Recent TV Shows You Gave Up On.

[Thrall]

Paradoxically, I still find myself compelled to watch Battlestar Galactica even though I've given up on it. At the very least, I've given up any hope of wringing much more entertainment value out of this. I just need to find out how it ends so that I can purge it from my system.

Excellent way of putting it. I like that word. "Purge". Newsweek is insane if they think this is the defining show of the Bush years.

The only one I really care about anymore is Baltar (probably because he's the only character who truly realizes that he's a screw-up).

Fair enough. But he's still the worst of the lot BY FAR and the semi-Gul Dukat thing they got going on with him is uninspired.

I kinda like Col. Tigh, although he got a bit too angsty when his wife died.

Spoiler: Yeah tell me about it

Tigh as a Cylon makes as much sense as a Garth Brooks prog-rock concept album. Both happened sadly.

Starbuck is a bitch that should have stayed dead.

Oh testify. You better believe testify.

Sometimes I like Apollo because he's trying to do the right thing. Other times I'm pissed off either because he keeps allowing himself to be dragged into Starbuck's melodrama or because I'm irritated by all of the nepotism that Admiral Adama showers upon him.

Lee's a good guy. He's supposed to be Captain Americaish. He was always my favorite character for that reason. He was the idealist. The true believer. The boy scout. The man of prinicple and ethics. The Gene Roddenberry. Now, he's let all those assholes drag him into the shit with them. Now he's just as mean-spirited and cynical as the rest of those degenerates. I hate Ron Moore for that.

President Roslin is a contemptible hypocrite. She claims to believe in democracy but she'll squash you if you refuse to acknowledge her divine will.

Funny, because Ron Moore said he hated Captain Janeway.

Admiral Adama is fine except that President Roslin has made him her eunuch.

And here we have Chakotay 2.0.

I don't think anyone forgave Dee for leaving Billy. (And we all miss Billy.)

Fucking some random guy when your boyfriend's just died is beyond horrible. No one took their hookup seriously after that. Lee got a pass becuase he built up so much White Hat points prior to that. But but that was the beginning of the end for the character.

Gaeta pissed me off when he purjured himself at Baltar's trial.

I'll never forgive them for having that nerve to try and paint Baltar as a tragic hero after all that. How dare they preach to me about what a bloodthirsty animal I am when they're the ones that wrote the character as a spinelss colaborator out to save his own ass at the expense of his species time and time again. His intent was not that, but that's what he was.

I used to like Chief Tyrol & Sam Anders but..

[spoiler="Yeah tell me about it] Anders I always knew was going to be a Cylon so they could eventually get Lee and Starbuck together somehow. I loved The Asskicking Fatboy. The Tryol thing really pissed me off. Here we have an average Joe character. The prime example of what hummanity is and what it is about. He's a normal guy, who also is an example to others and strives to do the right thing. A loyal family man who acheives, despite lifes hardships and his own flaws and demons. But we can't have a positive veiw of humanity anywhere here so hey -guess what? - he's a Cylon. One could argue they set it up when he went crazy after he lost Sharon and thought he was Cylon. I would argue Ron Moore doesn't have that much forsight. Grumble, grumble. [/spoiler]

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Heroes - Gave up after the Eclipse two-parter. That half season had some good episodes in the beginning, but then it just went downhill so fast, it may as well have just gone off a cliff.

Dollhouse - Watched the first episode, wasn't too excited by it. I'll probably go back and check the rest of it out later, but right now I've just got too many other shows to watch.

 

[Aragorn]

Dollhouse... that lasted two episodes for me.

Smallville... gave up on it early this season. The synopsis of the last episode made me watch it, although naturally it was a massive disappointment with the horrible writing, pathetic characterizations and the patented reset button.

CSI: NY... didn't exactly watch every single episode to begin with, though I saw a lot in the first couple seasons. But the CSI franchise in general never really interested me, despite Gary Sinise. Though CSI: Miami is like a great camp comedy.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I gave up Heroes a few weeks ago. It's just gotten so dumb and boring. I also gave up on Dollhouse. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and to be absolutely honest the concept of the show would not appeal to me at all were it not Joss behind the helm (which makes that fact that the show sucks even more disappointing.)

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Fringe- The X-Files without the spooky atmosphere and set primarily (exclusively?) in Boston.

Survivor- Actually the last one I watched any of was All-Stars, not that recent. What the fuck was that...giving burly guy a million for not winning?

American Dad- Somehow Family Guy can still pull out some decent bits, but American Dad was weak from day one and is largely unamusing.

On the edge of quitting:
Dollhouse- Even though I can catch repeat airings of THE CLONE WARS, I'd still rather watch it's first airing than the first half-hour of Dollhouse. I do flip over during commercials...and oddly, find myself not really missing too much of Dollhouse's plots.

Will watch, but won't miss it when its gone:
The Sarah Conner Chronicles- A slooooowwwww moving series. Makes me miss episodic t.v.

 

[Vanyel]

Lost - After a engaging first season, season 2 just left blah and I didn't even get through half the season. Mr. Eko was the only good thing about season 2.

Monster Quest - They never take a stand one way or the other. Is there a Bigfoot or not? Is Loch Ness able to support a large water animal or not? Take a side. I'm only watching the shows that look like they might be interesting, just so I can learn about the new "monster" they wont take a side on.

America Idol - All those who read one of the American Idol threads I posted in know my views on that POS show.

 

[Amasov]

I, too, gave up on Heroes but probably not as recently as you guys did. I lost interest about a third of the way through the first season. I tried really hard to like it - mostly because all my close pals who know me real well were saying that given some of the other shows I like (Lost, Jericho, Star Trek) that Heroes would be right up my alley.

Sorry, I didn't care much for it. I'll just watch/read X-Men instead.

 

[Kronos]

The Office, Pam and Jim are still fun but the rest of the cast are just no fun, mean idiots aren't that funny after a few years.

Dangerously close to giving up on Chuck, they appear to have 3 scripts, and the will they are won't they has been done to death.

 

[LutherSloan]

For those of you that gave up on Fringe, you should have been more patient. I too was on the verge of quitting, but then they started to answer some of the questions and give an idea as to where this show is going.

I recorded last Monday's Heroes, but I'm just not sure if I care enough anymore to watch it. The show is past just being in the toilet, now they're pulling the handle.

 

[FPAlpha]

Heroes

God was i pissed at the season 1 finale.. the show built up this incredible energy, tearing us along to the finale at breakneck speed with awesome episodes (i've never seen such a well made, total character-change episode like Company Man ever again) to end with such an abysmal finale.. it was like getting aroused by a hot woman all night only for her suddenly saying bye and going home alone (or to add insult to injury going home with another guy).
Season 2 just devolved into a real mess and i barely bothered with season 3

Lost

Again.. Season 1 was awesome and i never missed an episode but the show declined slowly over the seasons until it became a chore to watch it and at that point i realized that i lost interest. Recently i caught up with the story via Wikipedia and realized i made the right choice

Terminator SCC

I don't know.. it was quite good with the introduction of Reese but after the introduction of the T1000 (or whatever she/it is) i somehow missed some episodes and didn't bother then.. a sign for me that i lost interest

Saw the Pilot of Fringe and while it had an interesting premise somehow the next few episodes felt uninspired and so i quit. The same happened to some other shows like Private Practice (spinoff of Greys Anatomy), Dr. Who (cheap special effects and bad acting can do that) and Star Wars Clone Wars (i'm definitely not the target demographic.. if i were 25 years younger it would be the best show ever)

Greys Anatomy was a contender this season with the Denny Ghost subplot and the new interns behaving in a way that should have them fired and brought to court yet all they got was a slap of the wrist. I hate shows that build this huge drama and then just basically deflate it with a weak ending.. if you can't write a realistic or halfway decent end to a storyline then don't even start.
Last few episodes however were very good and that saved the show on my watch list.

In real danger currently are

Dollhouse... it just cruises on low speed with potential glimpses of intersting storylines but i miss the sharp dialogue and WTF? outbursts at scenes that make Whedon shows. So far it doesn't feel like Whedon at all.. i don't need pop culture reference porn at all but i miss other qualities of Whedon that seem lacking with this show

 

[Super Grover]

My Name is Earl - the Earl goes to prison storyline and got away from doing the list ruined it for me.

 

[payndz201]

The second half of the latest season of Heroes started a few weeks ago in the UK, but without me. The first season was really well done, I thought - proper 'appointment TV' - but since then they've just been flailing around trying to come up with new things for these people to do, and when they can't, randomly depriving them of their powers in contrived ways.

I only caught a couple of episodes of the second season of Torchwood because the first was such a cheesy, wannabe-edgy disappointment. My opinion wasn't changed by what I saw.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Lost: I quit after season 2. Again, no idea where they're going. Just doing random stuff without any sense of a narrative. Killing off characters for no reason other then just the shock. The death of Mr Echo still pisses me off. And now The Island is a fucking TARDIS. Good greif. And the fact that that hillybilly douchebag Sawyer has had sex with every woman on the island, well, you can't tell me with a straight face that the writers aren't living vicarioiusly.

Just wanted to say that most of the deaths on Lost have been done not for shock value (though I'm sure that was a great bonus for them), but because the actor didn't want to be on the show anymore. Apparently many of them have gotten "island fever" and can't stand living in Hawaii. This is what happened with Eko. And of course the things you mentioned sound silly when you take them out of context, but if you watched all the episodes then it makes a lot of sense and is great to watch. Also, the writers do in fact have a plan! They have said that for the past few seasons they know exactly where they are going and how the series is going to end. So that's good.

 

[ProwlAlpha]

Heroes - The show bores me into a coma.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Heroes is an awful show...but I still watch it. I don't know why, I didn't even think the "great" season one was all that. Maybe it's because if there is a show supposedly about superheros on tv, then I want to know what's going on. But I have no emotional attachment to it in any way.

BSG - I have loved this show for years BUT the last 4 episodes leading up to the series finale have been so boring, pointless, illogical and contradictory that I have mentally given up on this show and will only watch part 2 of the finale for completion's sake - the same reason I ditched Voyager for years but watched the finale just because it was trek. I will know how bsg ends but the show is dead to me. And I loved it!

Lost almost lost me in season 3 - luckily I stuck in there and was handsomely rewarded.

Nip/Tuck has lost its shine but I'm still in.

Terminator almost lost me this season with the numerous, repeptitive episodes where nothing happened and all we got were hallucinatory, confusing scenes that took place in sarah's mind. YAWN. But I'm still in because, let's face it, it's a show about Terminator - they will probably always have me.

Same with Smallville - no matter what they do, they will have me because it is a show about Superman...it would have to reach drastic Enterprise or Voyager levels for me to abandon this franchise.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

I've recently given up on Naruto: Shippuden. The show has grown terribly redundant and uninteresting.

BSG - I have loved this show for years BUT the last 4 episodes leading up to the series finale have been so boring, pointless, illogical and contradictory that I have mentally given up on this show and will only watch part 2 of the finale for completion's sake - the same reason I ditched Voyager for years but watched the finale just because it was trek. I will know how bsg ends but the show is dead to me. And I loved it!

Exactly how I feel about the show.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Dollhouse
I usually don't give up on a show so soon but it's like I forget it's even on.

Terminator: SCC
Sort of, I missed/forgot the last two episodes and I'm not sure I'm inclined to go back and watch them. Which makes me wonder if I'm not just watching it as a timekiller.

Lost
Not even that I hated this show or anything but someone was asking me some questions about it and I realized somewhere along the line I had lost track of what all was going on which kind of turned me off. Maybe someday I'll go back and watch it again when I can watch it more closely and consecutively off DVD, reruns or whatever.

 

[CommodoreKong]

I gave up on Fringe when it returned mid season and Scrubs was in the same timeslot. The only thing I liked about the show was the two Bishops, everything else about the show was average at best. I was hoping for a great X-Files type show and it didn't even come close.

 

[Othello]

CSI: New York
CSI: Miami

In case you are wondering I never watched the 1st CSI.

 

[Trekker4747]

CSI "TOS" not sure why. I think it just got old for me.

Heroes, one great season was about all it got.

Lost. At least when it comes to watching it every week. Will likely just buy the DVD set when it comes out and watch it that way.