I tried watching The Walking Dead at the beginning of the 8th season. First two episodes wente ok, but dawned on me that it was just a repeating cycle of suffering and frustation without end. Also, it also became clear that it could not have any possible end that wasn’t “it was all a dream” or “everyone dies” o “deus ex machina, hard”
This reminds me of Supernatural, and how you can only watch Dean and Sam lie to each other and then re-unite so many times before you realize the writers only know one storyline. I can’t remember the full story but I recall one episode where Sam’s lying led to them opening the mouth of hell, and as the ground rumbled and broke away beneath their feet, Sam looked at his brother and said, “I’m sorry.”
I’m sorry. I’m sorry I unleashed all of Satan’s creations onto the earth. My bad!
That show was great while it was great, but it certainly ran its course.
The finale of the first season of “The Killing” pissed me off so much that I have never watched another episode, and they went on to have 4 seasons. All the promos for that season kept touting how the mystery would be answered in the finale, and the case would be solved, and then we get to the last episode and “psych! Haha, nope! Screw you, this one case is now a multi-season arc!”
And seems I wasn’t alone on that. From Wikipedia:
The first-season finale was met with negative reviews from a number of critics. The Los Angeles Times called it “one of the most frustrating finales in TV history”,[36] with Alan Sepinwall of HitFix calling the end “insulting”.[37] Finally, Maureen Ryan of AOL TV said the season “killed off any interest I had in ever watching the show again.”[38] “[The show] began last spring looking like the smartest, most stylish pilot in years,” complained Heather Havrilevsky in The New York Times Magazine . “Fast-forward to the finale, in which we learn that what we’ve been watching is actually a 26-hour-long episode of Law & Order , and we’re only halfway through it.”
I was in the same camp; I watched the first season and then gave up on that show.
A&E’s the glades
Here was a smart show about a northern big city detective who took a job in Florida mostly redneck county after a divorce and it was perfect it had light moments a socially conscious vibe that didnt beat you over the head … and entertaining mysteries
And then they ruined it by giving him what a lot of people consider to be the one of worst written and acted characters in tv history for a love interest … and started bending the show around to make her fit in … I started reading online spoilers to avoid the gf centric episodes
And so many others did the same or dropped the show all together that it wasn’t renewed … even as it ended on a cliffhanger of "will she accept his wedding proposal or not ? " the consensus on the net said the only reason they’d watch it again is if she was killed so they could go back to the original show ,
I would say that what drives me nuts about Discovery isn’t the time travel, it’s how the main character keeps really, really, really fucking up and is still universally (multi-universally) adored. If I pretend that it isn’t really Star Trek, I can watch it while muttering at the tv.
Same thing with Skye / Daisy Johnson / Quake.
Last Man on Earth. One show and done.
The first reboot of the TV Series Star Trek (sorry, my mind is blank on the name): Early in the first episode the starship split in to two parts (the saucer detached and flew away from the rest). I thought “GIMMICK TO COVER UP POOR WRITING” and that was it.
Well, that was always a feature of Enterprises, including Kirk’s. It just didn’t get used too much.
Sorry you missed 7 mostly great seasons.
I soured on something… but it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the show. Please let me explain. I was in the middle of watching ep2 of “Sons of Liberty” when the whole window to Xfinity crashed. When I got it reloaded, suddenly STARS was charging extra money to the rest of the episode (as well as all the other episodes). I admit that pissed me off, but I figured it was a glitch and I let it go.
Recently I decided to catch up on ‘American Gods’. I had just binged watched 5-6 episodes of season 2 when again… BAM… the window crashed in the middle of an episode. When I reloaded it, suddenly ALL of the ‘American Gods’ episodes were PPV … including the one that I was in the middle of watching.
I’ll say again, this is not the show’s fault. I blame XFINITY.
That’s not a fair assessment at all. It was clearly a" GIMMICK TO PAD THE PREMIERE RUN TIME TO 2 HOURS."
I’ll bite: Which episode from the original Star Trek TV series had the Enterprise split apart? The closest thing to that which I can recall is the use of space shuttles such as the Galileo.
Saucer separation was never actually depicted in TOS. It was mentioned in dialogue as a potential emergency maneuver in “The Apple” (Season 2, Episode 5). Depicting it was apparently in an early draft of the script, but was discarded as too expensive to film. TNG had a bigger budget, and special effects technology had advanced a lot between the two series. I don’t think the saucer separation sequence was so much lazy writing as it was the producers showing off the improved budget and FX of the new series.
I did not know this. Interesting! (I’m sure I watched this episode, long ago, but don’t remember hearintg about the separation.)
I liked the first few episodes of the Netflix series Disenchantment by Matt Groening, but it rather quickly devolved into a hot mess. I tried watching the newest episodes, which just dropped last Friday, but yeesh. I gave up after the first one. Too bad, Groening, it had promise.
OK - Thanks.
I gave up half way through the second season. It was unfunny and unpleasant.
Not just “universally adored” - outright Messianic. Every episode it’s “Oh look - Michael has somehow saved the ship/Federation/known universe(s) again just by being who she is!”, usually after she’s done something incredibly shortsighted. Also a lot of dramatic earnest whispering is usually involved.
I’ve kept watching because I think the show has done a great job of developing all the other characters but the plots really suck most of the time. Funnily enough, I thought the thing they were going to reveal caused “The Burn” in S3 was really obvious and was almost looking forward to it…and then it turned out that I was wrong and the Federation was nearly destroyed by something stupid and pointless. In retrospect, I wished they’d gone with my idea - it would have made a much more interesting show. (And if someone cares and can remind me what the code for spoilers is, I’ll tell you what it was.)
Yeah, I’m not sure if Groening has pitched this properly. It doesn’t have to be “fantasy medieval Simpsons” but it can’t seem to decide how funny or serious it wants to be, which makes the funny parts less funny and the serious parts less serious.
Kirk orders Scotty to “Crack out of there with the main section if you have to!” when Vaal was pulling the ship into the atmosphere.
Saucer separation is mentioned in The Making of Star Trek (1968). It’s noted that the saucer “contains all elements necessary for independent operation.” (P. 171.)
Everything needed except for warp drive, that is. Which doesn’t make a lot of sense if you’re out in deep space. If you’re using the saucer as a lifeboat in an emergency, you’d better have someplace real, real close to head for. Otherwise, you’re gonna have a long wait for help to arrive.
The way they used it in TNG to get nonessential personnel (read: “children”) out of the way in a battle makes even less sense. Where the hell are they going to run to? What’s to stop the bad guys from hunting them down as they wallow through space at sublight speeds? Why the hell are children on board in the first place? The reason they did it twice and never again (until the final movie) was probably because the stupidity of the concept became clear to them when they saw it on screen.
That said, it was apparently part of the 1968 Writer’s Guide, so it goes back to the very beginnings of the show.
This is what is turning me off from Clone Wars. Anakin disobeys order on his own half-assed plan. Saves the day because he’s an uber-Jedi with a protagonist-shield and people revere him as a demi-God.