History AuthorsSavingThrow / LiveActionTV

** For years, the show was criticized by drag queens and fans of the culture for not allowing post-operative transgender women to compete, and the trans women that ''were'' accepted were forced to stop taking hormones and present as male when not in drag. Further, cisgender female drag queens ("bioqueens") were not allowed to compete at all. The show has since become more inclusive, welcoming trans contestants at all stages of transition, and the UK show introduced the franchise's first bioqueen, Victoria Scone.

** For years, the show was criticized by longtime drag fans for not being inclusive enough by not allowing post-operative transgender women to compete, and the trans women that ''were'' accepted were forced to stop taking hormones and present as male when not in drag. Further, cisgender female drag queens ("bioqueens") were not allowed to compete at all. The show has since become more inclusive in both the US and international versions, welcoming trans contestants at all stages of transition, and the UK show introduced the franchise's first bioqueen, Victoria Scone.
** The show has made other gestures as well to be more respectful of non-male contestants, such as removing the "You've Got She-Mail!" soundbite at the start of each episode, due to "she-male" being a slur against trans women. [=RuPaul=] also changed his catchphrase from "Gentlemen start your engines, and may the best ''woman'' win!" to "Racers start your engines, and may the best ''drag queen'' win!", including re-recording the theme song.

** The comic book that the series is based on famously suffered from such a dark, bleak atmosphere and unlikable characters it was hard to care for what was happening. The series changes multiple characters, even the villains, to make them nicer and more palatable to watchers, in particular, the leads Hughie and Starlight make the whole show much more watchable by being genuinely nice people going through terrible situations. While the series is still pretty dark, it also relied more on making itself more darkly comedic in tone.

** Quasi-{{Mammy}}, anti-science, fire-and brimstone Christian Shirley was suddenly shown to have excellent grades in a later episode.

** At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" the Daleks are all killed off, which caused the writers a problem when they became an instant huge success. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]" has the Doctor speculate that he's gone back to a time before they all died. Later stories simply ignore it, with some Expanded Universe stories and much commentary on the show taking advantage of the "Daleks" Daleks' weaker powers and different personality to suggest that they were simply a splinter faction of the main Dalek civilisation, or surviving descendants of early experiments by Davros.

** After the violent Sixth Doctor era the series tried this by becoming more light hearted. Audiences continued to drop, with the Doctor coming across as a goofy clown. So the stories became darker and the Doctor became more mysterious. Though the series was cancelled after another two seasons, those two seasons of the Seventh Doctor's era became a CultClassic.

** Though it may not have been intended this way, the reveal in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", that in the first day after regeneration a Time Lord can perform drastic body alterations, has been seized on in {{Fanon}} as an explanation for Romana's notorious regeneration scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks Destiny of the Daleks]]", where she appeared to waste several of them just to "try out" different looks.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], the HappinessInSlavery depiction of the Ood as a happy servitor race and the Doctor's acceptance of it as unproblematic were seen by many fans as gross breaches of the series's and the character's usual moral positions. Two years later the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod "Planet of the Ood"]] story returned to the same setting and revealed that the slave Ood were only happy [[spoiler:because the evil humans had been lobotomising them]], and that the Doctor only accepted their servitude because he was a bit preoccupied with a planet orbiting a black hole and Satan trying to kill them all... [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext shut it.]]
** The Daleks got a multicolored upgrade in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], and the bright, colorful Daleks were presented as what a Dalek would look like forevermore, the "New Dalek Paradigm," as they put it. It turned out even this NarmCharm loving fanbase has its limits.[[note]]The "New Dalek Paradigm" were instantly compared to ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' due to each having its own color and all having bright obviously-plastic casing.[[/note]] So the next time a Dalek had to be a threat, it was a sorta petrified-looking run-down one with no trace of its original color. Every Dalek appearance since then has had the old bronze Daleks as the vast majority if not the only design. The "New Dalek Paradigm" is apparently still around, but they're taking a backseat to their bronze immediate predecessor models.

** Moffat's era got many accusations of suffering from ContinuityLockout not just from itself but also the classic series, until it felt like the only audience the show was interested in were people who'd grown up with the old episodes. Some of Series 10 could be considered an answer to this, Moffat outright saying the first episode "The Pilot" could serve as a jumping on point for new fans.
** The Whittaker era crew put out a statement acknowledging the complaints about the severe underutilization of Yaz, and promising to try harder with her in Series 12.
** After Series 11 was criticized for a lack of familiar characters, an overarching storyline, and a WhamEpisode, its 2019 New Years special and 12th series were filled to the brim with course correction: from [[spoiler: the Dalek appearing in the New Years special, the Master in the first two episodes of the 12th series, the Judoon and even Jack Harkness showed up in quick succession]], more focus on ''the Timeless Child'', and [[spoiler: the Lone Cyberman]] was revealed. Whamtastic revelation such as [[spoiler: Gallifrey burned again]] and [[spoiler: the "Ruth" Doctor on the run from the ''Time Lords'']] brought back the heavy serialized feeling of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctor Era.

* ''Series/GoodTimes'': The season 5 episode, "No More Mr. Nice Guy", in which JJ punishes Michael for joyriding in a stolen car with a friend, was likely a response to the viewers who believed that JJ [[UncleTomFoolery wasn't a good role model for young African Americans with his buffoonish behavior]] throughout the series. This ultimately led to Esther Rolle, who played Florida, JJ and Michael's mother, leaving the show prior to the fifth season. JJ even explains to Michael that he didn't set a good example for him when he was his age few years earlier.

* The reason ''Series/TheJeffersons'' was created was because of this trope. A group of Black militants had approached Norman Lear and criticized him for portraying Blacks as [[Series/SanfordAndSon junk yard owners]] or [[Series/GoodTimes living in poverty, struggling to make ends meet.]] They wanted him to show their people in better living situations. Thus, Lear decided to spin off George and Wezzy from ''{{Series/All in the Family}}'' and "move them on up" to higher society.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': The producers originally intended for Paolo and Nikki to be major characters. After a fan revolt, they changed their plans by [[spoiler: not only killing off the characters, but doing so in an incredibly sadistic way.]]

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Fans were hugely upset over how Robin Hood became [[spoiler: DeaderThanDead while in the same episode, Hook was revived through a literal DeusExMachina]]. In an interview afterwords, the WordOfGod stated that they choose to believe that [[spoiler: Hades was lying about what the Olympian Crystal does to your soul and that Robin Hood is in the better place now, hinting he wasn't truly DeaderThanDead]]. The premiere of Series 6 has Henry and Regina decide to believe the same thing, [[spoiler:and the mid-season premiere heavily hints at them being correct, with the implication that Wish-Realm!Robin contains some portion of Real!Robin's soul. The series finale would flat-out confirm that Robin's soul survived, as we see it visit Regina in a vision that leaves his trademark red feather behind afterward]].

** The fact that the Senshi [[ClarkKenting look no different in uniform than they do in civilian gear]] is a common source of criticism among fans (to the degree that {{Fanon}} says an enchantment prevents anyone from recognizing them). Here the girls all have normal hairstyles in their civvies, and then transform into the more colorful and elaborate anime styles. This makes it more plausible that they wouldn't be recognized in public. Even so, Minako recognizes Rei as Sailor Mars instantly upon seeing her out of her senshi mode, and [[spoiler:Nephrite recognizes Ami as well, though she doesn't recognize him.]]

** The show provided a more manga accurate version of Rei Hino, after the original anime shifted her character to be more [[SmittenTeenageGirl boy crazy]].

* Dr. Bashir of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was never the most popular character on the series. With a personality that seemed to vary from episode to episode, inconsistencies with his background, and the infamous "Mistook a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve" error (which is akin to an engineering student mixing up a wrench with a screwdriver). So midway through season 5, the writing team rolled out a full-on {{Retcon}} to explain it all: [[spoiler:That he was an Augment, an illegal product of genetic engineering. And that he'd been acting the fool to fly under the radar.]] Unlike most retcons, it ''worked'', with the Bashir for the remainder of the show being much better received by fans.

--> ''Taylor hopes the May 21 cliffhanger (part 2 airs in late August) will "keep the audience from feeling cheated" by the Borg's ''Voyager'' appearance in February's much hyped, but ultimately disappointing, episode called "Unity", which was really more about a band of ex-Borg drones. Admits Taylor, "we were concerned that maybe that wasn't a big enough dose for the viewers, so we dropped the two-parter we had planned, and decided to write an all-out, slam-bang, Borg-as-villain adventure.''

** In later seasons, the show began to place more and more focus on the Dean and Castiel relationship, including deliberate subtext and occasional jokes that their friendship is not entirely platonic. Some in the fandom took this as a possible legitimate intention on the writers' part to foreshadow an actual romantic relationship between them, and were extremely excited at the prospect of the protagonist of a very popular, mainstream, genre show being openly bi. However, during season 9, one of the writers revealed on Twitter that Dean being bi was an interesting idea but that they had absolutely no intention of making it canon. This caused outrage from people who claimed the show had been [[http://www.tvguide.com/news/supernatural-queerbaiting-destiel-1089286.aspx queerbaiting]] -- deliberately enticing queer audience members to keep watching with the promise of dearly needed representation without any intention of actually following through. During season 10, therefore, the authors tried to smooth things over with the episode Fan Fiction, in which Dean encounters Destiel shippers and states that while it's not the ''right'' interpretation, it's totally cool that they have their own interpretation of things. Reactions to this were mixed -- some shippers liked it, but those who really wanted Dean to be bi were only the more convinced that the writers never understood why people wanted Dean to be queer so much in the first place.
** A bigger attempt to counter the aforementioned "playing up Dean and Castiel's relationship just to bait queer viewers" accusations occurred in the final season when Castiel outright confessed his love for Dean. Fan reactions to this were mixed: while some fans were thrilled to finally get more than just subtext between Dean and Castiel, others viewed it as a cynical attempt by the show's producers to get last-minute diversity brownie points especially since [[spoiler:Castiel died immediately after his love confession, effectively trading queerbaiting for [[BuryYourGays another problematic LGBT trope]]]].

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Arguably the most hated storyline in the first season was the romance between Alison and Luther, since it hinged on them being NotBloodSiblings. In the second season, it is finally discussed how messed-up their relationship is. Both Alison and Luther are shown to have moved on but still care deeply for each other. Also, when it's revealed that Lila was born from the same event that spawned the rest of them, Diego wonders if this means he had sex with his sister and is disturbed at the possibility. However, they ultimately continue their relationship in the third season, as they at least did not grow up together.

* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/TheFlash2014''

* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/GameOfThrones''

** The Daleks got a multicolored upgrade in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], and the bright, colorful Daleks were presented as what a Dalek would look like forevermore, the "New Dalek Paradigm," as they put it. It turned out even this NarmCharm loving fanbase has its limits. So the next time a Dalek had to be a threat, it was a sorta petrified-looking run-down one with no trace of its original color. Every Dalek appearance since then has had the old bronze Daleks as the vast majority if not the only design. The "New Dalek Paradigm" is apparently still around, but they're taking a backseat to their bronze immediate predecessor models.

** Gradually, Jeff Winger transitioned from a charming, debonair MightyWhitey into a more flawed character.

* ''AuthorsSavingThrow/OnceUponaTime''

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Season 5 fixed many problems fans had with earlier seasons. It kept the focus on the main cast and stopped the new characters being a SpotlightStealingSquad as fans had been complaining about in previous seasons, fixed some plot holes, and made Belle more than just Rumplestiltskin's SatelliteLoveInterest. It also acknowledged that Rumple and Belle's relationship had turned toxic and become a YoYoPlotPoint. The finale threw the biggest though; after years of Regina been seen as an UnintentionallyUnsympathetic KarmaHoudini that showed no remorse for her actions as the Evil Queen, Regina reveals that her previous lack of remorse was due to repressing it and her entire character arc in the finale revolves around her desire to be free of the baggage that comes from her actions. She then [[spoiler: splits herself into her light and dark sides leaving us with a good Regina that can have a fresh start and the Evil Queen who can receive proper punishment]].