Ever Watched A TV Episode That Pissed You Off So Much You Quit Watching The Series?
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Upcoming film? It came out months ago. And it was shit.verdant monkai said:
And he lived, setting up a sequel that's either an original story or SH2 without the plot twist, which would be horrible
I'm okay with the idea of Bill not being as good as he seems, but my problem is that the writers in the first two seasons sold me the idea that he was a good guy so earnestly and convincingly that it's kind of dumb for them to turn around and go "ha ha, he was a dick all along!"lechat said:
I gave Heroes a pass in season 2 cause of the strike, but then they had the episode where Daddy Petrelli just comes back and offs Adam in 2 seconds for the evulz or something (As opposed to telegrabbing some other healing person of some sort. I don't think they ever bothered explaining how they knew where Hiro put him either. And if that didn't completely seal it, the hilariously goofy bit with Nathan's death would.
Lesse, the whole multi-parter with the black hole things in the 90s spiderman cartoon. About the dumbest workaround the "No Kill" rules that dominated cartoons at the time.
In other random media, the webcomic LFG I just dropped off entirely when it started putting entire pages referencing Occupy Wall Street or some other current affairs or meme of the month. You can make pop culture references in a comic for humor, sure, but derailing the storyline for an entire update to make a joke no one will even get in a few months, nevermind a year down the road with a book print is just lazy.
Lesse, the whole multi-parter with the black hole things in the 90s spiderman cartoon. About the dumbest workaround the "No Kill" rules that dominated cartoons at the time.
In other random media, the webcomic LFG I just dropped off entirely when it started putting entire pages referencing Occupy Wall Street or some other current affairs or meme of the month. You can make pop culture references in a comic for humor, sure, but derailing the storyline for an entire update to make a joke no one will even get in a few months, nevermind a year down the road with a book print is just lazy.
I see, hmm... And yeah, idk... They made a lot of decisions I didn't like very much. I tend to just ignore the stuff I didn't like though, so I've been able to enjoy many of the episodes. Another thing that got me was how Boba Fett was hanging out with Bossk, Dengar and Aurra Sing while he is still a boy. All of these are personalities he meets for the first time in the various books about him. That kind annoyed me, if your going to pull famous characters from the expanded universe the least you could do is use them right... I do not understand what business Bossk has standing up for and defending Boba. The kid certainly hasn't got any money to pay him...Soviet Heavy said:
Again, all stuff I pretend never happened and get on enjoying the Star Wars universe =p. I guess that's the thing about this sort of popular imaginary world, everyone experiences it slightly diferently so you'll end up pissing someone off regardless of what you do. Especially when the stuff you do are so astonishingly stupid... Midichlorians? Never heard about it...
No film where Sean Bean lives can be shit (since he is Heathers Dad chances are he will still die in later films).Kakulukia said:
I don't watch much TV to begin with, and aside from the odd documentary on the ABC or SBS, not as it's transmitted.
That said, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
I loved the first season after being introduced to it via a YouTube link on these forums (quickly finished via torrents). Really liked the second season's opener (although the second part was a bit rushed).
I didn't make it to the end of that second season. First we get "Lesson Zero", which just screams "We don't care!", but I stay around hoping it's just a one-off bad episode (my personal choice for "worst ever" in this series). The next two episodes are good enough to be above average and on par with season 1's average. Then the next dozen-or-so are just underwhelming. Not bad, but not good either. Then we get "A Friend In Deed". It has Pinkie first making our ears bleed with yet another overly-long song (the limit for Pinkie should be 60 seconds), then her basically acting school bully on the new guy in town (we're supposed to buy this as her trying to make friends, yeah right) and driving him up the wall, and just when we think she's about to get a well-deserved The Reason You Suck Speech, we get an Ass Pull to give her a happy ending she doesn't deserve, and all because she's too much of a Creator's Pet.
I watched the next episode (s2e19), but by the time I finished it, I realised I was no longer enjoying the show and stopped watching new episodes. I did try to watch episode 20, but gave up after the teaser.
Oddly enough, despite no longer watching new episodes of the show, I still hang around the fandom. At least they're still making good stuff with the characters, even if the people in charge don't care.
Seems the captcha has a sense of irony: "perfect world", my foot!
That said, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
I loved the first season after being introduced to it via a YouTube link on these forums (quickly finished via torrents). Really liked the second season's opener (although the second part was a bit rushed).
I didn't make it to the end of that second season. First we get "Lesson Zero", which just screams "We don't care!", but I stay around hoping it's just a one-off bad episode (my personal choice for "worst ever" in this series). The next two episodes are good enough to be above average and on par with season 1's average. Then the next dozen-or-so are just underwhelming. Not bad, but not good either. Then we get "A Friend In Deed". It has Pinkie first making our ears bleed with yet another overly-long song (the limit for Pinkie should be 60 seconds), then her basically acting school bully on the new guy in town (we're supposed to buy this as her trying to make friends, yeah right) and driving him up the wall, and just when we think she's about to get a well-deserved The Reason You Suck Speech, we get an Ass Pull to give her a happy ending she doesn't deserve, and all because she's too much of a Creator's Pet.
I watched the next episode (s2e19), but by the time I finished it, I realised I was no longer enjoying the show and stopped watching new episodes. I did try to watch episode 20, but gave up after the teaser.
Oddly enough, despite no longer watching new episodes of the show, I still hang around the fandom. At least they're still making good stuff with the characters, even if the people in charge don't care.
Seems the captcha has a sense of irony: "perfect world", my foot!
for me
Lost - beginning of season 2 i was getting angry, for every question they answered another 10 would pop up. ( what happened to the dinosaur/ monster that was making the load roaring sound?)
Gundam wing ( dubbed) - i watched the first 4 episodes of season 1 and i had and still have no idea what the hell is going on why are they fighting and considering there on moon/space stations that get their materials from earth why is the earth supplying the materials to make these transformer like things?
CSI (all of them) -at the beginning CSI was good it was new and fresh from other US crime programs, then about season 3 there all started to go way over then top then looking for evidence, for example there was one scene they identified a person face from an cheap security camera ( not a digital one) which was very pixelated by using the reflection of a person sunglasses. Also when they are at a fresh crime scene or are the morgue am I the only one thinking wait a minute they are at a crime scene thinking if a just wear gloves im not contaminating the scene or the murder victim by leaving my foot prints and hair everywhere.
The Office and the Office USA - watched two episodes did not think it funny
Pokemon - After misty left I thought OK I give pokemon a another chance but when 150 became 250+ i said to myself nope im done after stating numerous times in the first 2-3 seasons and 3 games that there only 150 pokemon in the whole world and now what is there 600+ nope i was done watcing it.
Lost - beginning of season 2 i was getting angry, for every question they answered another 10 would pop up. ( what happened to the dinosaur/ monster that was making the load roaring sound?)
Gundam wing ( dubbed) - i watched the first 4 episodes of season 1 and i had and still have no idea what the hell is going on why are they fighting and considering there on moon/space stations that get their materials from earth why is the earth supplying the materials to make these transformer like things?
CSI (all of them) -at the beginning CSI was good it was new and fresh from other US crime programs, then about season 3 there all started to go way over then top then looking for evidence, for example there was one scene they identified a person face from an cheap security camera ( not a digital one) which was very pixelated by using the reflection of a person sunglasses. Also when they are at a fresh crime scene or are the morgue am I the only one thinking wait a minute they are at a crime scene thinking if a just wear gloves im not contaminating the scene or the murder victim by leaving my foot prints and hair everywhere.
The Office and the Office USA - watched two episodes did not think it funny
Pokemon - After misty left I thought OK I give pokemon a another chance but when 150 became 250+ i said to myself nope im done after stating numerous times in the first 2-3 seasons and 3 games that there only 150 pokemon in the whole world and now what is there 600+ nope i was done watcing it.
The Big Bang Theory. Hard to pick a specific moment, but probably the costume party episode where everybody comes in dressed like the Flash. It didn't piss me off, but it was a bit of an epiphany for me. It was almost like the writers knew what nerds were... they possibly even have seen a couple in the street, but they don't quite understand what makes them work. It's really poking fun at nerds from an outside standpoint than actually being a nerd comedy and that unsettles me.
Ihateregistering1 said:
It made sense in its own way. To me, personally, I find that it's like Grand Theft Auto the TV show. It's funny and in its own way a sandbox for these bikers. Just add the classic HUD for GTA games and there you go.
The most instant drop interest for me form just one episode was form Misfits. They had lost a lot in the 3rd season, no more Nathan, new super powers they have nothing to do with their character flaws like before, jumping the shark with cookie cutter quirkiness by having do things like fighting Nazi's. Then they had an episode where one of the charaters, Curtis, impregnates himself via gender swapping masturbation and spend the whole episode debating weather or he should have an abortion. I realized at that point that it was no longer a show about flawed characters suddenly having super powers to just trying to hard to be weird and quirky, the preview for the next episode being about zombie cheerleaders only confirmed this.
just out of curousity why is this stopping you from watching. I dont think anyone realistically things ash is going ot catch ever pokemon since he's always passing up oppurtunities. and the idea of him always losing at leagues (except orange island and battle frontier) makes him a perpetual underdog kids can root for.dragonflygirl said:
I mean, its not like the show was really going to stick to kanto forever. its hard to bum around a place like that for multiple seasons when your trainer is honestly a pretty piss poor one.
I could be wrong, but I think the premise was that the universe always continues on the same path, so when the new one was created the people in it were the same as before, everything that had already happened before they left had happened again. Not to mention no one would have known about the original Leela, except for Fry and even then him coming back made it so Leela wouldn't have the same life as before.Johny_X2 said:
Just once...it was after like the 13th episode of Firefly, and I just thought "This is just awful...I don't think I can watch any more of this!" Terrible characters, the script was painfully un-funny, the plot was all over the shop....some guy called Jayne?? It was too much!
It upset me so much that I wrote a letter to Fox to voice my opinion and it turns out that a lot of people felt the same...
(Even joking and I've upset myself!!)
It upset me so much that I wrote a letter to Fox to voice my opinion and it turns out that a lot of people felt the same...
(Even joking and I've upset myself!!)
The ending of Chuck is very bittersweet, for what is almost universally a very upbeat show. On the other hand, I think that actually gives it more weight than a "happily ever after" ending would have done. And additionally, I think that it really was a satisfying plot resolution at the same time.Megalodon said:
I agree though, Chuck could have ended quite easily at the end of any one of the first three seasons, and at a number of points in between.
Yeah, pretty much. If ever there was a half-baked attempt to prolong an excellent series well past its sell-by-date, this was it. And until that point, it really was one of the best shows I have ever watched.KefkaCultist said:
The show needed to end with Light or L dying. It didn't really matter which, but one of them had to triumph. The whole first season, the credits, the theme tune, everything, set it up as a contest between two brilliant minds. The credits change at about the same point as the focus shifts, because the entire show has to change its focus - and it simply wasnt as good. At that point it became about twisting the plot to the point where Light could be caught, rather than the Light/L contest which had been so excellently portrayed up until that point.
You sir are either lucky, a genius, or both.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
Mainly because the series only get worse from there. Least in the beginning there was potential for it to get better, but instead they just kept finding new ways to keep going downhill. There was some cool moments but overall you saved yourself a lot of frustration. Nice job.
Although if you liked Seed's music check out the Destiny's OST(easily found on youtube), at the very least they still had some great songs there.