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

To be fair a lot of Classic Doctor Who fans I know despised the Time War and were happy when it was retconned in the 50th special. This isn't a Moffat exclusive issue either, Davies got so much heat for writing Ten as an anti gun pacifist as well as the whole Time War concept. The entire series is a continuity mess full of retcons anyways.

As for Chris Chibnall becoming the new show runner it's only a matter of time before people turn on him and pine for the days of Moffat and Davies. This happens every time someone new takes over the show.

Anyways I think Degrassi really needs to end. Having grown up with the show I watched the new Netflix series out of curiosity and it was awful. They made a Gamer Gate episode where a Muslim straw feminist closes down a gamer club. The latest season had an entire arc about a rich white girl making an unintentionally racist painting and getting bullied out of the school for it.
 
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Major Crimes should have been a good-to-average cop show about middle aged police officers doing police offer things with the occasional personal drama thrown in. Instead it's been 4 years of soapboxing in which Gay Teen Character solves criminal cases despite being in highschool, takes back his druggie mom and then is shocked when she lies to him, angsts about being gay, buddies around with the fat cop, and other autistic misadventures. It's the mutant, evil, ugly miscarriage of The Closer and it doesn't even have the decency to die.
 
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SnowBall said:
Anyways I think Degrassi really needs to end. Having grown up with the show I watched the new Netflix series out of curiosity and it was awful. They made a Gamer Gate episode where a Muslim straw feminist closes down a gamer club. The latest season had an entire arc about a rich white girl making an unintentionally racist painting and getting bullied out of the school for it.
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Quick question: Were the teachers bullying her too? Because I wouldn't put that past the series, given that adults are just as scummy as the teens.
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
Quick question: Were the teachers bullying her too? Because I wouldn't put that past the series, given that adults are just as scummy as the teens.
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No but they did nothing to stop it. The school is apparently fully run by the kids now, as the student council has more power than the teachers from what I gathered in these episodes.
 
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SnowBall said:
No but they did nothing to stop it. The school is apparently fully run by the kids now, as the student council has more power than the teachers from what I gathered in these episodes.
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And the teachers do nothing, why?

I mean I was fully expecting one of them to flunk her out of spite, or another deliberately not give her an assignment (and others simply joining the teens in the general scathing). That'd actually be more fitting in this show than "Stand around and let this go down".
 
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And the teachers do nothing, why?

I mean I was fully expecting one of them to flunk her out of spite, or another deliberately not give her an assignment (and others simply joining the teens in the general scathing). That'd actually be more fitting in this show than "Stand around and let this go down".
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The teachers were barely even in this season. The principal is now Snake (the guy from the 80's series) and he lets the kids do whatever they want.
 
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SnowBall said:
The teachers were barely even in this season. The principal is now Snake (the guy from the 80's series) and he lets the kids do whatever they want.
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Now I expect the season finale being the school board of that district wonder "What's going on there?" and find out Snake's literally been keeping the teachers in the janitorial closet.

That's the only ending I'll accept.
 
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Saney said:
At this point, isn't it just stolen jokes, jokes that go on for five minutes too long and entire music videos?
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It's been like that ever since MacFarlane stopped giving a shit about it. I haven't watched it since around 2012, and all I remember is its just 80s references interspersed with everyone bullying Meg. They must be paying Mila Kunis well because she has what must be the most boring voice acting job in the industry right now.
 
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
It's been like that ever since MacFarlane stopped giving a shit about it. I haven't watched it since around 2012, and all I remember is its just 80s references interspersed with everyone bullying Meg. They must be paying Mila Kunis well because she has what must be the most boring voice acting job in the industry right now.
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the last few episodes I watched she didn't even appear
 
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Uncanny Valley said:
Family Guy.

The only time people pay attention to it now is when spergs have temper tantrums about how it hurt their feelings.
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
It's been like that ever since MacFarlane stopped giving a shit about it. I haven't watched it since around 2012, and all I remember is its just 80s references interspersed with everyone bullying Meg. They must be paying Mila Kunis well because she has what must be the most boring voice acting job in the industry right now.
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And recycled animation:
 
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I'm boarding the "Once Upon a Time" train.
That show could've easily ended half-way through season 2 and everyone would've been happy.

It just drags on and on and on...which irks me a lot about modern TV shows. I stick to movies because there is a resolution to every problem, whereas with a TV show, it can and WILL give a plot without any resolution.
Also the fact you have to wait for the next episode is obnoxious...continuity in television is just a bad concept.
 
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Todesfurcht said:
I'm boarding the "Once Upon a Time" train.
That show could've easily ended half-way through season 2 and everyone would've been happy.

It just drags on and on and on...which irks me a lot about modern TV shows. I stick to movies because there is a resolution to every problem, whereas with a TV show, it can and WILL give a plot without any resolution.
Also the fact you have to wait for the next episode is obnoxious...continuity in television is just a bad concept.
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:autism:anime does it better:autism:
 
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AnOminous said:
Not to defend that shitty show, but full music videos in the middle of a comedy show are not exactly new.

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The two shows had different reasons for that, though.

Every episode except one featured a live performance by a band, including Madness, Motörhead, and The Damned. This was a device used to qualify the series for a larger budget, as "variety" shows attracted higher fees than "comedy".
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scorptatious said:
I guess for me that would be Dexter.

By the time I got about partway through Season 3, I realized that the show became a bit formulaic for my tastes.

1. There's a big bad that is prevelent throughout the entire season until Dexter kills him/her.

2. Debra enters a relationship and then leaves and is bitchy towards everyone.

3. The side characters go through some relationship drama as well which doesn't really affect the plot that much,

Really, the only thing that changes at all in the show was Dexter and his relationship with his girlfriend. Everything else just seems to reset as if nothing happened.

It didn't really help that I couldn't like anyone in that show other than Dexter. (The sociopath of all people!)

I stopped watching after the end of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse season. I realize afterwards things get changed up a bit, but at that point I just stopped caring.
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Thank god it actually ended. You missed absolutely nothing of value. Actually there were a few episodes in the beginning of a later season that started out promising iirc but they ruined it pretty quickly because of course they did.

Killing off Doakes was dumb. Focusing on Laguerta and Batista was dumb. Did anyone care about them? Why was this such a plot point?

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Rumor has it Dexter was supposed to go off the rails and on a spree after the final season, but I guess that cannot happen, because the pace was already ruined three seasons ago.
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Any other ending would have been better.. I heard a rumor that there was some executive meddling where they couldn't kill Dexter or have him get caught so that's why it ended the way it did

I'm still salty as hell about this show
 
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