Shows that have overstayed their welcome - Why won't they end?

Doctor Who.

The episodes with Peter Capaldi in them are apparently shit, a number of lifelong fans have admitted the show is going down the drain, people are worried which direction the show will go in after the current showrunner leaves...I could go on.

I liked a lot of the episodes that Russel T. Davies did, but I pretty much stopped watching the show after Matt Smith left. I have nothing against Peter Capaldi as an actor, but apparently the episodes he's in aren't the best.
 
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GentlemanFaggot said:
But what the hell is with all these people who used to watch Once Upon a Time? I tried to watch the first episode just because it's filmed where I live and it was painful.

It looks like a show for pre-teen girls, why are you all watching it?
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It was cheesy, but cute, at least in its first season. Personally, I started watching it because I saw the ending of one of the episodes on TV and noticed Robert Carlisle playing Rumplestilskin and thought that looked interesting. Sure, the whole premise was kinda silly and though I know they have limited budgets, the CGI looked really shit, but the fairy tale characters vs their everyday personalities was interesting and throwing them all into one show was fun.

However, I'll also agree the show has overstayed its welcome. The first season was the best, and I enjoyed two and three as well, but after that it became a chore. I started watching this show for Rumplestilskin and Belle, but realised in the early fourth season especially that the showmakers and possibly fandom as well were more interested in:
- more Regina angst;
- Emma gaining more and more Mary-Sue points;
- the 10000th time seeing Snow and Regina interacting in the flashbacks;
- MORE DISNEY CHARACTERS, ADD ALL OF THEM, which lead to
- one-off characters who were there for no reason at all and took time away from the characters who had been there since the beginning
and so on.

I stopped half-way through season four and have no interest going back. One anon on /tv/ once described to me what happened since then and it sounded terrible, so I'm not too sad about that.
 
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ure_mum said:
It was cheesy, but cute, at least in its first season. Personally, I started watching it because I saw the ending of one of the episodes on TV and noticed Robert Carlisle playing Rumplestilskin and thought that looked interesting. Sure, the whole premise was kinda silly and though I know they have limited budgets, the CGI looked really shit, but the fairy tale characters vs their everyday personalities was interesting and throwing them all into one show was fun.

However, I'll also agree the show has overstayed its welcome. The first season was the best, and I enjoyed two and three as well, but after that it became a chore. I started watching this show for Rumplestilskin and Belle, but realised in the early fourth season especially that the showmakers and possibly fandom as well were more interested in:
- more Regina angst;
- Emma gaining more and more Mary-Sue points;
- the 10000th time seeing Snow and Regina interacting in the flashbacks;
- MORE DISNEY CHARACTERS, ADD ALL OF THEM, which lead to
- one-off characters who were there for no reason at all and took time away from the characters who had been there since the beginning
and so on.

I stopped half-way through season four and have no interest going back. One anon on /tv/ once described to me what happened since then and it sounded terrible, so I'm not too sad about that.
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For about two seasons now, the Regina and Snow White flashbacks aren't about plot relevance, so much as giving Regina a chance to say, "Hey... you're a good person. I was a bad person, but you were good to me. And, now I'm a good person. Don't be a bad person."

Also, Rumpelstiltskin, (Or "Rum-poh" as Emilie de Ravin would say it), and Belle are constantly... GOING. IN. CIRCLES! They are caught in an infinity loop and I think it's entirely because they merged Rumpelstiltskin with the Beast, which aren't very compatible crossovers, so the writers can't find any permanent solutions.
 
Gilmore Girls. I know it was cancelled and then brought it back for a couple of telefilms on Netflix just recently (with the ending implying we may get a 'Fuller House'-esque series in the future, maybe), but I tried watching it and ooof. I don't know why this shit lasted as long as it did when it was airing: Lorelei and Rory are both insufferable cunts who are so far detached from reality, it's ridiculous (the both of them becoming exceptional individuals in the Netflix films at that). The "witty" pop culture quips are plenty obnoxious and the fact Rory largely gets out of trouble by people saying she's a good girl is nauseating. The only character that's worthwhile at all is Kirk and quite frankly he's arguably the best character in this entire hot mess of a series, but even he has his moments where his shtick wears thin.

GentlemanFaggot said:
But what the hell is with all these people who used to watch Once Upon a Time? I tried to watch the first episode just because it's filmed where I live and it was painful.

It looks like a show for pre-teen girls, why are you all watching it?
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I tried watching it because one of my favorite non-circle jerk voice actors was in it (Raphael Sbarge), and it was just way too corny for me to handle. I loves me some cheese, but that was probably the rankest cheese I've ever watched in recent memory and not even Sbarge's recurring role in the earlier seasons could save it for me.
 
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Necroing but certainly One Piece. Shit has running since I was a baby and it's still going. It's absolutely ridiculous and has completely killed my will to keep up with this shit. I got the Water Seven arc and that's about fucking it. There are over a thousand episodes and counting. Get the fuck outta here.

Naturally fucking Toei is to blame for this as well as Pretty Cure, which is creeping towards a thousand episodes. Granted it's new characters for each season but there's only so many themes about seasons, healing, dessert, animals, fairy tales, fruits, friendship, witches, flowers, astrology etc. you can make 13-year-old anime girls out of.

In that same vein, Detective Conan with its 1080 episodes. What the fuck?
 
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DenseDeerFather said:
Necroing but certainly One Piece. Shit has running since I was a baby and it's still going. It's absolutely ridiculous and has completely killed my will to keep up with this shit. I got the Water Seven arc and that's about fucking it. There are over a thousand episodes and counting. Get the fuck outta here.

Naturally fucking Toei is to blame for this as well as Pretty Cure, which is creeping towards a thousand episodes. Granted it's new characters for each season but there's only so many themes about seasons, healing, dessert, animals, fairy tales, fruits, friendship, witches, flowers, astrology etc. you can make 13-year-old anime girls out of.

In that same vein, Detective Conan with its 1080 episodes. What the fuck?
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And I thought Love Live! was getting over-saturated as a franchise, with all of the expanding they have done in recent times. Liella! went from 5, to 9, to 11 members, SuperStar will be getting a 3rd season, Aqours got a fantasy spin-off show in Genjitsu no Yohane (and is getting a video game too), Nijigasaki had the recent Nijiyon Animation and OVA releases, and will be getting 3 movies, to name a few.

On the topic at hand, since Survivor is up to 41 (?) seasons now, the show lasted way longer than it should have. Jeopardy! is in the same boat, after Alex Trebek passed away, and Wheel of Fortune will probably be so too, after Pat Sajak retires at the end of the upcoming season.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
And I thought Love Live! was getting over-saturated as a franchise, with all of the expanding they have done in recent times. Liella! went from 5, to 9, to 11 members, SuperStar will be getting a 3rd season, Aqours got a fantasy spin-off show in Genjitsu no Yohane (and is getting a video game too), Nijigasaki had the recent Nijiyon Animation and OVA releases, and will be getting 3 movies, to name a few.

On the topic at hand, since Survivor is up to 41 (?) seasons now, the show lasted way longer than it should have. Jeopardy! is in the same boat, after Alex Trebek passed away, and Wheel of Fortune will probably be so too, after Pat Sajak retires at the end of the upcoming season.
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Jesus. I used to like love live for the music but this is ridiculous.

Oh and must we forget that they are doing Vtubers now also. Expect them to get their own multi season anime with 8 movies.

Speaking of movies, in relation to Pretty Cure. There's always two movies at the end of the season. One is for the new skanks and the other is the All Stars movie. It's getting real bloated.

And since we're on the topic of weeb shit. A really unpopular one here but Madoka. The first series worked perfectly and felt like a self contained story - Rebellion movie and its supposed sequel withstanding.

But then it expanded to less interesting stories, less interesting characters like Magia Record and the countless Mangas. Suzume is great but wtf, it worked so much better when it was just about the original cast.
 
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The Nothingness said:
Two shows I can think off the top of my head are The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Nothingness said:
SVU is the only show of that series remaining, which is probably the one you are referring to.
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JudgingYou said:
Grey's Anatomy needs to be put to rest
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Just a friendly reminder that since this thread was recently resurrected, these posts were made in 2016, roughly 6 and a half years ago... And EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE FUCKING SHOWS ARE STILL IN PRODUCTION! I kinda get it with Simpsons, it's been on so long that it's basically a meme at this point, and it's still a money printing machine. Hell, they could probably do it completely with AI and produce new Simpsons episodes until the heat death of the universe. Same with SpongeBob. But the live action shows that have to be somewhat based in reality, I mean it's been 20 years or so for each show, and these people age. Do we really need another season of what's her face as the plucky doctor trying to prove herself while sleeping around and other assorted drama?


On a smaller scale, my vote would go to American Horror Story. Not for going on too long overall, but for seemingly going on too long for each season. It seems like every season, Ryan Murphy sets up a plot in the first couple episodes, then spergs out for the next 5 or so, ( aliens, faggots, and supernatural horrors, oh my!) then all of a sudden remembers that he has to wrap up the season and hastily crams everything together incomprehensibly in the last 2 episodes. The last one I watched I think it was Apocalypse?, made absolutely no goddamn sense and seemed more of a "throw everything at the wall from previous seasons and see what sticks" and I haven't watched any of it since. Not that I watch much TV anyway, but goddamn that shit was atrocious.
 
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IDanceonTrannyGraves said:
The Daily Show and other "humour" news shows.
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Speaking of humour, we could add to the list Saturday Night Live, with the current woke cast it'll be a while before it returns to the grory of the "Not ready for primetime players" era of Dan Arkyold, Chevy Chase, Bill Murry and John Belushi and/or the "Bad boys" era of Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman and Chris Farley.
 
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DenseDeerFather said:
Necroing but certainly One Piece. Shit has running since I was a baby and it's still going. It's absolutely ridiculous and has completely killed my will to keep up with this shit. I got the Water Seven arc and that's about fucking it. There are over a thousand episodes and counting. Get the fuck outta here.

Naturally fucking Toei is to blame for this as well as Pretty Cure, which is creeping towards a thousand episodes. Granted it's new characters for each season but there's only so many themes about seasons, healing, dessert, animals, fairy tales, fruits, friendship, witches, flowers, astrology etc. you can make 13-year-old anime girls out of.

In that same vein, Detective Conan with its 1080 episodes. What the fuck?
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If they've somehow mad 1080 unique murder cases that's insane. I doubt it though.
 
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Smar Mijou said:
Just a friendly reminder that since this thread was recently resurrected, these posts were made in 2016, roughly 6 and a half years ago... And EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE FUCKING SHOWS ARE STILL IN PRODUCTION!
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Not only is L&O: Rape Cops still going, they brought back the original main series complete with Sam Watterson stepping in to croak out his lines.
 
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