Worst Season Ever?

[Winterwind]

The season of Buck Rogers with Hawk was pretty horrible ...<snip>

Why does it always get blamed on Hawk? Hawk was cool, it was that Stupid Ship and the rest of the new characters on it.

That Crichton really gets on my nerves, Theopolis ran circles around it .

Agreed. I liked Hawk. The problem for me was the complete change in tone and the lousy new characters.

Dr. Huer > Adm. Asimov
Theopolis > Chrichton

Dr. Goodfellow just annoyed the hell out of me and the absurd change in the voice acting for Twiki. And it wasn't just the voice, it was the personality change too. Of course, half way through, they brought back Mel Blanc but he never should have left. And they never even addressed it. A simple line or two about Twiki trying out a new personality program, a new voice processor, anything like that, would have helped.

I can understand Gil Gerard wanting to do more serious stories but for me, the shows strength was the sci-fi/adventure/comedy blend. S2 really, largely disappointed.

 

[Lindley]

none of the characters were even remotely memorable

McQueen was memorable, to the point where I was thrilled when ol' TC took over CTU for a while on 24.

"I know now with certainty who I am. But I'll be damned if I'll ever know the point."

 

[Distorted Humor]

Space: Above and Beyond was Dire...made S1 of TNG look like the Iliad.

^And here I thought I was the only one that disliked that show! Seriously, I don't get why some people rave about it. Aside from the very silly concept of highly trained fighter pilots doubling as space marines (in the real world; jarhead+cockpit=flaming wreckage), none of the characters were even remotely memorable and the setting was just a pretty bland and generic soft military drama disguised as sci-fi.

I re watched a episode and ...

I stand by that it is a bad military drama...In SPAAAACE. It goes downhill fast. Real fast. I would rather watch the S1 episode of TNG where Yar has a fight to the death on the planet that happens to be just like bad 1950's movies tribal africa.

Ones that I have not seen mentioned, though I can't remember watching them.

Cleopatra 2525
Manimal
Automan

Wasn't Earth 2 a series that went downhill fast? I remember thinking it was ok, but I only saw the first episode and I was 14, so I thought Rebbecca Greyheart was hot, and thats about all I remember. (That and Clancy Brown was in it)

 

[Lindley]

I re watched a episode and ...

I stand by that it is a bad military drama...In SPAAAACE. It goes downhill fast. Real fast.

Some episodes were weak, particularly in the first half of the season. The second half was an improvement, and one or two episodes were outstanding ("Who Monitors The Birds" and "Never No More/The Angriest Angel" are my favorites.)

 

[DevilEyes]

I re watched a episode and ...

I stand by that it is a bad military drama...In SPAAAACE. It goes downhill fast. Real fast.

Some episodes were weak, particularly in the first half of the season. The second half was an improvement, and one or two episodes were outstanding ("Who Monitors The Birds" and "Never No More/The Angriest Angel" are my favorites.)

Those was my favorite episodes, too.

 

[Greg Cox]

Cleopatra 2525
Manimal
Automan

Hey, don't go dissing CLEOPATRA 2525. That show was a hoot!

One of my lasting regrets is that I never got to write a CLEO 2525 novel. That would have been a lot of fun.

Not sure I ever saw the other two.

 

[Distorted Humor]

I re watched a episode and ...

I stand by that it is a bad military drama...In SPAAAACE. It goes downhill fast. Real fast.

Some episodes were weak, particularly in the first half of the season. The second half was an improvement, and one or two episodes were outstanding ("Who Monitors The Birds" and "Never No More/The Angriest Angel" are my favorites.)

Those was my favorite episodes, too.

still don't think it anything special, but I will remove it from "The worse" as a fair number seem to like it.

 

[Sindatur]

The season of Buck Rogers with Hawk was pretty horrible ...<snip>

Why does it always get blamed on Hawk? Hawk was cool, it was that Stupid Ship and the rest of the new characters on it.

That Crichton really gets on my nerves, Theopolis ran circles around it .

Agreed. I liked Hawk. The problem for me was the complete change in tone and the lousy new characters.

Dr. Huer > Adm. Asimov
Theopolis > Chrichton

Dr. Goodfellow just annoyed the hell out of me and the absurd change in the voice acting for Twiki. And it wasn't just the voice, it was the personality change too. Of course, half way through, they brought back Mel Blanc but he never should have left. And they never even addressed it. A simple line or two about Twiki trying out a new personality program, a new voice processor, anything like that, would have helped.

I can understand Gil Gerard wanting to do more serious stories but for me, the shows strength was the sci-fi/adventure/comedy blend. S2 really, largely disappointed.

Oh, yea, I had forgotten about Twiki. I watched the box set about a year ago, and wondered "WTH did they do to Twiki".

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'm sorry, but TNG's first season has to be included.

No, it was actually better than the second.

The second season of War Of The Worlds would be candidate, if anyone had ever watched the series.

 

[Sindatur]

I'm sorry, but TNG's first season has to be included.

No, it was actually better than the second.

The second season of War Of The Worlds would be candidate, if anyone had ever watched the series.

Yea, S1 was pretty decent, and I waited patiently for S2 to come out, wanting to see the Cliff hanger resolution to the First Season, I was so excited to see it pop up on Amazon, thinking the show was just going to get better as S2 went along. Then when I popped in the disk, after it arrived, and watched it...

 

[23skidoo]

TNG's season 1 only improves with age, especially if seen as a true successor to TOS. There's so many moments that truly make you feel you're watching something made by the same people that made TOS.

That's not enough. For me, TNG S1 is almost unwatchable, even taking into the account that there was no precedent for this sort of show. Back in the day, of course, we hung on every "make it so" and loved every minute. But in my opinion it truly hasn't aged well. Even the acclaimed holodeck detective episode really hasn't aged well. The only thing that would have made the season worse would have been a clip show, but fortunately they held off until Season 2 before foisting that cliche upon us.

It's hard to cite too many "worst seasons" because in the worst cases (IMO anyway) I simply stopped watching. Dark Angel Season 2 turned me off so badly I stopped watching 2 or 3 episodes in and never went back and it had the effect of negatively coloring my view of Season 1, which I'd previously loved.

Galactica 1980, which was technically S2 of the original BSG (and syndicated as same) is probably the worst of the worst, as they really had no idea what they were doing. The Starbuck episode was good, but I thought I read somewhere that it was a leftover/unfinished episode from the original series so if true it could be said it was never a true "Galactica 1980" episode.

Lots of people cite Buck Rogers S2. And in fact up till a few years ago, I would have agreed. But after the show came out on DVD I watched those episodes - some for the first time as I'd given up on the show back in 1981 - and I found them to be much better than I remembered or heard, with several actually aging better over the 30 years than the more fondly remembered first season episodes. Yeah, it had Hawk, but ignore that and the episodes weren't that bad. And while some say the quality of S2 was to blame for its cancellation, I remember Erin Gray saying at a convention that the key demographics for Buck actually remained strong, and if some of the criteria used for renewing shows today had been in place in 1981, the show would have been renewed for a third year.

I did hate it when they replaced Mel Blanc as Twiki for a few episodes, though...

Alex

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

Hey, don't go dissing CLEOPATRA 2525. That show was a hoot!

It was intended to be campy, like Hercules & Xena did (on and off), not taking itself too seriously. And Jennifer Skye (Cleopatra) was very easy on the eyes. It's a shame she didn't do much since then.

 

[JWD75]

Season 1 of Babylon 5 is the single worst season of television that I have ever watched. Season 5 is almost, but not quite as bad.

 

[Greg Cox]

Hey, don't go dissing CLEOPATRA 2525. That show was a hoot!

It was intended to be campy, like Hercules & Xena did (on and off), not taking itself too seriously. And Jennifer Skye (Cleopatra) was very easy on the eyes. It's a shame she didn't do much since then.

Strange to think that somewhere out there is an alternate universe where CLEO ran for years and Gina Torres is best know for that and not, say, a certain other cult science fiction show . . . .

 

[bigdaddy]

I actually don't hate seasons 1 and 2 of TNG as much as I did several years ago. It feels like TOS but decades later and that's what it was.

I'm sorry, but TNG's first season has to be included.

No, it was actually better than the second.

The second season of War Of The Worlds would be candidate, if anyone had ever watched the series.

Yea, S1 was pretty decent, and I waited patiently for S2 to come out, wanting to see the Cliff hanger resolution to the First Season, I was so excited to see it pop up on Amazon, thinking the show was just going to get better as S2 went along. Then when I popped in the disk, after it arrived, and watched it...

You never watched it before the DVDs came out? It's probably the most rerun sci-fi show of all time.

 

[Distorted Humor]

Hey, don't go dissing CLEOPATRA 2525. That show was a hoot!

It was intended to be campy, like Hercules & Xena did (on and off), not taking itself too seriously. And Jennifer Skye (Cleopatra) was very easy on the eyes. It's a shame she didn't do much since then.

Strange to think that somewhere out there is an alternate universe where CLEO ran for years and Gina Torres is best know for that and not, say, a certain other cult science fiction show . . . .

Jennifer Skye was easy on the eyes, she was in episode of Boomtown, a show that was canceled way before its time.

Gina Torres is also easy on the eyes. I was tempted to say "Season 10 of firefly is when it ran out of steam, I saw it in the alternate universe I was in yesterday" but that would be too cheesy , even for me.

 

[JediKnightButler]

Babylon 5's last season.

It was the useless, weird epilogue to a series that had ended the previous season. And I really liked B5. :/

The first half of the season (i.e. the Telepath arc) was pretty sucky and I didn't like some of the standalone episodes told from different vantage points but IMHO the latter half of the season dealing with the Londo/Centauri story arc starting with Ragged Edge/Meditations on the Abyss was very exciting and well done IMHO. I also like how they brought everything to a satisfying closure at the end as well (from Wheel of Fire to Objects at Rest and then, of course, Sleeping in Light). If they had never done a Season 5, the show would've felt complete enough for me after the end of Season 4 (with Sleeping in Light, of course, capping it off). The fact that, aside from the poorly executed first half season, we got at least another half a season of really good material IMHO that further developed the main characters was a nice bonus for B5 fans IMHO.