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Registered: October 19, 2008 | Posts: 409 |
| Posted: | | | | To start of, I belive that a show going on past its prime dose damge to the show rather than having no affect. There are three shows out there now that I love, but it is too late the damage has been done. The frist show is Degrassi The Next Generation, gritty Candadian show about adolecents that dose not know when its time is up. Almost all of the origional cast is gone, the characters have become flat one dimensional sterotypes. This show should have ended with a great season six (the sixth season sucked, the last great season was five.) The next show that should be cnacel is Smallville. This was an awsome show that had some cool origonal ideas in the begining, like Clark and Lex being friends. This show now lacks almost everyone from the origional cast and untimatly failed because it refused to make permanant daring changes and for every step forward it would take, it would also take two steps backwards. For instance having Clark and Louis on the road of getting together and than having Lana come back for a few episdoes and breaking them up for no reason. Come on now Clark looks like he is forty years old now. For god sakes will you have him fly already. He can not stay Superboy forever. This show has been renewed for a tenth season that is bound to be a train wreck. The third show that should have bitten the dust by now is One Tree Hill. It had a good frist four seasons, and had a great idea for a fifth season, which was skipping ahead four years until the cast had graduated from college. Sounds good right, well it was not, because everybody pretty much got a cookie cutter life right away or with in a few season. I mean it was really over the top; not only did a character named Haily become a teacher, she was also a music star. Another one was not only a basketball coach but also a famouse author, the list go's on and on. For a show that strted of with character stuggling with advirsty, it certainly spirled into weak soap type plots, i.e a murdering Nanny. Oh yeah how long is this Dan grudge going to go on. This show also feature the most obnoxius child since Jerry Maguire. One Tree Hill has saddly been renewed for a painful eigth season. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,120 |
| Posted: | | | | I agree with your choice of Smallville. They dick around too much and don't offer enough Superman goodness.
The Cleveland Show should've been cancelled after its first season, but has been renewed. It's a not-very-funny compared to American Dad or Family Guy.
The Simpsons needs to stop! But FOX and the voice actors are probably making too much money off the stuff.
I secretly wish South Park would stop, simply because I've run out of room on my DVD shelf after 13 seasons. The series itself hasn't failed to be shocking or original, which is a plus for it. |
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Registered: May 8, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,945 |
| Posted: | | | | I think American Idol has to stop Donnie | | | www.tvmaze.com |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 20,111 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting DarklyNoon: Quote: I think American Idol has to stop
Donnie Definitely. Not that I'd even ever watch it in the first place... | | | Corey |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,747 |
| Posted: | | | | Smallville's seasons seven and eight were awful. Lack of ideas and consitency and then the forced return of Lana.
But I thoroughly enjoyed the ninth season and since ten is the last and I hope they don't pull an amnesia stunt on Lois this could become a really good final year. It would be the first time that Lois knew him before he became you know who. | | | Karsten DVD Collectors Online
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Registered: February 23, 2009 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,580 |
| Posted: | | | | This is just my opinion of course and it may sound like a tirade, but I think virtually all reality TV shows have outlasted their welcome. They take people off the streets, put them in a semi-scripted environment and bank on the audience attaching themselves to the emotional distress of those people, aided by smart editing and camera work. It's cheap to make and attracts lots of viewers, but in my opinion it destroys quality TV.
I've seen a lot of fiction TV shows that still had a lot of potential or were still going strong that were canceled. Some shows clearly showed that the people working on it poured their hearts into it. I'm thinking of shows like Firefly, Dollhouse, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles and lot's more. They have tenfold the quality of a show like American Idol, yet all got canceled prematurely.
So basically, I say bring back the strongly-written, well-acted fiction TV and write off some of those reality TV shows like American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and so on. | | | Blu-ray collection DVD collection My Games My Trophies |
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Registered: March 24, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,044 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Taro: Quote: This is just my opinion of course and it may sound like a tirade, but I think virtually all reality TV shows have outlasted their welcome. They take people off the streets, put them in a semi-scripted environment and bank on the audience attaching themselves to the emotional distress of those people, aided by smart editing and camera work. It's cheap to make and attracts lots of viewers, but in my opinion it destroys quality TV.
I've seen a lot of fiction TV shows that still had a lot of potential or were still going strong that were canceled. Some shows clearly showed that the people working on it poured their hearts into it. I'm thinking of shows like Firefly, Dollhouse, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles and lot's more. They have tenfold the quality of a show like American Idol, yet all got canceled prematurely.
So basically, I say bring back the strongly-written, well-acted fiction TV and write off some of those reality TV shows like American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and so on. Amen to that, Taro. Well said. Rory | | | DVD Profiler for iOS as of 3/5/2013 DVD Profiler for Android as of 5/17/2013 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,372 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting V'ger: Quote: Smallville's seasons seven and eight were awful. Lack of ideas and consitency and then the forced return of Lana.
But I thoroughly enjoyed the ninth season and since ten is the last and I hope they don't pull an amnesia stunt on Lois this could become a really good final year. It would be the first time that Lois knew him before he became you know who. I agree. This season was really good. I am looking forward to next season. |
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Registered: October 19, 2008 | Posts: 409 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting V'ger: Quote: Smallville's seasons seven and eight were awful. Lack of ideas and consitency and then the forced return of Lana.
But I thoroughly enjoyed the ninth season and since ten is the last and I hope they don't pull an amnesia stunt on Lois this could become a really good final year. It would be the first time that Lois knew him before he became you know who. I am waiting for the Blu Ray to see the ninth season. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 17,334 |
| Posted: | | | | While I agree Smallville got better in the 9th season. I am happy they are ending the series with the 10th. I still believe it should have been canceled a while back. | | | Pete |
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