SkavauWhats a TV series that went completely off the rails, became absurd and lost sight of its own original premise?
I hear Riverdale was like that.
Znation. And it was glorious
yessikgThe Attack on Titan finale left me scratching my head
I mean, it played out like a lot of action focused anime:
- Step 1: Come up with an interesting concept (big human eating monsters)
- Step 2: ??? (maybe a training arc)
- Step 3: Fight God
more like taking almost 10years to finish 4 seasons lol.
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ScrubblesSherlock unfortunately. S1-2 are some of the best TV I’ve ever watched. 3 was okay, and then 4 was completely off the rails, with each episode being about some zany conspiracy. Granted it can’t take all the credit, Doyle did the same.
It’s been awile but was season 4 when he basically became God? Like, I get that he’s smarter than everyone but it turned into him basically containing all human knowledge in his head. “That hair on her scarf is from a Persian blah blah breed of cat only available from X thus proving she’s the murderer” without doing any research, just God-like knowledge kicking around his head.
“24” Just got more and more absurd and soap operatic. Also how much can one man go through?
Dr. Who.
When started, it was a show to teach kids about history.
NCUTI AND whittaker, although its more to blame on the showrunner. Whittaker especially had problems with how the show was being run. ncuti was a weaker show than even whittakers runs. Rani, missy, masters all had such better storylines.
I was talking more about William Hartnell ;-)
First story arc has been about travelling back to the stone age, if I remember correctly.
Gist of the show changed rapidly from historic arcs with some thrown in fantasy entertainment to complete SF/Fantasy already during the 60’s.
Hartnell doctor best doctor.
It’s so sad that many of the early episodes have been destroyed.
definitely. Old Who was where it was at. I wasn’t around to see it aired on TV, but I have whatever eps have been recovered. Sadly, not as many as the show deserves.
supernatural, After krikpke left season 5, it just went in a totally wierd parasocial/sexual direction with the fans. and basically it was filler ever 2-3 seasons, til they finally ended it. and then Jensen tried to sneakingly with his wife start a new series behind jared’s back which cause a whole drama situation going on. being both producers, you and your wife was pretty deliberate in not acknowledging jared or misha(he dint make a big stink about it, because he saw the fallout of jared and jensen and dint want the same problem to arise).
ISAIP, this series was on life support after 11-12, they also got too old physically, plus the plastic surgery is pretty obvious at that point. the actors are clinging on this for dear life, because they arnt hollywood material outside the show, hence why MAC is so wierd now(the actor) outside the show.
nutrek shows, not even based on continuity or the original intent, and that was verified by Kurtzman who had no interest in the lore, he was much like Les moonves with ENTERPRISE.
SGU, YEA they shouldnt have started with the drama at all, shouldve done like sg1, in between seasons or mid-season to help break up large plots.
I feel like IASIP actor were successful in their own ways outside of it.
Rob made 4 seasons of Mythic Quest, which isn’t that easy nowadays with series getting cancelled left and right at season 2.
Glenn played in a few movies and series.
And Charlie is the “most successful” with movies and voice acting.
Caitlin has a lot of acting gigs outside of IASIP, though it feels like they are less mainstream.
I don’t watch IASIP, but the few newer episodes I watched were pretty much in line with the schtick of the whole series.
Captain AggravatedRosanne, the 90’s sitcom starring Rosanne Barr and John Goodman. One of the many “living room set with a couch in the middle” family sitcoms, this one about an Illinois blue collar family, the Connors, and their life and times trying to make ends meet. Eight seasons of this premise making acclaimed TV, and then in the ninth season, they win the lottery, go on all these outlandish adventures, Dan cheats on Rosanne, etc. The series finale reveals the whole show is a story being told by Rosanne Barr, and that the last season was mostly bullshit, they hadn’t won the lottery, Dan had died of his heart attack in the previous season, and the show ended on a “wtf was all that?” kind of note.
I think I’ll also mention Lassie, which is just kinda weird. Non-Americans might not even know what I’m talking about. It’s a show about an unusually intelligent rough collie named Lassie. Most folks who are familiar with it know it by its first incarnation, where Lassie is a farm dog who spends her days with the farm boy named Little Timmy. Little Timmy goes on precocious little adventures and often gets into trouble, and Lassie has to help, sometimes by fetching objects but often by fetching the adults to help. And everyone pretends that they can understand Lassie’s barking. Here is a stereotypical exchange from the show:
MOM is in kitchen. LASSIE enters
Lassie: Bark. Bark. Woof.
Mom: What is it girl?
Lassie: Bark. Bark.
Mom: Timmy fell down a well?! Where?"
Lassie: Woof. Bark bark.
Mom: On Old Mister Knickerficker’s ranch? Well let’s go!
Note: You know how Darth Vader didn’t say “Luke, I am your father” or Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty?” Yeah, Timmy never fell down a well. He fell off cliffs, into rivers and lakes, down mine shafts and into quicksand, but never into a well.
The thing is, after several seasons, Lassie just…became a forest ranger’s dog. And other than “show about a smart, fluffy dog” it had basically nothing in common with it’s original run. And then for it’s last few seasons, it became an anthology series where Lassie roamed around on her own having random adventures of the week.
Most folks who are familiar with it know it by its first incarnation, where Lassie is a farm dog who spends her days with the farm boy named Little Timmy.
That’s the second incarnation. Before Timmy, lassie belonged to a slightly older kid named Jeff. Then one day Jeff’s parents randomly decided to drop everything and move to England. They couldn’t bring lassie with them for some reason so they gave her to Timmys family. I assume Jeff died about 10 minutes after he got off the plane with no lassie to save him from his own misadventures.
He fell down the airplane toilet 39 minutes into the flight and with no dog to alert anyone he drowned in the blue water.
Simpsons. They were really against celebrityism and pop culture in the beginning, then they went in the complete opposite and started worshiping celebrities. Ugh. New simpsons is dead to me.
that is one show that is past its prime like 20 years ago, its like how spn turned out.
Yup. They should have ended at season 10-12. Meanwhile, futurama has endless possibilities for plots, and that’s been cancelled like 3 times now.
rozodruFamily Matters
Show went from a wholesome sitcom about a family in Chicago to whacky borderline scifi. It was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers and just started going off the rails like around the 4th season when they retconned the existance of the one daughter Judy. Then by the end it just became the Steve Urkel show.
There is a phrase for that, it’s called “Jumping the Shark”.
1hitsongBBCs Humans.
Had such an interesting premise of a rogue genius inventor sneaking in sentience of consciousness in his pet android project. Gemma Chan being in it made it a easier watch too.
But then they kill off major characters in later seasons for stupid reasons and then bring up the concept of a hybrid fetus…and the whole synth messiah god like arc was asinine. As much as it pains me, I’m glad that it was cancelled and we never saw that… Plus
Tap for spoilerthe show could not go on without Gemma. RIP Mia.
It’s been practically forgotten about
