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

[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.

 

[Reiper]

I stopped watching Criminal Minds when it became `new ways to slit up pretty ladies`. Jeez, I know women are murdered more than men, but seriously...

Actually, men are more likely to be murdered than women by a sizeable margin.

 

[DirgeNovak]

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.

Upcoming film? It came out months ago. And it was shit.

Spoiler

And he lived, setting up a sequel that's either an original story or SH2 without the plot twist, which would be horrible

 

[bastardofmelbourne]

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

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!"

 

[sXeth]

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.

 

[Playful Pony]

Although his first few episodes had been unwatchable (Spider Gollum Maul bullshit), they managed to do something interesting with his return by tying him into the Mandalorian plot, which had been floundering since season 3. The finale where Sidious murders Savage and beats Maul to a pulp was excellent.

But for god's sake, why turn Barriss into a terrorist bomber intent on framing her best friend for the atrocities!?

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...

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...

 

[verdant monkai]

Upcoming film? It came out months ago. And it was shit.

No film where Sean Bean lives can be shit (since he is Heathers Dad chances are he will still die in later films).

 

[Roxor]

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!