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

[SuperSamio64]

Doctor Who Season 7 has almost, but not quite done it for me. The standalone episodes, especially the non-Moffat written ones have been great, but dear God that man has lost sight of both scope and pacing.
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And so on and so on. I still watch it for the standalones, and because Matt Smith still kicks plenty amounts of ass, but with episodes like that and "Asylum of the Daleks", Moffat is really pushing the limits on the amount of B.S. I will stand.

Yes! Thank you so much. I've never actually encountered another who realises Moffat specifically has lost his touch and that the other episodes are pretty good. It's usually either "omg moffat is amazing" or "wtf they all sucked". I kind of liked the Snowmen though, because Moffat remembered the show he was writing for actually had a history.

 

[SuperSamio64]

So I just watched the season finale of The Clone Wars, and the reveal was just as moronic as I thought it would be. Barriss turns to the dark side because "The Republic is corrupt, and the jedi are nothing but murderers who started this war!"

So the obvious solution is to then blow up the Jedi temple, murder your friends and family and then try to blame it on your best friend while you run around cackling like a madwoman? For fuck's sakes, nothing about this whole plot had anything to do with Barriss as a character. It could have been any Jedi and it would still be fucking stupid. Making it Barriss was just an insult to anyone who knows about her character. It isn't like she was defined by anything in the tv show. She hadn't shown up since season 2 for goodness sake.

Hang on, don't you see her die in Revenge of the Sith though? You know, as a Jedi and not a Sith/Dark side person? I know Clone Wars and RotS don't really mesh very well in terms of continuity, but that's a pretty big thing to retcon.

 

[Nurb]

This show... it was so unfunny it made me angry, which has never happened before. Laugh track used and everything. But luckily it was canceled after like 3 episodes

 

[crazyarms33]

The Walking Dead. Season 2. Mother F*CKING CARL! If I ever have a child that useless that gets my friends killed, I will throw him to the horde with a smile on my face.

[sub] I miss Dale. [/sub]

 

[vid87]

I don't really watch a lot of TV, but 2 shows stick out:

1)Family Guy (sort've) - I loved for a few seasons, but the recent ones are focusing a lot on stupid shock humor with no real punchline or meaning (especially with the increased gore, which I noticed many of the adult cartoons go for when they upgrade their animation). The one where I vowed I'd never watch the show again (though it was ultimately a hollow promise) was a gag where a school bus crashes into a lake and the reporter reads the stupid tweets from the teens as police pull the bodies from the wreckage. Odd how that's the low-point for me when I can tolerate (and honestly enjoy) a lot of other stupid stuff from the show, but somehow it crossed the line to me and I can't look at it the same way anymore.

2) I don't even watch this regularly, but Syfy's "Warehouse 13" had one that was amazingly stupid: 2 magic artifact hunters, man and woman, come across an item that grants wishes. He wishes he could start a relationship with her and she magically becomes pregnant. After solving a kidnapping, he reverses the wish before the woman, rapidly gestating, delivers the baby.

The implications are so mind-boggling I don't know how it ended up on screen: accidental rape, stereotyping pregnancies as "she's crazy, pissed, and hungry," and, of course, infanticide. I'm not a dedicated pro-life person and wouldn't harp on it the way some would, but it's really creepy - it's not just that the baby was real, regardless of how it came to be, but the two CELEBRATE that it's gone, especially the woman, who cheers that she's "got her figure back." I'm not even saying they should've been forced to have the kid, but I didn't see if the characters talked about it at the very end and it just seems so callous and dismissive of what was obviously a pretty dark moment. For the most part the writers seem like they really weren't paying attention and ended up creating one of the creepiest scenarios I've ever seen on TV.

 

[debtcollector]

Edit: Also, Dany/Daenerys and Ned/Eddard Stark. How are they unlikeable?

Ned is cool. Dany has done absolutely nothing to win my cool approval. Even in the books, she's generally fucked up everything she's done, and I am always glad when her chapters are over.
For the record, though, she has a couple of cool support characters (Jorah and Barristan, to be specific).

 

[Accel]

The Walking Dead. Season 2. Mother F*CKING CARL! If I ever have a child that useless that gets my friends killed, I will throw him to the horde with a smile on my face.

[sub] I miss Dale. [/sub]

I felt the same way but now Carl's pretty damn awesome in Season 3.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Edit: Also, Dany/Daenerys and Ned/Eddard Stark. How are they unlikeable?

Ned is cool. Dany has done absolutely nothing to win my cool approval. Even in the books, she's generally fucked up everything she's done, and I am always glad when her chapters are over.
For the record, though, she has a couple of cool support characters (Jorah and Barristan, to be specific).

I agree with you about Dany, to a degree, but there is a difference between being ineffective and a screw-up and being, as the person I quoted put it, "imminently unlikeable". Again, though, he only gave it two episodes, so maybe there was a lot more characterization he missed that watching further would have provided.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

So I just watched the season finale of The Clone Wars, and the reveal was just as moronic as I thought it would be. Barriss turns to the dark side because "The Republic is corrupt, and the jedi are nothing but murderers who started this war!"

So the obvious solution is to then blow up the Jedi temple, murder your friends and family and then try to blame it on your best friend while you run around cackling like a madwoman? For fuck's sakes, nothing about this whole plot had anything to do with Barriss as a character. It could have been any Jedi and it would still be fucking stupid. Making it Barriss was just an insult to anyone who knows about her character. It isn't like she was defined by anything in the tv show. She hadn't shown up since season 2 for goodness sake.

Hang on, don't you see her die in Revenge of the Sith though? You know, as a Jedi and not a Sith/Dark side person? I know Clone Wars and RotS don't really mesh very well in terms of continuity, but that's a pretty big thing to retcon.

Barriss Offee does not appear in Revenge of the Sith, however, she was shown dying in the ROTS comic.

Spoiler

Another offender on The Clone Wars was how they killed off Adi Gallia. In the comic Obsession, this happened.

Spoiler

But in The Clone Wars, she is killed by Savage Oppress, robbing Grievous of another Jedi kill. By the time the show is over the only kill Grievous will have is that damn Mon Calamari from Season 1 and Captain Tarpals.

The Clone Wars Tv show is running on the logic that, if you didn't see them die in the movies, they're fair game to do whatever the fuck they want with the character, regardless of how it affects other tie in material. The worst part about it however, is that, for Barriss, her motivation was completely at odds with everything we know about her. Whenever a jedi turns to the Dark side on the show, rather than it being some crafty plot or simply the result of doubting their cause, it is instead some lame ass excuse along the lines of "because I'm evil!"

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Both Heroes and Lost managed to piss me off enough that I skipped entire seasons, only to try again once the confirmed last seasons popped up. With both, I really wanted to like them, but after a couple of episodes that were obviously patched together like TV sets or churches in Madascar, I felt bad for all the actors involved. Some of them really put some effort into that nonsense.

Having no emotional connection or any expectations, I was rather amused at the heavy dose of random bullshit I saw myself confronted with. I liked other series where it was quite obvious that they were making shit up as they went along. People like David Lynch can pull it off and inspire people to really achieve and create something out of nothing. I loved Twin Peaks, still do. Lost got quite lost and entangled pretty soon, while Heroes just fell apart. It's not a good sign when, eventually, you find yourself rooting for the bad guy, hoping he'd kill every single one of those supposed heroes because they annnoy or bore the milk out of your tits.

I found it easy to enjoy Chuck, even though it was quite stupid from the get-go. I think it was cute and quite entertaining, and most of the actors' efforts were worthwhile. Eventually, it got just too silly and romantic and generally decadent and uninspired, so I completely missed large portions of it - without actually missing them.

I think it's a shame they killed off Reaper.

 

[AlbertoDeSanta]

The Season 3 Finale of MLP:FiM. In all of the shows run, not a single episode was worse then this. The show is officially dead to me.

 

[Ghaleon640]

Second season of the Walking Dead. After they spent the entire first half looking for the same girl, I realized that the writers were pretty much making stuff up as they went.
Also, second season of Sword Art Online. I could have handled it if they had just used different characters, but nope! The strong female protagonist is reduced to a princess in a cage, the main character who went through hell to escape his virtual prison happily dives into another one, and the villain is some pervert who wants to marry a comatose girl and also calls himself the "King of the Fairies" in his spare time. What went wrong?!
Finally, not a TV show, but I stopped reading Critical Miss after the writers thought that they could do a continual narrative with character drama. They can't. (Protip: Character growth is important if there is a continuity, and making your protagonist evolve past being a self-centered insufferable ***** would be a good first step. On a similar note, don't make the moral of your story arc be "Continue being a self-centered insufferable ***** who uncaringly hurts other people because that's who you are .")

I heard that season two was Robert Kirkman stepping in, the writers had a completely different idea of what to do with season 2, but he wouldn't have it. I hear season 3 gets back on track.

 

[Yeager942]

I'm American and I don't understand ginger jokes. I really don't fucking get why they're reviled. Because....they have red hair and freckles? To be fair, the show you describe seems to be making fun of this attitude, ridiculing ginger hatred by presenting the logical extreme. It's hard for me to take that scene seriously from my point of view.

Really? You don't know. It is because of South Park. There is no real reason beyond the fact that Cartman said gingers don't have souls. It really is that simple.

OT: I quit watching the Walking Dead for a while part way into season 2, though I did get back into it with season 3. Considering the fact that I have a full grasp of everything going on now, it seems I didn't miss much.

I always assumed that episode was symptom. So you're telling me that this joke about gingers didn't exist before South Park? I have a hard time believing Matt Stone and Trey Parker created that joke in a vacuum.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

Elementary, episode 5.
I had major issues with the show before then but it was episode 5 that killed it for me.
Sherlock is supposed to be brilliant. That is the point. But he should not be sourounded my idiots who couldn't solve 'the case of how the cat got up the tree'. I found every episode to be far to simple to figure out what was happening (for some episodes, the first 10 minustes simple) and then spent the rest of the time watching everybody be stupid and sherlock look for obvious clues. Crap show, I want BBC's Sherlock.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

I'm American and I don't understand ginger jokes. I really don't fucking get why they're reviled. Because....they have red hair and freckles? To be fair, the show you describe seems to be making fun of this attitude, ridiculing ginger hatred by presenting the logical extreme. It's hard for me to take that scene seriously from my point of view.

Really? You don't know. It is because of South Park. There is no real reason beyond the fact that Cartman said gingers don't have souls. It really is that simple.

OT: I quit watching the Walking Dead for a while part way into season 2, though I did get back into it with season 3. Considering the fact that I have a full grasp of everything going on now, it seems I didn't miss much.

I always assumed that episode was symptom. So you're telling me that this joke about gingers didn't exist before South Park? I have a hard time believing Matt Stone and Trey Parker created that joke in a vacuum.

Ginger jokes have existed for a long time. It has always been light harted though.
My favourite is Tim Minchin's Prejudice

 

[Happiness Assassin]

I always assumed that episode was symptom. So you're telling me that this joke about gingers didn't exist before South Park? I have a hard time believing Matt Stone and Trey Parker created that joke in a vacuum.

I think it may have ties with sentiments that go back as far as the middle ages, but South Park popularized for a new age without any such sentiments. Without them the term ginger wouldn't have come into popular usage. So either blame them or wider British culture for the constant mockery.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I used to like Wilfred, until the episode about Wilfred's previous owner. My friends were watching it one night, while I was really paranoid. It was just a little too much, so I didn't go back.

I had a similar problem with Breaking Bad, except it was always the morning after and it was just too dark for hung-over me.

 

[Your Gaffer]

The last Star Trek TV series, Enterprise, started off really, really bad. It wasn't the actor's faults, they were all pretty good really, but the writing was just god awful. So pitiful, it made me sad and angry, it really did, and I usually don't get so passionate about TV.

Well there was some episode where Archer condemned a species to likely death through inaction, pre-prime directive, because he didn't want to interfere or some nonsense. It was an episode that was trying to show the evolution of the prime directive, but it was so ham-fisted and forced, it was totally out of character for Archer, and just put me off a series I already was really starting to despise.

I actually went back and watched the end of the third season and all of the fourth season after hearing it was much better and I am glad I did, as it WAS much better. Such a shame that show got cancelled right after it found itself.

 

[Your Gaffer]

Although I still like the series, one episode of Adventure Time pissed me off and I stopped watching episodes for a while.

Spoiler: Jake the Dad spoilers.

This is the anticipated episode where Lady gives birth to her and Jakes kids, the kids themselves are cute enough and the episode was going well, but then they pull a fast one by the end, Jake was planning on moving into Lady's house to live with her and the kids, but at the end of the episode, he goes back to the treehouse, claiming the kids are old enough to take care of themselves, therefor, keeping the status quo.

The reason I am pissed was that I was looking forward to seeing this episode and how much impact it would have on the series. The writers obviously did not like the idea and axed the kids out of the show as quick as possible, the episode itself was rushed (needed 2 episodes) and I doubt the kids will even appear again.

Which annoys me because very little would be changed. The episodes usually started with Finn and Jake in the treehouse, the episodes could have started with Finn visiting Jake, or vice versa. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

I'll start watching the series again, but that was tremendously disappointing. If they wanted to keep the status quo, why make such an episode in the first if they bunked out of the idea?

Adventure time is not supposed to have any real kind of continuity. It is little 11 minute snippets of fantastical happenings with a simple, emotional theme to them. The show would have been ruined if Jake had stayed with Ladycorn for the rest of the series.

 

[Kevin7557]

Most Anime I (try) watching.

Usually around the second or third episode, when it becomes clear the series has absolutely no interest in telling an actual story or present actual characters but is simply ticking off stereotypes.

I'm sorry, but this threw me for a loop. What anime do you actually try watching, because I maybe could only think of a few that do that and they're all in the Slapstick/comedy department. I take it you never watched Fruit Basket or any other story based anime.


For me it was Baka and Test. To begin with I didn't have much fondness for this anime for two reasons. 1) I can't stand it when men don't stick up for themselves. 2) It was in no way, shape or form how it was advertised. This really irked me that they throw out the advertised plot after episode 2 and drift into repeating the same tired bs over and over again. Around Episode 5 or 6 the stalker finally has a character changing revelation and I'm like owe okay finally some character change here, I guess this could actually turn out to be an okay show after all. Nope next episode right back to the same tired bs. After that I pretty much just stopped watching it.

Gogo 13 is another but this only only lasted till episode 3. The series was never very good from the start, I always always thought it was so full of itself, but then in Episode 3 or 4 they introduce a gun that can virtually never miss and guess how Gogo 13 survives that episode? That's right the gun misses an unmissable shot that anyone could make with a regular gun. After that I told my brother I was done and wouldn't be downloading (Anime Network on Direct TV) any more episodes as i considered the show garbage. I was shocked to learn the show went on for 26 episodes.