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Mine would be To Love A Patty because the scene where SpongeBob kills the clams makes me sad
(This is not satire)
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Niggers had it comingMine would be To Love A Patty because the scene where SpongeBob kills the clams makes me sad
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The real Captain planet would just mass genocide the Chinks and Jeets due to the sheer pollution and either be remembered as humanities greatest villain or it's greatest hero.
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Doctor Who post Capaldi era. My favorite was how they turned the Doctor into a sassy black woman in the Timeless Child,
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This episode, not even SVU, but actual Law and Order, is this health influencer killed because her herbal and homeopathic recipes, that she claimed cured her own cancer, didn't work and she almost caused a young woman with cancer to die without proper treatment because this woman believed in her.
So, the detectives find that the influencer never had cancer in first place, it was all a lie and the female detective says that they really don't have to report this because is not relevant to the case, also because many people look for alternatives to medicine including homeopathy and this puts it under a bad light...
OF COURSE IS FUCKING RELEVANT. The young woman with cancer looked for her treatments because the influencer claimed they cured her cancer! She lied about this in first place so this proved she didn't care putting this young woman in danger, which was the reason her mother shot the influencer. She knew it was never going to work and the mother caught up that she was a fraud.
The "let's ignore the issue here because it can be offensive" solutions are always the worst episodes.
So, the detectives find that the influencer never had cancer in first place, it was all a lie and the female detective says that they really don't have to report this because is not relevant to the case, also because many people look for alternatives to medicine including homeopathy and this puts it under a bad light...
OF COURSE IS FUCKING RELEVANT. The young woman with cancer looked for her treatments because the influencer claimed they cured her cancer! She lied about this in first place so this proved she didn't care putting this young woman in danger, which was the reason her mother shot the influencer. She knew it was never going to work and the mother caught up that she was a fraud.
The "let's ignore the issue here because it can be offensive" solutions are always the worst episodes.
I enjoyed the prison arc. Gonna agree that he was sent there for stupid reasons. It would have been better if one of his patients or one of his methods finally caused him to be sent to jail.
I absolutely forgot about the existence of Flash, and it still didn't click until you mentioned the Disney thing. I only remember they brought Jason Marsden to be Dana's boyfriend.
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Exactly, after episode three I expected the show to end with him in jail, but because he broke the rules to save someone, not because he drove a truck through a house. That is the sort of thing he wouldn't have done in season one because there is no way to be sure you don't hurt or kill anyone, House kept getting stupider as the show went on just so the writers could top themselves.
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The show is a case study in audience loyalty, people are not thrown from the horse easily.
Remember that season two episode where House is trying to talk the cancer girl into ditching chemo and just dying? He wants to see her stop fighting. Well, that's fucked.
Then years later he says he envies that non-communicative autistic kid ‘cause he doesn’t have to follow social norms or something.
A guy with GG Allin’s mentality would not climb to the top of a medical school. He'd be a back alley surgeon behind a 7-11.
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Like some of the series mentioned in this thread, "Sherlock" was a show that went on for too many episodes down wrong paths, becoming - as loathe as I am to use a TVTropes term - Flanderized, which was a shame because as far as Holmes adaptions go it was one of the better ones. One aspect they really nailed down, that most adaptations don't is how annoying it would be to hang around a guy like Sherlock, and Cumberbach was able to make Sherlock an engaging character instead of an irritating one, and they were able to create a modern take on the Holmes stories that really worked in a time where lab techs can squeeze volumes out of a speck of dust and anybody can look up information online that Doyle had to piece together from years of study.
However, the wheels started coming off by Series Three. The change in tone from the first two series was palpable; too much masturbatory, fan-pleasing comic relief, the stories were routinely derailed with minor characters mugging for the camera and spouting whimsical lines and being given their own obnoxious arcs. A surplus of whimsy, you could say. (A show worked on by Steven Moffat having these problems? Ya don't say...)
This will, again as seen with some of the other series mentioned in the thread, afflict more than a few successful TV series: showrunners and writers fall in love with their characters, their fans, and their own writing. The characters become so adorable to the people making the show that they are cooed at and fussed over like babies, instead of being used as interesting personalities in absorbing stories and become reduced to pandering, fan pleasing tics and catchphrases. (Which happens to turn off other fans at the same time.)
It's hard to tell when it will happen, but if a series goes on long enough it eventually will. It might be in the sophomore year after a knockout first season, or the rot could set in after a Season 5 or 6 or so, or somewhere in between. The law of diminishing returns; after a certain number of episodes, it can be difficult to overcome expectations and keep a consistent level of quality going without having your writers experience burnout, and it's so temptingly easy to resort to pleasing portions of the fanbase with episodes that are little more than references to character quirks and injokes. Injokes are fine in the background, but by Series Three of Sherlock they were not even in the foreground, it was just the ground. The characters became overly broad caricatures of themselves, with ridiculous over the top performances.
You could pick any episode of Sherlock from Series Three for this topic and it would fit.
Series Four however, was even worse, again any episode would being a good pick for "worst episode". The primary and secondary mysteries are convoluted, make no sense and hinge on the dumbest explanations. Indeed, by Four, nothing anyone does makes the slightest bit of sense, they're merely chess pieces moving themselves around on the silliest game board to give the viewers something to be puzzled about. Though if I had to pick a worst episode from Sherlock, it would be the gale-force retarded final episode "The Final Problem". The culmination of all of the problems the show had been experiencing, especially how the heroes can do anything they want, flawlessly, whenever it's convenient for the plot, no matter how silly, contrived or pointless it is.
However, the wheels started coming off by Series Three. The change in tone from the first two series was palpable; too much masturbatory, fan-pleasing comic relief, the stories were routinely derailed with minor characters mugging for the camera and spouting whimsical lines and being given their own obnoxious arcs. A surplus of whimsy, you could say. (A show worked on by Steven Moffat having these problems? Ya don't say...)
This will, again as seen with some of the other series mentioned in the thread, afflict more than a few successful TV series: showrunners and writers fall in love with their characters, their fans, and their own writing. The characters become so adorable to the people making the show that they are cooed at and fussed over like babies, instead of being used as interesting personalities in absorbing stories and become reduced to pandering, fan pleasing tics and catchphrases. (Which happens to turn off other fans at the same time.)
It's hard to tell when it will happen, but if a series goes on long enough it eventually will. It might be in the sophomore year after a knockout first season, or the rot could set in after a Season 5 or 6 or so, or somewhere in between. The law of diminishing returns; after a certain number of episodes, it can be difficult to overcome expectations and keep a consistent level of quality going without having your writers experience burnout, and it's so temptingly easy to resort to pleasing portions of the fanbase with episodes that are little more than references to character quirks and injokes. Injokes are fine in the background, but by Series Three of Sherlock they were not even in the foreground, it was just the ground. The characters became overly broad caricatures of themselves, with ridiculous over the top performances.
You could pick any episode of Sherlock from Series Three for this topic and it would fit.
Series Four however, was even worse, again any episode would being a good pick for "worst episode". The primary and secondary mysteries are convoluted, make no sense and hinge on the dumbest explanations. Indeed, by Four, nothing anyone does makes the slightest bit of sense, they're merely chess pieces moving themselves around on the silliest game board to give the viewers something to be puzzled about. Though if I had to pick a worst episode from Sherlock, it would be the gale-force retarded final episode "The Final Problem". The culmination of all of the problems the show had been experiencing, especially how the heroes can do anything they want, flawlessly, whenever it's convenient for the plot, no matter how silly, contrived or pointless it is.
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just watched Star Trek: Deep Space 9 S02E15: Paradise
sisko and o'brien land on a planet that was cut off from humanity and had no way of communicating with the outside world and built their own society, turns out they had no comms because the psycho bitch that ran the place planted a device that stopped outside communication so she could force her fantasy of a totally agrarian society on the rest of the people she was with. even though the episode makes it clear she's a powergrabbing psychopath, when o'brien exposes who she really is and after she admits to lying to everybody else they all choose to stay on the colony instead, rather than reuniting with their families and assuring them they're all alive
sisko and o'brien land on a planet that was cut off from humanity and had no way of communicating with the outside world and built their own society, turns out they had no comms because the psycho bitch that ran the place planted a device that stopped outside communication so she could force her fantasy of a totally agrarian society on the rest of the people she was with. even though the episode makes it clear she's a powergrabbing psychopath, when o'brien exposes who she really is and after she admits to lying to everybody else they all choose to stay on the colony instead, rather than reuniting with their families and assuring them they're all alive
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The worst thing is that Peter Capaldi is a great actor and this is the version he ended up playing.
Oh, well. We got him as Malcolm Tucker at least.
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The last few episodes of Squidbillies S13 are dog ass. Firing Unknown Hinson was such a dumbass move.
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ive never seen that show but i thought the ending was universally beloved
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Respectfully disagree. David was a toned down gay character imo and it was interesting to see a conservative church going gay man. You rarely see that in Hollywood shows.
After seeing Nate as a narcissist jerk, David was really refreshing to watch.
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The writers never stopped writing for Tennant. Even after he left they were still writing for him. Tennant was the only one who could play Tennant. The rest of them were just Not Tennant.
Smith’s whole run was just “what if Tennant was a bottom?”
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The entire moral through-line of the series was building up to that point and it was just.... nothing. Combined with the double-punch of Nacho's fate it was obvious they had no idea how to end resolve anything and just threw shit at the wall.
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I recall Sherlock took the character of Irene Adler into.....a whole other dimension in terms of storyline.
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It would have been an improvement if the Doctor was played as Malcolm Tucker.
I can't diss Hugh Laurie. He remains one of my favorite British comedy actors and I like his comedy work. The man was brilliant as Bertie Wooster and Prince George in Blackadder. He is a talented man. Although I have to say, it seems like he has more fun playing blues songs.
Not so fun fact but I'll mention it anyway. Donna was blonde because the actress had played Karla Homolka in some kind of tv movie.
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Don't get me started on Chuck, it was the one show my whole family watched together at the time and to this day the first four seasons are one of my favorite shows all time but season five feels like the writers wanted an "adult" bitter sweet ending and didn't care how they got there. Would it have been so hard to make season five just a celebration of this little show that was kept alive by the fans. Just have Chuck and Sarah go up against one last threat, take it down, while having the theme be that Sarah isn't sure how much longer she wants to keep doing spy work, then have the last shot of the show be her telling Chuck she is pregnant and we get one last shot of Chuck going "Don't freak out" as the show fades to black.
That would kind of pay homage to one of the show's inspirations, Get Smart, while also giving fans a good ending that puts everything to bed as a thank you for keeping the show alive for five years.
Don't get me started on Chuck, it was the one show my whole family watched together at the time and to this day the first four seasons are one of my favorite shows all time but season five feels like the writers wanted an "adult" bitter sweet ending and didn't care how they got there. Would it have been so hard to make season five just a celebration of this little show that was kept alive by the fans. Just have Chuck and Sarah go up against one last threat, take it down, while having the theme be that Sarah isn't sure how much longer she wants to keep doing spy work, then have the last shot of the show be her telling Chuck she is pregnant and we get one last shot of Chuck going "Don't freak out" as the show fades to black.
That would kind of pay homage to one of the show's inspirations, Get Smart, while also giving fans a good ending that puts everything to bed as a thank you for keeping the show alive for five years.
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One little “the game is afoot” and her sexual orientation does a 180. Like Batman walked into the room.
Moffat's idea of feminism is just writing women who won’t shut the fuck up. Meanwhile the actual plot is “Sherlock’s dick is too powerful..."
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