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Shows you've had a falling out with - IE, they just suck now
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I'm still watching The Walking Dead out of morbid curiosity. Season 1 was great, Season 2 was a huge downturn in quality, but Seasons 3-5 were where I think the show peaked. Season 6 was okay, but what pisses me off in hindsight was that they had the perfect chance to end it with the mid-season premiere but had to keep going because "muh comics." From there they kept killing off tons of popular characters or relocating them to spin-offs to the point where only two people from the original cast are still around on the main show. Season 10 is almost over but they still haven't made clear who the new main protagonist is since Rick left a season and a half ago. The pacing sucks, the writers are trying to give a bloated cast of 20+ nobody characters their own arcs, and interesting ideas (a group of people who wear Walker skin, a larger, more equipped new community, etc.) are muddled by piss-poor writing.
What really gets me, though, is that they apparently have another eight years of the franchise planned, including two spin-off shows (one of which is going into its sixth season soon) and a movie trilogy about Rick Grimes after he got written off the main show. From the way they've been going about things, it looks like they want to have a Marvel-style endgame having to do with this overarching group called the Civic Republic Military (CRM) that wants to take over the world under their rule or some retarded bullshit. They've been dropping hints about them for the last three seasons and even had them show up in the spin-off show. But the problem is they've been so far in the background that there's no real way to give a shit about who they are or what they're doing.
At this point, I just want to laugh at whatever stupid fuckery they start writing once they run out of comic material (which judging by the pace they're going at now will probably be after next season).
What really gets me, though, is that they apparently have another eight years of the franchise planned, including two spin-off shows (one of which is going into its sixth season soon) and a movie trilogy about Rick Grimes after he got written off the main show. From the way they've been going about things, it looks like they want to have a Marvel-style endgame having to do with this overarching group called the Civic Republic Military (CRM) that wants to take over the world under their rule or some retarded bullshit. They've been dropping hints about them for the last three seasons and even had them show up in the spin-off show. But the problem is they've been so far in the background that there's no real way to give a shit about who they are or what they're doing.
At this point, I just want to laugh at whatever stupid fuckery they start writing once they run out of comic material (which judging by the pace they're going at now will probably be after next season).
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Walking Dead. It's too depressing and characters die too much.
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I stopped watching The Flash after season 5. Even though it's not a show of quality, it was one of my guilty pleasures. The only great season was season 1, cause Eobard Thawne was the only villian that brought substance to the story. Now it seems he's just brought in either to kill time or just out to make up for the shows bad writing knowing he's a fan favorite.
During season 4 and 5,the show stopped caring about Barry and was more focused on developing all the side characters; he was pretty much an afterthought on his own show.
The SJW shit was still there, but it wasn't as severe compared to the rest of the arrowverse garbage like LoT, Supergirl.
During season 4 and 5,the show stopped caring about Barry and was more focused on developing all the side characters; he was pretty much an afterthought on his own show.
The SJW shit was still there, but it wasn't as severe compared to the rest of the arrowverse garbage like LoT, Supergirl.
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Wasnt there an LOT episode where Grodd wanted to kill Obama so he could make America Grodd again? Didnt know Grodd hated his own kind that much
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Dear Jesus, I almost forgot about that episode. The political undertones even during the promos made it an episode worth forgetting.
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I forgot to mention The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. First 2 seasons were fun but then when looking at the titles for season 3 I see one called "Kimmy Becomes A Feminist!" and I knew it was dead. Apparently she goes on to write a book that helped one guy deal with his toxic masculity or some shit. So basically it's the story of a woman who escapes one cult only to join another. Sad.
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Yeah, I lost interest after Dreamland, especially since they had to extend on the coma plotline... I can't believe people hated seasons 5-7 when they were pretty decent.
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AMC unquestionably did Darabont and the show dirty, but I think people are being a bit
when they insist that the first season was perfect and the rot only started to set in when Darabont got ousted. We shouldn't forget that S1 was filled with a lot of hokey and pointless filler and nonsense like the retirement home caretakers-turned-Latin Kings, and the whole CDC finale. Or that most of the supporting cast were charactures who only received their rushed characterisation when it was time to kill them off for cheap drama, along with other sleazy screenwriting. Whether these things were the result of Darabont's creative decision making, or demanded by the suits (or, more likely, the two working against eachother), it doesn't seem like his continued presence in later seasons would've made TWD significantly better. A lot of the symptoms of later seasons were already present from the start, under his watch.TWD was always shit and was destined to be shit, and not even the director behind Shawshank could've saved it.
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AMC unquestionably did Darabont and the show dirty, but I think people are being a bit
TWD was always shit and was destined to be shit, and not even the director behind Shawshank could've saved it.
Absolutely right. People talk about TWD getting worse in the later seasons, but it was always the same unevenly-written show. You just get tired after a while of accepting the shows numerous "asks," sick of the wasted characters and botched plotlines which accumulate over time, and you give up.
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Honestly the talk of TWD made me remember dropping it.
I dropped it after the midway point of Season 6 or after the finale and it was because of two factors:
1. The show got really boring since it is the same thing which is: Group goes to place -> Conflict at place with human antagonist -> Place gets overrun by zombies -> Group is split up and has to find new place -> Repeat
2. I was going into a phase where I simply do not care for television anymore and dropped TV altogether.
I am glad that I did drop the show with the shit I'm hearing about the later seasons.
I dropped it after the midway point of Season 6 or after the finale and it was because of two factors:
1. The show got really boring since it is the same thing which is: Group goes to place -> Conflict at place with human antagonist -> Place gets overrun by zombies -> Group is split up and has to find new place -> Repeat
2. I was going into a phase where I simply do not care for television anymore and dropped TV altogether.
I am glad that I did drop the show with the shit I'm hearing about the later seasons.
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I did a quick search for "walking dead" in this thread, and 15 posts mention it, and the thread's currently sitting at a nice and round 150 replies. So, exactly 10% of the posts in this thread mention that show alone. Even Game of Thrones only got 10 mentions. (this also includes quoted posts which i can't be bothered to manually filter out)
So, here's another Walking Dead post. I fell out during Season 5, around when Beth was in the hospital. The show started focusing so much on her just out of the blue and they couldn't have telegraphed it in a more obvious fashion that she was right about to kick the bucket. She and Daryl were suddenly close and then the show started focusing on her in this empty hospital and some expendable faggots show up to join her and oh boy when's she gonna kick the bucket
and I guess I'll never know 'cause I quit watching before she did because I just didn't care anymore and I was already like a year behind by then. I've popped by the wiki and some threads about it since just to see what's going on and who's still around and there's not a single thing about the show that makes me wanna return. There already wasn't a single episode I'd ever wanna rewatch beyond the first season, and that's how I felt before I even learned about the drama surrounding AMC pushing Frank Darabont out, and frankly I don't know how I managed to keep going that far, considering I can barely remember anything that happened after The Governor died. I was really put off with Dale being killed so early and I guess I just kinda coasted until I had enough.
I really hope YMS or someone does a review of the rest of the series so I can get a brief overview of what happens because I'm still kinda curious but don't wanna sacrifice another 50 hours of my life on this shit anymore. How the fuck does zombie stuff in general still even have gas in pop culture, I feel like it was already getting long in the tooth like 10 years ago when The Walking Dead started, but it's just kinda still going and like anything with zombies in it now doesn't even elicit a "wait, zombies? STILL?" response from me anymore, it's just so embedded in culture that telling me a thing has zombies is like hearing a thing has classic rock in it. Like, yep, zombies, classic rock, yep, those are things that are just everywhere and kind of just perpetually exist and are palatable to absolutely everyone
So, here's another Walking Dead post. I fell out during Season 5, around when Beth was in the hospital. The show started focusing so much on her just out of the blue and they couldn't have telegraphed it in a more obvious fashion that she was right about to kick the bucket. She and Daryl were suddenly close and then the show started focusing on her in this empty hospital and some expendable faggots show up to join her and oh boy when's she gonna kick the bucket
and I guess I'll never know 'cause I quit watching before she did because I just didn't care anymore and I was already like a year behind by then. I've popped by the wiki and some threads about it since just to see what's going on and who's still around and there's not a single thing about the show that makes me wanna return. There already wasn't a single episode I'd ever wanna rewatch beyond the first season, and that's how I felt before I even learned about the drama surrounding AMC pushing Frank Darabont out, and frankly I don't know how I managed to keep going that far, considering I can barely remember anything that happened after The Governor died. I was really put off with Dale being killed so early and I guess I just kinda coasted until I had enough.
I really hope YMS or someone does a review of the rest of the series so I can get a brief overview of what happens because I'm still kinda curious but don't wanna sacrifice another 50 hours of my life on this shit anymore. How the fuck does zombie stuff in general still even have gas in pop culture, I feel like it was already getting long in the tooth like 10 years ago when The Walking Dead started, but it's just kinda still going and like anything with zombies in it now doesn't even elicit a "wait, zombies? STILL?" response from me anymore, it's just so embedded in culture that telling me a thing has zombies is like hearing a thing has classic rock in it. Like, yep, zombies, classic rock, yep, those are things that are just everywhere and kind of just perpetually exist and are palatable to absolutely everyone
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I had this exact same experience with the show. My friend showed me the first few episodes a while back, and I didn't really get into it, but I started watching it again during the lockdown because I wanted something to watch while playing Animal Crossing.
I was really into it for the first four seasons, but then it started getting really preachy and obnoxious. I'm not one to constantly complain about "muh SJW themes" every time a black person farts onscreen, but it felt like they were trying way too hard, and episodes would be brought to a screeching halt so a character could rant about sexism or the issues trans people face in prison.
I originally thought this was the fault of the writers, but apparently it was Andy Samberg who was pushing this crap, which is very disappointing to learn. Anyway, stopped watching midway through the fifth season and I doubt I'll start again.
Turning to other shows I fell out with, the reimagined Battlestar Galactica was my favourite thing ever for the first two and a half seasons, but then midway through Season 3 it disappeared up its own arse and never re-emerged. It was very sad to see, but I still re-watch the first two seasons from time to time because they were that good.
I mentioned this in another thread, but Cuckoo with Greg Davies had turned into an absolute dumpster fire by the fifth series. I still have no idea why they kept it going after Series 4, which ended things perfectly.
Sherlock's quality noticeably dipped in Series 3, and Series 4 was a complete trainwreck. I've heard it's not officially over yet and there could be a fifth series. I hope that never happens. The show well and truly ran its course.
The Timeless Child shitstorm is well documented over in the Doctor Who thread so I won't go over it again, but to be honest, the revived series lost its way at Series 6 and I've only been watching out of loyalty ever since. I may stop doing even that given recent events.
Loads of people mentioned The Walking Dead, and I'll add my voice to the chorus. I stuck with it until Season 7, but it had been boring rubbish since Season 5. I don't understand how anyone watches it these days. There was one episode which lasted an hour and it was literally just Rick and Michone walking around an abandoned funfair.
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It's just not worth sitting through hours and hours of inane filler and B-plots to get to good bits, especially as the quality of writing and casting varied per season, but generally showed a downward trend. It doesn't help that the main setting and plot is so circular and predictable that you could set your fucking clock to it. The question never being 'if' something obvious will happen, but rather how long they'll drag it out until it happens. This is especially noticeable with a lot of the characters, who don't have character 'arcs' but fucking loops, alternating between battle-scarred psycho to moralising penitant whenever the plot demands it. It's the only way they could keep some momentum going, because when they didn't those characters ended up with nothing to do and nothing to add to the drama. *cough*Darryl*cough*
One thing I'll give TWD: the memes were great.
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An oldie but an erstwhile goodie ... Red Dwarf. They lost me when they lost Rimmer and brought in Kochanski as a regular character. To make matters worse, it wasn't even the real Kochanski.
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The newer ones by Dave ditched Kochanski and it's just back to the Boys and they're pretty funny. Not as classic as the first seasons but not terrible.
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Oh yes I completely forgot about this, I used to love Red Dwarf. The other problem was at that point Rob Grant had left the show so only Doug Naylor was writing and it became pretty clear where all the humour came from. I think the Kochanski thing was explained as the original actress was the idealised version Lister had in his head and the new girl they got was supposed to be the real one who was more flawed and rounded. Except they also tried to make her the new Rimmer but not as much of a loser to make her sympathetic, so she just came off as a whiny bitch.
I'm about to drop the Blacklist. I've been binge watching it through quarantine but now it's getting kind of goofy. I'm at the beginning of season 4 and it feels like it's just pulling shit out to try and be shocking. I don't know, does it get any better?
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I stopped caring about Agents of Shield after season 4.
Season 1 was mostly cheesy schlock but the trashy government conspiracy coverup vibe of Season 2 appealed directly to all of my sensibilities so I kept watching. Season 3 sort of continued on that route of utterly insane bullshit (seriously, I love the idea that an ancient secret society sold to the government this idea that they can use this ancient alien artifact that teleports people to a distant planet as a cheaper alternative to conventional space exploration, all so they could feed astronauts to their space god) and then Season 4 was legitimately pretty good in its own right.
.... then Season 5 pulled a half-assed time travel plot that really didn’t resolve in a satisfying way at all, and I haven’t even bothered finishing the latest season.
Season 1 was mostly cheesy schlock but the trashy government conspiracy coverup vibe of Season 2 appealed directly to all of my sensibilities so I kept watching. Season 3 sort of continued on that route of utterly insane bullshit (seriously, I love the idea that an ancient secret society sold to the government this idea that they can use this ancient alien artifact that teleports people to a distant planet as a cheaper alternative to conventional space exploration, all so they could feed astronauts to their space god) and then Season 4 was legitimately pretty good in its own right.
.... then Season 5 pulled a half-assed time travel plot that really didn’t resolve in a satisfying way at all, and I haven’t even bothered finishing the latest season.
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Give the newest one a try, it's really good. It's about the boys discovering a group of feral cat people.