Shows you've had a falling out with - IE, they just suck now

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I never really watched either Yu-Gi-Oh! or the Abridged series, but I stumbled across this clip that I think illustrates your point.

In the 4Kids version you can hear the disbelief of the military guy as if even he thinks the whole thing is ridiculous.

There is an even better example.

Remember Duelist Kingdom? Remember the Finals, the two part that was the best duel in the arc where Joey and Yugi face off for real? and Joey proved that he could in fact duel on equal footing with Yugi (and by extension Kaiba)

He skipped that duel and replaced it with Yugi telling Joey he was garbage and the entire duel happening offscreen.

 

[frozenrunner]

X-Files: I really liked this show but Season 9 it feels like the where running out of ideas, and that original series finale was unsatisfying, then the film that came out in 2008 was really underwhelming, I didn't even bother with the revival

The first season of the revival was actually pretty great outside of the convoluted, weird, and rushed wraparound/alien mythology stuff. The comedy episode was awesome, and the "monster of the week" episodes were nice.

Didn't see the second season. I heard it went full TDS and so didn't even bother. It depresses me they brought a classic, finished show back only to leave it ultimately unfinished, but let's be honest... The X-Files was long in the tooth and a total narrative mess when it ended the first time.

 

[TungstenCarbide]

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: I watched the first season then stopped, and I'm perfectly satisfied about the ending. I quit because I've heard that the next seasons were less amusing and clever, and full of contrived plots.

Money Heist: the first episode of the second season made me facepalm hard. It's clear that they needed an excuse to reunite the gang and said excuse was flimsy.

HBO The Name of the Rose: perfect cast, perfect setting, but in the first episode I found a couple of abysmal mistakes, mistakes that the book didn't make (I know it by heart, I read it at least once a year) and that ruined the logic of the story, so I refused to see the rest of the episodes.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

The first season of the revival was actually pretty great outside of the convoluted, weird, and rushed wraparound/alien mythology stuff. The comedy episode was awesome, and the "monster of the week" episodes were nice.

Didn't see the second season. I heard it went full TDS and so didn't even bother. It depresses me they brought a classic, finished show back only to leave it ultimately unfinished, but let's be honest... The X-Files was long in the tooth and a total narrative mess when it ended the first time.

Wait, they brought it back and it lasted for a 2nd Season? Shows how disconnected I am from pop culture. Love to know what the TDS aspect of it was.

I almost added this to the Shipping thread, but I actually knew what the concept of shipping was in the 1990s, as I think it was one of the reasons the show started to suck. The shippers on Usenet wanted Mulder and Scully together, and that coupled with the lack of direction of the 'conspiracy' plotline, made the show go really bad in the last few seasons. If he had to do it all over again, I'd hope Chris Carter could have written the show to have partners that there was no possible way they could be an item - ie maybe one partner is married or there is too big of an age gap - because it absolutely was a gay distraction.

And it occurred to me that the were the real reason I liked the show in the first place were the monster of the week episodes themselves - a loosely connected set of short stories, rather than an ongoing arc. I didn't mind the conspiracy if it were more in the background, but as we know now it went absolutely nowhere, in repeat viewings I pretend those episodes never happened and just watch Monster of the Week eps.

 

[AtheistWestonChandler]

Gave up on South Park back in 2012.
Repeating only one joke throughout an episode.
Saw a season 1 and a recent episode in the same day and was shocked at the difference

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

One Piece. I first watched 4Kids and their "take" on it, which I didn't care for. When I got a little older, I found out about Funimation's dub and tried watching that. It's been about 15 or so years since I first found out about this series, and I still haven't made it past the Skypeia arc.

Every so often, I'll check summaries on Wikipedia or other sites to see if I can get a brief understanding of what's happened so far, only to find somewhere between 5-10 names I don't recognize.

I don't know whether to say I find its longevity impressive or not. I'm sure it hasn't gone down the crapper like The Simpsons, but how much longer can they keep it going?

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Gave up on South Park back in 2012.
Repeating only one joke throughout an episode.
Saw a season 1 and a recent episode in the same day and was shocked at the difference

South Park had long since become a parody of itself, just like The Simpsons.
And, just like the Simpsons, it had long since become a cash cow for its creators instead of a true "creative venture".

 

[AtheistWestonChandler]

I think The Simpsons recovered from its shit phase years ago and never found it laugh out loud funny to begin with.
What I don't get is that people who think I'm an idiot for liking a Simpsons episode that's funnier than the classics will then praise a South Park episode with no jokes in it

 

[Gar For Archer]

One Piece. I first watched 4Kids and their "take" on it, which I didn't care for. When I got a little older, I found out about Funimation's dub and tried watching that. It's been about 15 or so years since I first found out about this series, and I still haven't made it past the Skypeia arc.

Every so often, I'll check summaries on Wikipedia or other sites to see if I can get a brief understanding of what's happened so far, only to find somewhere between 5-10 names I don't recognize.

I don't know whether to say I find its longevity impressive or not. I'm sure it hasn't gone down the crapper like The Simpsons, but how much longer can they keep it going?

Skypiea is where I dipped out of the anime as well. Since then I’ve tried reading the manga but just never got that far into it. Not that it’s bad or anything, just that it’s hard to sit down and commit to something that fucking long when you know it won’t be finished for at least another 5-10 years (which is Oda’s current projection for when he thinks it’ll end).

 

[Shining Wit]

Brooklyn 99. Not completely gone, but Holt's character deteriorating into basically a gay black Jake is disappointing

 

[AnOminous]

The shippers on Usenet wanted Mulder and Scully together, and that coupled with the lack of direction of the 'conspiracy' plotline, made the show go really bad in the last few seasons.

I stopped watching shortly before that, but it had already started to suck before then. That was definitely the final nail in the coffin, though. There was obviously unresolved sexual tension between the two at the core of the show and actually resolving it left it nowhere to go.

 

[frozenrunner]

Wait, they brought it back and it lasted for a 2nd Season? Shows how disconnected I am from pop culture. Love to know what the TDS aspect of it was.

It's kind of interesting... I didn't see much television during the Obama administration that would dare criticise him or his people, but occasionally you would get some narrative pushback against some of his policies (without naming him directly). (The first season of Berlin Station was one example. TDS ruined the show in subsequent seasons.) I remember the first revival season of The X-Files did something like that in some of its (horribly convoluted and messy) conspiracy bookender episodes. I appreciated that.

But that was at the tail end of his administration, so the second season was written/aired during the Trump years. And I wasn't about to listen to more TDS from Hollywood repeatedly calling Trump out by name when I saw how soft they were on Chocolate Jesus and his various "no drama" scandals.

And it occurred to me that the were the real reason I liked the show in the first place were the monster of the week episodes themselves - a loosely connected set of short stories, rather than an ongoing arc. I didn't mind the conspiracy if it were more in the background, but as we know now it went absolutely nowhere, in repeat viewings I pretend those episodes never happened and just watch Monster of the Week eps.

Agreed. The conspiracy stuff was great in the first season, but a few seasons went by and they were talking about black oil, metallic supersoldiers, extraterrestrial experimentation, the Cigarette-Smoking Man who just won't die, and oh by the way Mulder's sister was actually killed by a serial killer and he just imagined it was a UFO grabbing her, wow. It was a total mess and I couldn't pretend to care even back then.

The revival was no better in that regard. I don't know how Gillian Anderson was able to say "alien/human hybrids" over and over with a straight face. Oh, and the C.S.M. is still somehow alive.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Family Guy. I feel like a bit of a hipster because when it first came out, I really enjoyed it while everyone else was calling it a Simpsons clone. Then sometime around season 4, the rot started setting in. Now I can barely stand it.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Family Guy was funny enough for the first couple of seasons after it came back; I don't really have an exact episode/season when I started to hate it, but I stopped watching it because it got hyper left-wing political. We always knew Seth was a lib, but it got insane a few years after the revival. Insane and unfunny.

I haven't dared to watch it in many years, but I've heard the Simpsons is in Family Guy territory politically now.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Family Guy was funny enough for the first couple of seasons after it came back; I don't really have an exact episode/season when I started to hate it, but I stopped watching it because it got hyper left-wing political. We always knew Seth was a lib, but it got insane a few years after the revival. Insane and unfunny.

I haven't dared to watch it in many years, but I've heard the Simpsons is in Family Guy territory politically now.

Oh no, Simpsons is much worse than Family Guy politics wise these days. Can’t think of a Family Guy episode where they just stop to say how awesome sjws are and the only people who criticize them are evil alt-right trolls. Simpsons did exactly that not too long ago. Seth is a lib but I think he’s taken a few jabs at sjws in Family Guy here and there

 

[Ruin]

American Dad is the superior animated sitcom. Probably because McFarlene abandoned it and has nothing to do with the writing.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

Not me, but my mom said today that she's basically done with The Bachelor because of all the SJW stuff that has entered the show ever since the first black bachelor debuted. Granted, she constantly complained about how boring and redundant the show has gone over the years (I've always found it boring and redundant as fuck). But the race related controversy was the final nail in the coffin for her. It couldn't be a guilty pleasure for her anymore. She's one of those people that will basically commit to a show even if it annoys her (she just wants Grey's Anatomy to end, yet keeps watching it) so that's saying something.

 

[John Titor]

Simpsons in the sense that I'll watch the episodes if I'm feeling bored. Recently the woke bullshit where they recasted everyone to have the "proper race" reinforces the fact that they became the very thing they mocked. I'll still check in once in a while but it's no longer a priority for me.

Family Guy: I don't know when it happened but their humor has become "Here's joke x. I'm now going to explain to you why x is funny".

Heroes, I loved the first season but the show just got progressively shittier, sadly I watched it whole I wish I had dropped it after season 1

The Flash: I actually liked seasons 1 and 2, Grant Gustin is really likeable imo, but Iris' character is cringy as hell, Season 3 felt bad but I watched it, I dropped the show mid season 4 it just became unbearable.

Arrow: I liked Season 1, Season 2 started going bad and Felicity ruined the show for me, she went from a semi-likeable quirky character to fucking annoying bitch in very short time.

RWBY: This show was a guilty pleasure of mine, the show is bad and cringy but for me it was a "so bad its good" kind of deal, but I feel the show jumped the shark around Volume 5 (I think?), I dropped the show when they wrote off Blake's male love interest, just to ship her with Yang.

X-Files: I really liked this show but Season 9 it feels like the where running out of ideas, and that original series finale was unsatisfying, then the film that came out in 2008 was really underwhelming, I didn't even bother with the revival

The first season of the revival was actually pretty great outside of the convoluted, weird, and rushed wraparound/alien mythology stuff. The comedy episode was awesome, and the "monster of the week" episodes were nice.

Didn't see the second season. I heard it went full TDS and so didn't even bother. It depresses me they brought a classic, finished show back only to leave it ultimately unfinished, but let's be honest... The X-Files was long in the tooth and a total narrative mess when it ended the first time.

I always found the monster of the week episodes far better than the mythology arc ones. The best episodes were also the ones by James Wong, Glen Morgan and Vince Gilligan and appropriately my least favorite episodes tend to be by Chris Carter.

 

[Petronella]

Westworld - Season 1 was some of the best television I've ever seen. Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris were fantastic. It had some great writing and brought up some thought provoking concepts without being too preachy. Then season 2 came along like a wet fart. I haven't even attempted watching season 3. (IIRC the showrunners even admitted on Reddit that, after the fans figured out a lot of the twists from S1, they deliberately tried to make S2 a clusterfuck because "muh subverting expectations.")

Law and Order: SVU - Boring, preachy, forced. Law and Order has never made any secret of the fact that their episodes are often inspired by real events, but now they're so lazy and have so little faith in their audience that they just straight up state in the episode what case they're ripping off. (As an example, a couple seasons ago they had an episode about a large, super-religious family who had a reality show based on their having tons of kids. One of the officers flat out made a comment like "Man, these guys are even weirder than the Duggars!") Poor acting. Reused storylines. (I understand that at one point Kelli Giddish was pregnant in real life, but they really did two storylines about Rollins being knocked up within months of each other. Mariska Hargitay has been pregnant before and they didn't work that into the show, I don't get why they felt the need to give Rollins Irish twins.) They try to do episodes on relevant topics but do minimal research, so it just becomes laughable. Their Gamergate episode was so embarrassing that it undid any thought provoking message they could have made about the issue.

Doctor Who - I've been feeling meh about this show for a long time, but I tried to stick it out. Just can't do it. Already back halfway through the Martha era I was getting sick of every companion having to be a beautiful woman who falls in love with the Doctor. Rory and Amy were annoying and fell into one of my most-disliked tropes, the idea of empowering a female character by making all the men in her life weak-willed and stupid. Hated River Song. Clara was one of the worst Mary Sues I've ever seen. After that I found the companions very forgettable. I actually really liked Jodie Whittaker and felt she did the best job she could with the lackluster material she was given, but the "fam" really grated on my nerves. I had to give up after the whole Timeless Child bullshit. Though I will say I really liked Missy, probably one of the best characters on the show in a long while.

Orange is the New Black - This show just feels like it fell apart to me. It really feels like the showrunners were making it up as it went along after a certain point. Really bad tone issues; the earlier seasons felt very cartoony at times, almost to the point of feeling like a show about a summer camp or something, and then out of nowhere you'd get a moment like Maritza being forced to eat a live mouse. At times it tried going so woke that it looped back around and felt really fucking racist. Way too much focus on all the relationship drama with Piper and Alex. Messaging that I found, for lack of a better word, problematic. No real ending, it just kind of fizzled out with so many loose threads left dangling.

 

[Realistic]

Westworld - Season 1 was some of the best television I've ever seen. Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris were fantastic. It had some great writing and brought up some thought provoking concepts without being too preachy. Then season 2 came along like a wet fart. I haven't even attempted watching season 3. (IIRC the showrunners even admitted on Reddit that, after the fans figured out a lot of the twists from S1, they deliberately tried to make S2 a clusterfuck because "muh subverting expectations.")

Season 2 did suck (did like the idea of the park collapsing before everybody's eyes but not the execution) but Season 3 made up for it in strides.

It reimagined the premise of the show and made it into a "badass destroying somebodies society and starting a revolution in the process.".

If you watched it to theorize about what would happen next, you'd be disappointed because the plot contained a lot of red herrings but if you binge watch it as intended, you will enjoy it.