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Post by salz4life on Mar 23, 2020 12:51:12 GMT -5
The Sopranos to a lesser extent than LOST also kinda got hampered by the ending. The Sopranos is a show i never watched until it went off the air. I think that is why I actually like the ending. It made sense with Tony's life. You just never know how "it" will end. However, had I spent all those years watching faithfully and then that happens, I think I understand why people would be annoyed. I still LOVE the show and can watch it anytime.
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Post by salz4life on Mar 23, 2020 12:53:01 GMT -5
Hell Grey's Anatomy is still on, but they've screwed with the series so much and gotten rid of so many important characters the only time I ever see it relevant again is when they've f***ed something up and people saying they're done with the show... I got hooked on this with my wife and still watch it to this day. I'm watching it strictly out of habit and wanting to see how it ends. Thank God there is only one more season because it has gotten.... I won't say awful, but ugh. The way they wrote Karev off a couple weeks ago.... that was awful. It's time for it to go.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 23, 2020 13:39:16 GMT -5
A British example, comedy sports panel quiz show "They Think It's All Over", which lasted from 1995 to 2005, popular at the time and rarely hear it get mentioned, last time I heard about it when two of the panelists - Rory McGrath made the news for harassing his ex-lover and Lee Hurst for questionable Tweets.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 13:43:15 GMT -5
It seems like the big modern video game franchises like Call of Duty have suffered this fate, as well.
Despite CoD having annual releases (I think that might have changed recently?), it doesn't feel like it's a cultural event anymore like back in the Modern Warfare/Black Ops 1-2 days.
Speaking of which...Guitar Hero. That plastic guitar became a iconic piece of 2000's pop culture and the games were played and enjoyed by people that don't even listen to rock or metal music...and now it's pretty much forgotten. Granted, that may be due to market oversaturation lol.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 23, 2020 13:44:51 GMT -5
From a British perspective, everything Harry Enfield did in the 80s and 90s. He was everywhere, and it's all aged terribly. Something happened circa 1997, it was literally like he became unfunny overnight. And so it remains! Almost like a lot of the people he worked with and made his funniest routines made a Fast getaway.
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Post by SmashTV on Mar 23, 2020 14:21:57 GMT -5
Something happened circa 1997, it was literally like he became unfunny overnight. And so it remains! Almost like a lot of the people he worked with and made his funniest routines made a Fast getaway. Oh well played, sir!
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Post by arrogantmodel on Mar 23, 2020 16:14:59 GMT -5
Entourage for a while was *huge* with a large audience, and then it just kinda faded. I still love the show, but yeah, it kind of went out with a big of a wimper. Yeah, Entourage is one of my favorite shows. It really was like my three best friends and I (minus the money. lol) Just friends partying and chasing girls. Then it got soft with all the guys wanting relationships, Ari's separation, etc. Plus, the movie was just kind of "meh." And Rosie was like Ellen back in the 90s. Her talk show was huge for a while.
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Post by Venti on Mar 23, 2020 17:12:25 GMT -5
Remember when Judd Apatow films seemed to come out like every year? With the same revolving cast of Rogen, Hill, etc.
For like a solid decade his movies were pretty damn popular, now it feels like they've fallen off the radar a bit.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 23, 2020 17:26:55 GMT -5
Remember when Judd Apatow films seemed to come out like every year? With the same revolving cast of Rogen, Hill, etc. For like a solid decade his movies were pretty damn popular, now it feels like they've fallen off the radar a bit. as an aside to the Apatow thing, Jason Segel seems to have disappeared off the radar last few years too
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Post by chrom on Mar 23, 2020 17:49:09 GMT -5
When was the last time MTV was semi relevant?
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 23, 2020 17:57:58 GMT -5
When was the last time MTV was semi relevant? a long time ago, isn't it just pretty much wall to wall reality shows now?
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Post by rocket on Mar 23, 2020 17:58:23 GMT -5
CSI Miami was a huge deal. Hyped as the biggest show on TV for several seasons. (It never was, but it was almost always in the top 25-30). I remember an old message board I was on having a constant CSI Miami thread for years (meanwhile I gave up hoping for a Las Vegas thread). Within a year of ITS CANCELLATION (there was never an official finale, CBS just cut the episode count for s10 and that was that) no one cared about it and I'm almost impressed I remembered it when I saw this thread. I only found out not too long ago that David Caruso quit acting after the end. You would think it would've been a bigger deal. Do people still talk about Jersey Shore? I know MTV was trying to still milk it recently. When was the last time MTV was semi relevant? I was just about to say this. Feels like nothing there gets buzz anymore. I'll add Jerry Springer and basically that whole 90's wave of talk shows.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 18:00:52 GMT -5
When was the last time MTV was semi relevant? The late 2000s, I think, with the Jersey Shore? Now it's the Ridiculousness Channel.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 23, 2020 18:04:07 GMT -5
I'll add Jerry Springer and basically that whole 90's wave of talk shows. it's crazy the Jerry Springer show only ended in 2018, that is such a long time after any cultural relevance
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 23, 2020 18:31:02 GMT -5
The Hellraiser film series looked to be the next big horror franchise, but by the late 90s it was totally forgotten. Maybe if they had done the Freddy vs Jason sequel that also had Pinhead, the series would have made a comeback.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 23, 2020 18:40:29 GMT -5
You can't overstate just how big fighting games were in the 90's, especially Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Now, Street Fighter V did get some buzz, but didn't dominate game talk like it did in its heyday. The latest Mortal Kombat release was met with, "eh, there's a new Mortal Kombat out." Tekken and King of Fighters release games sporadically, and they don't really seem to make a huge dent compared to other franchises.
I'd also add to that any Rockstar game that's not GTA or Red Dead. Max Payne, Bully and Manhunt were all big, or at least controversial, for a time, now they never get talked about. In fact, Sinn Bodhi worked a local indy, and did a horror gimmick complete with creepy pig mask. At his merch table, I tried making a Manhunt reference, and he never even heard of the game - and he admitted to being a gamer.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 23, 2020 19:29:06 GMT -5
You can't overstate just how big fighting games were in the 90's, especially Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Now, Street Fighter V did get some buzz, but didn't dominate game talk like it did in its heyday. The latest Mortal Kombat release was met with, "eh, there's a new Mortal Kombat out." Tekken and King of Fighters release games sporadically, and they don't really seem to make a huge dent compared to other franchises. I'd also add to that any Rockstar game that's not GTA or Red Dead. Max Payne, Bully and Manhunt were all big, or at least controversial, for a time, now they never get talked about. In fact, Sinn Bodhi worked a local indy, and did a horror gimmick complete with creepy pig mask. At his merch table, I tried making a Manhunt reference, and he never even heard of the game - and he admitted to being a gamer. The FGC (fighting game community) is fairly big, but it is more niche than it was in the 90s for a number of factors, one being the high learning curve of many games (and the novelty wearing off, as happens with any hot genre). SF and MK still have their fandoms but the rise of Smash and anime-fighters like Dragon Ball and BlazeBlu have brought in different crowds.
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Post by Hurbster on Mar 23, 2020 19:33:04 GMT -5
CSI Miami was a huge deal. Hyped as the biggest show on TV for several seasons. (It never was, but it was almost always in the top 25-30). I remember an old message board I was on having a constant CSI Miami thread for years (meanwhile I gave up hoping for a Las Vegas thread). Within a year of ITS CANCELLATION (there was never an official finale, CBS just cut the episode count for s10 and that was that) no one cared about it and I'm almost impressed I remembered it when I saw this thread. CSI Miami has to have the all-time record for a show being fueled well beyond its sell-by date entirely because of a meme When they redid the zones in the Cataclysm expansion Westfall became almost entirely a CS:Miami homage. Funnily enough that never happened again in World of Warcraft. Because they also had a zone which was a homage to Rambo and another one that was a homage to Indiana Zones. Cataclysm made me quit WoW.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 23, 2020 19:35:38 GMT -5
Also speaking of HBO shows, I enjoyed True Blood and Treme and especially the former got a good amount of press, but I don’t hear much about Sookie and co. lately.
Also Boardwalk Empire, but I blame that on the fifth and final season being buttcheeks. I remember Wire Season Five getting some flack for the slowness of the newspaper arc, but I liked that for the most part. Boardwalk’s fifth just flat out sunk the show.
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Post by Hurbster on Mar 23, 2020 20:03:10 GMT -5
A British centric one. In the mid nineties London's Burning was pulling 18 million viewers an episode and ran for over a decade, yet no modern goer could tell you a storyline, a character or an actor who appeared in it.
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