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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Nov 24, 2012 23:00:10 GMT -5
I think most of us familiar with the term jump the shark, and that most shows have had a moment where they began to show they were in decline. Well, what about shows that just fell off a cliff. These are shows that didn't gradually decline, but just abruptly imploded for one reason or another.
The show that made me think of this was Sliders. You had an interested premise, and a decent set of characters, and bam, all of the sudden, you had almost the whole cast turn over, and it turns from a Quantom Leap kind of show to Dr. Who in a blender.
Any other shows you can think of.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2012 23:01:52 GMT -5
THAT 70's SHOW was an incredible show. Seasons 1 and 2 were greatness. Season 3 was good.....
And then they broke up Eric and Donna.
There were several spots of goodness and enjoyable things here and there along the way, but overall the show was in freefall from Season 4 to 8.
(In particular, I hated hated HATED Season 5, where Red decided to dump all over Eric - and not even in an enjoyable way, but in a "F you, son" way.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2012 23:05:12 GMT -5
The official answer should be and always will be Heroes.
I mean...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?! Season 1 was so damn awesome, and then...yeah!
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Post by Jeremy on Nov 24, 2012 23:06:19 GMT -5
Wings
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Nov 24, 2012 23:06:58 GMT -5
I'm not all the way through it yet (so please, no spoilers) but the drop-off in quality between Homeland Season 1 and 2 is massive.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Nov 24, 2012 23:07:06 GMT -5
The official answer should be and always will be Heroes. I mean...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?! Season 1 was so damn awesome, and then...yeah! Yeah, I was going to say that. |
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Post by Muskrat on Nov 24, 2012 23:10:17 GMT -5
The official answer should be and always will be Heroes. I mean...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?! Season 1 was so damn awesome, and then...yeah! Never should've been a network show. They'd have gotten so much more (at least creatively) out of it being a cable show and having 13 episode seasons. |
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Post by Krimzon on Nov 24, 2012 23:10:40 GMT -5
The official answer should be and always will be Heroes. I mean...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?! Season 1 was so damn awesome, and then...yeah! The drop-off from Season 1 to Season 2 was quite something, but the drop-off from Season 2 to the end was STAGGERING. If you thought LOST was confusing, HEROES re-wrote the book on it. |
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Post by The Ichi on Nov 24, 2012 23:11:17 GMT -5
Friends once it became the Chandler and Monica show.
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Post by Red Impact on Nov 24, 2012 23:15:44 GMT -5
I think Heroes stepped off the cliff in the end of season 1, honestly. I really started to get problems with it early, to the point where I wasn't surprised it swan dived into the pool of mediocrity at the end.
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Post by Krimzon on Nov 24, 2012 23:18:21 GMT -5
Friends once it became the Chandler and Monica show. Hard to say the show fell off a cliff when the viewer average jumped by 5 million and never dipped more than a million less than that. |
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Nov 24, 2012 23:32:11 GMT -5
The Office experienced a gradual decrease in quality sometime after Season 3 and then fell off the cliff and lit on fire on the way down after Michael Scott left.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2012 23:49:01 GMT -5
The official answer should be and always will be Heroes. I mean...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?! Season 1 was so damn awesome, and then...yeah! Heroes season 2 was the catalyst for me giving up network dramas. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Nov 25, 2012 0:01:06 GMT -5
Andromeda - sometime during the second season this show went from being a rather unique, fun and interesting take on the Sci-Fi Space Opera genre to being a really bad Star Trek rip-off.
Hercules and Xena - after the (awesome) Dahak saga finally ended, both shows just didn't seem to know what to do with themselves. Hercules tried to go back to its original "taveling hero saving the day in reimagined Greek myths" format from its earlier seasons but everything just felt "been there, done that". Xena on the other hand went completely bonkers with time jumps that made its already inconsistent timeline completely incoherent, doubling down on the lesbian subtext and giving way too much emphasis on early Christian mythology.
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 25, 2012 0:02:52 GMT -5
The Cosby Show, once it started focusing more and more on the family's relatives and less on the Cosby family itself.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Nov 25, 2012 0:13:38 GMT -5
Friends once it became the Chandler and Monica show. never really stopped being the Ross and Rachel show IMO. as for the thread title, Sliders immediately comes to mind. as soon as John Rhys-Davies was killed off the show jumped right over a cliff. Heroes also comes to mind. good first season, completely shit the bed in the second and only got worse from there. it still amazes me they were allowed to get to a 4th season. |
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Post by Xifax on Nov 25, 2012 0:14:51 GMT -5
Friends once it became the Chandler and Monica show. Hard to say the show fell off a cliff when the viewer average jumped by 5 million and never dipped more than a million less than that. it still fell off a cliff, regardless of how many gumps kept watching it. Also, Dexter, which went from good to so crappy that I can barely remember the fact that it was actually good so gradually I barely noticed |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Nov 25, 2012 0:17:49 GMT -5
Hard to say the show fell off a cliff when the viewer average jumped by 5 million and never dipped more than a million less than that. it still fell off a cliff, regardless of how many gumps kept watching it. Also, Dexter, which went from good to so crappy that I can barely remember the fact that it was actually good so gradually I barely noticed can't believe I forgot Dexter. first season was fantastic, second season was boring as hell and aside from a good 4th season the show never really recovered its momentum. it never got stupid or anything (though Edward James Olmos being a ghost was a little silly and felt like something Vince Russo would write), it was just missing something after season 1. |
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Nov 25, 2012 0:22:41 GMT -5
I'll toss out the shortly lived Flash Forward.
Great premise, solid characters.....by the fourth episode it became so wrapped in creating mysteries that you never got any answers.
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Post by Mac on Nov 25, 2012 0:35:00 GMT -5
it still fell off a cliff, regardless of how many gumps kept watching it. Also, Dexter, which went from good to so crappy that I can barely remember the fact that it was actually good so gradually I barely noticed can't believe I forgot Dexter. first season was fantastic, second season was boring as hell and aside from a good 4th season the show never really recovered its momentum. it never got stupid or anything (though Edward James Olmos being a ghost was a little silly and felt like something Vince Russo would write), it was just missing something after season 1. The last couple seasons of Dexter have been garbage, but to be fair this season is pretty good. Family Matters was a funny show for a year, then it became legit the WORST SITCOM IN TV HISTORY. |
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