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

[Accel]

May I ask what the problem with Skylar is? I keep seeing such vitriol for her pop up around here and I just don't get it, mainly because I find her to be a pretty sympathetic character myself

Sympathetic? Walt is sympathetic. Skyler is the physical manifestation of infuriating annoyance. Sometimes, I have to just stop watching for a while to cool off or be too angry to enjoy the show because of her. She's extremely self-centered and is a sanctimonious hypocrite, and she seems to be doing shit with the express purpose to be as annoying as humanly possible. How people can sympathise with her is a mystery to me.

The irony in that whole paragraph is pretty funny. Walt is sympathetic? Skyler is self-centered?

Now keep in mind, I love Walt. I think he's one of the most fascinating characters I?ve seen on television.

But the guy is anything BUT sympathetic. He is, after all, the one who started making fucking METH behind Skyler's back. Sure, he originally started it for his family, but that stopped being his motivation long ago; whereas now he's only still doing it satisfy his own desires. In the meantime, he's done some pretty heinous things, including manipulating Jesse (even letting Jesse's girlfriend die) and putting his family in danger with Gus.

Meanwhile, Skyler not only finds out her husband is making meth (for which she SHOULD have turned him in immediately or at least left him as soon as she found out), but she also has to be the one to maintain a normal-looking family (keeping that pretty horrible secret from her kids for one thing) while keeping Walt from getting arrested. And Walt keeps wearing his arrogance on his sleeve, ESPECIALLY in the latest season, doing things like buying his son a flashy new car and even "forgiving" Skyler (as he never did anything wrong to her).

Skyler's a wife who's been put into a really shitty situation and, all things considered, she's been handling it pretty damn well.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I got pretty pissed off by American Horror Story Season 2. I wanted to just call it quits after the first episode but for some reason I willed myself to keep going and it just did not improve. I really should have seen it coming after season 1 went from a show with decent (not amazing) horror to just being another overly sexualized soap opera. ugh

Likewise, but I stayed for James Cromwell because he was simply a joy to watch.

Spoiler

Then he died.

That's the part I gave up at.

 

[Mersadeon]

Hm, normally shows "phase out" instead of ending with a big "nope-moment", but Bleach really got me. If forgot what that plot arc is called, but basically, after a season that finished an arc quite nicely, instead of FINALLY exploring the pretty interesting setting a little more or focus on characters or really just anything, they just introduce this new kind of people (trying not to spoil anything).
I heard the creator of the manga once said "Whenever I don't know where to go with the series, I just invent some stupidly powerful new character and throw him in" - and if he actually said that, WELL EFFING DONE, you have the capability of seeing the problem. Now fix it.


About Breaking Bad: I still watch and love the show, but I don't do it because of Walt anymore. Obviously, spoiler alert.
He just becomes completely unsympathetic - his only reason to stay in the business is because "it's the only thing he is really good at". He has more money than Skyler can even count. He becomes excessively cruel simply to keep up a business which has no reason to exist anymore. I kinda get why Skyler says "I'm just waiting for the cancer to come back and finish you off". Not that I like Skyler. She behaves VERY irrational, at times hypocritical and here and there even out of character. Jesse has, in my eyes at least, become the new emotional anchor for the viewer - someone who actively tries to become a better human. Walt started in a horrible situation and did the things he felt he had to do, which is something a lot of people can identify with. But now, Jesse is in that situation. All in all, I still love that show and I even still like Walt, but I just can't really identify with him anymore.
(Also, I really love the "in "insert country with decent social structure here" Walt would have gotten treatment and the show would have been over after 2 episodes".)


I also quit reading Warhammer 40k books (well, except for well-justified exceptions) after reading TWO absolutely abysmal ones. The one that really sticks out in my mind is "Battle for Hellsreach", where the translator for the german version (at least I pray to the Emperor that it was just a translation-goof) implied on the backside of the book that the Forces of Chaos would show up. Basically it said "The hordes of Chaos are attacking!". Orks are NOT the hordes of Chaos. That would be, you know, the hordes of effing Chaos. They did that on two separate books. The same mistake. There is no Chaos in those books. Just Orks. Which would be ok, but it's also dreadfully boring, a boilerplate story that desperately tries to make us care about stereotypes. I will avoid that "Space Marine Battles" book-line from now on. Gaunt's Ghosts and Ciphias Caine were way better.
(It also made me realise that I don't like the Black Templars a lot, but that is an entirely different matter.)

 

[Dryk]

The session 7 finale of How I Met Your Mother.

I am not going to go to specifics to avoid spoilers, but they changed Ted from being a romantic well-meant character to being a douche that considered nothing in the pursuit for his own happiness. It also became quite clear the creators of the show had no idea about how to end it, so they keep dragging it out disposing characters and resetting arcs to maintain the status quo (which was clear before, but at that point it became evident).

If it's any consolation he spends most of the next episode realising that he's being ridiculous... then the universe decides to cop-out and let him get away with it so there's that <.<

I THINK what they've done since shows that he was meant to be heading towards a realisation that he's fallen as a character, but I don't know if I can give the writers that much credit

 

[Atmos Duality]

Saw the pilot/premier for Two Broke Girls.
I never wanted to see that wretched garbage again.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

The third episode of Legend of the Seeker. The first got me interested in the series, so I got the books. There were so many differences I just couldn't stomach watching the series any more.

 

[Para199x]

Well not TV and, I was never much of a fan of the show but Extra Credits did some episode called "God Dose not play Dice." I was never much of a fan anyway, but way to kill any interest.

Really? What was your issue with the episode? I thought it was well done

They didn't admit to fault when they where clearly at fault, and made a pretentious video talking down to people for not "getting science." It wasn't a fucking scientific debate it was an English debate. Faith has a heavy religious connotation attached to the word. So to call Science faith is to say science is a region, and it's not.

The whole episode was basically just a big straw man. Science doesn't have faith because the denotation doesn't fit, no it fits fine. It doesn't require faith because the connotation doesn't fit.

It all depends on how you view it.

To keep it very short and simple, discoveries usually go alone the lines of see a problem, investigate a problem, find out what is happened. For example gravity.

"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.

As a physics student I'd like to throw my (little) weight in on this.

Science DOES require some "faith" as in belief in some things which can never be proved (or disproved). However the things that require faith are very simple things which are pretty much taken for granted by everyone who wants to live in a society.

These things are:

1) There is an objective reality (things actually happen and aren't purely based on perceptions)
2) Human perception gives good information about this objective reality

Nothing else in the scientific method HAS to be taken on faith as far as I can tell.

In a practical sense the use of the scientific method is often augmented and quickened by scientists who have faith in one of several competing theories and do the work necessary to either defend their theory or try to disprove the competitors. This isn't necessary but it doesn't actually change how exactly the scientific method works just the motivation of those using it.

 

[Varrdy]

Maybe not so much a TV series but I stopped having anything to with Penny Arcade when, on their news show, one of the presenters displayed a rather snotty, arrogant and holier-than-thou attitude towards a group I was part of.

 

[Denamic]

May I ask what the problem with Skylar is? I keep seeing such vitriol for her pop up around here and I just don't get it, mainly because I find her to be a pretty sympathetic character myself

Sympathetic? Walt is sympathetic. Skyler is the physical manifestation of infuriating annoyance. Sometimes, I have to just stop watching for a while to cool off or be too angry to enjoy the show because of her. She's extremely self-centered and is a sanctimonious hypocrite, and she seems to be doing shit with the express purpose to be as annoying as humanly possible. How people can sympathise with her is a mystery to me.

The irony in that whole paragraph is pretty funny. Walt is sympathetic? Skyler is self-centered?

Now keep in mind, I love Walt. I think he's one of the most fascinating characters I?ve seen on television.

But the guy is anything BUT sympathetic. He is, after all, the one who started making fucking METH behind Skyler's back. Sure, he originally started it for his family, but that stopped being his motivation long ago; whereas now he's only still doing it satisfy his own desires. In the meantime, he's done some pretty heinous things, including manipulating Jesse (even letting Jesse's girlfriend die) and putting his family in danger with Gus.

Meanwhile, Skyler not only finds out her husband is making meth (for which she SHOULD have turned him in immediately or at least left him as soon as she found out), but she also has to be the one to maintain a normal-looking family (keeping that pretty horrible secret from her kids for one thing) while keeping Walt from getting arrested. And Walt keeps wearing his arrogance on his sleeve, ESPECIALLY in the latest season, doing things like buying his son a flashy new car and even "forgiving" Skyler (as he never did anything wrong to her).

Skyler's a wife who's been put into a really shitty situation and, all things considered, she's been handling it pretty damn well.

I think you misunderstand what sympathetic means. It's not an attribute that has anything to do with being good or bad. You sympathise with Walt because you get to see his descent into 'darkness'. You see him pushed and pressured, and you understand why he does what he does, even when he starts doing more and more heinous things. He's a villain you root for.

While Skyler has done honorable things, this does not make her sympathetic. She's still a sanctimonious *****.

It all depends on how you view it.

To keep it very short and simple, discoveries usually go alone the lines of see a problem, investigate a problem, find out what is happened. For example gravity.

"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.

That is not what faith is. Faith is belief without evidence, and sometime in spite of evidence.
Believing that an item will fall to the ground when you drop it is not faith, because you know you're standing in a gravity field that has this effect. You know this by having dropped things before, and the same thing happened every time. In short, you have mountains of evidence to support your belief.

Science is exiting your 10th floor apartment through the door and using the elevator to get down, because you believe beyond reasonable doubt that this method works.
Faith is going through the window because you believe an invisible being you've never interacted with will catch you.

The starting point of science is observation.

 

[karamazovnew]

Easy answer for me: the very first episode of Game of Thrones. I know many love that show, but I hated it almost instantly. I was hoping for a medieval fantasy series so the first minutes were awesome, I mean.. Sean Bean, YEY! And then.... tits. And then, again... tits. And then... ass. What the F'in FRACK is wrong with television these days? I literally felt insulted, as if I couldn't pay enough attention without some naked boobs showing up every 5 minutes. Well FRACK you producers! If they ever make a new Star Trek series, I hope you're far away from it!

Easy answer number 2: Big Bang Theory. I don't remember which episode, but I suddenly realized that every character in that show (except Sheldon) had had sex with more women than me. And these were supposed to be geeks?! Admittedly, some episodes were funny, although more XBOX jerk funny than AD&D or Warhammer tabletop funny. I really liked the actors but at some point, it just became awful. It's like "The IT Crowd"(great show btw) meets Californication. I really can't figure out who this show is for...

 

[Soulrender95]

Technically a special but Red Dwarf: Back to earth... back to earth.. can't bring myself to watch the new series because of it

Spoiler

Firstly it is a completely pointless re-hash of the insanely funny Back to reality, it ignored outright the ending to the previous series sure series 3 did that as well, sort of, but it at least acknowledged the change, we go to "earth" where they hunt down Craig Charles and run amok on Coronation Street, the god awful Car-Bug, and then a slow descent into a blade runner parody, before it was revealed to be a hallucination of the Happiness Squid the female version of the despair squid, and then they make a joke insulting the viewers as they vow to go find Kochanski ... Fuck you Doug Naylor we waited 10 years for you to piss on one of the best episodes and insult us and you want me to continue watching? no, just no.

 

[hermes]

The session 7 finale of How I Met Your Mother.

I am not going to go to specifics to avoid spoilers, but they changed Ted from being a romantic well-meant character to being a douche that considered nothing in the pursuit for his own happiness. It also became quite clear the creators of the show had no idea about how to end it, so they keep dragging it out disposing characters and resetting arcs to maintain the status quo (which was clear before, but at that point it became evident).

If it's any consolation he spends most of the next episode realising that he's being ridiculous... then the universe decides to cop-out and let him get away with it so there's that <.<

I THINK what they've done since shows that he was meant to be heading towards a realisation that he's fallen as a character, but I don't know if I can give the writers that much credit

Which, at this point, is my main problem with the show... The universe always cop out so that the group dynamics are mostly unchanged and the reset button is pushed constantly. I can't count the number of times Ted or Barney break away from relationships and fall for Robin with no better excuse than "she is the only single female character in the core cast", but I bet you is in the 2 digits by now.

If this was just some situational comedy (like Seinfield or Simpsons) I would have no problem with the reset button, but the pitch (and title) of this show was that the character arc was going somewhere.

 

[Accel]

May I ask what the problem with Skylar is? I keep seeing such vitriol for her pop up around here and I just don't get it, mainly because I find her to be a pretty sympathetic character myself

Sympathetic? Walt is sympathetic. Skyler is the physical manifestation of infuriating annoyance. Sometimes, I have to just stop watching for a while to cool off or be too angry to enjoy the show because of her. She's extremely self-centered and is a sanctimonious hypocrite, and she seems to be doing shit with the express purpose to be as annoying as humanly possible. How people can sympathise with her is a mystery to me.

The irony in that whole paragraph is pretty funny. Walt is sympathetic? Skyler is self-centered?

Now keep in mind, I love Walt. I think he's one of the most fascinating characters I?ve seen on television.

But the guy is anything BUT sympathetic. He is, after all, the one who started making fucking METH behind Skyler's back. Sure, he originally started it for his family, but that stopped being his motivation long ago; whereas now he's only still doing it satisfy his own desires. In the meantime, he's done some pretty heinous things, including manipulating Jesse (even letting Jesse's girlfriend die) and putting his family in danger with Gus.

Meanwhile, Skyler not only finds out her husband is making meth (for which she SHOULD have turned him in immediately or at least left him as soon as she found out), but she also has to be the one to maintain a normal-looking family (keeping that pretty horrible secret from her kids for one thing) while keeping Walt from getting arrested. And Walt keeps wearing his arrogance on his sleeve, ESPECIALLY in the latest season, doing things like buying his son a flashy new car and even "forgiving" Skyler (as he never did anything wrong to her).

Skyler's a wife who's been put into a really shitty situation and, all things considered, she's been handling it pretty damn well.

I think you misunderstand what sympathetic means. It's not an attribute that has anything to do with being good or bad. You sympathise with Walt because you get to see his descent into 'darkness'. You see him pushed and pressured, and you understand why he does what he does, even when he starts doing more and more heinous things. He's a villain you root for.

While Skyler has done honorable things, this does not make her sympathetic. She's still a sanctimonious *****..

You sympathize with Walt and how he starts out but you lose more sympathy as the show goes on. I don't see how you can find him sympathetic at all in this last season.

So explain it to me: WHAT exactly makes her such a sanctimonious *****?

 

[Denamic]

You sympathize with Walt and how he starts out but you lose more sympathy as the show goes on. I don't see how you can find him sympathetic at all in this last season.

So explain it to me: WHAT exactly makes her such a sanctimonious *****?

No. It's been weeks since I last watched a Breaking Bad ep, so I'd have to spend hours going through episodes just to pick out examples for a forum post. Screw that shit. There's plenty of other people that's made arguments of my positions better than I ever could have. Just google those if you really don't get why people hate her. If you really want to continue this exchange, write something I can respond to with 3 minutes of effort or less.

 

[waj9876]

Eh, not really. At least none in recent memory.

I probably would have stopped watching The Dresden Files when Bianca, a vampire, begged for Dresden's help like they were old friends, if I had read the books beforehand. Completely colored my view of Bianca until I eventually figured out what she was really like. Was all set for Dresden to have a badass vampire friend who is occasionally a ***** to him.

Luckily I still got that in the form of Thomas.

 

[Accel]

You sympathize with Walt and how he starts out but you lose more sympathy as the show goes on. I don't see how you can find him sympathetic at all in this last season.

So explain it to me: WHAT exactly makes her such a sanctimonious *****?

No. It's been weeks since I last watched a Breaking Bad ep, so I'd have to spend hours going through episodes just to pick out examples for a forum post. Screw that shit. There's plenty of other people that's made arguments of my positions better than I ever could have. Just google those if you really don't get why people hate her. If you really want to continue this exchange, write something I can respond to with 3 minutes of effort or less.

Uh-huh. The question's open to anyone because I am genuinely curious as what specifically people don't like about her instead of just "she's a *****," which I don't think is fair at all.

 

[Little Duck]

The last episode of house of the second to last series. THey developed the character massively and changed the dynamics with everyone. They pushed everyone forward and then hauled everyone back to point a again except this time it was worse. I just don't believe the rehabilitated house would do that. Misery and upset yes, but outright intent to damage, no.