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What are tell-tale signs a series has jumped its shark? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by Ryoae@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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My personal sign is when you start seeing awkward collaborations start cropping up. One time when I was thrifting, I picked up a graphic novel that had the Justice League, team with the Power Rangers of all things. I glimpsed into what the plot was about out of morbid curiosity and it was just a plain generic time and dimension thing.

Nothing ever connected between the teams at all. DC Comics, while fledgling at times with how they go about their series and movies, still have far more relevance than Power Rangers do. I think the Power Rangers are just grasping at straws to keep being relevant when people have largely moved on from them.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

What pissed me off the most about Lost is that, very early on, I pegged onto the fact that they were naming a lot of characters after prominent social philosophers; all of whom wrote about things like inequality, the social contract, human nature, etc...

John Locke (John Locke, Liberty and the social contract)
Desmond Hume (David Hume, treatise of human nature)
Danielle Rousseau (Jean-Jacque Rousseau, discourse on inequality and the social contract)
Boone Carlyle (Thomas Carlyle, the importance of belief)
Juliette Burke (Edmund Burke, Philosophy of Conservatism)
Mikhail Bakunin (Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Anarchist)

And a few others. As they introduce these characters, they set them up in opposition to each other and I'm thinking "okay..this means something. They're trying to say something about society in a Lord of the Flies type of way.

I remember myself and a friend of mine discussing the show endlessly after each episode wondering what it all meant in that context. And then...nope...they were all just dead all this time. It meant...precisely...jack...shit.

And it couldn't have been an accident that they so many promininent social philosophers showed up. They CHOSE to name those characters that...for no other reason than a fuck-you-red-herring.

I can't even begin to describe how much that angered me. I've despised JJ Abrams ever since.