Ever stop watching something because it became too something?

[baddude1337]

I stopped watching Walking Dead because Season 2 became too crap. The first season was generally great with some minor quibbles, but damn season 2 was horrid. I don't care if the later seasons get better, that season just put me off the whole thing completely.

I haven't stopped quite yet, but I probably won't watch the new season of Doctor who because it's become too Clara. I just don't like her at all and it feels like Capaldi took a backseat to her melodrama the entire season.

 

[Valkrex]

Fairy Tail. I liked this show at first, but two things stopped me from continuing: Lucy, and the fact that no one ever died. Ever.

I like Lucy, she was a fun character but eventually EVERYTHING she did boiled down to crying. I was about 60 - 70 episodes in (a decent way into the Orcian Seis arc) and every time she was getting into a fight I knew how it would go before it even started.
How to fight like Lucy:

Step 1: Summon spirit
Step 2: Spirit gets its ass kicked.
Step 3: Summon another spirit and repeat step 2
Step 4: Cry
Step 5: Tearfilled overly long monologue
Step 6: Have Natsu or someone else save her ass.

As for the other thing I won't spoil too much, but there are times where characters will have EXTREME injuries inflicted on them only to have no consequences whatsoever.
For those of you who have seen the show, and know about the Elfman's backstory than you know EXACTLY the type of incident I'm talking about.

Spoiler

Instead of his rampage killing his sister by accident, it sends her to another dimension completely unharmed

As well as the whole story with Lucy and Leo.

Both of these were EXCELLENT examples of tragedy, but the show refused to let anyone actually die and allow for character development from it. It just set me up to feel some intense emotions through a REALLY good but dark story, only to have some bullshit Deus Ex Machina crap happen at the last second and rob it of all meaning.

The show just became too much of this. There was no tension, no threat, because I always knew some bullshit would happen to make everything 100% okay no matter what. I never feared for any of the characters because of this.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

The Irregular at Magic High School

The first episode seemed interesting. All the "THERE IS SO MUCH MORE HERE THAN WE'RE LETTING ON".

Then it just became clear that The main Character is Taciturn Jesus Christ. Why, he's so great that his sister wants nothing more than to bang him!

"We have an impossible task that flies in the face of all that is reason and just in our world of Magic!!!"

'Yeah, Tatsuya finished that in the first five seconds of him waking up. He said if we were good now, he'll Magic us up some Ice Cream Sundays!"

"Oh boy! Now my future infatuation is even more justified!"

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Teen Titans Go. It was kinda like a phase where I was trying to get over Young Justice. After a few episodes that actually pissed me off instead of just annoying me, I gave up on it. The only time I'll watch it again is when they have the crossover with Young Justice.

 

[soren7550]

I stopped watching Castle for two reasons: it became too reliant on unbelievable dumb shit (Time travel! Telekinesis! Sasquatch! Ghosts! Psychics!), and because it drove story lines deep and hard into the ground (What's that? You were done with Beckett's mother's murder back in season two? How about we keep that story thread going for another seven seasons, now there's a plan!).

There's also the whole the writing went down the toilet (in case the time travel didn't tip you off). Take for example, back in season four or five, these two episodes; one where Beckett steps on a pressure plate that's connected to a bomb, and Castle decides to stay with her during the whole ordeal. Nothing really wrong there, but the episode that came after that (technically anyway, since due to the Boston marathon bombing they switched the bomb episode with the one after its air date) was largely about how she didn't know if Castle was really committed to their relationship, and almost starts a thing with Mr. Fantastic.

What truly killed the show for me was the main plot they laid out for whatever the most recent season was that Castle for whatever reason orchestrated his own abduction, but he can't remember that specific thing and anything remotely relating to it because MEMORY WIPE!!

Once Upon a Time suffered similar problems. Everything always tied back to Rumpelstiltskin, the evil queen is revealed to have done more and more pure evil things (such as massacre an entire village, and keep an unwilling guy against his will to use him as her personal sex toy [oddly enough, the actor in question plays Christian Grey now]), but the bad guys are really good y'all, let's give them another second chance!
Oh Arceus, the stupidity of these people, it's a wonder they haven't all choked to death on their own tongues.
True Love's Kiss (c) is the cure all to everything, and fine, why not, but it becomes unacceptable when True Love (c) is more common than sand.
And the extremely black and white morality. That made me yell so much. So, at some point there's this evil conniving ***** that's just merc-ing everyone, and no one can do anything about it because tongues, right? But at some point though, someone actually gets in in their heads to use this magical candle that'll kill her. Hooray, the day is saved as are whoever's left! Our hero is heroic!
Barrg! Wrong! She killed, so that makes her action Wrong and Evil, so now her Pure Heart is now tainted with Darkness! Even though she's shown to have killed a bunch of dudes in the past, this is So Bad, Y'all!
Oh, and then there was the whole "Frozen made stupid gobs of money, let's jump on that hype train", I quit when that was revealed.
(good thing to, since it seems that Cruela DeVil is their latest big bad. A lady that wanted to make a fur coat is the current antagonist in a fantasy based series.)

 

[Blow_Pop]

Big Bang Theory when I realised how unfunny it was and how subtly insulted I was getting from it.
Same with Family Guy.
And American Dad.

I watched a few episodes of Galavant til I realised how rape-y one of the characters acts and how it's played off as a "joke" and how disgusting that makes me feel that it's treated as amusing.

Stopped reading Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series when I realised that the way the main character characterizes what relationships are good/bad are the ones that resemble hers and her values rather than what works for the people in the relationship. And how very rape-y one of the main characters is.

Stopped reading Anne Rice's books because of how she feels about people who criticise books or leave negative reviews on books (and as a hobby I do book reviews on books I've read and my feelings aren't always positive hearts and stars and rainbows). (she thinks that negative reviews and criticism, regardless of how needed certain criticisms are, are people being malicious trolls and is in fact writing a booklet thing about it as we speak and she supports the stop the goodreads bullies site which is people with her thinking who will stalk and harass people who dare post a negative review on this thing that these people collectively love because we should all only post reviews where we praise the genius of the author in their line of thinking......)

And I stopped reading the Penny Arcade comic after they made the joke out of the dick wolves thing and didn't take into consideration how offensive it can be to those who were raped to have that as a "consequence" in a game/gaming comic strip (consequently, I don't play games that do shit like that either because I care not to have shit like that thrown in my face).

I think that's about it for my list of things I've stopped with......

 

[FoolKiller]

I stopped watching House because it became too cynical. I know that sounds weird, since the main character is SUPER cynical and that's the fun of it, but it felt like the writers themselves were just too cynical. I stopped watching after House and Cuddy broke up, because the logic behind was flimsy as hell and the way it completely crashed was just clumsy.

Ok, Cuddy, you know you're dating a former addict, you've helped him through his lowest points, but when you're out of commission and potentially dying and he turns back to drugs just to get through it, you ABANDON him?? That's not love! That's horse shit! No attempt to even TRY to work it out, just "Oh you took Vicodin once at the worst moment of your life? Fuck you, we're done." Don't even get me started on how every other relationship failed in that show. Cameron and Chase I gave a pass because it IS pretty hard to get over murder, but jeez.

I also stopped watching NCIS because though it was still a good show, I felt like they had run out of ideas and were just running on formula after Ziva left.

Hey... you lasted 10 seasons of NCIS which is quite a lot. I loved House. And I really love post-breakup House. The drug-fuelled hooker-laden bender that he takes is epic. I thought it had ups and downs.

As for me, I had real issues with a few shows.
I stopped watching Gilmore Girls after

Spoiler

Rory stole a boat

. It was such a detour that I didn't find the character believable at that point. Even with all the stuff she was going through at the time.

My Wife and Kids just wasn't funny after the teen son's shenanigans got his girlfriend pregnant. Then the shenanigans became about that and just weren't funny.

Oh... and the Walking Dead detoured so much from the source material that I got bored because they killed really awesome characters who weren't dead in the books.

 

[Timeless Lavender]

I stopped watching Bleach, Inuyasha, Naruto and One piece because I realized that I have wasted my years worth of time on stupidness. I cannot get back all these time lost

 

[Nazulu]

Yeah, it's a common thing. Almost everything I get into will start getting worse one way or another later in the series. Some easy to explain, others not so much.

I find it difficult explaining why I stopped liking South Park half way through season 12. It was already slowly getting worse as the jokes became even more forced while slowly loosing the shock comedy impact, as well as them re-using old jokes/memes at awkward times. The main characters stopped acting like the immature, fun, impressionable loose screws in the dopey society I had come to love. And some of their ideas for story's just feel like they picked some popular trend and based it around that without making fun of it.

I stopped watching Hunter X Hunter because it tried to be every shonen anime at once.

The 2011 or 1999 version?

 

[Fox12]

I gave up on Cowboy Bebop because it was too disjointed. I like my plots to actually have, well, a plot. I was more than half way into the show and I still had no idea what they were trying to do or achieve. To me, it was an entire series comprised of filler episodes with no continuity other than characters returning. Utterly disappointing.

Yeah, I felt the same. It should have been a buddy cop adventure show about Ein and Ed. The show had real potential outside of that, but it fell flat. I like my stories to have a beginning, middle, and end. Instead it was just one thing after another. Kinos Journey managed to pull off the formula for me, but that was the exception, not the rule. It doesn't help that the shows been hyped to high heaven.

Full metal alchemist is the biggest one for me. Interesting premise overshadowed by anime hijinks and shonen action scenes. Unfortunately it got more predictable as time went on. Seriously, I can only listen to that guy complain about his height so many times.

 

[Rudger The Legend]

The 2011 or 1999 version?

2011.

 

[The_Waspman]

I had to stop reading Fables (the comic book series The Wolf Among Us is based on) because it became INSANELY RACIST.

I actually stuck with it for quite a bit longer than that, up until the TPB vol 13, otherwise known as the big Fables Crossover event, otherwise known as the big fuck you to everyone reading it. I actually quite liked the idea of the new main villian they introduced, but then, just as his storyline was gearing up, it stopped dead just so all the titles in the Fables universe could have a big mash up. Which for me, undermined all the characters, and was basically a huge demonstration of Bill Willingham disappearing up his own arse.

In terms of what I've stopped watching, I'd say every show that was crippled by the writers strike. I stopped watching both House and Bones particularly because they turned into dull soap operas instead of medical/forensic mystery/drama series.

 

[Nazulu]

The 2011 or 1999 version?

2011.

Oh yeah, fair enough. The 2011 was sped up and commercialised it seems. Personally I preferred the 1999 original but I'm not sure it will be any different for you. It is still quite different though if you're interested.

I gave up on Cowboy Bebop because it was too disjointed. I like my plots to actually have, well, a plot. I was more than half way into the show and I still had no idea what they were trying to do or achieve. To me, it was an entire series comprised of filler episodes with no continuity other than characters returning. Utterly disappointing.

Yeah, I felt the same. It should have been a buddy cop adventure show about Ein and Ed. The show had real potential outside of that, but it fell flat. I like my stories to have a beginning, middle, and end. Instead it was just one thing after another. Kinos Journey managed to pull off the formula for me, but that was the exception, not the rule. It doesn't help that the shows been hyped to high heaven.

Full metal alchemist is the biggest one for me. Interesting premise overshadowed by anime hijinks and shonen action scenes. Unfortunately it got more predictable as time went on. Seriously, I can only listen to that guy complain about his height so many times.

I agree with you on Cowboy Bebop, including that the rival moments and so called main story elements all felt rushed.

Which FMA are you talking about though? The original 2003 version or Brotherhood. Just curious.

 

[Fox12]

The 2011 or 1999 version?

2011.

Oh yeah, fair enough. The 2011 was sped up and commercialised it seems. Personally I preferred the 1999 original but I'm not sure it will be any different for you. It is still quite different though if you're interested.

I gave up on Cowboy Bebop because it was too disjointed. I like my plots to actually have, well, a plot. I was more than half way into the show and I still had no idea what they were trying to do or achieve. To me, it was an entire series comprised of filler episodes with no continuity other than characters returning. Utterly disappointing.

Yeah, I felt the same. It should have been a buddy cop adventure show about Ein and Ed. The show had real potential outside of that, but it fell flat. I like my stories to have a beginning, middle, and end. Instead it was just one thing after another. Kinos Journey managed to pull off the formula for me, but that was the exception, not the rule. It doesn't help that the shows been hyped to high heaven.

Full metal alchemist is the biggest one for me. Interesting premise overshadowed by anime hijinks and shonen action scenes. Unfortunately it got more predictable as time went on. Seriously, I can only listen to that guy complain about his height so many times.

I agree with you on Cowboy Bebop, including that the rival moments and so called main story elements all felt rushed.

Which FMA are you talking about though? The original 2003 version or Brotherhood. Just curious.

I saw the original. The humor annoyed me. It had a darker tone then most shonen, but a lot of the humor and action scenes reminded me of Naruto or Soul Eater. I'm not a big shonen fan, so I stopped watching about halfway through. It had an interesting premise, though, especially with the whole Law of Equivalent Exchange bit. I just don't understand the fervor behind it. Maybe it just isn't my cup of tea.

 

[Nazulu]

I saw the original. The humor annoyed me. It had a darker tone then most shonen, but a lot of the humor and action scenes reminded me of Naruto or Soul Eater. I'm not a big shonen fan, so I stopped watching about halfway through. It had an interesting premise, though, especially with the whole Law of Equivalent Exchange bit. I just don't understand the fervor behind it. Maybe it just isn't my cup of tea.

I reckon it's special, but you're 100% right, it really does over-do it at times. Becoming serious and dark 1 minute, to goofy or nonsensical the next. And Naruto being the same, except a lot more goofy more often, but it just really amazes me how many different powers they came up with for it, as well as some of those big fight scenes were really worth the wait.

The only anime I consider near perfect (that I've seen) is the original Hunter X Hunter and original Bezerk anime. I just wished they ended in a more satisfying way.

 

[Rudger The Legend]

Oh yeah, fair enough. The 2011 was sped up and commercialised it seems. Personally I preferred the 1999 original but I'm not sure it will be any different for you. It is still quite different though if you're interested.

Well, even then, it seemed pretty sluggish IMO. Most of the arcs didn't have a satisfying payoff. But don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it at certain moments.

 

[Nazulu]

Oh yeah, fair enough. The 2011 was sped up and commercialised it seems. Personally I preferred the 1999 original but I'm not sure it will be any different for you. It is still quite different though if you're interested.

Well, even then, it seemed pretty sluggish IMO. Most of the arcs didn't have a satisfying payoff. But don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it at certain moments.

Yeah, a lot of people found it too slow, but I found it just right since enough was happening in every episode, and it had enough big moments to feel exciting the whole way. Maybe I'm missing something.

Don't mean to rude Rudger, but if you press the quote button on the top end of a post it will automatically put in the reply column with the name you are responding too. Don't need to edit it at all either. Without my name there, I will not receive it in my inbox so I won't know.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, I stopped watching [insert Disney Channel live-action comedy show here] because I just forgot that it was still going... But seriously, every time I try to watch a new live-action show on Disney Channel, I just end up stop watching for no other reason than the notion of forgetting that the show was still going on said channel... It's like I could never enjoy any of that channel's live-action scheduled programming... and I unironically was enjoying Austin & Ally and, to a lesser extent, Girl Meets World...

Anyway, I seem to stop watching shows out of sheer forgetfulness... Very rarely would I stop watching something because it end up becoming something that made me wish that it could go back to how it was when the show first started, otherwise I would have stopped watching shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic what-would-seem-like "a long time ago"... I think...