No Right Answer: Show that Jumped the Shark the Most
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Heroes became incredibly bad incredibly fast. I loved the first season, but by the middle of season 2 I stopped watching. From time to time some friends would comment how the show was going and just by hearing them I never wanted to go back.
Lost, yeah, it had many problems, but it also had a lot of good stuff. I didn't mind the time jumps, and I think the series gets really bad only in the last season. The island part was bonkers and the flash sideways part was useless, culminating with that ending. However, if you can ignore the "purgatory" part of the ending I think it gets less bad. Anyway, Lost had great characters, even if some of them were badly treated in the last seasons.
Lost, yeah, it had many problems, but it also had a lot of good stuff. I didn't mind the time jumps, and I think the series gets really bad only in the last season. The island part was bonkers and the flash sideways part was useless, culminating with that ending. However, if you can ignore the "purgatory" part of the ending I think it gets less bad. Anyway, Lost had great characters, even if some of them were badly treated in the last seasons.
Honestly, they are both winner(?) in my book however I would of went with Heroes. Heroes went so downhill it ended with 4 seasons while LOST lasted longer in in saying so those other seasons in LOST were bad, yes they're both winners!
I loved Heroes and season 2 had interesting moments and enough momentum from season one to continue. Then we had a crap ending to the season and it sucked. Badly. I put a lot of blame on the writer's strike because I think they had some long season plan they had to rush. And season three was baaaaaaad. It deserves to die. So many interesting things that would be introduced and wrapped up way too quickly. Season four was good. But it was too little too late.
I never got far enough into Lost for it to look like it had rails. In the beginning of season 1, (when they had 0 answers) it just looked like they were freewheeling without a clue. There's a shadow! And a noise! And then there were polar bears! Also numbers.
It felt like they were just throwing out questions that were ridiculous and mindboggling because they didn't make sense. Promethus had the same sort of problem, they just threw stuff out and assumed they had the ability to resolve it when the time came around.
I think they start providing some answers later on and it got better, but I couldn't stick with it, because instead of the mysteries being interesting I was always aware that they were something designed to be interesting by just not having an answer yet. The whole show was hook and nothing else to me.
It felt like they were just throwing out questions that were ridiculous and mindboggling because they didn't make sense. Promethus had the same sort of problem, they just threw stuff out and assumed they had the ability to resolve it when the time came around.
I think they start providing some answers later on and it got better, but I couldn't stick with it, because instead of the mysteries being interesting I was always aware that they were something designed to be interesting by just not having an answer yet. The whole show was hook and nothing else to me.
I never had anything to do with Heroes.
I watched the first season of Lost in its entirety, missed half of the second season, came back, had no idea what the hell was going on, and by the beginning of the third season, I was just like '...I give up.' It's on Netflix, though, so I may go back and retry to watch it, just to see if a solid beginning-to-end viewing will make it make sense.
I have little hope of such things.
I watched the first season of Lost in its entirety, missed half of the second season, came back, had no idea what the hell was going on, and by the beginning of the third season, I was just like '...I give up.' It's on Netflix, though, so I may go back and retry to watch it, just to see if a solid beginning-to-end viewing will make it make sense.
I have little hope of such things.
What the hell, Kyle!? How dare you end the show with a reminder that "The Event" was a thing that happened (the show, anyway)
I don't think Heroes ever really "jumped the shark" in the traditional definition of the phrase. It just sort of floundered around with no clear direction before people finally got sick of nothing happening.
I don't think Heroes ever really "jumped the shark" in the traditional definition of the phrase. It just sort of floundered around with no clear direction before people finally got sick of nothing happening.
I don't think heroes jumped the shark so much as it jumped the cougar shark.
It messed up the second season thus jumping a shark and not letting season 3 go anywhere and then in season 3 took away most of what was interesting thus the cougar shark and then in season 4, they were so lost they were water skiing in a farm.
It messed up the second season thus jumping a shark and not letting season 3 go anywhere and then in season 3 took away most of what was interesting thus the cougar shark and then in season 4, they were so lost they were water skiing in a farm.
I watched Lost all the way through a few months ago, and I really liked it. I can see why people wouldn't (especially the last season), though.
LOST was interesting and I can actually follow their "resolution", but they did stretch things out too long, throwing out wierdness after wierdness after wierdness and then writing themselves into a corner where they couldn't resolve things any better than they did. It's an example of why even with JJ at the helm, the guys running the networks should ensure that shows have a clear script/pattern to follow when they get extended.
Heroes I blame more than LOST for blowing chips actually, since that show should never have been greenlit. Their entire problem seemed to be not having the budget to do a super hero show, so they had to find continually obtuse ways of not having any kinds of decent super hero fights, or having people use their powers at all unless they were very easy to do on camera (like telekinesis which can be done with wires and camera tricks.
Lost at least had the budget for what it was setting out to do, and it had it's black smoke monster, wierd sets, and other things in exactly the right proportions. It's failure was in it's writing, but you can at least see why it got approved.
I agree Lost jumped the shark more, because it had everything it needed to be good and stay that way, heroes on the other hand was doomed right from the beginning.
Heroes I blame more than LOST for blowing chips actually, since that show should never have been greenlit. Their entire problem seemed to be not having the budget to do a super hero show, so they had to find continually obtuse ways of not having any kinds of decent super hero fights, or having people use their powers at all unless they were very easy to do on camera (like telekinesis which can be done with wires and camera tricks.
Lost at least had the budget for what it was setting out to do, and it had it's black smoke monster, wierd sets, and other things in exactly the right proportions. It's failure was in it's writing, but you can at least see why it got approved.
I agree Lost jumped the shark more, because it had everything it needed to be good and stay that way, heroes on the other hand was doomed right from the beginning.
I could never get into either show, to be honest. My mom was a big fan of Lost and every time I tried watching it the obviousness of their efforts to draw it out frustrated me.
What is this "The Event" thing the guys mentioned at the end of the video?
What is this "The Event" thing the guys mentioned at the end of the video?
The problem with TV is, no one is willing to let a show go when it's finished. If it's still making money, has good ratings etc they've got to continue the show no matter what. Supernatural was a good example of this. In my opinion they should of ended it after the whole apocalypse plot was resolved. I was expecting that but they continued it and well. I dunno I've heard people say it's still good but I couldn't get past the whole soulless Sam season.
They should of just let it end with a nice ending, now it's going to go on until they decide to axe it and it will have an either terrible cobbled together "end" episode or it will just stop mid plot and leave all it's balls hanging in the air for ever.
They should of just let it end with a nice ending, now it's going to go on until they decide to axe it and it will have an either terrible cobbled together "end" episode or it will just stop mid plot and leave all it's balls hanging in the air for ever.
for me heroes never really survived the writers strike and lost just couldn't keep my attention through the third season
It's weird knowing my boss now is one of the "others" from Lost. I'll let people guess if they're interested.
Not really jumping the shark the most, but the show that jumped the shark the best was Arrested Development, where the Bluth's Lawyer, played by Henry Winkler, jumps over a shark on his way to Burger King.
Umm...never seen an episode of Lost. Not one. Watched all four seasons of Heroes and by the end of the first season, I thought to myself, "well, it can't get any worse....right?". And it did. It got incredibly bad incredibly fast. No writers for the second season? Just continue to bite the plot of the X-men...and think of some way to not have Hiro involved in anything that matters because his powers are overpowered. So when they weren't biting the Xmen, the show was pretty much about Peter whining and Sylar getting a new power every week.
So I'd substitute Lost with something like...Battlestar Galactica. That show got god awful after season 2 with all of that religion crap and pregnant Cylons and Starbuck is now a woman and later a ghost and WTF is this shit?
Another would be Smallville, which somehow managed to be a thing for 10 Seasons. Got really bad once you realized Tom Welling is like 35 still pretending to be 18...or after High School. Chloe somehow replaced Barbera Gordon as Oracle, and the Watchtower is not in space...Lex is Clark's best friend. Lois is a complete spaz and somehow knows Clark before Metropolis. Supergirl and every other Kryptonian that shows up over the course of 6 seaons all know how to be Superman BEFORE SUPERMAN
Hell, Supergirl even shows up in her costume years before Superman. Oh..and the kicker? Wipe some magic slime on the clone of Lex that makes him forget being best friends with Clark and pretty much everything that happened for the last 10 years..
So I'd substitute Lost with something like...Battlestar Galactica. That show got god awful after season 2 with all of that religion crap and pregnant Cylons and Starbuck is now a woman and later a ghost and WTF is this shit?
Another would be Smallville, which somehow managed to be a thing for 10 Seasons. Got really bad once you realized Tom Welling is like 35 still pretending to be 18...or after High School. Chloe somehow replaced Barbera Gordon as Oracle, and the Watchtower is not in space...Lex is Clark's best friend. Lois is a complete spaz and somehow knows Clark before Metropolis. Supergirl and every other Kryptonian that shows up over the course of 6 seaons all know how to be Superman BEFORE SUPERMAN
Hell, Supergirl even shows up in her costume years before Superman. Oh..and the kicker? Wipe some magic slime on the clone of Lex that makes him forget being best friends with Clark and pretty much everything that happened for the last 10 years..