Film and TV Annoyances

[bigmackdaddy]

What annoys you about certain things in movies and shows?

For me it's the hawaii episode. It is such a lame gimmick. The most recent example I can think of is Modern Family having a hawaii episode. I also dislike films and shows set entirely there because the premise is based on a gimmick.

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Nov 14, 2011 23:44:55 GMT -5 bigmackdaddy said:

What annoys you about certain things in movies and shows?

For me it's the hawaii episode. It is such a lame gimmick. The most recent example I can think of is Modern Family having a hawaii episode. I also dislike films and shows set entirely there because the premise is based on a gimmick.

Could be worse. Remember when every ABC sitcom went to Disneyland?

[Bang Bang Bart]

I like cliffhangers, but I find it irritating when EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of a given show has to display "To be continued" at the end. It's one of those "well, duh" things, really.

[Ducky Momo]

The pretty "decent person" character that for some reason EVERYONE else hates and shits on.

[hassanchop]

In anime and manga it's beach episodes. Blatant excuse for fan service.

[Bo Rida]

Coming up/Previously on...


Which is linked to spoiler filled trailers and adverts.

Also anything where the (supposedly intelligent) characters repeatedly explain the plot to each other.

[Push R Truth]

The walking human encyclopedia character. It's a complete hackjob of a way to pull together a 42 minute crime show.


I'm looking at you Criminal Minds.


NCIS is about the only show I've seen pull it off because it at least shows their characters trying to research problems on the net. But in Criminal minds, that douchebag just always magically knows everything about everything.

[G✇JI☈A]

I hate it when someone is portrayed as a bad guy for some stupid reason. Like for example in 'The Descent':

During one scene one of the characters is fighting off a bunch cave monsters. Just as she finishes someone grabs her shoulder and she turns around and sticks a knife in them. Turns out it's one of her cave diving buddies. So the person who was stabbed falls to the supposedly dead, unknown to the stabber she is still alive so the stabbee later tells another friend to not trust the stabber.

Firstly it was accident, the girl who stabbed the other girl thought she was a monster and then panicked and ran away when she thought she had died.

Secondly how stupid can you be to sneak up on someone holding a knife who has just thought off some monsters and is probably pretty anxious? Hey I will answer that: You have to be really really f***ing stupid.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Nov 15, 2011 7:46:53 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

The walking human encyclopedia character. It's a complete hackjob of a way to pull together a 42 minute crime show.


I'm looking at you Criminal Minds.


NCIS is about the only show I've seen pull it off because it at least shows their characters trying to research problems on the net. But in Criminal minds, that douchebag just always magically knows everything about everything.

Bones is the worst for this, IMHO

[mysterydriver]

Oh no! The Cell Phone has NO SIGNAL!!!!

One time, just one time, I want the answer to be "Oh no...I didn't charge my phone last night!"

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Celebrity guest appearences.

Like in Top Gear, I don't give a crap about the Star in a reasonably Priced car segment and usually fast-forward through it. Likewise pointless celebrity cameos on The Simpsons or in the WWE.

[Hit Girl]

In recent years, two things have bothered me, and is one of the reasons I don't care about TV anymore.

1- The "mythology", which basically equates to producers throwing as many characters, backstories, twists and illogical plot developments at the show and hoping that it convinces the audience that the show is deep and multi-layered

2- The "cop out" where a decisive development or ending is avoided in favour of a vague, ill-defined or completely inconclusive outcome.

[bibboid]

Shows that jump forward in time a few years so the writers don't have to think of ways to resolve their stupid plot twists. (Desperate Housewives)

[Lick Ness Monster]

Nov 15, 2011 13:25:29 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

In recent years, two things have bothered me, and is one of the reasons I don't care about TV anymore.

1- The "mythology", which basically equates to producers throwing as many characters, backstories, twists and illogical plot developments at the show and hoping that it convinces the audience that the show is deep and multi-layered

2- The "cop out" where a decisive development or ending is avoided in favour of a vague, ill-defined or completely inconclusive outcome.

...a.k.a. The X-Files. It relied so heavily on both of those that I stopped being mad at them sometime around season 7 and just laughed every time they were done. As I've said in other places on this board, it was simultaneously the best and worst TV show ever.

[The Ichi]

"Symbolism" episodes.

I don't know how to explain that, just watch the last episode of Buffy season 4 and you'll know what I mean.

[knuckles]

Smallville used to piss me off bigtime, by having a product placement featured supremely heavily in the show- Ford had a new car toi be advertised, and some dipshit character in the show just happened to be driving the car, and of course the car was mentioned...I HATED that, and it made me stop watching the show. Also, Smallville related, using current pop tunes made me realize how much the newer music sucks and how much I hate and hated it, which was another reason I stopped watching. I no longer watch television at all, as a matter of facte, I havent watche dTV in over five years, and NO, I do NOT miss it at all.

[FUNK_US/BRODUS]

On television? Shoving gay characters down our throats.

If you cant do anything with gay characters beyond "difficult coming out"or "flamboyant attention whore" then just don't even bother putting them on TV. I cant believe that in the 2000/2010s this is supposedly a more open minded era, yet it was in the 90s when Friends gave us the single best depiction of homosexuality on a sitcom ever in Carol and Susan. There have been too many cliched gay characters on TV, a lot of which suffer from the damage that Jack McFarlane left on Will & Grace. And of course in English soap operas, we've had a boatload of them with their "realistic" and utterly depressing coming out stories. I just feel that gay characters end up being destined to become PSAs or one dimensional stereotypes.

ATTENTION TV NETWORKS: LGBT folk are regular people too. They do regular things. Run with that.

[Young Game]

Why I can't see titties on basic cable?

[Sir Woodrow]

Nov 15, 2011 15:30:53 GMT -5 Young Game said:

Why I can't see titties on basic cable?

Screw that, why can't I see titties on Network TV?

Desperate Housewives would 10000X better if Teri Hatcher and Eva Longoria could get the goods out

[Bo Rida]

After several hours investment you've just seen the hugely emotional final episode, the screen fades to black, the credits come up and some well-selected sombre music is playing , you take a quiet moment to reflect on what you've just witnessed and then some stupid continuity announcer ruins the moment by informing you that celebrity farming is about to start.


Also just once I'd like to here that a sequel/new series is lighter than the one that preceded it, well actually I think that sort of happened with S3 of being human but seeing as the lightest episodes in that centred around the deaths of parents I'm not sure it counts.