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.

You didnt miss much. They were very forgettable.

Cue Lindsay Ellis

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.

The end of season one set up season two to be a hard boiled detective show. That would have been cool. Stand alone episodes with an overlying story arc

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 enjoyed that show immensely, until the rushed last season. I didn’t read the book though.

That is beyond stupid, to the point where anyone proposing it has shown they not only don't respect the source material, but actively hate it. That is like the central feature of the interpersonal relationships in the books.

Out of curiosity do you have a source for that? I've tried searching but I can't find anything about this at all.

S2 writing was laughable compared to S1. Cringe as. Mackie did well with what he was given IMO. I rewatched S1 a few months ago though, absolute pulpy banger

It really was the peak of what i remember from the show. It does having an intriguing consequence that Dexter starts to be concerned his son will have the same reaction that Dexter did to witnessing his mother's death and starts monitoring him for signs. If I remember correctly, he's both concerned that his son will be cursed to be like him, but also excited by the idea of having a bond and mentorship with him through it. But even that gets a bit hamfisted as I recall and ultimately goes nowhere. The show really whimpered out in later seasons.

I rewatched about a year ago, and the only episode I skipped was the series finale, the final episode. As far as I'm concerned my head canon is the real ending.

I was very happy to see both Original Sin, and Resurrection. No, he couldn't have survived a close-range hunting rifle shot to the chest, but I don't care. I was just happy to have more Dexter.

Wth happened I stopped watching bc I got bored

I regret sticking with it until the end. Such a garbage ending.

What do you mean? Capaldi is still the Doctor and no one will convince me otherwise.

My problems with the show started earlier, still during Tennant's run. They kept writing scenes where his companion would gush about how great he is, and The Doctor would brag about himself in a way that didn't feel like a character flaw. I preferred the writing when he would make a good Dalek, when Rose had the realization she'd been kidnapped by a fae creature. Everything's gotten so chipper and quirky, and I don't feel like the writing is thought about very deeply.

That's when they brought on the showrunner for Torchwood. Was it any wonder it got less fanciful and more melodramatic?

I tried watching Jodie Whittaker. It wasn't that she was (and still is, I assume), a she, it was the stories. I gave up in the middle of the Rosa Parks episode. I haven't watched since. I wanted more "Blink", not a history lesson.

I mean, I know "Blink" was peak, and they would be hard-pressed to match it, but it's like they just forgot was Dr. Who is.

The thing is, I love Jodie Whittaker and was so excited for her Doctor. But her companions were so bland. Ugh just super boring. And I couldn't keep up with the lore for some reason. It just didn't hold my interest and I was so sad about it. :(

I can pinpoint the moment, it was "solitract." Like, lonely intestines? I think I finished out that season, but haven't watched any Doctor Who since then. It was just so hand-wavey with a ridiculously dumb name that it demolished my ability to suspend disbelief.

I remember seeing an interview with Tom Bosley, the actor who played Mr. Cunningham, where he points out that there were more episodes of Happy Days after jumping the shark than before, so it was hardly the death knell for the show.

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.

As I recall, the first introduction of the Borg was in the Delta Quadrant (when Q tossed the Enterprise there as a lark). So not including them would seem like a huge oversight considering their dominance.

This was also after First Contact came out, I assume that had something to do with it.

There was also still a huge host of episodes that had nothing to do with borg, aside from the occasional "We need to improve this technology because plot reasons, let's throw some borg nanites in it or something". It wasn't wholly focused on the borg.

Disagree

I think you mean Seven of Fine

I have the opposite opinion. Voyager was my first trek as a kid as well. Upon rewatching it, the show actually isn’t great until seven shows up. It kinda drags ass until season 4.

Interesting. DS9 would’ve been more to your liking then. The Borg were only in the first episode as one or two scenes to set up Sisko’s character arch. After that, it’s mostly new races, and more advanced development of existing boring races (i.e. Ferringhi, Bajorians).

There have been some good adaptations though, even ones that did their own thing - like Foundation.

Castlevania is fucking sick tho. Watchmen the series is arguably equivalent to the OG comic in terms of writing and artistic quality.

There are genuinely great adaptations out there.

Most of human history has been this way. People telling and re-telling their own fanfiction or alternate versions of everything from Greek tragedies to the Bible to everything else.

There have been good adaptations. The Castlevania anime was great. The first one at least.

I think the bigger issue is the trend of putting a lot of money and effort into season 1 to make a good impression and try to get loyal fans, then to take all the money out for subsequent seasons and hope the fans stick around.

It's interesting that you mention the Witcher because I thought season 1 was way better than anything the games did. I could see how the structure in particular might not be for everyone. After season 1 it's obvious that everything went cheap- the lighting, the costumes, the makeup, the locations, the editing, the sound design, the CG effects, the writing. I normally don't even have an appreciation for costume design, but by season 3 it looked like they went to Spirit for Geralt's armor and Kohl's for Yennifer's dresses.

Arcane was another one. Season 1 was way better than anything League of Legends did during the few years I played. Season 2 was still... Okay, but the writing was terrible. The backgrounds went from detailed panoramas of piltover to just stylized colored fog. A lot of the characters seem to do things that go against their previously established motives or just do things that don't actually make sense but are required to move the plot along.

To bring it back to Castlevania- after the original series, the Nocturne series felt like a cheap knockoff. Which was a real shame because it was the same studio and I really enjoyed most of their other work.

Which one of their many bad decisions?

Are you referring to when

Aww man, I thought Bobby was great in the reboot.

I haven't tried the new one yet, but I was binging the original as prep for it and hit episodes like Peggy drugging Hank with random doses of oral testosterone without his consent, and it was too much. I felt like the show was very thoughtful about issues like bigotry and child care in the beginning, but it eventually devolved into whatever is funny at the moment without thinking anything through.

That show was cool, until they're veered off like mad from the OG idea and the MCU, but the same can be said of most Netflix Marvel shows

Jeph Loeb was weird.

That is a highly unusual comment regarding Mr. Robot

I haven't watched it, but I'd say losing your way in season 27 is pretty damn impressive. It's like someone living healthily to 110.

I felt the opposite. They lost me a few seasons ago, especially with the weird season/movie thing. But I really felt 27 was a return to form, especially Got a Nut’s classic A & B plot convergence and the overall return to kid antics as plot devices.