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KoldHardTruth said:
I'm not a big fan of the Wonder Years. But I can get why people love it and see it as classic. The show is just not for me. It seems to played out and cliche, and Kevin's infatuation with Winnie can be creepy at times.
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He should have gotten with Becky Slater. It was more entertaining when she was yandere for him.
 
Oats12345 said:
Orginal Battlestar Galactica was much better than the 2000s one (not saying that one is complete crap)
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Original was consistent in its approach and characterization and it's got a kid in it. Remake fundamentally couldn't comprehend the religious subtext of the original and went full edge-lord atheist, which created a thematically contradictory show that spawned every other darkly-lit, grim dark sci fi show for the next 15 years.
 
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Jeff Boomhauer said:
Everybody Loves Raymond is a corny sitcom that has a lot of elements that nearly all sitcoms from the mid-90s and onward suffer from (namely an obnoxious laugh track and constant snarky one-liners), and yet, I find it funny.

The early seasons where Patricia Heaton had dowdy hair are boring as hell, though.
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When does a pan become a pot?
 
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I'm getting sick of long form tv shows, many of them drag their feet like the Walking Dead, or get canceled after the first season or two leaving the plot without any kind of ending.
Not against the idea of those type of tv shows, but first season or two, kind of need an ending which would work if it never got picked up again. It 's pretty basic, look at the Sopranos one of the first big shows in this style, the ending of season 1 would have worked as a ending to the show, if it never got picked up but also left room in case it was picked up. Once a show has found it's audience sure go for the cliffhangers and other stuff, but don't run before you can walk.

Netflix are the worst for this, sometimes like with Altered Carbon they even do a animated spin off and other shit before waiting to see if the show even does well, then they cancel it after 2 seasons with from what I've heard no ending. Netflix also super weird about canceling shows, from what I understand Glow did very well for Netflix but they canceled it on what was meant to be the last season due to it being an unsafe shoot during covid rather than just waiting a year or so to start filming it, heard the same thing with The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Honestly stopped watching long form TV shows especially Netflix ones just for that reason, just feels like it is wasting my time, normally wait until it ends to see if it got a real ending or gets past the season 3 mark.

Another thing I hate is backdoor pilots, I get a spin off if a character is popular or is made after the show such as Better Call Saul or Fraser, but talking about where a show is used to clearly set up a spin off or use an episode pretty much as a pilot for the other show. Worst one being Chapter Seven: The Lost Sisters episode of Stranger Things, seemed everyone hated that episode so thankfully that failed. Now you got the Mandalorian season 2 being used to set up a ton of spin offs which will then be wrapped up in a mini series, because Disney can no longer make something that is just stand alone.
 
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Jeff Boomhauer said:
Everybody Loves Raymond is a corny sitcom that has a lot of elements that nearly all sitcoms from the mid-90s and onward suffer from (namely an obnoxious laugh track and constant snarky one-liners), and yet, I find it funny.

The early seasons where Patricia Heaton had dowdy hair are boring as hell, though.
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It's usually on before Fraiser in bongland and I usually find it a bit tedious to sit through. Definitely not the worst sitcom I've ever watched but far from the best.
 
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Product Placement said:
Another thing I hate is backdoor pilots
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The CW is particularly bad for this. They tried it twice for Supernatural, then for Arrow and The 100 in their final seasons, probably others as well but I don't watch many shows on that network.
The only one that got even the slightest bit of traction is the prequel for The 100, but it looks like covid may have killed that. The other attempts were universally hated because the bright sparks pitching them went "These shows have a large female audience, so lets make the spinoffs all women with the only men the bad guys!", completely missing the point that the only reason the original shows were popular with women was because they starred hunky men that took their shirts off regularly.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
But why?
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If I may answer that, BCS follows somewhat the same techniques and storytelling ideas, but it perfected a lot of the stuff that weighted BB down. For example:

- The female lead isn't an irritating asshole (Skyler) and the other female lead is not annoying either (Marie). Some in fact consider them the best parts of the show, which I do. Not because the rest is bad, but because they behave like real people who are more pragmatic and intelligent at heart. The sidekick to the protagonist is also an equal to them, unlike Jesse.
- The tone is generally more uniform and serious, even in the lighter hearted first seasons of BCS.
- Seeing Chuck progressively get worse is far, far more cathartic than seeing Gus get blown up or Tuco get shot down, and at the same time much more sad.
- There is an actual ongoing B-Plot with Mike, and a C-Plot with Nacho. It makes a far more complex story when there are three different plots meshing together, which also deflate the tension from one another when they reach an apex, leaving constant mini-cliffhangers.
- Walt gets often called "ruthless" and a "badass", which he really isn't. You get this illusion built up that the dude is going to become a monster, both by the creators and the fandom, but he's still a nerd who got lucky a few times and outmaneouvered people the other few times. Meanwhile Saul is built up as an intelligent, charming snake, and that only builds up along the show.
- Saul's schemes are a bit more interesting and well thought out than Walt's. Compare how he got Chuck to appear insane in court to how Walt had to redo his plans a lot to kill Gus.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
We are not in the Golden Age of Television.

We are in an age of serialized Dramas, just like before this we were in an age of Reality Tv..and before that was Sitcoms.
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And most of the really good serialized dramas that everyone cites as part of this golden age have long ended.

The Sopranos, The Shield, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy and The Wire are all well over a decade old at the very least. Over two decades old in the case of The Sopranos.
 
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Berrakh said:
Finished Invincible and it's very good however I am flummoxed that people apparently found Omni-man being evil to be a surprising twist. Maybe I am jaded and I knew that Masculine Patriarch Man had a good chance of being villainous but I can only assume that nerds didn't realize his wiping out an entire planet was not a good thing, but the coolness of it flattered their power fantasies I suppose. Moreover Omni-man was so overpowered he simply had to be the villain by the end. Otherwise there's no tension.
I guess nerds are either very credulous or very disturbed individuals.
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Strong evidence of this are the retards who glorify the Viltrumite Empire and Omni-Man as someone who has the best of intentions despite how his race kills anyone who doesn't want to be under their rule. It doesn't help Omni-Man in the show is irrational and started doing evil shit the moment Mark had discovered his powers. Yet nerds act like humanity would be better off under the Viltrumite Empire and Mark would somehow be okay with that.
CharlesFosterOffdensen said:
Jojo should have ended at Stardust Crusaders. Everything after is total shit.
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Quantum Diabetes said:
We need something unapologetically, extremely politically incorrect in the vein of "Married with Children", and have it be a big success to start chipping away at the wokeness.
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Didn’t they try that with that Tim Allen show Last Man Standing, but they did it to the extreme, and it became a show only the reddest of red could enjoy?
 
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You could say it kinda worked to a degree considering that fox actually brought it back to their network for like three more seasons after abc cancelled it. Then again I’ve never watched the show myself except for one episode that was filmed before the 2016 election and like it’s woke counterparts was just too on the nose.
 
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Quantum Diabetes said:
We need something unapologetically, extremely politically incorrect in the vein of "Married with Children", and have it be a big success to start chipping away at the wokeness.
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Pretty sure it'd have to be a Youtube format.

EDIT: And as we see with Vtubers, female comedic actors need to get rid of that bitchy, irritated attitude that infects modern comedy. The "women can't be funny" meme only applies to Western comics not because they're women, but that they're unpleasant sluts that talk about their vagina. Meanwhile, Kiryu Coco was the most superchatted person in the world for laughing at reddit memes. Thus, female comics should be more like Lucille Ball, cute, charming, and witty.
 
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