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Since you've already taken my rant about R2 out of my mouth, I'll go with two others.
Dragon Ball Z. Everything after the Frieza arc gradually became worse. Since Dragon Ball padded itself to the extreme with filler, the drop in quality was not very noticeable since it took forever. But by the end, you're watching absolute bullshit that keeps trying to one up itself.
The entirety of the post movie spongebob episodes.
For live action TV, the seventh season of Deep Space Nine. While it was still good, it was very rushed, since it had to create an entirely new character arc for Ezri, Dukat went from a complex villain to Skeletor evil, and even Sisko and the Dominion became less complex and more transparent.
Dragon Ball Z. Everything after the Frieza arc gradually became worse. Since Dragon Ball padded itself to the extreme with filler, the drop in quality was not very noticeable since it took forever. But by the end, you're watching absolute bullshit that keeps trying to one up itself.
The entirety of the post movie spongebob episodes.
For live action TV, the seventh season of Deep Space Nine. While it was still good, it was very rushed, since it had to create an entirely new character arc for Ezri, Dukat went from a complex villain to Skeletor evil, and even Sisko and the Dominion became less complex and more transparent.
Best part of the series: "And then I'll take a potato chip....AND EAT IT!!!!"Jonluw said:
As for my own suggestion, I'll offer up Aqua Teen Hunger Force. First season kicked ass, second season was pretty "eeeeehhhh......", and ever since then it seems they learned their lessons and have been pumping out good stuff again.
I liked the first season of "Ugly Betty." It was a fun little "slice of life" comedic drama with the occasional crazy shenanigan thrown in. Then it all went downhill in the second season when the shenanigans became the focal point.
The first season of "Prison Break" was awesome. The suspense kept me on the edge of my seat. Then it fell flat on its face about midway through the second season when the big secret behind the conspiracy was revealed:
After that the show stumbled around haphazardly, resorting to rehashing themes and concocting increasingly ludicrous conspiracies within conspiracies.
The first season of "Prison Break" was awesome. The suspense kept me on the edge of my seat. Then it fell flat on its face about midway through the second season when the big secret behind the conspiracy was revealed:
The president had an incestuous affair with her brother? Are you shitting me?!
After that the show stumbled around haphazardly, resorting to rehashing themes and concocting increasingly ludicrous conspiracies within conspiracies.
RJ 17 said:Best part of the series: "And then I'll take a potato chip....AND EAT IT!!!!"Jonluw said:
As for my own suggestion, I'll offer up Aqua Teen Hunger Force. First season kicked ass, second season was pretty "eeeeehhhh......", and ever since then it seems they learned their lessons and have been pumping out good stuff again.
Love how over the top Death Note could get.
Captcha: cubic spline...Dafuq?
xD that's what I'm talking about. The music picks up all super dramatic as he says the line...it's like "Dude's just eating a fucking chip, big deal. Yeah, he's being sneaky, REALLY isn't worthy of all that excitement."wintercoat said:RJ 17 said:Best part of the series: "And then I'll take a potato chip....AND EAT IT!!!!"Jonluw said:
As for my own suggestion, I'll offer up Aqua Teen Hunger Force. First season kicked ass, second season was pretty "eeeeehhhh......", and ever since then it seems they learned their lessons and have been pumping out good stuff again.
Love how over the top Death Note could get.
Captcha: cubic spline...Dafuq?
It wasn't so much the second season that ruined shows for me, but the actual ending
Soul Eater: I thought this show was actually really excellent, sort of a cross between a condensed version of the action/battles of DBZ and the humor of FMA. And then the ending, that last episode....god is it horrible. At least to me
Claymore: Somewhat the same sort of thing as Soul Eater, there's a big battle with the main bad guy which leads up to the final episode
They were both just a little too deus ex machina for my taste. And there was no closure, no nothing. They both just sort of...stopped
Soul Eater: I thought this show was actually really excellent, sort of a cross between a condensed version of the action/battles of DBZ and the humor of FMA. And then the ending, that last episode....god is it horrible. At least to me
Makka like goes unconscious, and we discover that she's, in fact, a Meister/Weapon hybrid, which is actually quite awesome and something they should have expanded upon. But she gets her ass kicked by the big bad guy Kishen. Then she remembers that her mother sent her a postcard with the word "bravery" and suddenly she just magically wins. And then it stops. That's it. That's literally the last episode
Claymore: Somewhat the same sort of thing as Soul Eater, there's a big battle with the main bad guy which leads up to the final episode
The last episode comes from Claire not being able to control her Yoshi powers and defeats the main villain all within the first five minutes. Then as she's about to Awaken (become a demon) all her friends come together and help her regain control and they all just say "Welp...see ya!" and head their separate ways
They were both just a little too deus ex machina for my taste. And there was no closure, no nothing. They both just sort of...stopped
Definitely Heroes. Such a great first season with interesting characters and a comic book-like narrative, then the second season was just?disappointing, introducing an influx of bland new characters. The third season kind of picked up a little bit, and then the fourth season was just an atrocity. Thank God they cancelled it.
If you want to know how a series can do multiple superheroes throughout all its seasons (well, OK, the third one was slightly weaker than the previous two), just watch Misfits.
If you want to know how a series can do multiple superheroes throughout all its seasons (well, OK, the third one was slightly weaker than the previous two), just watch Misfits.
Agreed, since that got taken I will go with Code Geass. Season 1 was great but season 2 was just a mess (to nicely put it I didn't like how it had turn out in the end). I was enraged more by the fact that the creator didn't intend season 2 to start out that way. Infact it suppose to start of right after season 1 and there was possible shipping with that girl who owned the boardings schoolNinjaDeathSlap said:
This isn't an exact fit, but the Naruto series does something similar.
Any episodes based on the manga are basically guaranteed to be incredible, but any of the filler arcs that are anime-only are always complete shit.
Considering episodes 136 to TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY of the first series were filler...holy shit did it get terrible. The worst offenders were the one-episode fillers. Ugh.
Any episodes based on the manga are basically guaranteed to be incredible, but any of the filler arcs that are anime-only are always complete shit.
Considering episodes 136 to TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY of the first series were filler...holy shit did it get terrible. The worst offenders were the one-episode fillers. Ugh.
You're gonna get alot of Mass Effect 3's. The ending was complete ass but I'm not looking at the ending alone here. Everything else was all well done.
Maybe somebody else wrote this, but Misfits. Seriously. I really liked season 1, it was amazing and I thought it was really good and something new. Than season 2 came along, and even though it managed to salvage itself with the Irish Git (which is the break-out character from the show), the plot was just retarded. Milk Magneto ??? Come on !
Haven't even bothered with season 3 because Irish Git isn't in it.
Haven't even bothered with season 3 because Irish Git isn't in it.
I'm throwing my vote in for Heroes too.
Though the other thing that you have to remember about season 2 was that it was the writers strike season, and the writers strike fucked a lot of TV shows. Quite honestly, I would have been happy if Heroes had been a one off series. The way the first season ended was epic.
Though the other thing that you have to remember about season 2 was that it was the writers strike season, and the writers strike fucked a lot of TV shows. Quite honestly, I would have been happy if Heroes had been a one off series. The way the first season ended was epic.
I *could* technically say Top Gear, but... Hey, I like it more these days.
As someone who really don't care about cars very much, I find it alot more fun now that it's less about "Here is the Topolino 5000-X, let's go through boring specs now" and more about "Look what our three idiots are doing this week!", it's like Three Men in a Boat or something.
But still... It was supposed to be a program about cars, wasn't it?
As someone who really don't care about cars very much, I find it alot more fun now that it's less about "Here is the Topolino 5000-X, let's go through boring specs now" and more about "Look what our three idiots are doing this week!", it's like Three Men in a Boat or something.
But still... It was supposed to be a program about cars, wasn't it?
When I read the OP, Heroes is exactly what came to mind. Watching the first season during my time off in my 3rd year of university was a highlight; I looked forward to it every week. Shame to see such a great show go the way of the dodo without ever having reached its full potential.NinjaDeathSlap said: