Ever stop watching something because it became too something?

[Nanondorf]

Stopped watching Arrow somewhere in the early season 2. Why? I have no idea.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Stopped watching Arrow somewhere in the early season 2. Why? I have no idea.

If you don't know why, then how does this apply to it becoming "too something"?

Unless it's a rhetorical answer that I don't get because I've never seen Arrow (I've seen The Flash, though).

 

[Ronald Nand]

I stopped watching House of Lies when Underwood went from antihero to full Bondesque villain and every source of drama or conflict magically dissipated. I believe it was in the middle of the second season when I decided I had enough.

Your're problem was that you thought Underwood was an anti-hero in the first place, he was always meant to be a hero-villain. Underwood never indicated at any point in the series that he cared about ideology or the American people, in fact he expressly states many times that all he cares about is power and maintaining power.

What drama and conflicts did you feel were hand waived by the show, I don't recall enemies or battles that just disappeared?

 

[Phlap]

I stopped watching Family Guy when it became too self-referential. The first few seasons are still good in my mind though.

I've also recently stopped watching Dr Who, but I can't put my finger on exactly why. I want to say it's because Stephen Moffat's writing gets on my nerves, but the episodes he did with RTD at the helm were some of my absolute favourites.

I think it just needs some fresh blood.

 

[James Elmash]

So many.

I stopped watching Hannibal because it became too aware of its fans

I stopped watching One Piece because it became too filler-y

I stopped watching MLP:FIM because it became too boring

I stopped watching Sherlock because it wasn't worth waiting 2 years for it again

Other shows got too repetitive for me.

 

[FPLOON]

I stopped watching Tenjou Tenge when the flashback had a flashback. I guess that makes it "too retrospective"?

Ha! Even after all that, the anime ends on a cliffhanger... What kind of cliffhanger? The "read the manga to find out" kind of cliffhanger!

Anyway, I just remembered that I stopped watching BeyWarriors: BeyRaiderz (the spin-off series to BeyBlade AND continuation to BeyWheelz, which is ALSO a spin-off to BeyBlade) because, concept-wise, it was a long way from just being about tops spinning and hitting the shit out of each other... Then again, that's okay because this all takes place on another Bey-related dimension, anyway...

Okay, scratch that! I stopped watching the BeyBlade spin-offs in general because they became self-aware about knowing that they were part of another Bey-related dimension... Also, I stopped watching Bakugan: Battle Brawlers the season after the Bakugan craze in the show's [human] universe became EXTREMELY mainstream... with holograms and shit like that...

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

I stopped watching Dr. Who when it became too hipsterish. Maybe it was because I watched the old Dr. Who show while growing up, but the new stories seemed uninteresting, and like they were trying too hard. Also the Doctor has become a self-absorbed douche. In the old show he was always arrogant and one step ahead of everyone, but he managed to be endearing and could admit when he was wrong. I honestly want the new one to lose to the bad guys. With that said some of the episodes were great but most were blah to terrible. Not even the introduction of Amy Pond was enough to bring me back for long. And if a cute redhead with a sexy accent can't get a guy to put up with the other nonsense in your show nothing will.

 

[hermes]

I stopped watching House of Lies when Underwood went from antihero to full Bondesque villain and every source of drama or conflict magically dissipated. I believe it was in the middle of the second season when I decided I had enough.

Your're problem was that you thought Underwood was an anti-hero in the first place, he was always meant to be a hero-villain. Underwood never indicated at any point in the series that he cared about ideology or the American people, in fact he expressly states many times that all he cares about is power and maintaining power.

What drama and conflicts did you feel were hand waived by the show, I don't recall enemies or battles that just disappeared?

Possibly. I don't really have a problem with villainous protagonist, but I feel the characterization of the character changed with time. He was more interesting when he outsmarted people to get what he wanted, which happened less and less with time.
By the half point of season 2, he didn't outsmart anyone, he just out-bully them.

Spoiler

Some news reporters are making trouble with the assassination of a former friend? just threat them for treason through the NSA and that solves it. Some corporate mogul is giving him a hard time with some foreign negotiations? just threat him with expropriation through the army and that solves it. Some legislates are causing trouble with his proposal? Just lock the doors of the chamber and that solves it. A secretary of staff is causing trouble? Just threat her with making the president chose between she or you, and that solves it.
I didn't finished the season, but I was half expecting the prostitute and the assistant will be a source for trouble, and he will solve it, just like that... in a ruthless and yet untraceable way

As I said, I have no trouble with villainous protagonists, just that I feel the characterization changed between season 1 and 2. By the time he became vice-president, he just descended into Bondesque ("I don't know how people can be loyal to him") levels of villainess. He stopped being cunning and capable of outsmarting anyone, to being pushy and capable of out-threaten anyone.

 

[darkcalling]

I gave up on Tokyo Ghoul cuz it felt like it was wasting a good premise on wangst. Maybe if what's his name had stopped whining and the story moved forward I would have stuck with it.

Walking Dead lost my interest after season 2. Waaaay to much build up to what was in that barn and anyone who didn't know that it was full of zombies and that the missing girl was one of them is blind. Lol

Continuum is starting to get hard to watch since most of the flashforwards have me rooting for liber8 and yelling at Kiera about why would she want to save such a crapsack future (I just started season 3 so there may be time to knock some sense into her.

I never finished reading the Lord of the Rings because they were just so incredibly boring. IMO Tolkien was an incredible world builder and historian but he was a terrible writer of fiction. To this day these are the only examples of book to movie adaptations where the movie is better. (I'm including the hobbit movies in that bunch too though I still do?t think it needed THREE movies to tell. Maybe two at most.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I lost interest in animes/mangas like Bleach and Naruto, because they ran for waaay too long and the stories just got stupid.

Also, I quit watching Family Guy after it became too low-brow/political, and rarely watch SpongeBob anymore after the writing started to suck.