I ws getting ready to dump it anyway, because it wasn’t observation, it was magic.
Anyway, the last episode dealt with Red John the serial killer. They set a trap in a basement, using The Mentalist as bait. The bad guy reveals himself and the cop sneaks up behind him and gets the drop on him…BUT DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO CUFF HIM.
Naturally, the lights go out and there is a struggle. Which wouldn’t have been nessassary if she had cuffed him, as was her DAMN JOB!!!
Later, the have him in a stretcher outside. He is laying down with hands cuffed in front of him. IN FRONT OF HIM!!! Not cuffed to the railing of the stretcher, but both hands sitting right in front of him. Of course, he looks like he is unconscious but he (the suspect is the sherrif) reaches into his pocket for his cuff key and unlocks himself and grabbs the gun of another officer. Nobody searched him?? They didn’t think "Hey, maybe he has his cuff key?!?
Smallville began as a fresh and fun take on the origins of Superman, and even more interestingly, the evolution of Lex Luthor as super-villain. And for the most part, I also enjoyed the “freak-of-the-week” episodes in the early seasons. It lost me a couple years back when it became more about Kryptonian mythology than about the characters.
I gave up on Heroes about a third of the way through the past season, after the plane crashed and everybody was stranded in the desert, or something. I could no longer keep track of who was good or bad, or why anybody was doing what they were doing, and realized I no longer cared enough to make the effort to find out.
It’s totally worth it. That moment is the climax of the show, everything else is the resolution. That show ended better than just about any show that’s been on the air.
Lem was their moral anchor without him everything went absolutely to shit, and the characters reap what they have sown.
Agreed. That was the sort of things that made me begin to hate Lost, of course I never stopped watching, but I guess I learned to love to hate it after a while. But actually the lack of direction was from the outset. Jack was supposed to die in the pilot and Ben was never meant to be a pivotal character.
What the heck was the Governor’s butler doing going undercover to find a rapist?
I quit watching ER a few weeks before Ramano was killed. I decided that I no longer cared enough about the remaining characters to bother staying up that late.
Ditto, exactly when I quit watching. I didn’t like her character when she first started but was gaining on me then they whacked her, that was the end. Never watched it again. And I had seen everyone up to that point.
Benson was never the governor’s butler. He was Jessica Tate’s* butler. On his own show he was head of household affairs for the governor’s mansion**, then budget director, then lieutenant governor, then–well, we’ll never know for sure.
Apropos of nothing: Did anyone else think that, during Benson’s early years, the governor’s secretary Marcy desperately wanted to do him, probably did so discreetly but loudly and without ever talking about it afterwards, and was only prevented from being over about it by it being 70s?
*Yes, Jessica’s butler, not the Tates’ in general. You think he ever did anything that anyone else told him to? Contrariwise, you think he would ever have denied Jessica a damn thing she wanted?
**The difference between the two is that, as head of household affair, he had hiring and ifring authority, did not have to wear a bow tie, and probably was sexing up the governor’s secretary when no one was looking.
When I was in charge of putting some middle-school kids on the schoolbus in the morning, we’d watch Pokemon. I developed an alarming crush on James (Team Rocket) . I stopped watching when I realized James and Jesse were too damned stupid to realize trying to capture Pikachu in EVERY stupid episode was useless!!!
I watched Eastenders a zillion years ago. It was like what I imagine crack is, only really boring. (Had to stop watching when Dot’s dog died, and I got all teared up. Boring and tearjerking! ) There had to be better ways to spend my time!..Years pass, now I’m watching again - unsurprisingly, nothing has changed. :smack: Every bleached blond female in a 50 mile radius of the Vic is still swooning over that pig, Phil. So I may stop watching again.
I stopped watching The Sopranos when Chris and Paulie killed the waiter who complained about his tip. I wasn’t outraged or anything, I just realized I’d hit my mob violence saturation point and didn’t really care what happened to any of the characters anymore.
NewsRadio - stopped after Phil Hartman’s murder and the first couple of eps after the fifth season premiered. It was just too painful. In a way I guess I should’ve watched just to support the cast and crew, but I couldn’t stomach it.
Red Dwarf - this one I never watched “live” since I’m in the U.S., but I’ve purposely never seen the seventh or eighth series. I’ve heard that the show goes into a massive decline afterwards (some of the plot directions just baffle me – the premise of the 8th series totally betrays the whole theme of the show) so I don’t want to see the rest and get a bad taste in my mouth.
I stopped watching Friends when, after Ross “made the list”, and Rachel objected, he cried. Maybe I identified with him too much, but that was too far, I just didn’t care about the story anymore.
It’s kinda hard to remember why I stopped watching some shows 'tho-- I’ve been seeing reruns of Malcom in the Middle, great stuff, why did I stop watching? Just not enough time, I guess. I remember watching several Voyager episodes, after Jeri Ryan dipped in latex became focal point, but eventually I got bored long before the finale … but what was the episode that I just couldn’t stand to watch? No clue.
I stopped my Carnivale binge when I realized the Brother Justin storyline wasn’t going to go where I wanted it to go during the second season. I still have the DVDs and I love the first season TO DEATH, so I’m sure I’ll come back to it some day. But, man! Every time I think about what could have been, especially in regard to Iris, I want to punch HBO in the face.
I quit Heroes after the first episode of the third season, when Sylar was stalking Claire through her house and a) couldn’t be bothered to kick through the flimsy closet door she was hiding behind and b) implied that the coming season would be All About Claire. Ugh and ugh.
I quit Supernatural sometime early in season 3 when the godawful writing finally broke me. I realized what I had loved about the show was probably all in my head, anyway, as each episode disappointed me more and more.
I can’t remember when, season-wise, I dropped House, but I did it because it caused my anxiety problems to flare up. Watching a seemingly healthy person nearly drop dead from sudden illness every week was getting to me. The final straw was the actual panic attack I had while watching the show two Novembers ago (I was under a lot of stress at the time, so it’s not entirely the show’s fault, but it didn’t help any).
I quit watching Sportsnight after the episode where the lady sportscaster kept talking about how she lost her panties and she wouldn’t stop saying “panties.” She must’ve said the word “panties” 100 times in the episode. I frikkin’ HATE the word PANTIES! That’s not funny - that’s just gross.
I also quit watching ER after everything started to be constant misery - the helicopters falling on people, etc… and didn’t someone come shoot Dr. Green or stab him or something? I forget. Probably both. Everyone had it in for Green. I vaguely remember someone getting trapped in a flooding viaduct - Clooney? That’s going back a ways, but I haven’t watched it in a while - I gave up on it pretty early.
I loved Ed, but it was a one-season premise stretched out to four seasons. I stopped watching part way into the second because it just wasn’t working for me anymore.
If Scrubs came back next year, I probably wouldn’t make any great effort to see it. This eighth season has been a little painful. Elliott should have married Keith, or Sean, or any of her ex boyfriends who weren’t JD, who has turned from being a slightly self-centered good guy to being an utterly self-absorbed knob.
I’m not quite there yet, but on a recent episode of CSI-New York where a man gets sent to prison for killing a bicycle rider with his car. I won’t go into the plot except to say I almost turned off the television when a “professional” hit man reported to the NYPD that he was given a contract to kill a woman, and he had a strict “no women or children” policy. :rolleyes: What I found most unbelievable about this was he had such a code of honor about the entire thing that not only did he refuse the work, but he felt compelled to report it to the police. Yeah, that’s going to happen… a professional assassin is going to volunteer the info that he’s a pro, only to alert the police that his customer is doing something ‘bad’ by hiring an assassin to kill a woman.
. I stopped watching when I realized James and Jesse were too damned stupid to realize trying to capture Pikachu in EVERY stupid episode was useless!!!