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Post by CM Parish on Nov 27, 2012 7:30:33 GMT -5
I don't know if it was Family Guy right after it came back, it still had some ok episodes. I think the first Conway Twitty thing was the moment the show went Willie E. Coyote. See, I like Family Guy and all but I think the show's big problem is that they do so many things like the Conway Twitty segments just to spite fans that hate when they do that. I mean, I know that Seth MacFarlane is great at what he does and all, but it's a bit dickish. I don't know, he does listen. I remember them killing off the two barber shop dudes playing the Piano and having Peter proclaim "Okay look, they're dead now, you never have to see them again, are you happy?!".
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 27, 2012 8:17:52 GMT -5
Red Dwarf fell so hard off the cliff in series 8 the BBC wanted nothing to do with it, killed the show for ten years and gave up the rights to another channel.
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Post by Hurbster on Nov 27, 2012 9:33:13 GMT -5
This is NOT getting no-sold.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Nov 27, 2012 9:43:03 GMT -5
Gotta agree with Sliders.
"Hey folks, let's make the show nothing like it was before and go from a dimension-hopping story with subtle parallels to society's problems to a crappy generic sci-fi war story with one-note villains!"
Also, Charmed. It's had its ups and downs but it generally remained fun if a bit formulaic (but then again, if you have a formula that works, don't go messing around with it).
And then, they decided the show needed a wizard school.
Despite the fact the main characters, who are supposedly the most powerful witches in history, never went to that school. In fact, they gained their powers as adults and seem to have taken a good, phew, two weeks to fully master them?
And of course, said school was never mentioned before yet the minute it was introduced, everyone OF COURSE knew all about the famous Magic School of Whereverthef***land. So naturally, instead of badass witches fighting demons to protect the Earth (or at least Los Angeles) in gloriously over-the-top battles, the main became the bloody school, with a few ridiculous filler episodes with stuff like a demon reality show, the most cliché Mirror Dimension episode ever (the evil versions of the male characters seriously have black goatees). Because obviously, what Charmed really needed was to become a Harry Potter knock-off.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 27, 2012 10:07:03 GMT -5
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air post Will and Lisa's aborted wedding.
I feel like the rest of the run was them going through the motions
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Post by Madagascar Fred on Nov 27, 2012 10:14:11 GMT -5
from the shows I watched, quality-wise:
Prince Of Bel-Air (last 2 seasons were atrocious) 70's Show (again, last 2 seasons was nothing) Married With Children (last 3 or 4 seasons were lackluster, but the absolute last season was an insult) Family Matters (once it became solely the Urkel Show, way overexposed)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 16:14:10 GMT -5
The Simpsons.
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Post by Cela on Nov 27, 2012 19:05:29 GMT -5
Gotta agree with Sliders. "Hey folks, let's make the show nothing like it was before and go from a dimension-hopping story with subtle parallels to society's problems to a crappy generic sci-fi war story with one-note villains!" Also, Charmed. It's had its ups and downs but it generally remained fun if a bit formulaic (but then again, if you have a formula that works, don't go messing around with it). And then, they decided the show needed a wizard school. Despite the fact the main characters, who are supposedly the most powerful witches in history, never went to that school. In fact, they gained their powers as adults and seem to have taken a good, phew, two weeks to fully master them? And of course, said school was never mentioned before yet the minute it was introduced, everyone OF COURSE knew all about the famous Magic School of Whereverthef***land. So naturally, instead of badass witches fighting demons to protect the Earth (or at least Los Angeles) in gloriously over-the-top battles, the main became the bloody school, with a few ridiculous filler episodes with stuff like a demon reality show, the most cliché Mirror Dimension episode ever (the evil versions of the male characters seriously have black goatees). Because obviously, what Charmed really needed was to become a Harry Potter knock-off. It's things like this that make you wonder what kind of dirt Kaley Cuoco has on people to keep getting prime roles in shows.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Nov 28, 2012 9:04:31 GMT -5
Every Ryan Murphy show
Season 1, bad ass promise, bad ass charters Season 2, 1-3 characters rise to prominence, stories start to go downhill Season 3, every charter becomes one dimensional, insulting stories
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Post by Push R Truth on Nov 28, 2012 9:22:02 GMT -5
WCW Nitro.
About 7 seconds after the Fingerpoke of Doom.
The show actually had some chances at returning, and got close to being awesome again, but NITRO always seemed to find the banana-peel of booking and screw whatever awesome they were making.
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Post by darthalexander on Nov 28, 2012 10:08:12 GMT -5
Coronation Street. I know it's a soap, but god has it been awful for a while now.
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Post by DoubleDare on Nov 28, 2012 10:38:58 GMT -5
ECW on TNN: day one basically and would lead to the companies death.
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Post by xCompackx on Nov 28, 2012 10:51:17 GMT -5
See, I like Family Guy and all but I think the show's big problem is that they do so many things like the Conway Twitty segments just to spite fans that hate when they do that. I mean, I know that Seth MacFarlane is great at what he does and all, but it's a bit dickish. I don't know, he does listen. I remember them killing off the two barber shop dudes playing the Piano and having Peter proclaim "Okay look, they're dead now, you never have to see them again, are you happy?!". True, but were those two as big a sore spot with fans as the Conway Twitty stuff? I mean, the barber shop guys weren't funny and all, but I don't know if anything stopped the show dead the way that first Conway Twitty segment did.
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Post by stinger on Nov 28, 2012 11:27:08 GMT -5
I am going to mention both Heroes and Glee. Glee has mostly become the Lea Michele show making everything about her and less about everyone else. Joke, right? I feel like Glee should have ended after Rachel, Finn, Quinn, Santana, etc. graduated and Rachel should have gotten a spinoff if anything. I find the stuff with Rachel in New York much more entertaining than the crap going on back at McKinley these days. Unique pretty much ruins the show, Brittany has an extremely severe case of whatever caused Eric Matthews to get dumber every episode on BMW, Kitty is completely irredeemable, Blaine is just annoying...and there are just trying to shoehorn every "teen drama" angle they can into the show now. Did we really need this eating disorder storyline? Did anyone want that? I know I didn't. This show was much better when it did focus on Rachel, and focused on Mr. Shuester trying to build the glee club and Sue trying to thwart it, and focused on music. Now it is just one big pile of crap.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Nov 28, 2012 12:00:53 GMT -5
ECW on TNN: day one basically and would lead to the companies death. that whole situation was weird. TNN was only using ECW to see if wrestling could draw on their network as they wanted Raw. But when ECW was first going on the Network, TNN offered them top level production equipment and staff and Paul E turned it down saying they got as far as they did with his guys and they'd keep going. So TNN execs were pissed off by Paul E and the first show was awful so they pulled their backing.
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