Likewise. Though last week’s episode rekindled a bit of fire, as did the one before that. If it can recover its momentum, it might keep me as a viewer next season.
The West Wing. I’m not really sure why either.
Few shows have disappointed me as much as CSI this season. It used to be an absolute must-see for me. But the episode with the guy who wanted to be treated like a baby was the last straw for me. There was no point to the story but to shock the viewer.
Ed
I tried after Aaron Sorkin left, but the snappy writing was gone. I gave up after Leo returned and tried to spell out what they should do for the last 1000 days or something. I rolled my eyes, thought, “And what were you doing for all they days prior to that?” and freed up 9pm on Wed.
I’m still giving Joan a chance. I hope CBS renews it. It has such wonderful potential.
I gave up on 24 halfway through last season and haven’t been back.
… Are you s***ting me? In a show where a character dies weekly and comes back, fire shoots out of a fat kids ass, playing a japanese card game turns you ‘japanese’, etc. etc. … You harp about them not being factual about sex changes?
Whoah. Free to be you and me and all… but … Whoah.
I cooled on ‘Desperate Housewives’ but caught this weeks episode and really liked it.
It’s funny to me that Bree the anal retentive one with impossible standards is actually the most likable one.
Smallville. To be fair, they’re at least trying the whole arc thing this season (with a little oomph, that is), but the episodes are just too silly. Not even fun campy; when they got to their “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” episode, I gave up.
Ditto for me.
Same here. I don’t really understand why I started watching it the first season – probably was on as background noise while I was working, and it got interesting. Now, I could care less if an avalanche buried the entire town. Though I might watch that.
CSI Miami - how many times can we see Horatio standing sideways looking at the camera, then take off the sunglasses? Still TiVo by habit but usually delete.
West Wing - completely lost interest last season.
24 - tried to start watching because it’s one of my daughter’s favorite shows, but after three episodes it was just too stupid.
Appointment TV for me is pretty much Deadwood, Carnivale, Daily Show, House, and Countdown with Keith Olberman.
Wait a minute, let me make sure I understand you. You’re complaining that South Park, the cartoon show where one of the characters dies every week and is just back the next week, the show that has Saddam Hussein in a homosexual relationship with the devil, the show where little kids visit secret military installations and advise the generals, you’re saying that that show is . . . too unrealistic because it cut some corners in its portrayal of sex change issues???
To the folks compaling that we are too hard on South Park: please go back and search for that other thread (“South Park” was in the title), so we don’t have to rehash the whole thing here.
And yes, I am complaining about them: hate speech is hate speech, and this was as bad as anything the Christian right or the KKK have said about the subject, cartoon show or not.
Check out http://twit.tv then.
I gave up on Alias when UK’s SEC schedule started, since they play on Wednesdays. It wasn’t holding my attention like it used to anyway. I think it’s almost time to let it go.
The Screen Savers - Went from sometimes great to always pointless.
Joan of Arcadia - Just didn’t care what happened anymore.
Alias - Crossed the line from barely interesting to… not interesting.
Six Feet Under - I think that was this year. Too slow and depressing, so that I never really wanted to sit down and watch it. So one day I just deleted all the old episodes off my Tivo and was happier.
I suppose I’ll try and get the DVR to catch Lost (although I haven’t been too good at that lately - my DVR got the hiccups at the time change, and it still hasn’t been completely fixed), but I’m sick of the reruns and gaps. I have given up on Desperate Housewives for the same reason: if ABC can’t get it together to show a new episode once a week, I can’t be bothered. I’m also pretty tired of the media saturation of these five women - I’m sick of seeing them together everywhere.
I’ve only seen one episode of this because I was on the road for work and the guy I was with usually watches it.
The episode in question was the one with Mixilplik (I know it’s not spelled correctly). Things happen, blah blah evil guy, blah blah. Gonna kill girl if Clark doesn’t throw the game blah blah.
Clark does something super (in this case moving so fast he can do a whole bunch of stuff without anyone even noticing even though he’s being watched by a stadium full of football fans) and saves the day. Ta-da!
Now, because Babylon5 was on right after Lois and Clark on TNT I would generally catch the last 5 minutes of Lois and Clark.
It seemed to me like every episode ended the EXACT SAME WAY. Bad guys being bad until Clark decides to do something super (or, occasionally, super-duper) and blammo, problem solved.
I’ve got to ask…is every episode like that? Cuz that seems kind of crappy and stupid.
-Joe
Actually, most episodes of Smallville go like this: Some evil or semi-evil person or entity uses magic or some device or just by accident gains the ability to inhabit and take over the body of anyone. They take over one of Clark’s friends or parents. Clark notices that his friend/parent is not acting like themselves but, even after this has happened twenty times already, just shrugs it off, idly wondering what’s wrong but doing nothing and not really getting suspicious. The person being inhabited gets weirder and weirder as the show goes on, doing more and more outrageous acts, until finally Clark’s dim bulb of a brain catches on (although it’s usually that Chloe is the one that figures it out and tells Clark). Then Clark does something super and forces the bad entity to leave the friend’s or parent’s body.
Minor variations include:
The evil entity can move at will from body to body, thus making Clark’s confusion all the more understandable.
When confronted, the evil entity tries to inhabit Clark. This either fails because he’s super, or it succeeds and requires some other friend or parent to force the entity out using kryptonite.
But you’re right that, even when it’s not the above formula, it’s that “Weird or bad things happen for fifty minutes until Clark catches on and does something super to stop it” formula.
And there’s the standard sub-formula where Clark starts to get close to Lana or Chloe, only to have to run away and leave her hanging in order to save the day, then can’t explain it, making Lana/Chloe all pissy at how he’s so secretive.
I’ve thought from the beginning, and still do, that Lex Luthor is the most interesting character on that show. The actor is excellent, and the character is being well-portrayed as not wholly evil, not angelic good (like Clark), but basically operating by his own rules and being slowly pulled by circumstances toward the evil side. Give him his own show and get rid of everyone else.
I gave up on “Jack and Bobby,” (blech) “Boston Legal,” and “Las Vegas.” LV was insanely silly and good for a laugh. Then they decided that they wanted to turn it into a crime drama and it was just awful. Haven’t seen it in a long time but it’s not long enough.
We watched a few episodes of “Without a Trace.” It’s good and yet I didn’t want to watch it. Weird.
The West Wing. I started taping it when Alias moved into the same time slot, then never watched the taped episodes. I’ve found I don’t miss it at all. (Oddly enough, I’m now four episodes behind on Alias.)
Joan of Arcadia. I liked it at first, but I lost interest after the first season.
Desperate Housewives. The first time I saw this show was when I visited my parents for Thanksgiving – mom’s a huge fan. I couldn’t get into it, though.