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

[Zydrate]

I can't pinpoint an exact episode, but...

Spoiler

I quickly became bored with The Walkind Dead after they killed Dale(?), the old guy who was the entire group's voice of reason. The show isn't bad, but after he died I just watched as our heroes just fall apart. Most of them became boring. If they weren't boring, they were stupid. If neither, they're just plain unlikable. I stopped watching the series in the middle of Season 3. I WANT to watch it, but I'm just so fucking bored with it now.

 

[Willy Hernandez]

Walking Dead first season ending, booooring as hell, overdramatic, a total lack of... i don´t know, zombies, i can´t go on, i must admit i saw a couple episodes of the season 2, but never finished without fall sleep

 

[Zydrate]

I stopped watching doctor who after the snowmen I?m only going to resume watching when they air new episodes.

I'm confused. You're going to watch it when new episodes come out?

Then you haven't stopped watching the show have you?

 

[Ishal]

CONFIRMED SHITCANNINGS:

HOUSE: When I realized every fucking episode was exactly the same.
CSI VEGAS: When I realized every fucking episode was exactly the same.
LOST: During the dregs of Season 3, although I would eventually return and finish out the show.
DEXTER: Early Season 3, the gradual transformation of Dexter from sociopath to sympathetic anti-hero annoyed/disgusted me.
GLEE: I hate to admit it, but I enjoyed early Glee. There was a dark humor very reminiscent of the excellent movie Election. However, a series has never gone off the rails so completely so fast.
DEATH NOTE: Around episode 24-26. Somewhere in there. You know why. =\

POSSIBLE UPCOMING SHITCANNINGS:

COMMUNITY: The first two episodes of S4 have almost killed my desire to ever see another one. That the awfulness was anticipated doesn't make it any easier to watch. A sad end for a once great show. Should've died when Harmon was fired.
THE WALKING DEAD: Get your shit together show. This "5 minutes of awesome, 40 minutes of garbage" formula is wearing thin.

I NEVER EVER could get into LOST. It was made doubly hard since I didn't like it but was surrounded by pretentious friends who thought it was deep and meaningful. The same type of people who enjoyed the Bayformers, but I digress.

I admit The Walking Dead had me lose interest more than a few times. I stopped watching midway through the first part of season 3 and started watching it again now, but I have to ask you a few things.

1) what exactly don't you like about TWD now? You think the pacing of action/exposition/character building is skewed? I kinda got that impression too.

2) What is your opinion on Michione? Cuz me personally, I can't stand her. She is a borderline Mary Sue imo. She is something straight out of a bad anime like BLEACH. Constantly dark and brooding, the katana, there is probably a backstory for her to explain all that but I don't really care. I feel like the show is forcing her Badassery on me... not so with Deryl or Meryl. Am I out on left field on this?

3) I notice Game of Thrones isn't on your list, so I got to ask. Should I start watching that show? I've put it off since I didn't really have an interest at first not having read the books. I also didn't really have time. Now that I can get the first two (or 3?) seasons is it worth it?

 

[dharmaBum0]

I've never been a *fan* of the Seth Macfarlane franchises but was never against them being on in the background or passing the time until something else was on. But Macfarlane's shows have some undercurrents of, if not misogyny, a lacking of empathy for sensitive issues on women. It's always kind of bugged me, but it never felt severe enough to not just be dismissed as comedic irreverence.

Then a few weeks ago I caught the tail end of an American Dad where Francine looks worked-over, and they make some joke about Stan threatening someone asking if she's okay -- and that was the punchline. It felt very unsettling, presented in a tone and construction that wasn't at all funny. Maybe I missed something earlier in the episode, but it sure didn't feel like it.

I don't think Macfarlane hates women, or thinks beating up women is inherently funny; but for the life of me I cannot see how else this scene was supposed to be taken. On it's own I probably could overlooked it, but it was a culmination of all the weird and off-putting jokes Macfarlane's shows have made at the expense of his female characters that I just don't want to subject myself to it anymore, in the hope of the fleeting and none-too-common good joke of his shows.


Other than my smug indignation at an easy target, I'd say I "stopped watching" DS9 (and all Star Trek) after season 5, and by "stopped watching" I mean I've forcefully tried to forget everything after S5. I liked the whole "Dominion War" arch as a concept, and even thought the "storyboard" version of how it all went down was pretty good, but all the little details they threw in just mangled the canon so much it wasn't worth it. (Worf kills Gowron? The Ferengi all but join the Federation? Why the hell is Miles O'Brien never promoted?) Things got a bit "too big" and silly in the finale, when to they used all of 10 extras to portray a full-scale, planet-wide overthrow of the Cardassian government.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

1) what exactly don't you like about TWD now? You think the pacing of action/exposition/character building is skewed? I kinda got that impression too.

2) What is your opinion on Michione? Cuz me personally, I can't stand her. She is a borderline Mary Sue imo. She is something straight out of a bad anime like BLEACH. Constantly dark and brooding, the katana, there is probably a backstory for her to explain all that but I don't really care. I feel like the show is forcing her Badassery on me... not so with Deryl or Meryl. Am I out on left field on this?

3) I notice Game of Thrones isn't on your list, so I got to ask. Should I start watching that show? I've put it off since I didn't really have an interest at first not having read the books. I also didn't really have time. Now that I can get the first two (or 3?) seasons is it worth it?

1) TWD has terrible pacing problems and is still weighed down by a plethora of bad, poorly acted characters. Additionally, the titular environmental threat...the zombies...are rendered comical by their slowness and scarcity. Slow zombies are threatening en masse. They overwhelm you with pure force of numbers. When there's 6, and you're all inexplicably head-shotting them from 100 yards away, all sense of dread is gone. So we're left with human drama, which has been middling at best and agonizingly dull at worst.

2) One note character. One note writing, one note acting. I understand that she's meant to be suspicious and with-holding, but we're given nothing to hold on to aside from her competence. At least she's better than Andrea.

3) Game of Thrones is a perfectly serviceable show for anyone who hasn't read the books, and Chinese Water Torture for anyone who has. I enjoy seeing the "books" for the first time through the eyes of complete newcomers, so I'm getting some vicarious enjoyment of of it, but the number of pointless (and frequently awful) deviations from the books drives me to distraction.

 

[Zeles]

I started being skeptical of Doctor Who at the first episode of the current season. I hung in there, though, hoping it would get better. It didn't. Then came the mid season finale, and I just couldn't take it anymore. Watching it made me so angry. So many logical fallacies... And Rory! Dear god, Rory was awesome! But all season he was given barely ANY attention!

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Well, I don't own a TV, mostly because the majority of the shows that are shown are utter crap.

I've had moments like that though, for example in the anime Total Eclipse when soldiers get stranded on an island. The reason they got stranded was just so fucking retarded too. They forgot to secure the boat, and they're soldiers. Fuck I think any normal person would have thought of it, but for soldiers it feels like it should have been basic training. The show was stupid before, but I couldn't take anymore after that point.

 

[TK421]

Spoiler: Bleach

That episode after the whole Aizen thing where Ichigo gets all his powers back. He won by losing all his powers they can't just give them all back and return to the status quo. That's stupid.

Also, some of you people are waaay to sensitive about jokes and circumstances intended to be humorous. I'm purposefully not singling anyone out, because I don't want to have a huge argument with some guy on the internet, but some of you could consider lightening up a bit.

 

[Raine_sage]

I think it was the first episode of glee that introduced that dreadlocked christian guy. Joseph? I don't even know.
Glee had so much potential to be a good show. From the outset it seemed kind of like Seinfeld set in highschool with musical numbers thrown in. A bunch of dysfunctional people doing dysfunctional things to each other with snappy writing and one of the best "mean coach" villains I'd ever seen.

Aand then they started trying to have a message. It tried to make the characters sympathetic. It started shying away from black comedy and started focusing more on "teen issues" and it lost me when one of those issues became "teens want to have sex and if you're not then something's wrong with you."

As someone who abstains for a variety of reasons ranging from religious to personal health, and as someone who is close friends with an asexual, this just rankled me too much. I don't care what someone else does with their body but if they'd be offended if I tried to tell them what to do with it I don't know why they think I'd be any more receptive to someone trying to tell me what I should be doing with mine.

 

[Edl01]

Well I didn't quit the series but...Higurashi Kira. I couldn't finish an episode. It felt like they took one of my favorite franchises, found everything in it that was good and entertaining, took it out and replaced it with massive amounts of fan service. As a sequel it was atrocious, but even as a stand alone series it still stands to be one of the worst anime series ever created.

OK, now that my little rant is out of the way I will get to normal shows:

X-Factor: I don't know if this counts, but I actualy didn't mind the show the first or second time. But then the show started to get kind of old the third time, and I am pretty sure we are now on our sixth X-Factor, just how repetitive it is makes me never want to watch it.
As a little mini rant - every year nearly everyone I know says "this is a fix, there is no way I'll ever watch it again next year" and then they go on and watch it anyway. Well no wonder it is a fix if no one if going to do a bloody thing about it...

Big Bang Theory: I actually didn't mind the first one or two episodes I saw all that much, but after a while it just felt kind of samey to me. The character all have their roles and they don't seem to go beyond that. For example we have the dumb blonde, the virgin guy who makes tons of sex jokes, the nerdy asian obsessed with science. I just felt the show played it safe.

I remember I tried to watch the soap opera HollyOaks once because it actually had a fairly decent story about a guy called Sylas, however over a year later with the story line still going on I decided "screw this", they dragged the story on so much it just started to irritate me. Hold on a second, can I amend this to "every soap opera I have ever watched ever"?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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.

Same for me, really. Granted, the show had one strike against it already because I'm thoroughly sick of the whole zombie fad.

Also: Enterprise. "Dear Doctor". Worse than singing hippies, Crusher getting seduced by a Scottish ghost, Ferengi sex-changes, and Paris turning into a salamander COMBINED.

Ah yes, the Prime Directive was created to allow Archer to condone genocide. Son of a *****.

 

[Bocaj2000]

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And you misunderstood what a connotation is. A connotation is the implied meaning and feelings associated with a word. The word guru can mean just someone who knows a lot about a certain field, IE a tech guru. But the connotation of the word imply's that you would be a leader of sorts. It's not what the word literally means it's the implied meaning behind the word. It would be the same as going in to a gay bar and screaming "I'm guy" then wondering why people are coming onto you, because gay just means happy.

I understand fully that faith can be used to describe Science, but so can propaganda that doesn't make it an good description.

I know what connotation is. I still disagree with you. Maybe there was simply a misunderstanding on which use of the word "faith" they were talking about; maybe EC should have been more clear on the definition they chose to use. But you still should have been able to know that faith, although commonly associated with religion, isn't only about religion. If your issue is that "faith" can be applied to science but only by technicality, then you might have a good point worth expanding on.

Also, screaming "I'm guy" at a gay bar has nothing to do with connotation; it deals with misunderstanding.

Note: I'm not mad nor trying to insult you. We're having a conversation ^-^

 

[Varanfan9]

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.

If I may be so bold to make a suggestion, I would recommend trying out Spice and Wolf. The show breaks a lot of sterotypes down, with no multi-episode fights and a female protagonists that is (gasp) not reliant on the male to save her every single plot line.
As for myself, I stopped watching Clone wars much after the Zillo beast episode. Not so much cause it sucked, but because I'm a giant monster movie fan and knew they would never do something that awesome again. I kinda wish they brought the Zillobeast back again.I still occasionally watch in episode if I'm in the Star Wars mood but don't have time for a full movie.

 

[Gemore]

The (very short lived) Dresden Files

In one of the episodes, Bianca was a vampire character and begged for help from Dresden.

Meanwhile, your favorite poster Tippy2k2 had just finished reading "Grave Peril" (terrible timing for the show...).

Now I'm not going to spoil anything but if you were a fan of the book series, you know what happens. In the TV Show...Bianca was a good guy. Nope. I'm out TV Show. I can accept a lot of changes to the series but that is one change that I will NOT accept and am appalled that they made such a drastic change.

Wait, that episode was like eight or ninth in the running order. How did you get that far in before you noticed a "drastic change?"

That was episode "Bad Blood" (episode 5). Honestly, a lot of the changes I understood due to TV being different from books (Bob being the most obvious example). However, that was not a change I could handle considering...

Spoiler: Grave Peril Spoiler

For those that don't remember, in book 3, Bianca turned Susan (Dresden's love interest) into a half-vampire thingy. Changing Bianca from one of my most hated enemies to a good guy bugged the shit out of me.

Thats in the middle of the baount/bant part. its pretty shit. But the reason is that its part of the filler arc. skip EVERY filler and the shows alot less boring.

 

[schiz0phren1c]

lot of battlestar galactica hatred,
but then I didn't watch any more than the first half of the first series(its on my list)
Ohhhhhkay.
a lo of what I'm going to say is gonna come across as Misogynistic,
but(badly done)Female characters,whether strong or clingy,sane or nuts,ruin quite a few series for me,
Breaking Bad,I'd have drowned walt's wife in the pool,
Justified,the whole,wife/ex wife thing got fucking tiresome,and yay four Kickass episodes into series 4,
here comes the thieving lying ***** again.yippee.
same with The Walking Dead,a whole host of female characters fucked that up for me.
And before the flames start pouring in I LOVE strong female characters,christ there isn't a badly written female in the whole of Firefly,even the inicidentals.
So it CAN be done,it just so,so,so seldom is,and it spells doom for a series.
Forgot to mention Deadwood and that Laudanum addled fucking idiot,
as a perfect comparison mrs Mills in Hell on Wheels is brilliantly done.
discuss/rage/call me a pig,its all one to me.

 

[8a88leph1sh]

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

 

[AD-Stu]

There's a few - Chuck had well and truly lost me towards the end. I soldiered on anyway and finished the final season... and really wish I hadn't.

Heroes lost me maybe six episodes into the first season, the characters just never grabbed me. From the snippets I saw of the series after that, I'm glad I didn't bother.

Game of Thrones had me bored to tears after two episodes. On a bunch of people's recommendations though I gave it another try and I'm glad I did, because whatever it was I missed the first time around clicked the second and now I love the show.

I echo other people's WTF sentiments about the end of Battlestar Galactica too, though like everyone else, it was the last bit of the last episode so there wasn't much you could do about it. I suspect if it wasn't the end then I still would've persisted with the show though.

 

[Darthbawls77]

Lost. I decided I might as well give it a chance a couple of months ago (despite knowing about the shit finale that was plastered everywhere on the internet half a decade ago)and got up to the start of season 3. Nope. Nope. NOPE. God damn it Abrams, you could have had it all... but you fucked it up. You fucked it up real good.

Plenty of animes too. I usually last one or two episodes before leaving them alone forever.

I'm with you on this one. I don't know what episode of season 3 lost me but it was fast and unforgiving like a prison rape and left an emotional scar that shows every time I talk about the show now. But even after such an ordeal I kept with the show and finished it but after the 2nd prison rape followed by a few shankings that was the horrid of a last season and a final deathblow to my nuts and skull with that(and it hurts me to call it this) ending I might never love a show again the same.

 

[Darthbawls77]

lot of battlestar galactica hatred,
but then I didn't watch any more than the first half of the first series(its on my list)
Ohhhhhkay.
a lo of what I'm going to say is gonna come across as Misogynistic,
but(badly done)Female characters,whether strong or clingy,sane or nuts,ruin quite a few series for me,
Breaking Bad,I'd have drowned walt's wife in the pool,
Justified,the whole,wife/ex wife thing got fucking tiresome,and yay four Kickass episodes into series 4,
here comes the thieving lying ***** again.yippee.
same with The Walking Dead,a whole host of female characters fucked that up for me.
And before the flames start pouring in I LOVE strong female characters,christ there isn't a badly written female in the whole of Firefly,even the inicidentals.
So it CAN be done,it just so,so,so seldom is,and it spells doom for a series.
Forgot to mention Deadwood and that Laudanum addled fucking idiot,
as a perfect comparison mrs Mills in Hell on Wheels is brilliantly done.
discuss/rage/call me a pig,its all one to me.

Walt's wife sickens me to the very CORE, to my very soul even! I love the show so much that I just now pretend she doesn't exist. What a stupid, poorly written and acted part she plays in every single solitary episode shes in. I try not to hate on the actress cause I know its not fully her fault but I'm actually starting to hate her very face and voice.