Not just a specific scene, or episode, but characters repeatedly surviving when they shouldn’t.
Game of thrones basically checked twitter which characters are fan favourites and the popular ones get the most plot armour. Which is super funny for a show that became famous for killing off characters.
The way GoT got is indefensible. The writing got so, so bad and it severely damaged the franchise. It’s just… shit.
You know what’s interesting? When GoT went downhill at season 6 or whatever, i still thought that they could turn it around (lol) and even if they didn’t, i could still come back and enjoy the good seasons.
But that’s not true, at least for me. I never seen a show salting the earth so hard that i still never even thought about rewatching it. And i don’t think i ever will.
I know, I was the same! It had been so strong and there were excellent episodes in S6, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. S7 felt rushed and wasn’t amazing, but still better than most telly so I thought they were focusing on an epic S8. But then it was ABYSMAL and so bad I can’t watch earlier seasons. The whole point was the story was going to have a beginning, middle and end, they’re not stand alone seasons like true blood. But it was all for nothing
Every main character in The Boys, especially in the last season. Anybody remember that scene with Homelander in the ice rink? He apparently turned into a bumbling idiot that fails to catch up with Hughie even though he’s shown to be crazy fast. Then when Homelander finds out where their HQ is, he sends two of the most useless villains at them rather than going there himself and being done with it.
I still don’t understand how this show is so acclaimed despite dozens of instances of lazy writing.
Rings of Power.
The show immediately starts with our main character causually defeating a troll by herself.
Later, amonst other things, she swam across an ocean and stands in a volcano’s pyroclastic flow like it’s a summer breeze.
The A-Team
Groundhog day. That guy survived being stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned.
How I Met Your Mother’s crew friendship with Robin surviving multiple breakups with Ted after they pretty much just met her. IRL they would have 100% picked sides with Ted and booted her. Also Marshall and Lily surviving her SF stint
Lily always was the worst member of the group, and she’s the one who pushed for Robin to stay in
Haaaaaaavvvveeeee ya met Ted?
In Blue Eyed Samurai, the main character brushes off several life altering injuries like she’s a character in a jrpg.
I feel like Handmaid’s Tale deserves a mention. Throughout the series we see June’s peers swiftly mutilated or killed even for minor offenses.
June herself, past a certain point, is Gilead’s public enemy number one. Which would be fine if they wanted to tell the story of her as an activist in exile, or a resistance leader who always manages to escape by the skin of her teeth. But no, she keeps getting caught and nothing ever comes of it.
Currently watching Touhai: Ura Rate Mahjong Touhai Roku, which is about an absurd number of people getting murdered over a board game. I lost count. Almost no one is safe, but…
Episode 23-24
Episode 23 ends with the main character himself gettin hanged, which is apparently all just part of his own plan somehow.
Episode 24, they explain that hanging is not instantly fatal, and if his substitute can win the next hand within five minutes (we’re operating on Frieza time scales here apparently, since this takes the whole episode), they’ll be allowed to get him down. They then have to negotiate with the villain for a defibrillator in exchange for sparing the villain’s life.
Waiting for episode 25 to drop to find out if this plan actually works, but, like, ain’t no way, right?
Been salty about ‘Superman - The Motion Picture’ since I first saw it.
If he’s fast enough to time travel, why wasn’t he fast enough to stop the rocket in the first place?
Arrow.
In later seasons their tech support eye in the sky character ends up getting into several fist fights with League of Shadow ninja assassins, and holds her own. In a pencil skirt and heels… it’s so dumb
The Smoking Man from X-Files has survived cancer, being thrown down the stairs, a missle strike, and getting shot by mulder and falling into a river
