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While I often wonder if I'm watching the same Doctor Who as some people in the way they decry its drastically declined standards and not being a patch on even the JNT era, I still have some modicum of taste and know rubbish when I see it.

Heroes, what the fuck?! It in its third season it has completely fallen apart at the seams and seems to be making up crap as it goes along. It had its moments but it almost completely lost direction. Mohinder suddenly became more of a anti-hero, Sylar is a turd that won't flush, Mr. Daddy Petrelli from The Black Hole & Jackie Brown was too cuddly looking to be a megalomaniac, and the core cast of characters being carted off to Guantamino was the last straw for me. Since S1 Heroes has just been struggling to go from point A to point B, then back to point A again.

Then you get Lord awful pretenders to NuWho to make you appreciate how good NuWho really is - Bonekickers and Demons were just bad beyond words, despite the talent and potential. They really hurt. Then you get shows like Merlin that is not a bad show on principle but not to my taste.
 
I'm not watching Heroes for the Fugitives story. I just couldn't take it anymore and it was on the same time as 24. I wish it would have been better with villains, but I realized it was the same crap, different year. I am curious though how others like it. Is it better, about the same or worse than before?
 
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I'm not watching Heroes for the Fugitives story. I just couldn't take it anymore and it was on the same time as 24. I wish it would have been better with fugitives, but I realized it was the same crap, different year. I am curious though how others like it. Is it better, about the same or worse than before?
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Nope, the writers are still scared of writing a show about superheroes.
 
I stopped watching Heroes after about 6 episodes of season 1, but that was mostly for logistical reasons (no television). I couldn't honestly say I was desperate to catch up on it despite that setback. Maybe in the future I'll give it another chance.
 
nBSG - flicked it after the first season. Did nothing whatever for me, other than induce extraordinary boredom. The regular assurances that anyone who doesn't watch it is stupid / unsophisticated / ignorant / whatever don't encourage me to try again.

ER - ditched it several years ago when it became too difficult to muster any interest in the plethora of new characters.

The Simpsons - stopped being (my idea of) funny ages ago.

CSI - I just lost interest after a while, for no particular reason(s). One episode of Miami was more than sufficient and I didn't bother with the New York version at all.

I'm undecided as to whether I want to persist with new Doctor Who. I'm prepared to give the Moffatt era a go but it won't be with any real enthusiasm.

I'm sticking with Heroes - I don't think it's nearly as godawful as some make it out to be, but it does need to improve pretty sharply.
 
Heroes--The episode where Mo, Matt and Peter stupidly bungled the kidnapping of HRG was it for me. The show is unsaveable.

The Closer--Brenda continues to treat Fritz like shit and I can't any more visits from her cartoonish parents. Plus the cases have gotten stupid.

Grey's Anatomy--Izzie fucked a ghost and honorary showkiller Melissa George brought the suck. I'm out.

Reaper--I just couldn't give a shit when it came back.

Damages--it's getting too convoluted and not in a Lost-interesting way.
 
I stopped watching Bones while it was on break in the middle of the 4th season and I caught Moonlighting in between.

I couldn't stand the relationship between Both and Bones anymore after I watched four season of Moonlighting and saw that the writers of that 80ies show at least tried to build a rocking relationship around the two main characters and on Bones they we're still effing around the underlying attraction. It got old after four years.

I also gave up on Burn Notice (even though I watched the finale) as it also was kinda repetitive.

Heroes will be next I think, as it simply goes nowhere with the characters and just fracks them around for plot purposes.

But others like Lost and BSG, while still having its weaknesses, can still manage to hold my attention.
I think I like a more serialized approach, that's my conclusion at least.
Even though I like Medium, just for the characters alone.

PS: Reaper, after the next episode I think will be gone too.

I even thought about Chuck, but after the last episode, seeing that they didn't make another round of who loves who, and seeing Sarah making a decision about it, and seeing Chuck having his own agenda, I will give it till the season's end.
 
Reaper - A funny concept (done way better by Chuck btw) that just gets old after awhile. The humor is great but stories are paper-thin. Mostly because the the lead character is more whiny then Peter Parker and Buffy Summers put together. You could kill off every character but Sammy, Sock, and Satan and lose nothing from the show. Suck it up and be a man, Sam.

NuBSG: I thought Season 4 would be an improvement over the later half season 3 Apollo/Starbuck angstfest. I was wrong. I think Robot Chicken called it right. He really was just throwing darts at a board when it comes to picking Cylons. Ron Moore has no idea what he's doing or where's he's going and just picked the Final 5 at random because they were unexpected and would bring the required amount of melodrama. The old guy as a Cylon is one of the stupidest, most insulting things I've ever seen on TV. Starbuck isn't fun anymore, and is even more of an obnoxious, unwatchable c**t. Which I didn't think was possible after season 3. And all the relgious crap is annoying. The characters have been at each others throats, and backstabed each other, and behaved like such assholes for so long that they aren't even human anymore. We get it Moore. You wrote Trek for so long that you just grew sick to your stomach of people working together and Utopianism and idealism. But now you've gone off the reservaiton in the other direction. Because I know humans would not behave in the retarded, irrational fashion you present them as.

Heroes: I'll defend parts of season 2. But I quit after 3 episodes of this trainwreck season. They were just throwing shit at a wall hoping something would stick without any sense of a narrative at all. The characters would drift from one badly written arc to the next without any sense of awareness. They're still regurgitating concepts and stories from the first season without shame. Storylines are completely dropped and forgotten at random. Characters are killed off for no reason. And we have big twists that make no sense. When Mrs. Petrelli did her "Sylar...I am your mother!" shtick I was done. I don't care that it wasn't true. Screw you guys, I'm going home. And I can't believe they renewed it. It's ridiculous.

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.

Venture Bros: When it stopped being about the Core 4 and started being about the villains.
 
My wife is very big on not giving up on shows, even though I tend to.

Though I understand it's very good, I couldn't get into Fringe. I'm very slowly making my way through Heroes, though kind of reluctantly.

I gave up on Grey's Anatomy two years ago when I realized that I hated Meridith and felt like the show was all about watching her screw up everything good that came her way. Now I heard about Ghost Denny and I'm not sorry I did.
 
Heroes - finally gave up after 9th or 10 episode of season 3. It's bad and boring.
Terminator - gave up app. after 5.5 episodes of season 2. Boring.
Legend Of The Seeker - saw first 5 or 6 episodes, will probably get back later.
Sanctuary - saw first 4 or so episodes, will probably go back later.
 
Lost - I watched the first five episodes and decided that life was too short.

Heroes - after season 2, no interest in seeing any more.
 
I'm on the verge of giving up on Heroes, House, Chuck, and Terminator if they don't get their shit together.

I gave up on both Fringe and Knight Rider pretty quickly.
 
I barely ever give up on a show. That said I just finally dropped CSI as Morpheus is boring and Grissom and Warrick and Sarah are gone. I also stopped watching NCIS a year or two ago. And I downgraded Atlantis to "only watch plot-heavy episodes" with the fourth season.
 
Gave up Lost in season two. Got tired of the unending questions with no answers and I don't give a shit about Kate's love life. If Adrian Padar's lusciousness weren't on Heroes I'd have given up on it by now. I watch it in a complete MST3K fashion. I was an eyelash away from giving up House if I saw one more minute of focus on the god awful Thirteen, but they suckered me back in last week with lots of House/Wilson bonding. Long live the bromance, dude. I gave up CSI a long time ago. It had run its course for me.
 
Heroes. Haven't watched Terminator in a while, but I figure I'll catch up on that eventually. Obviously it isn't exactly Must See TV for me, though.

I have up on 24 midway through season 6, but that wasn't really 'recent'.

ETA: I did watch CSI, before all of the clones arose. I stopped watching so long ago though that I can't describe a single episode and only remember the name of Grissom's character.
 
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. 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).

I kinda like Col. Tigh, although he got a bit too angsty when his wife died.
Starbuck is a bitch that should have stayed dead.
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.
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.
Admiral Adama is fine except that President Roslin has made him her eunuch.
I don't think anyone forgave Dee for leaving Billy. (And we all miss Billy.:()
Gaeta pissed me off when he purjured himself at Baltar's trial.
I used to like Chief Tyrol & Sam Anders but...
Tyrol lost me when he started talking about how much he hated Cally after she died. Anders lost me when he shot Gaeta.
 
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