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MightyFavog from NC Since: Apr, 2010
#26: Aug 14th 2010 at 6:31:15 PM

I like Firefly, but I don't love it, and I don't really understand why so many people consider it to be Whedon's finest work. That's not an insult or challenge to die-hard Browncoats; I just don't love the show.

Also, Arrested Development. After years of hearing how fantastic it was, I gave it a try and didn't really love it. I kept watching because people kept telling me that all the great in-jokes were what made it special; I managed to make it halfway through Season 2 before it just got so tiresome that I had to call it quits. All the continuity gags, puns, and Getting Crap Past the Radar seemed kind of obvious, cheap, and very forgettable. Again, no offense to fans. I also feel pretty much the same way about The Office.

edited 14th Aug '10 6:31:31 PM by MightyFavog

HopelessRomance I'm not dead yet! from Minnesota, USA. Since: Mar, 2010
I'm not dead yet!
#27: Aug 14th 2010 at 7:21:45 PM

Two And A Half Men. I'm a big fan of The Big Bang Theory and I know the two shows share a creator, but I just couldn't get into it. The innuendo gags get old pretty quickly. We get it, Charlie's a horndog. Jake's not as innocent as he seems. Alan is a prude. Can we move on now? At least Big Bang Theory has more humor to it than sex jokes. (Hell, most of Big Bang's best gags come from Sheldon's social obliviousness.)

edited 14th Aug '10 7:29:12 PM by HopelessRomance

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#28: Aug 14th 2010 at 7:51:19 PM

  • iCarly- It's aimed at my age group, and sometimes it's funny, but I just can't stand it. It's too corny and everything is over the top.
  • Jersey Shore- I want to like it because everyone says it's funny, but I have a low nonsense tolerance.

moocow1452 Since: Jan, 2001
#29: Aug 15th 2010 at 12:53:10 PM

^ Nobody takes Jersey Shore straight. About the only way to watch it is with a constant laughtrack looping in the background.

For some strange reason, I don't like Mad Men. Yes I get it, they're in the 60's, where is the plot? Why is nothing happening?

That, and Heroes, I'll give Season Two a pass, because it went full throttle into awesome once Hiro got out of Japan. But after it got derailed by the Writer's Strike, it never was the same after that.

BTUltimate Since: Jul, 2010
#30: Aug 16th 2010 at 1:44:12 AM

Lost, for me. I loved the first season, and then after the cliffhanger ending, it went downhill for me. It seemed to me they're pulling crap out of their asses as they went along, which is my number one pet peeve for mystery plots. I hate it when the creators probably don't even know what's behind everything, which seems to be confirmed with the mystical hoo-ha ending.

NewGeekPhilosopher Wizard Basement from Sydney, Australia Since: Jul, 2009
Wizard Basement
#31: Aug 16th 2010 at 2:09:34 AM

I didn't like Firefly, for some reason I watched Serenity first when it came out on DVD as a rental and I really got put off by the whole Reavers thing. I also didn't like Warhammer 40,000 after a while, not because it got too expensive - but for a similar reason - when sci-fi gets too dark and bleak I just can't handle it for too long. As an Australian for that reason I can appreciate what Mad Max did for our culture but I kinda wish we had better budgets to make different kinds of genre flicks here.

I also didn't like Summer Heights High - came off as far too mean for me. Especially when they make fun of disabled kids. Yeech.

Hell Hasn't Earned My Tears
Esteban009 Bitter Hateful Cynic from Practically Atlantis Since: Jan, 2010
Bitter Hateful Cynic
#32: Aug 16th 2010 at 5:35:52 AM

Where to begin...

Chuck... I actually liked the first season, everything that came after it... not so much. I stopped watching it and I can't even remember when... I just stopped caring.

Firefly... I get why it got canceled, it just wasn't a good show.

V... when the twenty-year old original has you beat in depth when there's a perfect environment out there to fit your remake in... you know you're doing something horribly wrong.

Six Feet Under... everybody I know loves this show, they're raving about it like there's no tomorrow, but I just can't seem to get through three episodes.

Stargate Atlantis... I loved the pilot, everything that came after the pilot was just plain mediocre that I missed an entire season without really noticing. They had a great concept with the Wraith, only to fuck it up by not picking up on the parts that would have made the Wraith awesome villains.

Stargate Universe... Stargate does Battlestar Galactica, how could I possibly not like it? Well I don't... because this is the dullest shit there is out there. Next episode: someone forgot to flush after leaving a brown log floating, will Eli confess to his sin, or will Rush tear the crew apart by acting like a total shady tool? Who will get jiggy on board the Destiny, and who's going to care?

IronyAdams ヽ(´∀`)ノ from next door Since: Aug, 2010
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#33: Aug 16th 2010 at 12:09:37 PM

Glee. I liked it for the first ten episodes or so, then it suddenly started annoying me. I kind of miss the days when I still enjoyed that show. The world was a brighter place back then.

Also I can't seem to really get into Mad Men. I watched the first half of the first series and then just lost interest. A bit of a pity, because I find the period interesting enough.

Like the night my girl went away, gone off in a world filled with stuff
stalkinggoat Since: Sep, 2012
#34: Aug 16th 2010 at 2:11:46 PM

Warehouse 13. I like the premise. I like Arty and Claudia. But I find them episodes themselves barely interesting and I absolutely hate Pete and Myka.

Pete because of his whole man-child affect and the fact that they think that making him a recovering alcoholic is character development. Myka because she always looks like she's about to cry.

TrogdorCronus27 Raptor Detecting Jello Since: Aug, 2009
Raptor Detecting Jello
#35: Aug 22nd 2010 at 9:09:59 PM

V is the most disappointing thing I have ever watched. Joel Watson put it best in one of his podcasts (not an exact quote): "They managed to take a story about space lizards invading Earth, and make it boring. That's not an easy thing to do."

Glee's pilot was sort of interesting, it had a fresh concept and all that, but when the season proper started, I just couldn't bring myself to care enough to watch it.

Star Trek in all its incarnations just never clicked for me. I want to like at least one of the series, because I feel like I'm missing out otherwise, but I just can't. Every time I start to watch a rerun, I'll get about halfway through and then go find something else to do.

edited 22nd Aug '10 9:10:43 PM by TrogdorCronus27

NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
#36: Aug 23rd 2010 at 1:15:41 AM

For Star Trek I'd suggest getting a recommended list of a handful of episodes for each series that covers the full gambit of Trek plots. i.e. an exploration episode, a human condition exploration episodes, a character development episode, a fun episode, etc.

HopelessRomance I'm not dead yet! from Minnesota, USA. Since: Mar, 2010
I'm not dead yet!
#37: Aug 23rd 2010 at 5:53:22 AM

Jersey Shore- I want to like it because everyone says it's funny, but I have a low nonsense tolerance.

I know what you mean. I tried to watch it once to see what people were talking about. I could just feel my brain cells dying. What's worse I learned that some people actually take it seriously. I had my senior orientation last Thursday and I saw two guys wearing black wifebeaters that had the names of two of the Jersey Shore guys on them. I now fear for future generations more than ever.

We're going to spread this shit like Nutella.
Sen Sen from UK Since: Jan, 2001
Sen
#38: Aug 23rd 2010 at 2:58:49 PM

Battlestar Galactica

I've pretty much developed a permanent aversion to po-faced mega-serious Grimdark hyper-depressing pretentious works in general - I want a spoo-no, a bloody bottle's worth of snark and humour dropped over it so I can swallow it easier (case in point: I think NGE's comedy is sheer raw fail, but at least they tried).

Tried a few eps. BSG doesn't have any humour in it whatsoever. Nothing to balance out the Grimdark. Basically, TV equivalent of Joy Division. So I ejected the last episode only halfway through, said "fuck this" and watched more Doctor Who.

Same problem with Stargate Universe. SG-1 and Atlantis have the all-important humour, but Universe seems to have misplaced it somewhere along the way.

Probably should get working on that essay now...
OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#39: Aug 23rd 2010 at 7:30:44 PM

While I haven't really seen Galactica, I can kind of see your point about humour. I mean, as dark as Doctor Who's two most recent series got, it still has a considerable amount of humour and levity in between.

Nonapod probably drunk again Since: Jan, 2010
probably drunk again
#40: Aug 24th 2010 at 9:26:48 AM

Another vote for Firefly. I can't even get past the first episode without being bored to distraction and I've tried a few times now. It's odd because I've liked most of the other things Joss Whedon has done and I'm a huge Sci-Fi nerd too, I have no excuses. It just seems so... generic I guess.

Also Legend of the Seeker for pretty much the same reason, really predictable and generic, just like the Sword of Truth books (although I never read past Wizard's First Rule).

occono from Ireland. Since: Apr, 2009
#41: Aug 24th 2010 at 5:07:14 PM

Well, Firefly's first episode is a lot more boring then the rest, but I do think it's overhyped..

edited 24th Aug '10 5:07:37 PM by occono

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Naram-Sin Since: May, 2009
#42: Aug 31st 2010 at 10:31:43 AM

By a mile, Lost. I really wanted to like Lost. But by the beginning of the third season it was like if I could see the writing staff pointing a finger at my face and laughing.

OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#43: Aug 31st 2010 at 3:12:24 PM

Well, even people who like Lost are not particularly fond on the first third or so of the third season, or even the entire season minus the season finale.

AckSed Pat. St. of Archive Binge from Pure Imagination Since: Jan, 2001
Pat. St. of Archive Binge
#44: Sep 4th 2010 at 2:47:01 PM

Strange case - I watched the second,third and fourth episodes of Being Human and liked it,but every time I try to fill in the blanks with the rest of the series,I lose interest.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
HopelessRomance I'm not dead yet! from Minnesota, USA. Since: Mar, 2010
I'm not dead yet!
#45: Sep 6th 2010 at 6:09:49 AM

Also, Torchwood. I watched the first two episodes and I just didn't like it. It's not a bad show in all honesty, but for me it's So OK, It's Average. Maybe it's because I'm not a Yaoi fangirl.

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Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#46: Sep 6th 2010 at 6:46:11 AM

Torchwood is almost universally considered to get much better in the second series, even by people (like me) who enjoyed the first one. The second episode is one of the worst of the entire show.

edited 6th Sep '10 6:48:16 AM by Nyktos

I guess it is.
OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#47: Sep 9th 2010 at 8:30:06 AM

I find it weird that I can defend the writer of episodes 2 and 4 (from his work on both Doctor Who and Torchwood), but not those two episodes themselves.

Still, So Okay, It's Average for season 1's early episodes is actually pretty good, considering.

edited 9th Sep '10 8:30:51 AM by OldManHoOh

Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#48: Sep 10th 2010 at 3:59:13 PM

I don't mind his other work. "42" was a decent Doctor Who episode, and I quite enjoyed the two-parter he did last season. His other Torchwood stuff is mostly alright as well, although none of the episodes he did are among the best. But those two are...pretty bad.

I guess it is.
OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#49: Sep 11th 2010 at 4:46:36 PM

Maybe not the best, but I loved the episodes Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Adrift and Fragments regardless, and Countrycide and Exit Wounds were alright too. But, yeah, it's really hard to defend his first two episodes.

edited 11th Sep '10 4:47:41 PM by OldManHoOh

juancarlos Faith in the self. Since: Mar, 2012
Faith in the self.
#50: Oct 10th 2010 at 8:33:13 PM

Better Off Ted... Just Better Off Ted

i'm a big fan of Arrested Development (have all the eps on Dvd) and i really like portia de rossi, and I like off-the-wall elements... but the show never made me laugh. I honestly don't know why.

the uk version of The Office (for the record I LOVED Extras) also has kind of the same problem for me i can see how is funny but i cannot laugh with it as for the american it has it's moments for me

edited 10th Oct '10 8:35:56 PM by juancarlos

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