Finally something I’m qualified to answer!
Family Guy - While more “Flanderization” when all the characters became parodies of their previous selves, the real thing is when all of a sudden every joke needed to be “explained”. i.e. someone trips while running and then one of the character says “AHHH HE TRIPPED AND HE FELL”. Ruined every joke for me, was done with it after that. Kind of one decision, I’m sure someone said “people don’t get the jokes” and ruined the show for me.
House - When they suddenly swapped the cast out. Some people really liked it, for me that was the end of the original premise of the show.
How I Met Your Mother - Lily and Marshall’s baby. Having a baby in a show is always kind of the “Okay the romance story is over and the writers are out of ideas” but it was done so badly. Lily was always an extremely selfish character, and she was insufferable through everything, from making the literal choice to have a child based on some fated chance to shaming Marshall for having the gall to - go to work to support all of them while she did… nothing? Did she even have a job? Constant guilt trips and manipulation, she was the worst character but their relationship was just straight-up toxic when she got pregnant.
That 70’s Show - Having Donna stay home from college - 4 years of characterization thrown out the window. She was always a strong independent woman and now she’s just apparently throwing away her future? She attends remote classes for a while then it just disappears. Then suddenly Eric has this big revelation later that him marrying her might lead to an unsatisifed future? It was all just very clear that the writers didn’t know how to handle her being gone - a very common coming of age issue
X-Files - The move to California. Enough said.
On a smaller and younger scale it was like this with the Super Friends (justice league).
Superman: “I’m going to punch this asteroid that was on a direct course to destroy metropolis which will break it in half, one half fills the gap in a bridge a train is about to cross and the other plugs a hole in a dam”
superman proceeds to do just that and it pissed very young me off.
That sounds hilarious
super campy and amazing
The Witcher showrunners were going to have Geralt and Yennifer have a child. This was also the decision that made Cavill leave the show, which just cemented my choice to not bother with the following season.
Do what you will with the overall plot line and stories you wanna tell, but god that is such an egregious change that fucks up so much about the character’s motivations since canonically, Witchers are fucking sterile and can’t have kids, but Geralt really wants to be a father. That’s one of the reasons he attached himself to Ciri.
Wasn’t the same true for sorceresses
Geralt’s mother was a sorcereress. Sterility and birth defects are a side effect of long term magic use and alchemy but not 100%
Okay, I remembered it being a thing but wasn’t 100% sure on the details. Been a while since I read the books. I remember it being a major thing with Yennefer, she was similarly infertile like Geralt and also wanted a child
The sorceresses in geralt’s mother’s generation were made sterile but not in a physical way, she figured out how to circumvent that and have Geralt. So in Yennefer’s generation Aretuza removed the womb from their graduates.
Happy Days when they had The Fonz water ski jump over a shark.
Yep, I’m old, and yes that is where the term “Jump the shark” is from.
Except that isn’t true.
Yes the show peaked in the ratings the season Fonzie jumped the shark, but the show went on for another 8 years and the later seasons were when the show was better than ever.
Also the phrase comes from an interviewee on the Howard Stern show, talking about Happy Days, 20 years after the show ended.
That is when the show became so dumb I did not watch anymore, and it is what the phrase is from, I didn’t say who coined it or when.
Also, Jon Hein coined the term in 1985, 8 years after the episode aired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
No it didn’t., the later seasons the show got mature storylines and stopped being laugh track crap.
Not sure if it counts, but I loved the Lord of the Rings movies. Had high hopes for The Hobbit, but the way they portrayed Thorin completely broke it for me. Didn’t bother watching the other two.
You didnt miss much. They were very forgettable.
I watched them all but like I never think about scenes and such with the hobbit one like I do the lord of the rings. I mean I think about the animated version from way back.
🎵 Ho Ho, my lad! Below, my lad! 🎶
Controversial take but Star Trek Voyager.
When I was a kid I loved it, it was my favourite Star Trek. then they introduced Seven of Nine and suddenly it became a borgfest.
I liked it because it was all new alien races, stuff that’s NEVER been in Star Trek before…and then they were like “no ones watching, lets bring in the Borg.”
Disagree
Anything that’s been “adapted” in the last decade or so: Witcher? Dog shit. Halo? Hell no. Wheel of Time? Fuck off. Amazon LoTR? Fucking spare me. Disney ANYTHING?!? I’d rather set myself on fire than validate the raping of all my childhood heroes.
Writers are an extinct species. All we have now are cultural vandals.
There have been some good adaptations though, even ones that did their own thing - like Foundation.
The 2nd episode of “Man in the High Castle” when you realize they just copied the setting and are going to ignore the key elements (and strengths) of the book.
I gave up on the adaption about 5 min into the second episode.
phew. I tried to watch that and the premise seemed so good but ugh. knew nothing about the ip so im glad its not just me who found it sorta crappy.
I started watching ‘The 100.’
I gave up when the folks from orbit decided that they had to massacre the ground dwellers.
This was after a dozen of so other massacres.
Game of Thrones.
Which one of their many bad decisions?
Anything in the last 2 seasons?
the 100 after that moment
Wth happened I stopped watching bc I got bored
spoiler
they killed off lexa
Bob’s Burgers around season 5 or 6. The tone changed and it was less learning about some ratchet ass setting and meeting the people in it and more about sticking to the established normalized rules for the setting. Mort kinda vanished.
Eureka. The time travel, and that god fucking damn bunker
Not really decisions by the writers, but more losing the good cast members.
Misfits and Being Human UK
Mr. Robot. I loved the pilot episode so much, but by episode 3 or 4 it became glaringly obvious to me that the writers didn’t understand computers.
That is a highly unusual comment regarding Mr. Robot
BBCs Humans
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They killed Mia / Anita (Gemma Chan). She was hot and really the only reason I started watching It.
It was the last season luckily
