Ever Watched A TV Episode That Pissed You Off So Much You Quit Watching The Series?

[kickyourass]

I don't remember precisely when this came on, but I'm pretty sure it was late in the 2nd season of Merlin where we finally find out why Uther went all crazy about magic.

Just a bit of background for this version of things, following the death of his wife, for which he blames magic, Uther Pendragon has developed such a violent hatred of all magic, in all its forms, that he has purged it completely from Camelot, this includes children whom he had killed by drowning. This is the episode where we hear the full version of things.

Spoiler: it went something like this

In this episode it is revealed that, desperate for an heir, Uther went to his witch friend Nimway (Spelling?) so she could help him with her magic. The rules of magic state that one cannot just create life, there has to be a balance, so someone will die if she does this. Despite the warning Uther has her go through with it, and low and behold, his wife dies exactly how Nimway told him, point blank, that she would. Instead of take responsibility for his own actions, Uther insists that Nimway TRICKED him, and enacted his Magical Genocide (Which I will remind you, including drowning small children).
To make things EVEN WORSE, for his entire life Uther has lied to his son Arthur about everything and when Arthur finds out about it, he naturally confronts Uther about it. I could stand Uther's almost completely loathsome character before this cause I was confident that when this moment came in the series they'd do something to either redeem him or kill him. WRONG! Not only does Uther continue lying about these events, the show bends itself over backwards to find a reason why no one can kill the evil bastard over this. I was so god damn pissed off I could not bring myself to watch anymore.

 

[Timzilla]

Ed, Edd n' Eddy ("Jeez, EVERYONE in this show is a HUGE asshole.")

In its defense, (and Im not sure this is intentional, but this is how I chose the rationalize it) they're kids. And in the words of Donald Glover, kids are like "tiny little Hitlers".(that is to say they're horrible.)

OP: My answer doesn't really count, since I eventually went back and finished the the whole series, but there was one point in the middle of the second season of Code Geass that really took the wind out of my sails for some reason:

Spoiler

So, at one point in the middle of the second season, C.C looses her memory of after she gained her powers. Since she was born in mid-evil times (I assume, its never overtly stated when she was born.) she goes back to being a scared, frail, shy slave girl. A huge contrast to how she acts in the rest of the series;cool, calculating, level headed. Leading up to this in the episode before. Shirley dies a needless death at the hands of another charater that I didn't really like all that much.

Just all of this happening at once seemed really cruel and unfair. This was an ongoing problem that I had with Code Geass. Just when everything seems to be going right, something has to happen to screw it up. It just seems so unfair at times its hard to stick with. To be fair, I did, but I had a lot more times where I had to stop watching for a while before and after the one mentioned above.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

"If I drop an item, I believe that it will fall to the ground." (Faith)
"I have dropped the item, and it has fallen to the ground." (Evidence)
"All items fall to the ground, and through observation we can explain this effect." (Explanation / outcome)

Faith is the starting point of science. Maybe faith IS the wrong word to use. Maybe it does have too much of a religious connection. But, it is accurate.

Science, good science, NEVER EVER EVER works this way EVER because what youve done there is START with a guessed conclusion. YOU NEVER DO THAT because it introduces bais. Having worked in a genetics research lab heres what we did.

"What happens when we drop things? We do not know. A thing will be dropped" (Question)
"I have dropped the item, and it has fallen to the ground." (Evidence)
"All items fall to the ground, and through observation we can explain this effect." (Explanation / outcome)

You never start with a conclusion. You start with a question or a null hypothesis which is

"There is, so far, no reason to believe there is a relationship between X and Y".

Then you seek to DISPROVE it by doing tests with X and Y and seeing what happens. What you never do is

"X affects Y lets try and prove it"

because you often end up twisting evidence to prove your started assumption. Which is why we dont do it ever.

Setting out with a conclusion and trying to gather evidence is wrong. What you do is OBSERVE evidence and DRAW the conclusion. They screwed it up massively. Obvious that they didnt do a lot of research into what happens inside actual labs.

Anyway im gonna agree with jake the dad because the pups really needed more presence in the series. I did keep watching though. Also soul eater when i had to watch an entire episode of black star. I hate him so much. And Naruto with the exam episodes. It gets a prize for "Least happening per hour". I mean jesus everything drags for 10 years after that episode i was done.

 

[mgirl]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on what "the point" of Doctor Who is.

And it seems to me you sat thruogh the Davies era of Doctor Who, so I don't know how you can talk about bad story arcs and bad female characters, considering we had four seasons of last-minute ass-pulls and Twilight: Breaking Doctor.

Chill out dude, it's only an opinion. I personally don't like the new doctor who, thats it.

The latest series' have been very americanised, abandoned established character traits with both the doctor and river song, and has generally been poor. That, in my mind, is contradicting 'the point' of doctor who. So the opposite of what I just said is what I want.

I was considerably less mature during the previous 'era' of doctor who, so maybe I just didnt notice. And if you've seen any of Moffats other stuff, he is god awful at writing female characters.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

If so, what was the show in question, and what episode set you off on such an amount of anger that you stopped?

Today, I've stopped watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The episode this morning pissed me off to the point where I'm ready to bash my computer.

Spoiler

A jedi is framing Ahsoka for a string of bombings in the Jedi Temple, and the episode is heavily implying that the culprit is Barriss Offee. A pacifist Jedi healer. Who has her own series about her. All of this will be thrown out the window in favor of some bullshit excuse to kill off her character.

You sure about that? Have they gone out into the open and said it? Because in my experience if a show heavily implies that someone is a culprit, it's really just a Red Herring (See Assassin's Creed Brotherhood). Also I'm not a sure Star Wars fan, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't get killed until Order 66.

http://starwars.com/explore/the-clone-wars/ep519/#!/media/commentary

Filoni all but confirms it, and a leaked image of next weeks episode seals the deal.

Barriss's new non hooded character model was showcased these past two episodes, and there she is fighting Anakin.

Trashing continuity is nothing new for The Clone Wars, but character assassination is probably even worse in the long run. Since we never see Barriss get killed in the movies, obviously the only solution is to kill her off in the TCW cartoon. Never mind that tie in material for Revenge of the Sith already showed her being killed.

I have no idea what that image is supposed to be, but it looks a little too narrow to be anything humanoid like Bariss. And dual curved red lightsabers? Wasn't that Ventress' calling card? Though to be fair I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut.

I'm just saying, you should at the very least check in to make sure that you weren't mistaken.

In yesterday's episode, Ventress was attacked by a hooded female force user, who stole her twin red sabers and her bounty hunter mask to attack Ahsoka. She is the same height, build and clothing as Barriss, and with Filoni's wording regarding "accepting who it is" (and the fact that the only other Female Jedi we've seen all have wonky looking heads) makes it very clear that Barriss is the culprit.

 

[mokes310]

I couldn't make it through a single episode of Dr. Who (newest reboot). I dated a girl who convinced me to give it another try, and yet again, I was bored out of my mind.

 

[Echopunk]

I enjoyed Family Guy for years, even though it returned as a shadow of its former self. The last straw was an episode where Peter was starring in a children's show or something, and remarked something along the lines of "I'm a big star, I could sleep with any three year old I want."

It isn't that much of a departure from a lot of the other shock humor the show has employed, but it was enough to make me turn the episode off and never look back.

 

[AgentNein]

I never actually stopped watching Angel, because Buffy The Vampire Slayer inspired enough good will in me to forever finish watching any of Whedon's projects no matter how iffy they may get in parts, but the point where...

SPOILER!! Yes, I realize I'm talking about an ten or so year old show, but it's never too late to get into Whedon!

...they kill Fred really made me rethink finishing it. No, wait. They don't just kill Fred, they erase her very essence. Her soul is consumed in the fiery rebirth of a god demon thing.

This fucked up two important things for the show in my eyes. Number one, they killed off the last remaining regular female main character. The fuck, Whedon? The fuck? This guy gave us Buffy, which did such a good job of giving us multiple female perspectives throughout it's run. A nice change of pace at the time (and even now) from most other tv. Angel started off with Cordelia, who they did great with (and then completely ruined, actually that should've been my entry, what they did to Cordy actually did make me stop watching for like half a season) who was killed off, and then Fred too? From then on it was a sausage fest til the bitter end. Unless you count Illyria, but I really don't. Illyria's basically an alien in a lady's shell.

The second issue I've got with this is Wesley, this guy never got a fucking break. I'm all for tragedy in my storytelling but by this point I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity. If there's a god in Whedon's 'verse, he sure as shit never liked Wesley. Buffy (and latter Whedon works) do tragedy so well because it's often times juxtaposed by the lighthearted bits of character interaction. Now when's the last time Wesley's been happy? Oh yeah, the five whole minutes of being in a relationship with Fred before they proceed to kill her to death. Horribly. At that point it crossed the line from tragedy into comedy again for this guy. His life got just so goddamned unfortunate it got silly. He's like Gil from the Simpsons.

At least at the end of the show's run Wesley gets his heroes death and can finally rest in peace right?

Oh wait, nope. In the canonical comic book continuation it turns out that Wesley, having been an employee of the evil lawfirm Wolfram & Hart before he died, had his soul permanently employed with the company for the rest of time. Fucking awesome.

Sorry for the rant everybody! Had to get that off my chest. I feel better now.

 

[Drago-Morph]

The final episode of Chuck kinda ruined the series as a whole for me, and I loved the series as a whole. I just don't think I'm ever going to be able to watch it again, knowing what happens at the end.

I gave up on that show part way thorugh series 3, "Chuck Verses the Other Guy". By the end of that epidose it looked like the entire plot of the show was resolved. This had already happened once before (end of series 2), I gave up on the writers ever allowing a satisfying plot resolution to stick, and so stopped watching.

Yeah, but that's not really the writers fault. Each time they did that, the show had been canceled and fan petitions brought it back. From the writers' perspectives, those were the finale(s).

 

[DirgeNovak]

It didn't make me quit the series (and boy was I right not to quit, season seven was the best yet), but the Dexter season six episode "Get Gellar" really pissed me off.

Spoiler

I (and half the internet) had already guessed that Gellar had been dead for years and that he was just a figment of Travis' imagination, so seeing Dexter be a massive idiot and partner up with Travis was infuriating.

Season six as a whole felt like bad fanfiction, but this one episode was the worst piece of shit to come out of that show (yes, worse than all the useless Quinn storylines and the Angel/LaGuerta romance bullshit).

 

[Diablo2000]

If so, what was the show in question, and what episode set you off on such an amount of anger that you stopped?

Today, I've stopped watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The episode this morning pissed me off to the point where I'm ready to bash my computer.

Spoiler

A jedi is framing Ahsoka for a string of bombings in the Jedi Temple, and the episode is heavily implying that the culprit is Barriss Offee. A pacifist Jedi healer. Who has her own series about her. All of this will be thrown out the window in favor of some bullshit excuse to kill off her character.

You sure about that? Have they gone out into the open and said it? Because in my experience if a show heavily implies that someone is a culprit, it's really just a Red Herring (See Assassin's Creed Brotherhood). Also I'm not a sure Star Wars fan, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't get killed until Order 66.

http://starwars.com/explore/the-clone-wars/ep519/#!/media/commentary

Filoni all but confirms it, and a leaked image of next weeks episode seals the deal.

Barriss's new non hooded character model was showcased these past two episodes, and there she is fighting Anakin.

Trashing continuity is nothing new for The Clone Wars, but character assassination is probably even worse in the long run. Since we never see Barriss get killed in the movies, obviously the only solution is to kill her off in the TCW cartoon. Never mind that tie in material for Revenge of the Sith already showed her being killed.

I have no idea what that image is supposed to be, but it looks a little too narrow to be anything humanoid like Bariss. And dual curved red lightsabers? Wasn't that Ventress' calling card? Though to be fair I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut.

I'm just saying, you should at the very least check in to make sure that you weren't mistaken.

In yesterday's episode, Ventress was attacked by a hooded female force user, who stole her twin red sabers and her bounty hunter mask to attack Ahsoka. She is the same height, build and clothing as Barriss, and with Filoni's wording regarding "accepting who it is" (and the fact that the only other Female Jedi we've seen all have wonky looking heads) makes it very clear that Barriss is the culprit.

I don't watch Clone Wars, but I learned long time ago that in order to be a happy Star Wars fan you need to stop and create a cute little canon in your head where nothing but the first trilogy and some of the games exist and you be happier for it, because it can't hurt anymore then...

It didn't make me quit the series (and boy was I right not to quit, season seven was the best yet), but the Dexter season six episode "Get Gellar" really pissed me off.

Spoiler

I (and half the internet) had already guessed that Gellar had been dead for years and that he was just a figment of Travis' imagination, so seeing Dexter be a massive idiot and partner up with Travis was infuriating.

Season six as a whole felt like bad fanfiction, but this one episode was the worst piece of shit to come out of that show (yes, worse than all the useless Quinn storylines and the Angel/LaGuerta romance bullshit).

Season 6 actually started well, but at then turn to shit rather quickly, that whole Deb is in love by Dexter is bad fanfiction as far as I concerned, not even the final 5 minutes are worth it.

Season 7 is smart in dismissing the Deus Ex Machina In Love bullshit needed to Deb discover that Dexter is a serial killer, give LaQuerta something to do and the mafia guy that was the villain of the season was rather cool. I actually like Season 7, finally started to moving the plot foward and is kinda happy in doing so, but I glad that Season 8 is the last.

 

[carlh267]

Heroes, season 4.

I got into it for a couple of episodes, but it was just so awful I had to stop watching. I loved season 1, adored season 2 for its great villain, season 3 was good but worse than season 1, and season 4... no. Just no.

It was a shame, that show had it made for a while.

 

[Lord Garnaat]

I can't remember the exact episode name, but once upon a time I was watching a show called "The Grim Adventure of Billy and Mandy". It was a pretty dark show, but I remember one day that I watched an episode where the main characters are mulling around some sort of abandoned amusement park or stadium or something, which is completely run by robots. Except for one guy, who acts as the mascot, and has been forced through every possible torture and humiliation imaginable while trapped by them. Long story short, the main characters leave... and promptly leave the guy behind with the robots. I was so disturbed and shocked by it that I just stopped watching the show entirely.

I suppose my decision to no longer watch Family Guy counts in a sense, as it was around the episode where Brian and Stewie get locked in a vault that I realized my mistake in liking the show. But really, it was more of a gradual process of admitting that the show just wasn't good and never was, rather than a short, sharp shock.

 

[DirgeNovak]

It didn't make me quit the series (and boy was I right not to quit, season seven was the best yet), but the Dexter season six episode "Get Gellar" really pissed me off.

Spoiler

I (and half the internet) had already guessed that Gellar had been dead for years and that he was just a figment of Travis' imagination, so seeing Dexter be a massive idiot and partner up with Travis was infuriating.

Season six as a whole felt like bad fanfiction, but this one episode was the worst piece of shit to come out of that show (yes, worse than all the useless Quinn storylines and the Angel/LaGuerta romance bullshit).

Season 6 actually started well, but at then turn to shit rather quickly, that whole Deb is in love by Dexter is bad fanfiction as far as I concerned, not even the final 5 minutes are worth it.

DEXTER NERD RAGE RANT INCOMING!

I really didn't like anything about season six. (Except Lieutenant Debs, which was awesome.)
The whole premise was 100% artificial; Dexter just so happens to start questioning religion before the serial killer du jour just so happens to be revealed as a religious maniac. Dexter's first victim just so happens to be a religious hypocrite, while Travis' first victim just so happens to have ties with Brother Sam the born again killer. Coincidences galore!

Then there's the aforementioned "plot twist", which almost everyone I know guessed over a month before it was revealed, making Dexter's spectacularly stupid behavior in regards to Travis even more painful to watch. Even worse, the entire second half of the Doomsday storyline is based on a gigantic plot hole:

Spoiler: 'Angel of Death' spoilers

Dexter had no reason whatsoever to go after Travis by himself in the first place; the only reasons that usually push Dexter to go after a killer (big bad or no) is either because the legal investigation doesn't turn up anything, like most minor villains, because he had a personal score to settle with them, like Brian, Miguel and Jordan or because the killer could bring Dexter down if arrested, like Arthur or Isaak. None of those reasons apply, since Dexter and Travis had never met, and the evidence that led Dexter to Travis was perfectly legal, and he had no reason to keep it from the cops. Had Dexter simply told Deb about the angel wing restoration, everything would have been over. Here Dexter basically just says: "Well that's the season's main villain(s), guess I'll go kill him(them)! Derpy derp."

One of the first rules of storytelling is: "If the only reason for something to happen is 'the story wouldn't work otherwise', it means your story stinks."

Ironically, the "Deb being in love with Dexter" bit that pissed off everybody is, to me, the least revolting thing this season did. And that makes season seven's resounding success even more impressive. Going from this brain fart of a story to the best thing to ever happen to a TV series ever with pretty much the same writing staff is incredible.

TL;DR: Fuck season six up its butt with a rusty sword.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Andromeda season 3 finale.

Spoiler

The series actually started off pretty strong, with engaging stories and interesting sci-fi concepts, but around Season 2-3 the writers seemed to get bored and dumbed the series down and added more unpleasant cheese than a Kraft dinner. So because the commonwealth was boring, they totally destroyed it all within about 5 minutes, and that was pretty much the last straw for me.

There's a reason for that. The star, Kevin Sorbo, campaigned to get Robert Wolfe (the executive producer, head writer, and co-creator of the show, and an actual science fiction writer) fired because Sorbo thought the show was too complicated and needed more humor. Basically, he wanted Hercules in Space. By the time it was clear that the whole thing had been a huge mistake, the show was canceled.

Robert Hewitt Wolfe did Andromeda? Did every 90s/2000s Science Fiction show (barring Babylon 5) have a Star Trek writer behind them at one point? Ron Moore did BSG and Michael Taylor did BSG Blood and Chrome.

 

[bastardofmelbourne]

I quit watching True Blood around season four. My problems actually started way earlier, with season three. I thought that

Spoiler

Russel Edgington was a terrible, terrible, awful villain. I don't mean he was acted poorly - the acting was on-par - but his motivations were retarded. He's just this three thousand year old vampire, pulled basically out of nowhere, who decides to take over the world by...murdering people? He seems to just murder people and declare that he's taking over the world, on the basis that he's so old and powerful nobody can stop him.

What kind of plan is that? I mean, why are Bill and Sookie even involved? His motivations don't make any sense, he's just kind of around because the series needs a villain. If he's so powerful he can defy the authority by murdering their officials, why does he need Bill to force the Queen of Lousiana to marry him? Why not kill her and declare he's taking over Louisiana? Why does he need Eric, who later kills his boyfriend because of something totally unrelated? Why does he care about his boyfriend, given that he's three thousand years old and has probably watched a hundred boyfriends die? Why is his reaction to kill a random anchorman and try to take over the world instead of...killing Eric, who he massively outclasses in terms of age and power?

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

But the thing that finally turned me off in season four was;

Spoiler

Sookie hooking up with Eric. I know it was the plot of the books, but seriously. This was the least convincing character arc imaginable. Eric starts the series as a cold, effeminite psychopath, then gets a haircut and becomes way more badass in the second season, but he's still clearly evil and manipulative. Bill, on the other hand, is basically Sookie's only love interest for three seasons - the series has told us nothing that would make us think he isn't sincere about his feelings for her, or that she isn't sincere to him. He literally walked through sunlight to get to her at one point in the series, nearly killing himself.

But then in season four after a timeskip, it's like Bill and Eric have swapped places. Bill's the ruler of Louisiana, is fucking some random broad, and doesn't seem to care about Sookie that much anymore, and the show's writers have basically decided that they hate him. Eric randomly loses his memory, which suddenly turns him into a good person - making him way less badass, much less interesting, and also convinces Sookie to jump on his dong...for...no reason!

Turned me right off the whole plot.

 

[lechat]

I quit watching True Blood around season four. My problems actually started way earlier, with season three. I thought that

Spoiler

Russel Edgington was a terrible, terrible, awful villain. I don't mean he was acted poorly - the acting was on-par - but his motivations were retarded. He's just this three thousand year old vampire, pulled basically out of nowhere, who decides to take over the world by...murdering people? He seems to just murder people and declare that he's taking over the world, on the basis that he's so old and powerful nobody can stop him.

What kind of plan is that? I mean, why are Bill and Sookie even involved? His motivations don't make any sense, he's just kind of around because the series needs a villain. If he's so powerful he can defy the authority by murdering their officials, why does he need Bill to force the Queen of Lousiana to marry him? Why not kill her and declare he's taking over Louisiana? Why does he need Eric, who later kills his boyfriend because of something totally unrelated? Why does he care about his boyfriend, given that he's three thousand years old and has probably watched a hundred boyfriends die? Why is his reaction to kill a random anchorman and try to take over the world instead of...killing Eric, who he massively outclasses in terms of age and power?

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

But the thing that finally turned me off in season four was;

Spoiler

Sookie hooking up with Eric. I know it was the plot of the books, but seriously. This was the least convincing character arc imaginable. Eric starts the series as a cold, effeminite psychopath, then gets a haircut and becomes way more badass in the second season, but he's still clearly evil and manipulative. Bill, on the other hand, is basically Sookie's only love interest for three seasons - the series has told us nothing that would make us think he isn't sincere about his feelings for her, or that she isn't sincere to him. He literally walked through sunlight to get to her at one point in the series, nearly killing himself.

But then in season four after a timeskip, it's like Bill and Eric have swapped places. Bill's the ruler of Louisiana, is fucking some random broad, and doesn't seem to care about Sookie that much anymore, and the show's writers have basically decided that they hate him. Eric randomly loses his memory, which suddenly turns him into a good person - making him way less badass, much less interesting, and also convinces Sookie to jump on his dong...for...no reason!

Turned me right off the whole plot.

i always figured edgington done what he done for exposure. he wanted to marry the queen to add authority to whatever plot he had then proceeded to murder the fuck out of whoever he wanted to to destroy the lilith worship and force a vampire revolt

as for the eric stuff yeah i'm with you there. i figure the writers were watching too much twilight but i always thought sookie was a bit of an airhead slut and a shit character anyway.
also if you keep watching you find bill isn't the saint you think he is and eric (while a bit of a dick) is still at least honest about who he is

 

[teebeeohh]

The big bang theory, the episode starts with Howard saying: let's place some d&d. That's the joke.
Oh and I stopped watching the clone wars when they went into the giant triangle of stupid and met literal representations of the light and dark side(which I am not sure actually exists, isn't the working theory in the EU that it's all up to the user?), complete with plot convenience amnesia.

 

[verdant monkai]

Game of thrones: the one where Sean Bean dies. I was only there for Sean Bean when I saw his head on a spike I new it was time to leave.

Dude, it's Sean Bean. He has never survived to the end of anything he has been in.

I know, I have no idea why he feels the need to die all the time. To my knowledge the only things he has survived is Troy where he played Odysseuss, and the Silent hill. But his character dies in the Silent hill 3 game, and the upcoming film is basically silent hill 3, so I'm guessing he will wind up dead in that too.

 

[4173]

I was watching quite sporadically anyway, but when

Spoiler

House drove his car into Cuddy's house

I gave up House, M.D. for good.