanger is a perfectly valid way to end a movie/game/show. Inception and The Sopranos come to mind.

Everything Steven King.

Those aren't real cliffhangers, though, because they didn't leave any serious loose ends in the plot. Those endings were a bit ambiguous, sure, but unlike a cliffhanger, the story in those cases was completed, even though some mystery was intentionally left in for flavor.

Personally, I think cliff hangers are obnoxious in every case. They interrupt the natural flow of every story they're inserted into by being an abrupt end to an otherwise continuous plot. Honestly, there are always far more graceful ways to tell a story in pieces than to use cliff hangers to separate each part.

I don't care about them in general, mainly because I haven't really seen them except for two:

The other cliffhanger was in the Harry Potter movies toward the end, but I was too busy watching it to really care about it.

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I dislike cliffhangers at the end of a season, because too often the interesting series that I'm following gets cancelled and the entire series thus ends with an unresolved cliffhanger.

Cases in point: The science fiction series Odyssey 5 and Alphas and the drama/ comedy series Popular.

But if a cliffhanger is well done in a two parter episode or in the middle of a series I can enjoy them, because they keep me interested wanting to know how it turns out.

Never knowing/ not knowing for a long time how it turns out is why I dont like them at the end of a season.

Good mid-series cliffhangers especially are found in the Eccleston and Tennant series of Dr. Who. They really had me eagerly awaiting the next episode.

For me, if done right. I do not mind cliff hangers that make us wait until the next episode or season, but cliff hangers that are then followed by a show cancellation is just plain mean!

Not my idea of a good entertainment. I want to see the whole, not have something dangled in front of my nose only to be yanked away. Last time the show that was split in two, my first reaction was not very welcoming of it.

I especially hate when they make a sequel movie that you think is going to finish off the prior cliffhanger and then they pull another stunt by creating a second cliffhanger. That infuriates me to no end. Especially if it's a movie that, in your opinion, does not deserve another movie.

I just watched my Cleopatra 2525 DVDs and I have to say... that last episode? Yeah, I wouldn't even call it a cliffhanger. I would call it trolling.

Matrix trauma, Schnakers?

Ah yes, the Matrix.

Really good movie. Shame they never made a sequel.

*Glare*

Indeed. The Matrix was pretty good, and thus a real shame a sequel was never made.

Think the most acceptable cliff hanger I can think of is Avatar: The Last Airbender, when Zuko it is shown that he's going through character changes to become good and subsequently betrays Katar and all of them in the catacombs under the Earth Capital.

I hate cliff hangers in books, especially when I have to wait years for them to get the next book out. It's good the first read but then you wait.................and the effect is lost with time, and then you forget about what happened then you got to go back and read it to remember the cliff hanger.

I'm looking at you GRRM.

One of many traumas.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles. That series was left with a cliff-hanger end.

I think it's all about how it's done.

They shouldn't do cliffhangers for movies/tv shows/games that are meant to pull you in for a sequel, when it's not 100% sure yet that the sequel ever gets made.

This was an issue with the game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey for 6 years. Awful, multi-layer cliffhanger, then not a clue of whether a sequel would ever be made. Then a couple of months back they finally did a kickstarter.

Yeah, the whole second season had a lot going on in it, it wasn't meant to end there, but I don't think there will ever be a third season now. A movie sequel was a possibility but I don't know about that now either.

In one interview the actors for John and Cameron described the second season as starting from a explosion and continuing that way throughout. I think it was like that.