the 100 after that moment
Wth happened I stopped watching bc I got bored
The Witcher showrunners were going to have Geralt and Yennifer have a child. This was also the decision that made Cavill leave the show, which just cemented my choice to not bother with the following season.
Do what you will with the overall plot line and stories you wanna tell, but god that is such an egregious change that fucks up so much about the character’s motivations since canonically, Witchers are fucking sterile and can’t have kids, but Geralt really wants to be a father. That’s one of the reasons he attached himself to Ciri.
Dexter. 1 ep after trinity, I stopped. Decided lithgow had a perfect ending.
It really was the peak of what i remember from the show. It does having an intriguing consequence that Dexter starts to be concerned his son will have the same reaction that Dexter did to witnessing his mother’s death and starts monitoring him for signs. If I remember correctly, he’s both concerned that his son will be cursed to be like him, but also excited by the idea of having a bond and mentorship with him through it. But even that gets a bit hamfisted as I recall and ultimately goes nowhere. The show really whimpered out in later seasons.
Finally something I’m qualified to answer!
Family Guy - While more “Flanderization” when all the characters became parodies of their previous selves, the real thing is when all of a sudden every joke needed to be “explained”. i.e. someone trips while running and then one of the character says “AHHH HE TRIPPED AND HE FELL”. Ruined every joke for me, was done with it after that. Kind of one decision, I’m sure someone said “people don’t get the jokes” and ruined the show for me.
House - When they suddenly swapped the cast out. Some people really liked it, for me that was the end of the original premise of the show.
How I Met Your Mother - Lily and Marshall’s baby. Having a baby in a show is always kind of the “Okay the romance story is over and the writers are out of ideas” but it was done so badly. Lily was always an extremely selfish character, and she was insufferable through everything, from making the literal choice to have a child based on some fated chance to shaming Marshall for having the gall to - go to work to support all of them while she did… nothing? Did she even have a job? Constant guilt trips and manipulation, she was the worst character but their relationship was just straight-up toxic when she got pregnant.
That 70’s Show - Having Donna stay home from college - 4 years of characterization thrown out the window. She was always a strong independent woman and now she’s just apparently throwing away her future? She attends remote classes for a while then it just disappears. Then suddenly Eric has this big revelation later that him marrying her might lead to an unsatisifed future? It was all just very clear that the writers didn’t know how to handle her being gone - a very common coming of age issue
X-Files - The move to California. Enough said.
On a smaller and younger scale it was like this with the Super Friends (justice league).
Superman: “I’m going to punch this asteroid that was on a direct course to destroy metropolis which will break it in half, one half fills the gap in a bridge a train is about to cross and the other plugs a hole in a dam”
superman proceeds to do just that and it pissed very young me off.
The Super Friends was a wild show. There’s an episode where they fight the literal fucking Titanic and kill it by tricking it into running into another iceberg. I’m not joking or exaggerating.
Controversial take but Star Trek Voyager.
When I was a kid I loved it, it was my favourite Star Trek. then they introduced Seven of Nine and suddenly it became a borgfest.
I liked it because it was all new alien races, stuff that’s NEVER been in Star Trek before…and then they were like “no ones watching, lets bring in the Borg.”
Disagree
As I recall, the first introduction of the Borg was in the Delta Quadrant (when Q tossed the Enterprise there as a lark). So not including them would seem like a huge oversight considering their dominance.
This was also after First Contact came out, I assume that had something to do with it.
There was also still a huge host of episodes that had nothing to do with borg, aside from the occasional “We need to improve this technology because plot reasons, let’s throw some borg nanites in it or something”. It wasn’t wholly focused on the borg.
Interesting. DS9 would’ve been more to your liking then. The Borg were only in the first episode as one or two scenes to set up Sisko’s character arch. After that, it’s mostly new races, and more advanced development of existing boring races (i.e. Ferringhi, Bajorians).
I have the opposite opinion. Voyager was my first trek as a kid as well. Upon rewatching it, the show actually isn’t great until seven shows up. It kinda drags ass until season 4.
Happy Days when they had The Fonz water ski jump over a shark.
Yep, I’m old, and yes that is where the term “Jump the shark” is from.
I remember seeing an interview with Tom Bosley, the actor who played Mr. Cunningham, where he points out that there were more episodes of Happy Days after jumping the shark than before, so it was hardly the death knell for the show.
Yes, but that is the point it was done for me.
Not sure if it counts, but I loved the Lord of the Rings movies. Had high hopes for The Hobbit, but the way they portrayed Thorin completely broke it for me. Didn’t bother watching the other two.
You didnt miss much. They were very forgettable.
I watched them all but like I never think about scenes and such with the hobbit one like I do the lord of the rings. I mean I think about the animated version from way back.
Jessica Jones. Season one was fucking magnificent. Season 2+ is… A second season of that show. My understanding is, that they changed the writing staff of the show.
The end of season one set up season two to be a hard boiled detective show. That would have been cool. Stand alone episodes with an overlying story arc
I started watching ‘The 100.’
I gave up when the folks from orbit decided that they had to massacre the ground dwellers.
This was after a dozen of so other massacres.
The 2nd episode of “Man in the High Castle” when you realize they just copied the setting and are going to ignore the key elements (and strengths) of the book.
I gave up on the adaption about 5 min into the second episode.
phew. I tried to watch that and the premise seemed so good but ugh. knew nothing about the ip so im glad its not just me who found it sorta crappy.
I enjoyed that show immensely, until the rushed last season. I didn’t read the book though.
I actually liked the series better than the book. And I generally like PKD.
Doctor who. Every decision after Capaldi.
I can pinpoint the moment, it was “solitract.” Like, lonely intestines? I think I finished out that season, but haven’t watched any Doctor Who since then. It was just so hand-wavey with a ridiculously dumb name that it demolished my ability to suspend disbelief.
What do you mean? Capaldi is still the Doctor and no one will convince me otherwise.
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The thing is, I love Jodie Whittaker and was so excited for her Doctor. But her companions were so bland. Ugh just super boring. And I couldn’t keep up with the lore for some reason. It just didn’t hold my interest and I was so sad about it. :(
That’s when they brought on the showrunner for Torchwood. Was it any wonder it got less fanciful and more melodramatic?
I wouldn’t say “unwatchable” but one thing I really didn’t like about the King of the Hill revival was aging everyone up. Mainly because it made Bobby a relatively normal, not very funny adult which eliminated like half the comedy from the show.
Aww man, I thought Bobby was great in the reboot.
Two words: Daisy Johnson.
Battlestar Galactica. I didn’t even really like the show because of the tone anyways… but in the last episode of the first season they throw the female lead in the bed of the male lead who was a “bad guy” for some reason.
I realized they didn’t actually care about plot at that point, and were just going for shock value.
Are you referring to when
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Starbuck slept with Gaius?
Yah. I assume they had some trick or something to do with it, but i didn’t really care, cause… again, all about shock value.
Well
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I wouldn’t really describe Gaius as a villain as such overall - at least not a traditional villain, but it wasn’t meant to be shocking. If I recall she said “Lee” during her hook-up with him - it was to indicate she wasn’t over Lee.
I was watching Mr Mercedes and the first season was interesting but after the second show in the second season, I quit. I don’t know what the writers were thinking but that was enough for me.
