I stopped watching The Office when the printer scandal thing went on. Haven’t seen an episode since then. Not sure why them getting sold off to a printer company killed it for me, but it’s a trivial change and I just lost interest. I was a HUGE The Office fan before that though.
I am starting to lose interest in Doctor Who, because it is becoming more and more of a Soap Opera, and less of individual episodic-like content. When they first revamped and brought back the series, there were clever little hints, and words, and characters spread throughout each season, and in the final episode of each season, it would all come together and you were like WOW THAT WAS REALLY CLEVER WRITING! Now it’s just one open mystery after another, one unanswered question after another, and it’s getting on my nerves. I hope they cut it out or I might not last another season.
I finally made it through the entire series, but the first time I tried 6FU I stopped watching because I hated… Billy… SO… MUCH!!!
The second time, I was willing to just blow through the Billy parts so I could make it to Season 2. Good thing I did as he was toned down quite a bit. When he started a relationship with another character and stopped (again) taking his meds in S3 or S4, I made liberal use of the Fast-Forward button during his scenes.
Oddly enough, I made it through the final seasons because of another character - the little girl, Myra, who I thought was one of the prettiest (and most silent!) babies I’ve ever seen on TV.
Eventually I was like “Jesus H. Christ, Nate, just grow the fuck up and allow yourself to be happy, ya dipshit!” But that’s another thread…
I think you misinterpreted that scene. It wasn’t that this killer had the same “power”(if you can call it that.) It’s that he was saying they both see the world differently from everyone else, AKA they are both crazy.
The All-Star seasons made up entirely of returning contestants are some of the best, but I agree, mixing a couple returnees with new contestants was terrible. Interesting to see how it changes the “meta” of the game (compare to this season), but ultimately it’s not that good because it’s too easy for the returnees to run everything. As a Rob fan, I was happy to see him finally win, but as a Survivor fan, the whole season felt like a bit of a setup.
I used to watch Farscape religiously, but by the time they had gone into the third main villain and second “Zhan replacement” character, I just couldn’t hang in there anymore. I also couldn’t tolerate the whole “have their cake and eat it too” crap with the two Crichtons. I want to finish the series, I have it sitting on my DVD shelf, but I…just…can’t.
There are straight lines, and then there are straight lines. I just can’t bring myself to pull the trigger on this one…
Willow’s turning gay (season 4), and evil (Season 6, temporarily), were separate and unrelated events.
Me, I quit watching ER shortly before Romano lost his arm. One episode before, in fact. I just decided I didn’t care enough about the show any more to make it worth stayin up for.
The addition of Kristen Schaal as “Hazel” is driving me away from 30 Rock.
It seems that the whole entertainment industry has falling in like with Kristen Schaal over the last year, so it’s no surprise that 30 Rock jumped on the bandwagon and hired her. But her style is an acquired taste and on the show her character lacks any endearing qualities. Hopefully she we vanish like so many other supporting characters on that show.
I gained renewed interest when they dropped the helicopter on Romano’s head and killed him (I loathed the character and thought his manner of death was awesome, even though it jumped the shark). And then I lost it again when they introduced Sam Taggart and put her in a relationship with Luka. They couldn’t do anything with his character other than put him in the janitor’s closet with the nearest nurse to start off yet another rocky relationship as a sorry substitute for the perfect family he lost in the Balkan wars? Please. Then Noah Wyle left the show and I was completely done.
I dropped CSI (the original) after the episode about the man with the baby role-playing fetish. The show had been getting increasingly slimy and that was just it for me. Too creepy and disgusting. I haven’t watched an episode since.
Burn Notice after Jesse was introduced. Partly because he was supposed to be an alternate love-interest for Fiona (as if) but mainly because of the whole schtick about Michael having ‘burned’ him.
It doesn’t count as ‘burning’ someone if you take a very small action that you are completely unaware will lead to someone’s dismissal, and if the US govt is burning people just because someone used their computer once (what, they don’t have CCTV?) then the bad guys have an easy way to get rid of all spies without ever firing a bullet. Just a stupid, stupid plot, and they kept going on and on and on about it, even more than I do.
Morgan getting the intersect made me never watch Chuck again.
I have an odd one - the door bell on the old Bob Newhart show was just like my front door bell and my dog would go nuts as she was usually sleeping and was startled awake–she would bark from 5 mins nonstop.
When I was a teenager, I would never miss WWF Monday Night Raw. When the Attitude Era began and ratings and crowd sizes went through the roof, I tuned out. The wrestling was replaced with interviews and skits. I went full time to ECW after that.
I stopped watching Buffy because of all the high school shenanigans (see above: re gimmicks.)
I stopped BSG because of Starbuck, whom I couldn’t stand.
I watched every bit of X-Files, and didn’t mind Dogett (I do like Robert Patrick a lot) or Monica but I did mind the whole plotline with Baby William, and worse yet, Scully’s other daughter. Like many here, babies completely ruin the plot for me.
