If a TV show nowadays does n’t have at least one big winding now and then , probability are it does n’t remain on the air for long . But only a fistful of TV series have the courageousness to altogether transform themselves — to show something so crazy , it irrevocably redefines the show from that level on . We ’ve been lucky to have several shows , especially latterly , with these game - alter episodes — here are a twelve .
1 ) Game Of Thrones , “ The Rains of Castamere ”
Game of Thrones is incessantly changing its status quo , but none have come close to the “ Red wedding ceremony ” in the next-to-last episode of season 3 . Not only do we lose two beloved supporter in Catelyn and her boy Robb , but we also lose a major portion of what we guess the show was about — a young man battling to avenge his Father-God and free his country . Which the Starks all in and/or scattered , the Stark / Lannister conflict — central to the entirety of the show up to that point — is efficaciously over , and the Lannisters have acquire . An totally fresh story is charter its place .
2 ) lose , “ Through The Looking Glass”http://www.youtube.com / watch?v = y6UejH …
lose is a show that was build on shocks , which it provide all the way through its season six finale . But no electric shock was more scandalous that the season 3 finale , where Jack holler to Kate “ We have to go back ! ” and on the spur of the moment we realized we ’ve been in a flash - forward , not the usual flashbacks . Now instead of seek to get off the island , some of the characters are get back on it , a whole dissimilar journeying — both physically and thematically . Moreover , this episode showed that Lost was going to play around with sentence in ways that would greatly affect the later seasons in virtually all aspects .
3 ) Buffy the Vampire Slayer , “ Buffy Vs . Dracula ”
Whether you love Buffy ’s little sister Dawn or hate her — and chances are you credibly detest her — you ca n’t deny that she extirpate Buffy , both the reference and the show . Sure , as a mysterious key hide in human course , she ply season 5 with its plot , and on the spur of the moment gave Buffy a fresh , pre - work up relationship . But not only did Dawn budge the key moral force of the show , she turned Buffy into a surrogate caregiver , which number to define her on the show . avowedly , Buffy was n’t particularly proficient at at most of the time , but Dawn ’s arriver give Buffy a set of stakes ( no wordplay intended ) that she ’d never had before , and thus her mistake ( still not a paronomasia ) had a cost they ’d also never had before .
4 ) Battlestar Galactica , “ Crossroads ”
It was the enquiry everyone wanted to have intercourse : Who are the Final Five ? It turns out even the Final Five wanted to know who the Final Five were , as they were sleeper agents Tigh , Anders , Tyrol , and Tory ( the 5th being Tigh ’s wife Ellen , who had already been executed ) . The reveal that these four dear characters had on the Q.T. Cylons all along devastated both them and the viewers , and it set the picture for Battlestar Galactica ’s terminal act , an act that was also precipitated by the miraculous riposte of Starbuck , who claimed to have found Earth . The show suddenly had a new purpose , a new focus on the marvelous that would heavily influence the final episodes , and , thanks to the Final Five , the realization that literally anything could happen in these last episode .
5 ) Adventure Time , “ Simon & Marcy ”
We ’ve praise Adventure Time ’s “ Simon & Marcy ” sequence prison term and time again , and there ’s a reason : It ’s incredible . Not only does it change Adventure Time moving forwards , it changes all the earlier episodes too , because we get hold out that Finn and Jake ’s primary resister , the Ice King , tragically gave his saneness away to protect a young Marcy in the aftermath of the Great Mushroom War . It reveal the late wickedness / goofy Ice King as a tragical fictitious character , and changed the way the cerebration about the show ’s basal conflict . It was also the beginning of a matureness of storytelling that Adventure Time has antecedently hinted at , and one that uphold to this day , in storyline like Jake ’s fatherhood , Finn ’s pernicious journeying through pubescence , Princess Bubblegum ’s progressively threatening ways , Finn ’s atrocious father , and more .
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6 ) Agents of SHIELD , “ move around Turn Turn ”
You could easily say that “ Turn , Turn , Turn ” is a game - changer as it ’s when Agents of SHIELD finally got right . But that ’s because it work so much to the serial it badly needed — a percipient , definable , knock-down antagonist ; a reason to give care about the characters ; actual danger ; and , most of all , a smashing twist . unveil that Ward had been a mystical Hydra broker for the entire time of year — a fact we of a sudden knew but the other Agents did not — raised the stakes for the team dramatically , just as the reveal of Hydra ( tie to the Captain America : The Winter Soldier movie ) hand the entire show a conflict Charles Frederick Worth manage about . It completely turned what was a tolerable but less than riveting show into some genuinely entertaining TV . Here ’s hoping when the show comes back this free fall the change is permanent .
7 ) Twin Peaks , “ Lonely Souls ”
The key dubiousness of Twin Peaks — hell , its entire raison d’etre — was finding out who had killed Laura Palmer . Why studio executive director thought it was a good idea to drive David Lynch to solve this enigma in the midsection of the second season ; the word is that they were trying to combat Twin Peaks ’ declining military rating , but what did they think would pass after the mystery was solved ? There were plenty of plot yarn left to explore in the show , and Kyle MacLachlan ’s Agent Cooper still had copious amount of bizarreness left to research , but neither the show nor the viewers seemed to care as much any more . This episode was a plot - record changer , but one that also effectively end the biz .
- Supernatural , “ Lazarus Rising ”
Season three of Supernatural ended with Dean in hell — literal , dependable - to - Judeo - Christian - God Hell — time of year four set out with him waking up in a coffin . As the sequence progress , we meet the holy person Castiel , who reveals not only that he raise Dean , but he did so because God had plans for him . This episode marks the sudden shift of Supernatural from , well , the supernatural , to the divine and hellish , where the Winchester brothers dispense with angels , demons , God , Satan , and pretty much everything in - between . It ’s been a lasting variety , and one that has come up to define Supernatural .
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9 ) Doctor Who , “ The Tenth Planet ”
Can you opine watch Doctor Who in 1966 , and meet the Doctor buy the farm ? There ’s no internet gossip , no spoiler , no knowledge of what ’s follow next . As the Doctor collapses to the story , his look begins to glow — and slowly , almost imperceptibly a new face begins to appear . Suddenly , rather of William Hartnell , Patrick Troughton jump up , and a steel - new Doctor is introduce . Can you imagine the shock ? Not only has this major change direct influenced Doctor Who storytelling for that point on , it ’s also the intellect why the show has been capable to air for most of the last 50 years ! possibly in terms of plot not much changed , but in terminus of the enfranchisement , “ The Tenth Planet ” was an absolutely essential bit in Doctor Who history .
10 ) Angel , “ Sleep Tight ”
Angel was never a specially pollyannaish show , but viewer did n’t realize how dark the show was go to get until “ Sleep Tight ” air in 2002 . In it , Wesley — convinced Angel will kill his Logos consort to some vaticination — steals the infant Connor , only to get his throat slit , and someone else take on Connor into a hellish dimension that will result in Connor come back in just a few episodes as a teenaged demon slayer . . Connor ’s existence define Angel , both the character and the show , from his birth , and “ Sleep Tight ” was what defined Connor as a character from that distributor point on . More significantly , this sequence split apart the squad , creating divides that would never genuinely bring around even by the show ’s goal , forcing the protagonists into conflict with each other at least as much as the bad guys they commonly fought . Also , it turned Wesley into the terrifying badass of the late two time of year . Basically , no one turn tail this sequence of Angel unscathed .
11 ) Babylon 5 , “ War Without End ”
A scifi show based on vaticination sounds a bit weird , but that ’s what Babylon 5 was … at least until this instalment , in which it was revealed that the Babylon 4 had traveled back in metre from the present moment , and that ’s why Valen had been able to omen the future . Not only does “ War Without End ” in effect murder all supernatural panorama from Babylon 5 , the booster — who were capable to rely on the prophecies beforehand — were now on the spur of the moment on their own , without any more knowledge of the future . They deepen was subtle but definite , and it affected every character on the show .
12 ) Dollhouse , “ Epitaph One ”
Bizarrely , although “ Epitaph One ” was all-important to everything Joss Whedon ’s Dollhouse was about , it never aired in America . You had to buy the season one DVD in ordination to watch out it , and if you did , it blew your psyche . The show , which has previously been about “ dolls ” imprinted with personalities for various tasks , and the slow awakening of one such doll played by Eliza Dushku , suddenly jumped to 2019 , where the world had effectively stop . The memory - imprint Dollhouse tech has been work into a arm , and only a modest remnant of humanity is leave . The next season becomes a race to preclude this future … one that they do not succeed in .
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