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Post by thechase on Jun 1, 2024 10:17:27 GMT -5
This can range from either one season to several, a few examples for me would include:
The Simpsons up to season eight/nine is bound to be a popular answer 'round any corner of the internet.
Pokemon: Indigo through to Orange Islands. Thought the second movie was the best possible jumping-off point as it tied up all the remaining loose ends from the Kanto era and Ash saved the world. I dipped in and out over the years, but only from a distance.
Friends: Seasons 1 to 4. Characters felt real and believable back then, nothing too exaggerated or cartoonish.
24: Season Five and that's it. You don't really get any bigger than Jack vs The President and it's insane to keep going. I liked the heel turn from Tony in season seven fine, but the show had it's day by that point following the disastrous sixth season.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jun 1, 2024 12:39:25 GMT -5
I loved the first couple of seasons of Fox’s Empire, it was a shamelessly trashy musical soap opera . That was before Luscious’s amnesia storyline went off the rails, the writers couldn’t decide if Andre was a face or a heel and then Jussie Smollet pulled a Morton Downey Jr. stunt.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 1, 2024 12:54:06 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time. Tapped out by next to last season, DNF the series. No mote B-list characters = no more me!
Someone totally got Friends right...I lost interest by S3 as it lost its "maybe my classmates would think I was cool!" powers by then.
American Housewife. Tapped out when they started the Meg Donnelly music tie ins. DNF the series and avoided the new Anna-Kat and no Ali nor Carly.
I feel I did this with The Flash too.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jun 1, 2024 13:28:41 GMT -5
Getting fed up and jumping ship at the Walking Dead's high is a weird rite-of-passage in modern fandom. The one-two combo of season 6's nonsense and season 7's sluggish pace saw the show go from constant watercooler talk to "Jesus, how did we hang on so long?" in the space of a couple years.
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Post by SmashTV on Jun 1, 2024 17:59:24 GMT -5
Getting fed up and jumping ship at the Walking Dead's high is a weird rite-of-passage in modern fandom. The one-two combo of season 6's nonsense and season 7's sluggish pace saw the show go from constant watercooler talk to "Jesus, how did we hang on so long?" in the space of a couple years. As much as I welcomed Negan coming into the show, even that wasn’t enough to get me to the end of series seven. Plus the theme of Rick’s gang find a group of survivors who aren’t what they seem and fight them was getting old by then too. It made me start to think that Rick’s gang were the problem as there’d been no trouble before they arrived.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jun 1, 2024 21:44:39 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time. Tapped out by next to last season, DNF the series. No mote B-list characters = no more me! Once Upon a Time is a weird show for me in that it was popular and successful, ran for something like 8 seasons, lots of people watched it. And yet it has left zero impression on pop culture. Like there's zero memes, zero references, zero discussion about it online. It arrived, ran for ages and then everyone just forgot about it.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 2, 2024 14:00:48 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time. Tapped out by next to last season, DNF the series. No mote B-list characters = no more me! Once Upon a Time is a weird show for me in that it was popular and successful, ran for something like 8 seasons, lots of people watched it. And yet it has left zero impression on pop culture. Like there's zero memes, zero references, zero discussion about it online. It arrived, ran for ages and then everyone just forgot about it. I mean, it was popular when it was on. They had merch, fan conventions, etc. But otherwise you're right. Most everyone moved on, etc. Disney doesn't even remember, which is odd given they want to redo everything in live action. They could have used OUAT as a pool for ideas or talent. I'm shocked Kitsis and Horowitz were never asked to work on any live action remakes.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 2, 2024 19:09:54 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time. Tapped out by next to last season, DNF the series. No mote B-list characters = no more me! Once Upon a Time is a weird show for me in that it was popular and successful, ran for something like 8 seasons, lots of people watched it. And yet it has left zero impression on pop culture. Like there's zero memes, zero references, zero discussion about it online. It arrived, ran for ages and then everyone just forgot about it. Home Improvement is like that. It was a ratings monster in the 90’s, Johnathan Taylor Thomas was a teen idol, “More Power!” And “I don’t think so, Tim” were part of the lexicon. Then the show went off the air and no one gave a single shit. Was in syndication for a bit after its run, but it’s just disappeared down the pop culture hole.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 2, 2024 22:27:47 GMT -5
Lost is similar.
Huge show then so many hated the ending and it is nowhere. No syndication never seen the dvds anywhere.
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Post by cosmo on Jun 2, 2024 22:46:37 GMT -5
I loved the first season of Heroes, then noped right out of the show halfway through the second season.
It's the first thing that comes to mind for me when I think of shows that peaked immediately and then completely shit the bed afterwards.
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Post by thechase on Jun 3, 2024 3:12:10 GMT -5
Going with anime again for a few more mentions:
First Tenchi OVA series. The subsequent TV seasons ranged from generic to awful.
Digimon Adventure 01, Tamers is kind of a comeback in quality but 02 and everything after Tamers just sucked the life out of the room for me. Sora was my favourite character in 01 and they just seemed to always kick her in the teeth with every continuation afterwards too
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 3, 2024 8:31:26 GMT -5
I loved the first season of Heroes, then noped right out of the show halfway through the second season. It's the first thing that comes to mind for me when I think of shows that peaked immediately and then completely shit the bed afterwards.
I made it about halfway through season 2 before quitting. Bought that season on DVD when it came out thinking it might work better not waiting weeks between episodes. Nah still junk. Get told the last season of that original run is really good. Just can't bother to go and watch it. Thinking I soldd off my dvds of the first 2 seasons years ago.
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Post by Kalmia on Jun 3, 2024 9:45:51 GMT -5
I didn't start watching The Walking Dead until S4. I caught up with the first three seasons, watched 4, 5, and 6 as they happened and then stopped. I haven't watched any of it since that S6 cliffhanger.
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Post by Tenshigure on Jun 3, 2024 12:53:27 GMT -5
Watched Power Rangers from its debut all the way up until about a part of Turbo (was definitely one of those kids who tapped out when Justin became a thing). I did have my 'on again/off again' relationship with the show to this day (watched Dino Thunder and SPD, skipped Mystic Force, watched Operation Overdrive, skipped Jungle Fury, watched RPM, then stopped altogether), but nothing really quite captured the magic of the first couple of seasons (I actually blame them getting rid of Ron Wasserman's soundtrack, it did a LOT of the heavy lifting IMO).
Not to say I'm still not a diehard fan and appreciate what the other series have done. I did retroactively go back and watch several series through their entirety, but my fondest memory of the show by far (aside from obviously when I was a kid) was the infamous two-week marathon on Twitch back in 2017. Still wish they'd do it again!
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jun 3, 2024 14:15:29 GMT -5
It's interesting how many people post The Walling Dead, as that is my answer as well. I got into it briefly during the first Negan season, as I'm a big fan of the actor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jun 3, 2024 15:08:18 GMT -5
supernatural, part way through season 3: I had no idea what happened in it and only gave it a go due to a friend constantly saying I should watch it on nights out.
avatar the last air bender & avatar the legend of kora: missed them completely and only watched them both on netflix. (it counts as I missed the peak entirely.)
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: missed out on the first series and only really started watching mid way into the second series.
Game of thrones: watched the first episode and switched from sky tv to virgin tv (satellite tv provider to cable tv provider.) and they didn't have the sky atlantic, so missed the rest of season 1 and the everything up to the last episode of season 2. (bought both seasons on dvd in time for season 3.)
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Post by thechase on Jun 4, 2024 1:10:06 GMT -5
my fondest memory of the show by far (aside from obviously when I was a kid) was the infamous two-week marathon on Twitch back in 2017. Still wish they'd do it again! CLIP THE CLIP!
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jun 4, 2024 12:07:29 GMT -5
It's interesting how many people post The Walling Dead, as that is my answer as well. I got into it briefly during the first Negan season, as I'm a big fan of the actor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Season 7 was *painful*. Rick and Negan had about 47 chances to kill each other, but usually settled for making ridiculous speeches before gunfire erupted and both men escaped to fight another day
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 4, 2024 12:50:50 GMT -5
The Simpsons
I think it had two peaks...the initial cultural phenomenon when it first debuted, then the subsequent several years where just about every episode had a following.
I stopped watching when Bart had some weird conspiracy theory about the MLB spying on him. I just found the concept too absurd for what I wanted out of the sitcom at that time, and Homer was no longer the loveable idiot, he was just an annoying jerk.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 4, 2024 16:11:53 GMT -5
The Simpsons I think it had two peaks...the initial cultural phenomenon when it first debuted, then the subsequent several years where just about every episode had a following. I stopped watching when Bart had some weird conspiracy theory about the MLB spying on him. I just found the concept too absurd for what I wanted out of the sitcom at that time, and Homer was no longer the loveable idiot, he was just an annoying jerk. From the shorts on the Tracy Ullman show until whatever season started in fall of 2004 I was there every week. And if I could watch while it aired I had the VCR set. Then fall of 2004 saw Tree House of Horror. And had a few weeks where I worked and the VCR didnt record it. I didnt miss the show. Since then I rarely see the new episodes. Haven;t watched a rerun in close to 20 years. All i own of it on home media is the Xmas special on DVD. Just a show I loved then fell out of love with and kind of forgot.
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