The reasons are many, but there are times when you just can’t go on with a TV, book, or movie series, or your once-favored comic strip, website, or band stops delighting you.
What have you abandoned recently?
For me:
TV:
“Desperate Housewives”–I still enjoy the show, but we had a TiVo glitch and missed an episode and just haven’t felt like tracking it down
“Terminator: Sarah Connor”–same deal, really. Too many shows on at that time and not enough excitement to follow online
Movies:
“Quantum of Solace”–I’ve seen every Bond movie, but I just can’t get enthused. Maybe it’s the title.
Books:
I know I had a series in mind when I started typing, but now it’s missing!
Websites:
DailyKos–I don’t think I’ve read it since the election. Maybe after the inauguration.
Tv: Sarah Conner Chronicles: The first season had one or two high points and the rest was plot holes and bad dialogue.
Books: **The Wheel Of Time **Series: Each book exponentially worse after the 2nd. Didn’t make it halfway through the 5th book and will never go back. I blame Rasa.
Music:** Fleet Foxes**: The most wonderfully boring album I have ever heard. I gave the album a million chances, and it nearly put me to sleep every time.
**Pink Floyd**: The second most overrated band of all time (2nd only to The Greatful Dead). If I never hear another Floyd song for the rest of my life I will still have suffered too much.
**Atmosphere**: Say something new please. Apparently you can keep making the same album fifteen times and people will still consider you "fresh".
**Kings Of Leon**: should be obvious to anyone who has ever heard any music from the seventies. They are doing nothing new or fresh at all and still get heaped with praise. I tried.
I’m pretty close to completely done with TV series. After the disappointments of Deadwood, Dexter, and Six Feet Under, during which it occurred to that it shouldn’t take 13 hours to tell a story–and if it does, it better be a pretty great fucking story–I’m not gonna be investing that kind of time anymore. I’ll finish BSG, and I may check out next year’s Mad Men, but otherwise there’s a fork in me in re: TV series.
We watched the first two seasons (or was it season-and-a-half) of Heroes, and were waiting expectantly for the latest installments. We were bust the day the new season premiered, and never have gone back to watch it. I think we have all the episodes on the DVR, but we just never seem to get around to it…
We’ll probably end up getting it from NetFlix after we finish with NCIS, Scrubs, Bones, The Wire, Dead Like Me…and maybe a movie or two in there as well…
TV: Californication. I liked the first series a lot, I related to the main character, and enjoyed watching it. Now it seems like even more blatant wish-fufilment by David Duchovny and I just can’t get into it, so I’m not watching.
Movies: I’m avoiding Australia like the plague. People don’t seem to understand that just because it’s set in the late 1930s/early 1940s doesn’t mean I’m going to watch it. Especially if there’s a romance or a PC-obligatory Aboriginal kid involved.
Websites: Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I used to rather enjoy it, but then it got all serious and Deep & Meaningful, and now it’s veered off on a tangent about the main character as a Space Archaeologist. The Colonel needs to step in and announce “STOP THAT! IT’s SILLY!”, IMHO.
Failblog: The comments have nothing to do with the pictures, which is irritating because often I’d like to hear the stories behind the photos people have posted, and instead it’s 300 comments about nothing to do with the pictures.
TV Shows: Heroes. I finally bit the bullet and stopped watching entirely.
Comics: Runaways and eXiles. From what little I’ve seen, the new artist for Runaways is abysmal, and eXiles has dropped most of the original team. I’ve stopped reading Naruto, too, since I never cared much for the main characters anyway, and Kishimoto hadn’t been paying any attention to the characters I did like.
TV: Heroes, Lost, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, and unless the new season of Damages is told in a linear fashion, I won’t watch that either.
Books: I might finish the Malazan series but it’s not looking good. Too epic, too wide a scope, too many characters, too many pages between initiating events and their resolution. I’ve probably spent $300 on these books, so this hurts.
I recently gave up on reading daily Dilberts online. It’s been kind of stale for years now, but I kept reading it out of habit, until the web host switched to some crazy Flash format that isn’t compatible with my office browser. I could still get it, but it’s not worth the trouble.
I used to watch Sons of Anarchy every week, but real life got in the way. Nothing bad about the show, actually, but starting with the elections, the real world suddenly got a helluva lot more interesting than anything a TV scriptwriter could think up.
On that note, I haven’t been lurking around Free Republic lately. I used to go for the fireworks, and once Obama got elected, hoooo-boy, was there a show. All rules and decorum went out the window, and it was a free-for-all. It was like the ultimate fireworks show, one where you can sit at the beach and watch fireworks, lightening, and a waterspout at the same time . . . with a few charred corpses flying through the air thrown in for good measure. The fireworks show is done now, and I think I’ve seen everything there is to see there. I don’t think anything on that board is going to be as interesting as the first two weeks of November ever again.
And–sigh–you guys. I like the SDMB, but after the meltdown on FR, just watching every single topic get pounded into baby food from 50 different angles here has just gotten kind of vanilla. Even the weirdoes on this board are starting to get all normal and reasonable-like. Plus, the real world is starting to pick up. My job situation is entering critical meltdown, I’m applying to new jobs and grad schools, and now that I have my passport, going to Korea to teach English is a distinct possibility. I still want to post and read, but real life is actually starting to be a place I want to hang out in.
Don DeLillo’s Falling Man was brilliant for the first four pages, then pretty good for about a hundred, then unbearable. It’s still bookmarked on the nightstand but I don’t really think I can keep going.
Twilight Couldn’t finish the book. I stalled from a strong lack of caring about a quarter of the way in. The movie, IMHO, could be a MST3K festival.
TV: I’ve never watched Heroes, 24, or anything else of that vein. No interest.
I haven’t watched ER since 1998. ( My son was born and my sleep was more important. I was suprised to still see it on TV.)
Ugly Betty, I liked the first season, liked the second season even better, but I’ve watched just one episode this season. I keep reading the UB threads though.
Also South Park – I owned several DVDs but haven’t watched regularly for a couple of years. Ditto Family Guy and King of the Hill.
I was reading A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage, but got stalled around the chapter on wine a couple weeks ago, what with the Princess’ birthday party, and then she and I took turns getting sick, and then Thanksgiving rolling around. I might pick it up once I’m done wading through the back issues of Vogue and Vanity Fair I have piled in my room.
Also, I was working on an AMV, but seem to have abandoned it as of late. If I ever finish it I’ll let you guys know.
