Not part of a series or anything, but the book Stranger in a Strange Land is relevant to this thread.. I actually enjoyed the beginning of the book, and thought it was cool enough. It wasn't until I read further into it, that I started getting tired of it and eventually it started having the same repetitive themes page after page.. I decided to just read the ending of the book and stopped after that. I have not encountered a book that was as bad as that since then, and I'm hoping I don't end up buying something like it either.

Lost almost made me quit... and I wish I had. [censored] worst ending in television history.

I haven't watched since Matt Smith's first season, but I remember hearing from others and it also seeming like a lot of 'villains' are being used repeatedly. I remember the Cybermen/Dalek thing was usual before then, but I remember hearing about several (and I could be wrong) Weeping Angels-based episodes, and that makes me sad. If it's the case, it dilutes the intimidating presence of those characters. But I'm probably preaching to the choir on that one, haha. I mean, look at what happened to Frieza. I got chills when I first saw his final form, and then he became a joke.

No idea what you are talking aboot. MGS3 is fun all the way through!

Lost

Fringe

Heroes

Top Chef

Bones

Big Bang Theory

How I met Your Mother

They jumped the shark far too early on.

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Oh, I agree. Before release, I was expecting to fight a European badass with sophistication as my main nemesis. Instead all I got was a Hulk Hogan reject in a mask.

Naruto, it just felt like it was lollygagging around with no real purpose. Out of nowhere they just start a war and then things escalate too fast and out of nowhere he gains powerups and some guy is back and this happen and then this and it was just all over the place. It felt like the light-hearted fighting-animé that I got used to became a angst-fest instead with a bunch of convoluted writing.

On a more positive note, One Piece only gets better the longer it goes on. Except for Water 7 of course, that was the best arc of the entire show.

To each their own, I guess, I don't how you didn't find it frustrating to escort turtle-EVA through the last part of the game, though. Or at the very least rubbing against a wall in the wrong way, causing Snake to stand up and alert a guard.

I guess I could probably say Doctor Who too. I loved the 9th and 10th, and I'm watching the whole show from #1 now. But I just don't like what I've seen of Moffat/Smith, and don't really want to watch the 7th season. One of the reasons I think is because of this. Not just the frequency of them being thrown at us, but how they're thrown at us. One of the early episodes of season 5 involves what is essentially an army of Weeping Angels, and for me that just completely killed the suspense the villain creates. 'Blink' was a fantastic episode, and the atmosphere and tension those four angels created was fantastic. Throwing more of them at us isn't the best way to recapture that. Then they added some new abilities to them, something involving video feeds and stuff, I can't even remember. The originals were brilliant in their simplicity; don't need to add new stuff, or motives, or whatever. It felt like a real jumping the shark moment, and made me critical of everything that followed.

Sure, the 9th and 10th did this to us with the Daleks. One thing I loved about the episode 'Dalek' in the 9th's season is how frightening a single Dalek could be (and Eccleston did a great job selling that to me). Then in the finale they throw an army at us. And they did it again in the 10th's first season finale, with the Cybermen too! But Daleks and Cybermen are mainstays of the series. It just seems dirtier for Moffat to take a villain he invented for a single standalone episode, then as soon as he's in charge throw them at us again and en masse in a two-parter. Like saying "Look what I made! You guys loved them before, right? Here's more!"

And now that I looked it up, it seems they show up again in a season 7 episode.

Not to turn this into a Who discussion or anything.

OK you got me there, That part did svck. But that was in the last 15min of the game. Can't believe I forgot that part. I often quit after she wrecks her bike and declare that play through complete.

While not master piece, I'll give him this. The idea that statues will kill you as soon as you blink, and the only way to survive is to fight off the natural, usually uncontrollable, urge to blink is unnerving.

What else...

Well, more webcomics, but...

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The miscarriage arc. Just random and out of the blue, especially since the previous strip had us all thinking it would be Lucas at the hospital since he was on a rickety ladder repairing a hole in the wall caused by Ethan.

Least I Could Do.
After about the tenth time of Ryan Summers acting like a self-absorbed, egotistical [censored] I just left it. He never grew, nor did any of the other characters for that matter. They all seem exactly the same as they did back when the comic started.

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Oh, look, Richard the Undead Warlock is acting macabre and gross again. Pella the dwarf is doing nothing but stare off into the distance once again. Cale is doing a prophecy thing (and I think I made it clear how much I love prophecies in fantasy)...his goblin girlfriend is just about the only interesting character left. :/

TV SHOW TIME!!
How I Met Your Mother
Those kids must be the most patient kids on the planet. I would not want to be in their shoes. Why does the narrator care that his kids should know in detail how he met their mother?

CSI
Oh, where to start? Just about everyone in the main cast had a dark, troubled past.
Grissom- Going deaf.
Catherine- Former prosttute.
Sarah- Mommy issues.
Nick- Molested as a child (then buried alive as an advlt.)
Warrick- Former gambling addict.

Apparently in that universe, you need to have a horrible, tragic past in order to join the Las Vegas CSI team.
Not only that, but the flashbacks were just ongoing, like we needed to SEE it happening. Worst in the interrogation scenes. "You followed him..." "Had an argument with him" "Then you two fought with fists" "...And then you killed him" Needless to say, the flashbacks grew to be quite annoying for me. It's...is it so bad to just let us imagine the events in our heads every once in a while?

Most Haunted
This was my first series I watched about paranormal ghost shows. What got me off of that was basically the main British guy's assistant, Yvette, screaming and screeching at every noise even though they said she was supposed to be a level headed investigator.

Destination Truth
There's just something about Josh's personality that I don't like. He seems too forward, too "let's do this my way". Though it was nice to see him interact with the locals and talk about the culture of the country they're in, it got repetitive.

Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
I have more important things to do than to spend another episode watching a pissed off British dude scream and cuss for an hour.

Dragonball Z
There's a reason I watch Team Four Star's abridged version of it. The actual series? Most of the episodes are the characters either grunting and/or glaring at each other with heavy music playing in the background. The fights were cool, but drawn out (remember the '5 minutes until Namek explodes'?) Yeah, no idea why I liked the actual series as a child. The characters were cool, though. xD Though the Buu saga was an absolute joke as far as I'm concerned.

X-Files. After they switched up the main cast I lost interest. I don't give a flying [censored] about Agent Dogget or that psychic lady. And I miss C.G.B. Spender (Smoking man)

House. After it went from "medical CSI" to "generic medical drama" via the relationship with Cuddy.

Many of my friends stopped watching Stargate SG1 after the introduction of the Ori. I actually liked them as an enemy :/

you must be kidding, that is what makes them one of the dumbest scifi monsters ever. essentially its playing off the childish idea about monsters under the bed and protecting your self with a blanket. pure drivel.

Dragon Age: Very little explanation needed. Loved the first, didn't play a whole lot of the second.

How I Met Your Mother: I tried very, very, very hard to at least finish the last season and came up a half-dozen episodes short. I have no idea how I made it that far.

Total War: After Empire, I've very hesitant to ever buy another TW again, especially when I've found CIV to be much more my style.

Heroes comes to mind.

It started out really amazing and if it had stopped after the first season it would be remembered as a really awesome show.

But it slowly bled to death with convoluted plots and so enormously many plot-holes, loose threads and forgotten characters, it just became a mess.

Lost also started out very interesting but after a while I.. just got lost. I didn't enjoy it anymore.

I will never admit there was ever more than one matrix movie. There was only one matrix movie ever made and it was awesome. Shame they never made a sequel. : glares:

Lost is the obvious one I assume everyone gave up on. Actually all those "bad robot" shows, it's pretty much their modus operandi.

One slightly out of left field would be the simpsons, loved the first 9 or so seasons, never imagined it would become something I have no interest whatsoever in watching, will still watch old reruns and love them but couldn't care less about new episodes.

oh god, why were they acting like cave people!?

That Merlin show (not the Sam Neill one), the pilot was fairly interesting, but it turned into crap with the whole "At the end of every episode everything is back where it was at the start".

Dungeon Siege 3 wasn't very good either, I really liked the first two.

I disagree. I found One Piece just awful dross. I found it one of the most cringe worthy and most awful written anime of all time. This is purely my opinion though.

I think that's the joke. It's not very funny, but I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

I've never seen any of it but I find it hard to want to since the animation style annoys me. I have trouble watching shows when the animation style annoys me. I'm sure Naruto is good and all but I can't bring myself to see or read it because everyone looks inflated and plain. I also don't like how everyone's toes are of equal length but that's something common to many animes/manga.

I seem to be dropping off the Inheritance Cycle. Got a little into the third book and just stopped. Tried reading it again, but it's not exactly catching my attention. I doubt it wasn't that much of a loss, though.

I haven't touched the fourth Sly Cooper game in a while. Not because it was bad, but I'm busy playing other games.

I never even finished MGS2. Don't really know why, just stopped playing at some point after helicopter attack. I liked how Quinton Flynn (hope I spelt that right) voiced Raiden, though. I liked recognizing a voice from what's possibly my most favourite video game franchise ever in something completely unrelated.

There are a couple TV shows/movies that I could list down, but I don't think they've reached the appropriate point for this thread, as I dropped off them after the first episode.

Never did finish inFAMOUS 2, come to think of it. Definitely not because I thought it was bad, just moved on to something else.

I can't read Lord of the Rings. For some reason, I'm not captivated by the wonderful writing like most people are. I think it's because the lengthy and archaic descriptions take a huge chunk out if the actual story, and leave me feeling like reading and trying to follow and understand the thing is a huge chore. Stopped right after

Assassins creed comes to mind for me right away. The first game's storyline was alright, though the gameplay was repetitive and boring. The second game redeemed almost everything from the first game, but there was something about it that I didn't much care for. I literally got to the point in the second game when you get the mask for that ball thingy near the end, and had every upgrade for everything and unlimited money coming in that I couldn't use, and was like "this game svcks." and put the game down, never to play again, and no desire to want to finish the story of the second game. I don't know what it was that really turned me off, probably the extremely easy gameplay with like 0 chance to fail.

I haven't touched the third, or any of those other games that came out between and I most likely wont ever touch another AC game again, especially now that they're like call of duty and come out with at least one a year. The games just feel like pumped out drivel to me with little effort put into the development, meant to appeal to young kids, much like the call of duty franchise.

For TV shows, South Park comes to mind right away. I was a die hard south park fan, and I think the seasons 1-10 are genius and were ahead of their time in terms of issues they were addressing back in the early episodes. After season 11 they started to go downhill, IMO.

I used to watch every episode of south park the day they came out, and keep up to date with the show. Now I haven't even watched anything of the last two seasons, just because it seems like they aren't even trying anymore, or don't care and just want to milk the show for money now.

Back in the day, their episodes were about actual issues, and threw out their messages through metaphors and the like, and you had to actually think about what the episode meant.

For example, off the top of my head, the Man Bear Pig episode with Al gore, the whole premise of the episode is that Man Bear Pig = Global Warming. Now if they made that episode it would probably just be like "Global warming is [censored]!" and just straight out say what they meant. There was more allusion to the points in their episodes back in the day, and now it seems that they think no matter what they write, it's gold. (think of the beatles in their later years, it seems that they too stopped trying because they were hailed as musical geniuses all these years, so they would come out with a song that they normally wouldn't release for being sub-par).

I'm sure I can think of a hell of a lot more, but those are the first two things that come to my mind of franchises, or series that I have no interest in anymore, but used to once upon a time.