The consultant. Started off interesting, but yeah..
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Oh yeah. One of the biggest falls from grace in TV imo.
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Star Trek Picard and Star Trek Discovery. There were a lot of good ideas, but the execution wasn’t there overall.
STD was just garbage, too much pushing a METOoMOVEMENT, by S4, they decided that men were no longer needed in the LEAD casts. Picard definitely wouldve better if not for the low energy acting of the main characther, and the rest of the cast, plus writing too.
They both (Picard more than Discovery) used a nostalgia checkpoint to connect to previous media, rather than expanding those themes in meaningful ways.
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Foundation. It's gorgeous, and the first episode is fairly close to the beginning of the book. It very quickly deviates from the source material in ways that totally undermine the themes of the book. It's not necessarily a bad show, I just can't enjoy it because it deviates so much.
I considered reading the books before the series came out, and I’m really glad that I did didn’t. As a result, I fully enjoyed the show.
It's funny, I did decide to read the books before watching the show. I'm about 6 episodes in and think it's very good. I think they actually improved the books in many ways.
I don't know if people just have a nostalgia for something they haven't read in a long time (sorry not having a go at you!) or they genuinely like some really not-great aspects of the books that are a victim of their time.
The fact they changed a bunch of characters genders actually works - too many crusty old white (assuming) dudes that doesn't work nowadays. Making Gaal a more rounded character to tell a story they apparently write in the book makes a lot more sense.
I read the books like 20 years ago, so I basically remembered anything about it, and I'm also enjoying it. The best part of the show, the clone emperors aren't even part of the books.
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Halo. Wow, did that suck
Wheel of time, what a debacle.
Agreed! I was so disappointed with the show because the books being adapted as a TV show could have been very successful if they stuck to the source material.
I think another way it could have been better is if they made it a completely different story, maybe focusing on the Seafolk or Sharans, any other untold/developed story, even another turning of the wheel, the collapse of the AOL.
When I heard they were making it, I told my friends that if they did it right, it would be bigger than Game of Thrones.
Then I saw the first trailer. From that alone, I knew they did not do it right. Watching the first season only confirmed it for me.
I think it's gotten better in the third season, but it will never be as good as the books. No screen adaptation will be as good as the books are. You just don't have the time to explain and set up plots like you do in a book. They definitely fumbled the first season and most of the second but I think it's getting its own legs now.
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True Blood. There was a lot of advertising for it before it aired and at the time I thought HBO could do no wrong. It was just too goofy. Most characters were some kind of supernatural being and when it's that saturated, no character seems that special anymore.
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There was a time where content wasn’t so abundant, people watch TV on the TV and marketing mattered a bit more. Back then you didn’t have 2137 sci-fi shows to choose from so you watched what you could.
Take Terra Nova. Released late 2011, Spielberg as an executive producer. Dystopian future, time travel to the prehistoric era, hint some dinosaurs. Hype. It was cancelled almost immediately after the first season due to how disappointing it was.
I didn't consider it disappointing, I considered it a decent starting point for better seasons.
I was born before we had a 5 minute tiktok attention span and if we weren't blown away by the first episode that meant everything was obviously garbage.
Watch TNG season 1, one of the worst seasons of anything ever.
Lots of good series have a terrible first season. I don’t think this one was salvageable due to how shallow everything was though. It wasn’t bad necessarily, it was extremely mediocre with most of the world building consisting of adding mysteries writers didn’t know answers to. Most were just indifferent to it in the end, which something beyond disappointment.
Of course it was weak.
But there was plenty of room to fix it, they had barely started.
We need to stop killing things when they start because they aren't the next game of thrones s1.
"We" aren't doing any of it lmfao, stop blaming the populace for poor executive decision making lol.
NUTREK ended up being worst, from s1-season whatever, almost all of them were bad more or less the same plot as each other, did you notice, how kurtzman made them all had a big bad at the end, with no resolution in the next season, just dropped it because it was such a bad plot. SNW could be better with good actors. the animated series seems to rectify this a little bit.
The Watch, Terry Pratchett "inspired" show. It disappointed me long before it even aired and made me angrily sad when it did.
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Stargate Universe
everyone agreed SEASON 1 was bad, season 2 it was getting interested but it was cancelled long before the season began. apparently s3 would have much more of the mysterious aliens from the planet builders in it.
You didn't like As The Universe Turns?
First episode got me hopeful, but the series dragged on. Forcing us to watch little webclips for lore and story bothered me.
I only watched about three episodes before I gave up on it.
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@Skavau SUITS LA and thank you for asking!
There is a wanna be Harvey, several wanna be Donnas, no mike, no Louis Litt and definitely no woman badass enough to give Gina Torres any competition. I am 8 episodes in and don't give a crap about any of the characters and no memorable courtroom scenes to speak of. Total Meh
The more I watch Suits LA, the more I enjoy it. Yes, a lot of the characters are just copies of the main cast, but if you can ignore that it's fun enough for a turn your brain off show.
Damn that sucks they couldn't tap into the success of the 1st one, I enjoyed it until it got very "samey" in the storylines and foibles the law firm got into.
castlevania nocturne, it was supposed to be continuation of the lore of the 1st series, but its pretty bad in many respects. it does try to use nostalgia, but not in the correct plot format. although the 3rd season, if there is one would be better. basically the main antagonists dint capture the audience like the 1st series, in the first 2 seasons.
heard ROP was terrible and extremely expensive, it made sense it cant capture the magic of lotr trilogy. invincible, everyone noticed the animation degraded each season, perhaps funding, and then the amount of time between seasons(mid-season) made the audience rather read the comics instead.
I have never been excited for a TV show, because I have never known about one before it was aired. Every show I've ever discovered was already on the air when I discovered it. I'm usually way behind the times.