What TV/movies/games do you pretend never happened?

[Randoman01]

So, what TV show episodes, movies, video games, etc. Do you pretend never happened? Was there ever a form of media that you thought was so bad you pretend that it does not exist?

 

[TakerFoxx]

Oh, there's the usuals like the Star Wars prequels. Also, the Jurassic Park sequels. One movie, two books. That's it for me.

The toys and the video games can stay though.

 

[Zontar]

For TV show episodes: a few season 1 episodes of Stargate SG1 that didn't really make sense once the writers started to make a more consistent and streamline vision of the show's universe.

Also pretty much all of seasons 1 and 2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation

For movies: The Star Wars prequels. Don't make sense within the context of their universe, don't make sense as movies in their own right, aren't particularly good movies, just a few reasons why. I wouldn't be surprised if Disney chose to reboot them in a decade or two. Well actually I would, but hey a guy can dream.

For Video Games: Supreme Commander 2. They took everything good about the first two games (yes, there where two before, someone can't count) and took it out of the game in the name of making it look more flashy and cartoonish. Now I can accept a RTS which makes itself look cartoonish and is simplistic, but not in a game which had been realistic before that and prided itself on being massive in scale and complex. The fact that the story both sucked, didn't make much sense and didn't have anything to do with the teaser the game before it ended on didn't help. It killed the franchise, I'll never forgive it for that.

 

[shootthebandit]

X-men: wolverine origins

This film is just dreadful. It contradicts other X men stories and it has Gambit and deadpool but still somehow its shit

 

[Marter]

I like to pretend that The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior didn't happen. It's an unnecessary prequel that tarnishes the name of The Scorpion King.

We'll see if the fourth film does that, too. So far, only the odd-numbered films have been worth seeing (just like with Twilight).

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Films:
The Secret of Nimnh 2, all the Land Before Time sequels, everything after the first Matrix movies. Also 90% of the Disney animated movie sequels. And the upcoming 50 Shades of Gray movie.

Also, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story. Fans of the show should understand why.

Games:
Bloody Roar 4. Seriously, what the hell.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I like to pretend that The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior didn't happen.

Not even the part where that one dude catches an arrow that's flying at him in his hands, stops it, turns it around to face the guy that fired it, releases it, and it proceeds to fly back to the archer at full-speed and kill him? Really? Come on...

OT:
I'd like to pretend that the Red Dawn remake never happened. The acting, the writing, the special effects... all terrible. When they changed the antagonist from the Chinese to the North Koreans it just became laughable. To top it off, even the movie got bored of itself and quit. The remake ends at the prison camp raid, which was only what? Like halfway or two-thirds of the way through the original?

I'd like to pretend Prometheus never happened. If we, the audience, are expected to believe that those characters were supposed to be humanity's best and brightest... holy shit. Apparently at some point in the Alien timeline Idiocracy must have happened.

As for games, I'd like to pretend that Aliens: Colonial Marines never happened. 'Nuff said.

 

[Ldude893]

M. Night Shyamalan never made an adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and I will firebend the balls off of anyone who tells me otherwise.

 

[Dalisclock]

There are only three Indiana Jones movies.

 

[RedDeadFred]

There was only one Matrix movie. Smith was the final boss, Neo wins, everyone goes home victorious. The next two movies are Neo's weird dreams after having too much to drink at the after party.

 

[Duster]

cod6-10

It went straight from world at war to advanced warfare

@crazygirl17
I think i'm the only person on the planet who likes the matrix three the most out of their trilogies

>that 2deep4u lore
>more club scenes because why not
>not enough stopping power scene during the drone invasion
>that 2deep4u ending

it's soooo rewatchable

 

[Fox12]

Everything FF7 related.

The Hobbit movies.

Watchmen prequels.

Toy Story 4.

Basically any time a corporation makes a souless continuation to a classic series.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Also, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story. Fans of the show should understand why.

As a huge Madoka Magica fan, I don't particularly agree with that.

Spoiler

Whether you think the film was necessary is up to you, as the original show ended perfectly, but I do think Rebellion adds more to Homura's character. The thing is that I don't find what she did hard to buy, because I always figured that someone who's been through what she have wouldn't be all right in the head. Repeating the same timeline almost a hundred times for the sake of saving a friend, to the point where it became a necessity for her to live, how would that change a person? At what point would loyalty to a friend turn into obsession, which is how I always felt about Homura. Even after the series, she's still trapped in her own obsession with Madoka, still willing to do anything for her sake, even if it goes against what Madoka would've wanted. That doesn't make her a bad character, in fact it makes her even more interesting to me. I think the film adds to the series, and has some neat ideas, which is what I'm always open to when it comes to Madoka.

My only problem is that it shouldn't have been a twist. I feel it would've sat better with viewers if it was a gradual change over the course of the film, to when it gets to that point you're fearing for what Homura might do.

However, I like to think Evangelion 3.0 is not in continuity with the other Rebuild films.

Same with Saint's Row the Third (Pre-SR4)

Oh, also the Clannad movie and Phantom: The Animation OVA, mostly because there's not really any reason to watch them now since they both have far superior anime adaptations out now (or, you know, you can just read the visual novels, as some purist would say.) This is also gonna be the case with the Studio Deen Fate/Stay Night anime.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Surprised haven't been ninja'd yet:

Movies: Anything that was a game, and interpreted into abomination by the downright evil Uwe Boll. Yup, there is NO Far Cry movie, NO Bloodrayne movie, NO Alone in the Dark movie. Nope, no such thing exists.

Games: Dungeon Siege 3 has to be the biggest let down I've ever experienced, having strayed simply too far from the first two, it was not something I enjoyed in the slightest. And I practically worshipped the first two as being the granddaddy of isometric party-based action RPG.

Music: I don't listen to or acknowledge any Sevendust albums between 2001-2005.

P.S: Holy sacrilegious flaming shitballs, I just did a Wiki search on Uwe Boll to see what other games he's butchered since my time of writing this, and what do I see? DUNGEON SIEGE. Well, good on ya, poor franchise never had a chance. 3.8 on IMDB, doh! (His LEAST profitable venture, apparently). Please flame yourself and die, buddy.

 

[Super Cyborg]

So far, the only thing I would like to pretend didn't happen was the second to last fight in Naruto.

Spoiler

So you have Naruto and Sasuke fighting out a hax villain Madara already, which has been stretched out beyond the needed amount, when all of a sudden the true mastermind appears, Kaguya. This person was mentioned only chapters ago, and is even more powerful than Madara. Worse yet is that the battle goes nowhere forever, and adds needless padding, and that Obito was a pretty cool guy, despite causing mass genocide.

Even with that taken out of the story, the whole series would've still been mediocre, just less so with that part taken out. I don't pretend that most of it didn't happen, because while I will never read it again, I don't regret reading it.

Certain things like Metroid: Other M and 99% of Bleach after the Soul Society arc I've come to accept, and just hope that people have learned lessons from it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Games:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 never happened. The canon ending of Force Unleashed 1 made sure that a sequel would not happen. Palpatine and Vader learned the lesson Starkiller mostly pounded into them, clones never happened, nobody cared about whatever happened with Juno, the Rebel Alliance was forged that day and eventually grew until New Hope happened. At least that's what happened before the Disney buy-out...

Dirge of Cerberus didn't happen...I'll just assume this was meant to be an in-universe video game made by someone who had read Cloud's biography and thought the Vincent character was just too cool for school...and also was a Gackt fan.

Movies:

I like to consider Pirates of the Caribbean to just be a trio of Monkey Island games. The fourth Pirates movie is The Wacky Misadventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.

2000's TMNT CGI thing...which wasn't terrible but it didn't seem substantial at all. It featured new monsters/bad guys who were completely unrecognizable. It hinted at something better in the future, hoping to sequel bate when what it should have done was just gone all-out to try and deliver something phenomenal.

TV/Anime:

2000's Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) OVA thing...It wasn't a bad OVA but it was really disconnected from the first two series. It seemed like the TMNT movie from the late 2000's in that it just exists to exist and not really establish anything new outside of its bubble of existence. What I really didn't like though was the explicit rape in episode 3...I don't go to Hokuto no Ken for that kind of thing. Yes, it was implied in the other series and manga but it just seemed weird to have it shown off to the extent it was in the OVA.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

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Also, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story. Fans of the show should understand why.

As a huge Madoka Magica fan, I don't particularly agree with that.

Spoiler

Whether you think the film was necessary is up to you, as the original show ended perfectly, but I do think Rebellion adds more to Homura's character. The thing is that I don't find what she did hard to buy, because I always figured that someone who's been through what she have wouldn't be all right in the head. Repeating the same timeline almost a hundred times for the sake of saving a friend, to the point where it became a necessity for her to live, how would that change a person? At what point would loyalty to a friend turn into obsession, which is how I always felt about Homura. Even after the series, she's still trapped in her own obsession with Madoka, still willing to do anything for her sake, even if it goes against what Madoka would've wanted. That doesn't make her a bad character, in fact it makes her even more interesting to me. I think the film adds to the series, and has some neat ideas, which is what I'm always open to when it comes to Madoka.

My only problem is that it shouldn't have been a twist. I feel it would've sat better with viewers if it was a gradual change over the course of the film, to when it gets to that point you're fearing for what Homura might do.

Eh, fair enough. I'm not opposed to a bit of difference in opinions.

Spoiler

Personally, I think my problem with how the movie turned out is the fact that it took the bittersweet ending of the series and made it... that... apparently all for the sake of deconstructing happy endings. This I feel, is both cruel and mean-spirited towards characters who deserved better...

Though like you said, Homura was probably a bit off her rocker by this point, I can kinda see that. You also mentioned that the whole thing should have been gradual, and I think that might have made it less grating. But no... that's not what we got is it? *SIGH*

That being said, Kyubey's fate is quite cathartic...

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

]

Also, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story. Fans of the show should understand why.

As a huge Madoka Magica fan, I don't particularly agree with that.

Spoiler

Whether you think the film was necessary is up to you, as the original show ended perfectly, but I do think Rebellion adds more to Homura's character. The thing is that I don't find what she did hard to buy, because I always figured that someone who's been through what she have wouldn't be all right in the head. Repeating the same timeline almost a hundred times for the sake of saving a friend, to the point where it became a necessity for her to live, how would that change a person? At what point would loyalty to a friend turn into obsession, which is how I always felt about Homura. Even after the series, she's still trapped in her own obsession with Madoka, still willing to do anything for her sake, even if it goes against what Madoka would've wanted. That doesn't make her a bad character, in fact it makes her even more interesting to me. I think the film adds to the series, and has some neat ideas, which is what I'm always open to when it comes to Madoka.

My only problem is that it shouldn't have been a twist. I feel it would've sat better with viewers if it was a gradual change over the course of the film, to when it gets to that point you're fearing for what Homura might do.

Eh, fair enough. I'm not opposed to a bit of difference in opinions.

Spoiler

Personally, I think my problem with how the movie turned out is the fact that it took the bittersweet ending of the series and made it... that... apparently all for the sake of deconstructing happy endings. This I feel, is both cruel and mean-spirited towards characters who deserved better...

Though like you said, Homura was probably a bit off her rocker by this point, I can kinda see that. You also mentioned that the whole thing should have been gradual, and I think that might have made it less grating. But no... that's not what we got is it? *SIGH*

That being said, Kyubey's fate is quite cathartic...

Spoiler

The ending did throw me off at first, but thinking about it, only Homura's and Madoka's relationship truly suffered. You have a world where Sayaka's still alive and is friends with Kyouko, Mami has Nagisa so she's not alone anymore, Madoka is a normal girl again and living happily with her family and friends, and Homura "saved" Madoka, even if it costed her friendship. Most everyone got what they always wanted, just in a rather morally corrupted and questionable way. It's still a rather bittersweet ending.

And yeah, I did say it would've been better if it was gradual, but I still loved the movie, and have seen it a few times.

 

[MetalShadowChaos]

Other M is the obvious one that springs to mind.

And the most recent Transformers Game. You know, the one which took the fantastic Cybertron games and made them canon to Michael Bay's movies.

Yeah, fuck that with a rake.

 

[Depulcator]

That hulk movie......you know which one.