Hero to zero

[JoeZhang]

What TV or book or whatever was the quickest for you to go from "this is amazing" to "did I really watch/read that crap?"

For me it's got to be heroes, the first series had it's problems but I stuck with it and pleased with the progress. By episode 5 of the second season I'd had enough, I forced myself to watch until the end ("surely it has to get better?") of that season but never tuned in again...

 

[Aragorn]

While I never thought these two shows were amazing (or anything special), I did think they had potential and watched for a while until I realized they were pretty empty and repetitive:

Star Trek: Voyager
Smallville

I did return to watch Voyager's finale. That was a mistake.

 

[Shatmandu]

What TV or book or whatever was the quickest for you to go from "this is amazing" to "did I really watch/read that crap?"

For me it's got to be heroes, the first series had it's problems but I stuck with it and pleased with the progress. By episode 5 of the second season I'd had enough, I forced myself to watch until the end ("surely it has to get better?") of that season but never tuned in again...

I'll agree with you, there.

The second season seemed like the first draft of the first season.

Very disappointing. When it should have opened up, it just rehashed. Feh.

Joe, anti-hero

 

[firehawk12]

Lost, definitely. I think once I realized that they really had no idea what was going on, I became okay with the show.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Prison Break - terrific first season, but then it got a bad case of "why is this story still going" -itis.

I'll give Heroes a pass. The writing is all over the map but every so often, they come up with a terrific episode. And I have to admit, I just love the characters.

 

[Mistral]

The re-imagined Bionic Woman. I thought, wow, they just might have something here. They didn't and I quit before the network did.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I thought Bionic Woman stunk pretty much from the first.

 

[Mr Light]

There's a lot of books that I voraciously tore through, but when it was over I realized it wasn't actually any good. I thought they were leading towards something really exiciting but it turns out not so much. Michael Chricton's Prey and Next and Douglas Preston's Tyrannosaur Canyon spring to mind.

 

[miraclefan]

What TV or book or whatever was the quickest for you to go from "this is amazing" to "did I really watch/read that crap?"

Easy...Spider-man 3

 

[Rii]

The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye is the most disappointing sequel I've ever read. The Mote in God's Eye is one of my favourite sci-fi novels, I can barely struggle through the sequel.

Also in the realm of literature, the New Jedi Order began promisingly with Vector Prime and the Dark Tide duology, then faceplanted. I finally gave up on it (and the EU) around Traitor.

Sunshine. 'Nuff said.

 

[miraclefan]

Sunshine. 'Nuff said.

We talking Sunshine that Sci-fi picture a few years back?

 

[Rii]

Sunshine. 'Nuff said.

We talking Sunshine that Sci-fi picture a few years back?

Ya, great film until it turned into a slasher flick.

 

[miraclefan]

Sunshine. 'Nuff said.

We talking Sunshine that Sci-fi picture a few years back?

Ya, great film until it turned into a slasher flick.

You think that last part of the movie was pushed on the director by the studio, or did the director think that one up himself?

 

[Kelso]

Chuck and Terminator: SCC

Both had promising first seasons but became completely unwatchable in S2.

 

[John Picard]

Bringing back Knight Rider was a good idea with potential. Too bad it improved after being re-tooled, but by then it was too late.

 

[Icemizer]

Event Horizon, was amazing and then terrible.
The book series by Richard Marcinko was great and now is just bad.
Exiles, started terrific and then Claremont ruined it.
Lost in Space, Amazing to drivel.

 

[sidious618]

Stargate Atlantis and Heroes come to mind immediately.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

Heroes is the very definition of such a show.

I was going to say The Da Vinci Code novel as well, but then I remembered I skipped the 'this is amazing' stage and went straight to the feelings of regret and anger at bothering trawl through it.

 

[Sheep]

Things not yet mentioned: The Matrix, Pirates of the Carribean, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Stargate Atlantis and Heroes come to mind immediately.

SG:A never was very good. SG-1, however, had some good ideas for the first few seasons, and never really developed them. They just start and then fizzle - the writers seemed scared to take their ideas into anything but vanilla dramatic territory. Neither were ever at any level approaching Heroes S1.

At least Heroes is willing to pull an insane stunt, like they did in the S3 finale. People might bitch about it, but at least it shows some daring.

Things not yet mentioned: The Matrix, Pirates of the Carribean,

Those never got to the initial "amazing" stage for me - and I've never been motivated to watch Buffy at all.