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juancarlos11 Since: Aug, 2011
#76: Dec 5th 2010 at 11:56:57 AM

Talby: i can see what you mean with the wire it's very hard to emphatize with a show which basis is another culture and the slang it's really hard (i had to watch with subtittles and i always scratch my head at some of the words and grammar) but at the end I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty cool. where are you from, anyway?

edited 5th Dec '10 12:18:58 PM by juancarlos11

It's not exactly naive. And it can happen. But it's tough. And definetly worthwhile.
Talby Since: Jun, 2009
#77: Dec 6th 2010 at 6:48:58 AM

@juancarlos

I'm from Australia. I could understand the slang, I just found it kind of irritating.

juancarlos11 Since: Aug, 2011
#78: Dec 6th 2010 at 11:24:47 AM

yeah, i get you with that one. the thing that always bugged me was how every season started incredibly slow. but the pay-offs were incredibly awesome so I never really stopped watching (but considered it at various times) the thing is, that the wire is more Love It or Hate It than the fanbase cares to admit

It's not exactly naive. And it can happen. But it's tough. And definetly worthwhile.
Poochy.EXE from 127.0.0.1 Since: Jan, 2001
#79: Dec 17th 2010 at 6:41:04 AM

Just remembered another game show which falls in this category for me: The Million Pound Drop.

I originally loved the concept back when I first heard of it (before they even filmed the first episode). The set was also nicely done as well. But in execution, well, first it tripped over a gigantic pile of Padding to completely fall flat on its face.

Then a couple episodes in, there was a team who got to the final question, with £525,000 boot. And it turned out that the final question was All or Nothing - the last question (and only the last question) of each game would have only two choices, and the players must put everything on one choice. This threw all the strategy of the game out the window in one fell swoop. Plus if they pick the wrong answer here, everything up to that point was for naught.

And it got worse when the question itself came. "Which of these famous couples married first? Prince Charles and Diana Spencer / Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne". In the immortal words of James May, "Oh, cock." Celebrity gossip always makes for lame trivia questions. And as the host would reveal after the team lost their £525K, the two were less than a year apart, and in the early 80's. That's right, an Unexpectedly Obscure Answer on 28-year-old celebrity frakkin' gossip. It was so much of a Wall Banger that you could hear it smacking the wall in the UK all the way from California.

And that killed off any and all interest I ever had in the show, because it was quite clear that very few people would win a single quid because of Fake Difficulty turning the last question into a Luck-Based Mission. I still like the concept (and the set is also nice), but the show is one gigantic Missed Moment of Awesome.

I actually only remembered this because I stumbled across a You Tube clip from a recent episode of the show, which showed a celebrity team on that last question playing for charity and losing £50K, again on a trashy Unexpectedly Obscure Answer (although the show gave them £5K for their charity anyway). That's right, the show's so frakkin' cheap that they don't even let up on the Fake Difficulty for charity.

The possible upside is that the show's getting a US version, titled Million Dollar Money Drop, which will apparently have 7 questions in a game instead of 8. Hopefully that means they threw out that last 2-choice question. (Edit: Nope, they took out the first question, not the last.) But it's also being done by FOX, which has an uncanny ability to screw up any show you throw at them.

edited 17th Dec '10 7:11:03 PM by Poochy.EXE

Extra 1: Poochy Ain't Stupid
wellinever Last woman standing from Australia Since: Jan, 2001
Last woman standing
#80: Dec 17th 2010 at 5:58:22 PM

Glee again. All the characters just ended up so unlikable and it's so heavy handed with it's morals - which are frequently broken in a different way by the next episode.

wellinever Last woman standing from Australia Since: Jan, 2001
Last woman standing
#81: Dec 19th 2010 at 4:16:24 AM

Also does anyone know the name of the trope where you hate the shopw but like one character.

Nabi (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#82: Dec 20th 2010 at 4:42:24 AM

Warehouse 13 for me. I like the concept, but it just wasn't really strong enough to keep me watching beyond a couple episodes.

edited 20th Dec '10 4:43:02 AM by Nabi

Worca Oh Hai Brains. from Englandishdale Since: Dec, 2010
Oh Hai Brains.
#83: Dec 20th 2010 at 7:05:26 AM

True Blood - I think its just the fact that some things have ruined the idea for me of vampires in general and this seems too close. I never got into it enough to go deeper.

Supernatural - *Shrugs* not interesting?

Angel - Considering i liked Buffy, i just disliked Angel for the most part. A few episodes are good but....nothing grabbed me. :/ Am i wrong for that?

No matter how fast the tech evolves, how wonderful the graphics change. Sometimes its the IDEA that makes the game better, not money.
Foringinn Pleb, for the moment. Since: Aug, 2009
Pleb, for the moment.
#84: Dec 20th 2010 at 9:39:32 AM

Ware House 13, same here, good concept, bad execution.

Stargate Universe, loved Stargate SG 1, liked some of Atlantis. Universe was just boring. Not bad, offensive, just boring.

Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
Ding-ding! Going down...
#85: Dec 22nd 2010 at 5:03:25 PM

Damn, Warehouse 13. There's something about the tone, which is just on the wrong side of the classic buffy joke/angst balance. So it ends up that I can't quite take anything seriously because everything lacks the necessairy urgency. Plus, a lot of people seem really dumb.

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betterthanstrawberry Dreaming out loud. from back in the atmosphere. Since: Sep, 2010
Dreaming out loud.
#86: Dec 25th 2010 at 7:08:23 AM

The first season of Blackadder. Some pretty funny jokes here and there, but nowhere nearly as brilliant as the later seasons.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#87: Dec 27th 2010 at 1:16:15 AM

I want to like the new Dr Who episodes, I do, but... I just can't. I find Amy Pond extremely dull, the science fails grate on me, there is an awful lot of Doctor-worship (which is at least more tolerable than Rose-worship, but still irritates me), and the christmas special annoyed me.

I loved the old series, so maybe it's just nostalgia that makes me thing newwho isn't as good as the old stuff. But I really do think the new series is going downhill.

edited 27th Dec '10 1:17:57 AM by LoniJay

Be not afraid...
Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#88: Dec 29th 2010 at 10:54:24 AM

I wanted to like The Big Bang Theory because Moist was in it. And it's not a BAD show, but like others said, it holds the "LOL NERDS ARE SOCIALLY RETARDED" shtick just as much as anyone else. It's just that the geeks are the main characters now.

Which just makes it worse.

Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
Ding-ding! Going down...
#89: Dec 29th 2010 at 12:54:15 PM

[up]That kind of thing just's self-perpetuating. Sad, really.

Also: True Blood. I want to love it because I've got a lot of friends who do, but I don't. I'll still watch it, but just fail to engage with it.

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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#90: Dec 29th 2010 at 11:41:12 PM

@Starship Maxima: My feelings towards SGU, exactly. Except I liked most of SG:A.

V, and Flash Forward, both because I just can't get into the characters.

Oddly, I couldn't stand the first episode of Burn Notice the first time I watched it, but after seeing a pair of season 3 episodes, I tried watching the show from the start, and now love it.

True Blood, but then, I'm rather Meh on the books, so the show didn't improve on anything for me.

Warehouse 13, I confess I watch it for the sole purpose of laughing at the characters.

I like Doctor Who. (Alright, Amy Pond is rather Meh also, but I'll give them another season to try and impress me the way Martha and Donna both did.) But then there's the spin-offs of Sarah Jane and K-9. Really? K-9 needed its own show? And yee gods, was *that* horrible.

I did watch the first season of Big Bang Theory, and found it amusing. Just ... not amusing enough to watch the rest of it.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#91: Jan 6th 2011 at 7:43:30 PM

The remake of Hawaii Five-O. Saw the first episode. Didn't really spark my interest.

hitchopottimus Since: Jun, 2009
#92: Jan 10th 2011 at 6:40:08 AM

Dexter: The squick factor is just too high for me.

The Office(British original): Too black and soul-crushing, too reliant on awkwardness-based humour. The American version, through later character development and increased focus on background characters, manages to be something I can enjoy.

Mad Men: I just don't care about the characters and therefore get bored quickly.

Lost: I have no idea why. On paper I should like it. I can't name any specific flaws, but I just don't care for it.

moocow1452 Since: Jan, 2001
#93: Jan 10th 2011 at 7:45:51 PM

[up][up] I'm pretty sure that's a pretty common opinion.

I kind of like The Cape, mostly because it's dumb and stupid, and I'm okay with turning my brain off for periods of time.

katymacg Madame Strange from right behind you Since: Dec, 2010
Madame Strange
#94: Jan 23rd 2011 at 11:32:48 AM

30 Rock: I love Tina Fey, and I also love the Cloudcuckoolander that is Tracy Jordan/Morgan...and yet, for some reason, this show has never quite clicked with me. Part of it is the grating presence of Alec Baldwin—I've never cared for the guy, either as an actor or as a person. And I feel like the show often tries a little too hard to appeal to the so-called "Minivan Majority" (i.e. suburban American values), what with Liz Lemon's constant fears about her "biological clock," the high-profile celebrity appearances, and the overall dumbing down of the show that has occurred since about the third season.

I'm a Real Life Cloud Cuckoolander, you might say.
LizardBite Shameless Self-Promoter from Two Galaxies Over Since: Jan, 2001
#95: Jan 23rd 2011 at 5:18:44 PM

V. I certainly gave it a chance. I think I watched most of the first season. But I just lost interest in it as it became obvious to me that I just didn't give a damn about any of the characters.

shinfernape Ascetic warrior Since: Jun, 2011
Ascetic warrior
#96: Jan 23rd 2011 at 6:47:52 PM

Andromeda. I mean yeah the first 2 seasons wer ok but I dunno it's got to much Hercules music and sometimes it just doesn't take itself seriously enough when in actuality Andromeda was supposed to have a lot more sound science stuff like kinetic missiles and short range cannons. I think they should have realised there was a time to act seriousish and when there wasn't.

A wish is never free.
Wulvaine Since: Aug, 2010
#97: Feb 9th 2011 at 5:31:10 PM

I'm gonna get shot at for this, but... Arrested Development.

Everything about this show should make me love it. The cast, the creators, the characters, the writing that I freely admit is really strong. But for whatever reason, I just can't make myself care about any of these people. I've tried it a couple of times, and I intend to give it another shot soon enough, but up to now, it just hasn't clicked into place for me.

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#98: Feb 13th 2011 at 9:03:44 PM

Dexter, kind of...

I enjoyed the first 2 seasons, but I only liked Dexter himself and couldn't care about anyone else, I also hated the way they got rid of Dexter's brother rather than have him disappear and come back later as a sort of rival/recurring villain and then did the same to the british chick. The fact way they wrapped up the entire 2nd season with tieing up all the loose ends aswell as killing off Doakes, getting rid of yet another good antagonist left me feeling as though I had absolutely no reason to continue watching.

Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#99: Feb 13th 2011 at 9:32:01 PM

Mad Men. I find the whole thing boring. It just comes off as a bunch of sexist assholes sitting being sexist assholes in the 60s. And not the good 60s, the boring 60s. I don't care how authentic it is, that novelty wears off fast. And I find Don Draper to be wooden and phony. The only time I found him interesting was when he was trying to blow off his brother.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
pixeldust Since: Dec, 1969
#100: Feb 14th 2011 at 6:49:25 PM

Dollhouse - god, how I tried to like that show. I loved Firefly and Buffy, and Faith was one of my favorite characters. I stuck it out for most of the first season waiting for it to stop sucking quite so hard. I remember reading Whedon fan sites during that time and Whedon himself was saying something to effect of, "Sorry guys, it's gets better after episode 6, really."

But it didn't. I'd still watch Whedon, but Dollhouse was a huge disappointment.


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