# Characters introduced in the middle of a series that ruined the series for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737 "2021-06-07T03:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737/61 "2021-06-12T08:29:23Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The opposite of this would be when a character improves a show, like when Fred joined Angel at the end of season 2. Amy Acker has a flair for that. She did the same thing on _Person of Interest_ (as did Sharah Shahi). > [@Dark\_Sponge](#): > > Most of the cast of Lost. It was one of my favorite shows until they introduced so many new characters. I quickly stopped caring about all of them. Some of them, yes, but are you really saying that Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchel and Ken Leung shouldn’t have been on the show? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737/62 "2021-06-12T13:21:51Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchel and Ken Leung Okay, three great new cast members out of, what, thirty-seven? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737/63 "2021-06-12T14:32:03Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Agreed, but the later addition of Noranti to was another error that weakened the series. And don’t get me wrong, I love Farscape, but watching the some of the later seasons with either of those characters makes me wince. I find Sikozu irritating, but she’s _slightly_ more interesting that either of the two previously mentioned one note hacks. Ditching Jool and adding Sikozu was a great move and I think a good course correction. I liked Sikouzu quite a bit. I find myself oddly entertained by Noranti as well. [Noranti’s dance here is amazing.](https://youtu.be/FNUjJbGV_UY?t=267) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737/64 "2021-06-12T15:01:21Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > didn’t Galactica leave earth because it had some sort of communist dictatorship as a “world government?” I think you’re crossing two episodes. In Galactica 1978 they came across a planet named “Terra” that was a fascist nazi analog, and looked and acted just like Earth where the Nazis won WWII, but that wasn’t the shining planet known as Earth. In Galactica 1980 they found Earth in 1980\* (and coincidentally it looked just like real 1980 Earth) in the first episode, but they bravely ran away because if they stayed, the Cylons would find them and destroy Earth. (And tell me, Adama, what would happen if the Cylons found Earth and you weren’t there?) They even had a “simulation” of Earth being devastated by Cylons, that must have burned their entire series budget. \*In the very last episode, Apollo and Starbuck found this old old communications room in the Galactica that everyone forgot about. They were listening to random noise, and figured they weren’t going to hear anything useful, so they left. And the very last scene was the radio picking up the Apollo (heh heh) 11 broadcast. Do the math: if the Galactica 1980 was what? 20 years after the original series, and they arrived on Earth in 1980, how exactly did they pick up a signal that was at minimum ten years in their future, hundreds of light-yarhens away? Must be the Ship of Light people doing magik. Yeah, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737/65 "2021-06-12T17:57:42Z")
Well, they did kill off Nikki and Paolo, so there’s that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-introduced-in-the-middle-of-a-series-that-ruined-the-series-for-you/943737.md?page=3)