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Recent TV Shows You Gave Up On.

Heroes - For lots of reasons already covered.

The L Word - I believe this show was finally put down, but I ran fleeing a couple of years ago. If ever there was a badly-written, hodge-podge development of a series. To say that the last few seasons were written by monkeys would make the error of assuming there was any writing involved at all.

CSI - Devotee up to about season 7, then it all got a bit miserable. I'm trying to get back into it now with the post-Grissom new direction.

Desperate Housewives - This was my guilty pleasure for ages, but I haven't really bothered this season. It's not like it ever made any claims of profundity, or even coherence, but I don't think this season is even bringing much in the way of cute or funny.
 
Wow, lots of people have given up on Heroes! I'm right there with you. I thought the premise was awesome, and really enjoyed the first season. I liked the second season, though it had its problems. But the third has sucked. There's no character development--characters either stay stagnant (Hiro, Peter, Parkman) or they changed at the whim of the plot (Sylar, Claire, Mohinder, Nathan) and then change back again with no explanation. I hated the first half of the third season but hung in there because I was hoping it would get better, and I watched the first two or three episodes of "Fugitives," but I just can't get excited about or even interested in the show anymore. It's just not good anymore.

I've kind of lost track of House, more because of my busy schedule than any real disinterest in the show. The nice thing is that I can watch here and there (I'll probably watch tonight's episode at some point) and catch up with the rest on Hulu or DVD.

I've gotten way behind on Grey's Anatomy. This season has been really so-so. I want to tune in to find out what happens with Izzie, though.

I watched a few episodes of Fringe and found it mediocre and boring, so I dropped it.
 
nBSG - I didn't like SciFi's waiting a year between seasons 3 and 4 so I quit after season 3. Plus, could they work any humor or just a little bit of levity into this show at all?

Leverage - I loved the pilot and the next two episodes were pretty good, but I just couldn't bring myself to watch the rest.

I don't watch much tv to begin with, so unless I don't love a show it's gone.
 
I haven't completely given up on any show, but I've missed so many episodes of Lost that I've gotten totally lost. :p House has been a bit bleah for me lately, too.
 
PKTrekGirl said:
I watched the first season of Torchwood, and stopped watching after that. Never really liked any of those characters anyway.
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I would strongly recommend trying again with Season 2 if character likability was your only sticking point. They seemed to get the message loud & clear after Season 1. The Season 2 characters are not the same wretched wastrels of human filth that Season 1 subjected us to. Sure, Owen is still a prick but he has good reason to be this time. And it seems that the writers have determined that some of Gwen's more reprehensible acts (her affair with Owen, confessing everything to Rhys and then erasing his memory) are never to be even hinted at again.

kitkat said:
Doctor Who - I didn't really like David Tennant anyways but when that ANNOYING redhead became his companion (Donna maybe?) I had had enough.
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Boo!:( Catherine Tate is the best actress they've ever had on that show. She's the only companion that can truly keep up with David Tennant acting-wise. (Billie Piper was good but I think any young ingenue could have played Rose. And unfortunately, Martha didn't get much development at all besides being a rip-off of Rose.)

On Battlestar Galactica, it wasn't outing Tigh, Tyrol, & Anders as Cylons that pissed me off. Hell, that kinda made me reevaluate my stance on the series and whether I wanted humanity to survive at all. It's the unrelated angsty shit that happened afterwards that pissed me off. This show is incapable of letting any of its characters get through it without dragging them through the muck.

Really, I think the problem with Battlestar Galactica is that it lasted too long. I think that if Season 3 had been the last season, we would have gotten a great, tight arc wrapping up the season. But by dragging it out to 4 seasons, they had to pad much of Seasons 2 & 3 with the endless Anders/Starbuck/Apollo/Dee angst just to give Starbuck & Apollo something to do in between Viper dogfights.

I think the quintessential reaction to the show came from my friend Brenda. I gave her (well, actually, her husband) Season 1 on DVD for Christmas or something. Immediately after she finished Season 1, I got this desperate phone call from her pleading to loan her both halves of Season 2. I obliged. Later, when I learned she had finished Season 2, I asked her if she wanted Season 3. She honestly didn't care. (I envy her for not becoming addicted as I have.)

I never before thought about the parallels between Roslin/Adama & Janeway/Chakotay. Between that and the endless focus on the desperation of the fleet's situation and on "consequences," it seems like this was RDM taking the opportunity to do Star Trek: Voyager his way. Unfortunately, while his version might be technically "better" than Voyager, it's not at all fun to watch.

Although, I would say that the Roslin/Adama = Janeway/Chakotay analogy doesn't quite work. Roslin is a cunning snake who can smile politely at you, then strike when your back is turned, never realizing that she was planning this all along. She's two-faced. OTOH, I think Janeway was genuinely schizophrenic bipolar. And although Roslin has made Adama her bitch, outside of that one relationship, Adama has a far larger pair than Chakotay ever did. (Of course, alot of that must be credited to the immense gravitas of Edward James Olmos.)
 
I never before thought about the parallels between Roslin/Adama & Janeway/Chakotay. Between that and the endless focus on the desperation of the fleet's situation and on "consequences," it seems like this was RDM taking the opportunity to do Star Trek: Voyager his way. Unfortunately, while his version might be technically "better" than Voyager, it's not at all fun to watch.

Although, I would say that the Roslin/Adama = Janeway/Chakotay analogy doesn't quite work. Roslin is a cunning snake who can smile politely at you, then strike when your back is turned, never realizing that she was planning this all along. She's two-faced. OTOH, I think Janeway was genuinely schizophrenic bipolar. And although Roslin has made Adama her bitch, outside of that one relationship, Adama has a far larger pair than Chakotay ever did. (Of course, alot of that must be credited to the immense gravitas of Edward James Olmos.)
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I've kind of gotten that feeling too. He was very critical of The Seven of Nine character. His rationale was either put in her in a Starfleet uniform or if you're going to do a purely sex character, then at least be smart about it. Don't pretend like she's a legitamite character when she's wearing next to nothing and the other characters don't even notice. I get the feeling that Caprica Six is what he would have liked Seven of Nine to be more like. The same goes for Janeway/Roslin and Chakotay/Adama.
 
I don't realy watch anything more but House and Gurren Lagaan on mon, the new L&O's on tue & wed T:TSCC on friday, and Simpsons, KOTH FG ect. on sunday
 
I'm surprised so many of you are giving up on crime shows...I'd recommend In Plain Sight on USA if you're fed up with traditional police shows.

For those that don't know, it's based around the Witness Protection agency, which is a setting that I've never seen done before. It's pretty unique and like most USA shows, very well written with quality characters.
 
Heroes
Kyle XY
Dollhouse
Stargate Atlantis

All of which will be canceled, or were shortly after I ditched it. :)
 
Kirby said:
nBSG - I didn't like SciFi's waiting a year between seasons 3 and 4 so I quit after season 3. Plus, could they work any humor or just a little bit of levity into this show at all?
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50 billion people died and you want the characters to be fun and happy?
 
This isn't a TV series but I gave up on the web series Unforgotten Realms a few weeks ago. The first few episodes started out great and then it went downhill from there. It just stopped being funny.
 
Aragorn said:
BigFoot said:
My Own Worst Enemy
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How do you give up on a show that no longer exists?

Is that like when your significant other breaks up with you, you say, "No, I broke up with you FIRST!" :p
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I broke up with that show after it was obvious it was doomed. :rommie: But if it had been any good, I would have stuck it out till the end.

Speaking of that - might as well bail on Kings right now. Too bad, cause it's actually pretty promising.

I'm surprised so many of you are giving up on crime shows...I'd recommend In Plain Sight on USA if you're fed up with traditional police shows.
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Maybe folks are fed up with the genre. I know I am - it's so damn stale and predictable. And you reminded me that I bailed on In Plain Sight after the premiere. Didn't see anything special about it.
I've really gotten into Dexter. Is the The Mentalist also recommended?
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Dexter is fantastic, but I see no reason why The Mentalist would be mentioned in the same breath. Showtime and CBS are on different planets.
 
bigdaddy said:
Kirby said:
nBSG - I didn't like SciFi's waiting a year between seasons 3 and 4 so I quit after season 3. Plus, could they work any humor or just a little bit of levity into this show at all?
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50 billion people died and you want the characters to be fun and happy?
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I don't think anyone is saying that. The show is based on a holocaust and should be appropriately dismal. However, at least show or give a reason why humanity deserves to survive even after "judgment day". According to what we have seen on BSG, we don't, as there really are no redeeming characters on the show or any redeeming qualities of humanity worth fighting for or saving.
 
Smallville I don't think I've ever just said "meh" to a show in my life. Voyager was like watching a train wreck (didn't want to look, but couldn't turn away), yet I watched every season although I did miss a couple of episode. But Smallville was getting more and more suffocating, and even the introduction of Oliver Queen hasn't helped. The characters never grow, with the exception of Cloe, and even that's a stretch. Finally, I think it was November, I said "no more".
 
NuBSG.

Sorry, I don't know what you peeps see in it. I just couldn't get into it -- try as I may...
 
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