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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That yappy little fucker ruined things.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

I know it isn't everyone's cup of tea. I can see every flaw people are saying as well. It's kind of my guilty pleasure.

2 1/2 Men: Multiple stages really.

Jake getting older and the addition of his friend.

Alan turned from a down on his luck guy to blundering comic relief. It has its funny moments, but there is a lot of cringe to be had in that change.

Replacement of Charlie with Ashton. I know the crazy behind it. That said, he makes it completely unwatchable. He doesn't carry nearly the same energy that Sheen does. The same dynamic doesn't exist between him and Alan, character wise.

They dialed Alan's blundering to 1000% after Charlie left.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pointless baby/pregnancy every time!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this, Dexter season 3 in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even worse in Bones. Devoutly childfree woman becomes pregnant and then goes completely baby crazy. How insulting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Well.. the executive producer wanted changes in the show. Particularly when she was actual pregnant and didn't want to hide it on set or screen. Gotta say though, I respected her for having typically body changes of a women going through pregnancies and not trying to blur it all out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Did they at least point out that she had two sets of skeletons inside her? If not, missed opportunity for Bones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

At least Brooklyn 99 saved it for near the end, thank god.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's when I stopped watching the Office.

[–] mutual_ayed 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not the addition of a character but a complete rewrite of a character on Police Cops. Max Power was such a dashing cool cop for the pilot but soon after they rewrote him to be a fat bumbling oaf....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't the cool cop named Homer Simpson in the pilot, who then became an idiot laughing stock, causing people also named Homer Simpson to change their name to Max Power, after a hairdryer?

And that's the end of that case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

uh-oh, spaghetti-o's

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also wasn't he originally written as being independently wealthy? I think that aspect was also lost in the character transition.

[–] mutual_ayed 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup, from rich ladies man to slob, and he didn't even have the excuse of having kids! He had three money no kids!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Upvoted for the much appreciated Simpsons reference

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

X-Files is kinda shit after Mulder is replaced by Dogget.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have been a huge X-Files fan since the show was first released and I still have not seen the last few Dogget episodes because I just can't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Dogget at least has some character development, doesn't hold a candle to Mulder though and definitely not saying he's a good character, but what really got me was the Agent NoPersonality, Monica Reyes. (I had to look up her name) She doesn't do anything, she doesn't have any kind of development, she doesn't add anything and she's just so boring and cookiecutter. No chemistry with Dogget either. I had actually forgotten she exists until I rewatched the entire series recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The only good scene with her was Scully teaching her to run in heels.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

When it actually happened, I stopped watching it. Never seen bothered with an ep after that.

[–] QuantumSparkles 4 points 1 week ago

I think Doggett was in a handful of good Monster-of-The-Week episodes, but at that point the the series had gotten way too dumb that Mulder couldn’t have really made it much better. I think the series was way too in love with its own mythology, which was, frankly, pretty mediocre. The mytharc had become so diluted and silly that I just can’t watch most of those episodes anymore, even before it got bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

X-Files was kinda shit LONG before Dogget comes into the picture.

[–] kinkles 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Goddamn Felicity in Arrow pissed me off. That show grew to have a lot of problems, but she was an especially terrible part of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That reminds me of all the Olibur memes.

Once I figured out the plot to every season I stopped watching.

A lies to B to protect them. Something happens to B because they didn't know the truth. Truth comes out anyway. Reconciliation. Rinse. Repeat.

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[–] philycheeze 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea, this for me as well. When season 3 started I felt the writing was off and kinda fell off for a while thinking I’d catch up later. Once I finally got around to it, the Arrow subreddit had completely morphed into a Daredevil sub as some kind of protest to just how bad it had gotten so I just never went back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Season 4 or something when it turned into ~~Dawson~~ Felicitys Creek with masks is when I jumped ship to the rest of the Arrowverse.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Near from death note. Man what a fucking downgrade.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Connor on Angel. His arc was pretty damn painful to sit though, and lasted nearly two seasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Almost quit when Dawn was introduced into Buffy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m going to disagree with Dawn. I feel like she was the one addition that really worked: the ballsy gaslighting that turned out to be a retcon and her being central to the plot actually sold her for me.

Plus I grew up on Pete and Pete so I was already a Michelle Trachtenberg fan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I should have clarified that in the end I think adding Dawn as a character was great for Buffy, but initially, I hated the idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That was the point though - they deliberately made her obnoxious af and pushed it in a way that would put the viewers on the back foot before pulling the rug.

Connor was just a disaster. Even the actor hated the whiny little shit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I will get hate for this but hear me out.

Sex education.

First two seasons were epic.

The third season they introduced a fully rainbow school that absolutely ruined the show. It turned into a challenge to tick every box at the same time instead of being a good tv show that had those topics as part of the story

I have no issues with the content, but it didn't feel like it was part of the show, it felt like a big giant participation award instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The cracks were there in the second.

The goal to string things out with more series just makes things worse. And characters archetypes don't mesh well with the development as the writers want it all to be archetypal.

Groff-Eric was the best thing about second series. It made main guy even harder to stand.

But then I always root for the second girl, so how else could I feel?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You spelt Adam and his dad wrong but all good haha

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Stargate SG-1, Anubis. A very evil, evil-looking evil guy who is evil and did a bamboozle once. That's all the character depth he has.

Also Cam Mitchell, who is just a non-brand replacement for O'Neill (no offense to the actor).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So. SG-1 was supposed to end after season 8 (hence Moebius). They were planning a new spinhoff series called Stargate Command to replace SG-1, when SciFi got notice from the parent company - I think at the time it was owned by USA Network? - that they needed to drastically cut costs, and the only way they could lose the amount needed was to cancel a series.

Bonnie Hammer, who was president of SciFi at the time the decision had to be made, was a massive fan of Farscape; she wanted to cancel Stargate Command and keep Farscape running. Only there was a bunch of concern that Farscape didn't have the ratings the network would need, and more concern about launching yet another Stargate spinoff - Stargate Atlantis had just launched in 2004 when the decisions were being made, and Stargate Infinity had failed miserably a couple years earlier.

Despite the struggles, they decided that Stargate had more name recognition and staying power than Farscape, and Hammer made the painful decision to cancel Farscape; and also cancel Stargate Command as a spin-off but instead to role it's concepts into a continuing SG-1. With RDA having left, they had cast openings, and Hammer brought both Browser and Black from Farscape over to the revived SG-1 (hoping to also bring in song Farscape fans to boost SG-1's ratings), where it lasted out the contracted two years.

Atlantis ran for another couple years, until Cooper and Wright decided they really wanted to clone the darker themes from Battlestar Galactica and created Universe. But they didn't prep the audiences correctly. A lot of the OG SG-1/SGA fans didn't like the new, darker atmosphere, and a lot of potential fans who would've liked the new series never tuned in because the original series hadn't captivated them. It was on the verge of finding it's audience but time ran out; Universe only lasted two years before it too was cancelled.

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[–] iAmTheTot 8 points 1 week ago

Aw real bummed to see you say this. Cam did the best he could stepping into the shoes he was, and while he's no O'Neill, he grew on me. And I liked Anubis, too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They killed off Sokar too early in my opinion and then realised the mistake and made Sokar 2

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[–] Voroxpete 10 points 1 week ago

I'm not going to say "Ruined", but Farscape was significantly degraded by the introduction of Grazer.

Scorpius is one of the greatest antagonists ever written for a TV show. I don't think what they chose to do with him was a terrible idea, it's good to shake things up. But as a replacement as the primary antagonist, Grazer absolutely sucks. The fact that they literally gave her mind control sex pheromones that she spreads from her boobs genuinely sounds like the sort of thing that belongs in a bad porn parody. Like, that is "Horny fourteen year old" levels of bad writing.

Thankfully the one season she's a big deal for is still perfectly enjoyable, and the show sticks the landing pretty decently with Peacekeeper Wars, so don't let this deter anyone from giving it a look. Like all nineties and noughties TV, it's got a lot of ups and downs, but all in all its a really fun show.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Neelix made me eventually quit watching Star Trek Voyager. Too much cringe.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, I don't think I kept watching Rugrats for very much longer after they added Dil.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Parks and Rec. They spend like a whole season trying to convince you that April hated Andy forever and it just didn't need to go on that long. They are way funnier as a couple for the rest of the show and they could have just gotten there in an episode two instead of wasting a whole season with her dating that Spanish guy that Andy ends up playing music with anyway.

Even on rewatches those scenes just feel forced and stupid. Still love the show though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Friends when they added Paul Rudd

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

You will not besmirch the good name of Crap Bag like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Izumi in Gantz he was the problem and also the symptom. That became a shitshow for posterity. What the fuck were those vampires man!
Sheldon in the Big bang theory I know he comes in episode 1 but how the fuck anyone puts up with his shirt? The show for real should have been Leonard saying "why I have to tolerate you?" And gtfo that apartment. I know Sheldon is used as a device to generate stories but man... Could you not just do a nerd stereotypes list of a character?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rory (Lucifer's daughter) from the future on the TV show Lucifer. The time travel plot line felt pretty forced.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The lincoln lawyer tv show

Introduction of Cisco ruined it.

Guy is supposed to be a big macho hunk biker and was some sweaty mom's basement dewler... we had to turn it off and never went back.

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