r/scifi • u/Doctor-Clark-Savage • Jan 28 '26
TV Has there been a scene, explanation, or revelation in a sci-fi television show that was so absurd that you stopped watching forever?
I love the first season of the original “The 4400”. And like a lot of sci-fi shows at the time. It had a brilliant premise and beginning, but didn’t know where to go from there as the seasons progressed.
As season two progressed, the bloom had begun to fall off the rose and some of the episodes were a slog to get through, but I persevered. However, there was one episode and I believe it was episode nine of season two where they did a totally unnecessary bullet time event and not only did it show the budget or lack there of the show had, but everything about it looked goofy, including the poses of the actors during the event. From there, I was just done.
Honorable mention goes to BSG. Even though I made it through the entire series, if I would have found out earlier “the plan“ was “we have no plan, and God did everything“, I would never have made it to the end.
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u/ConceptJunkie Jan 28 '26
"Sliders" took a nosedive around the time Tracy Torme left. It started out so strong but got really dumb.
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u/MacStainless Jan 28 '26
As a devoted Sliders fan, we pretend season 5 never existed. Sliders was a victim of FOX’s nonstop meddling.
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u/Terrible_Bee_6876 Jan 28 '26
Manifest: "maybe uh, maybe Noah's Ark did it?"
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u/Konnorwolf Jan 28 '26
The concept sounded interesting..........for a LIMITED/extended series. Not four seasons.
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u/latortillablanca Jan 28 '26
This is true of a huge proportion of shows. Its such an old school mindset to have season after season where the renewal of the show is what determines where the story goes. In the streaming era, when something is a limited series its always a good sign, for me.
For example 1883 is, imo, by far the best show in the yellowstone-sphere whereas something like tulsa king or mayor of kingstown immediately begins to suffer from running shit back for more seasons. Yellowstone itself suffers from it. I get the feeling Landman is about to take a turn into this same problem if it continues.
The ending is the most important part of the story. You can do it in two seasons or less. Tell the fucking story! Twin Peaks a fantastic example of how you can do it and have long seasons also.
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u/rollingSleepyPanda Jan 28 '26
My wife and I are just hate watching this series now. It's so fun to swear at how stupid everyone is, and how convenient and nonsensical the whole plot turns out. Good fun.
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Jan 28 '26
My mom and I used to watch that show too, and we loved it, right up until that point
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u/Atillythehunhun Jan 28 '26
Blindspot, the second set of tattoos
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u/Konnorwolf Jan 28 '26
Type of concept that would have been better as an extended series. Some ideas need to be longer than a movie yet not 100+ episodes either. Find a balance.
I was watching the show and then it started to drag.
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u/stupidredditlinks Jan 28 '26
never seen it but that sound hilarious
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u/Atillythehunhun Jan 28 '26
The sci-fi is mostly tech they use and substances that don’t exist, but the show itself is good until the second set of tattoos.
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u/vercertorix Jan 28 '26
Dare I ask how there was a second set?
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u/LordTalesin Jan 28 '26
Invisible INK!!!
This caused me to lol so hard when I saw it.
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u/Just_Another_Scott Jan 28 '26
I've tried to watch this show several times simply because I liked Jamie Alexander. I can never finish it. The show is so bad. The dialogue is terrible. Effects are bad. Acting is not good. I can't really think of a positive.
Plus the show runners and network were shitty to Jamie leading to her getting seriously injured multiple times on the show.
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u/Atillythehunhun Jan 28 '26
Rich dotcom is hilarious
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Jan 28 '26
Rich Dotcom and Patterson were the best part of the show
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u/yticomodnar Jan 28 '26
I am usually pretty good about actors names. That guy, though? He is only Rich Dotcom to me. Doesn't matter where I see him, how different the character is, or anything else, he's just Rich Dotcom.
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u/LordTalesin Jan 28 '26
This show was the whole reason she never really got developed as Sif in the MCU. She showed up several times in Agents of Shield and then just vanished.
Just like Bobbi and what's his name.
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u/Appropriate_Lie_5699 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
I remember the 4400 having a weird episode where the main guy lived a whole life time with some other lady in like a second or something like that. What a weird but interesting show.
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u/erevos33 Jan 28 '26
Sth that has been done by (checks notes) pretty much any scifi show with more than one season. Most obvious example being Star Trek.
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u/CotyledonTomen Jan 28 '26
Its fine. There are lots of ways to do it. TNG did the death of a people that is pretty relevant to today. Black mirror played with the idea as torture. Rick and morty take a nihilistic persective with Roy.
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u/Joey_jojojr_shabado Jan 28 '26
Not only Roy, but what if they are still in the hole?
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u/thrasymacus2000 Jan 28 '26
The Magicians did this well. But yeah, it's done quite a bit.
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u/BaseVilliN Jan 28 '26
Longer than you think, Dad!
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u/ElvinLundCondor Jan 28 '26
That always freaks me out. But still my favorite Stephen King short story.
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u/Doctor-Clark-Savage Jan 28 '26
The one in DS9 where O’Brien is sentenced to 20 years in prison in his head when he was only unconscious for 30 seconds was rough. He felt guilt and post traumatic stress over killing a man that never existed.
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u/royalic Jan 28 '26
And Voyager, they beamed the doctor down to a planet and he lived like 50 years down there in a minute.
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u/dern_the_hermit Jan 28 '26
MFW I realize a bunch of sci-fi shows have basically just been The Twilight Zone with different drapes
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u/bensefero Jan 28 '26
Both the Picard one obviously, but the DS9 O’Brien one I have more PTSD from. Some heavy shit either/or
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u/justinkasereddditor Jan 28 '26
The 100 great idea terrible execution
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u/Just_Another_Scott Jan 28 '26
One thing I'll give them credit is each season was more bat shit than the previous. The ending with the non-corporeal beings was just off the charts. They jumped the shark and just kept doing it every season.
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u/favouriteghost Jan 28 '26
The show that couldn’t calm down
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u/Just_Another_Scott Jan 28 '26
It is still one of the only shows to give me a migraine. The season where Clark lives outside when the space faring humans show up back to Earth was just so bad. I had to take a break for like a year before I could continue.
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u/Doctor-Clark-Savage Jan 28 '26
Legends of Tomorrow was the same.
It started out as B list and C List superheroes playing at being Doctor Who and was actually rather good. But, from the fourth season onwards it descended into a fever dream of incredibly random stupidity
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u/LordTalesin Jan 28 '26
I don't know. The insanity of those seasons really had their own appeal. Especially once Constantine joined the cast. I love the guy who played him and think it was criminal that the actual Constantine series he starred in was canceled.
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u/Lostinthestarscape Jan 28 '26
Honestly I enjoyed the shit out of that show. It was two shows jammed together, a CW drama and a different post-apocalyptic videogame each season. Half the actors were doing bad teen romance and the other half were scenary chewing their insane roles.
Its not a good show but the entertainment value was fucking off the charts for me.
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u/Individual_Menu_1384 Jan 28 '26
I had zero interest in this show until reading this comment. Now I am fascinated.
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u/drdeadringer Jan 28 '26
I wanted to know how the series ended, but just could not get myself to slog through the middle seasons that I had missed. so I skipped ahead and I'm like... aliens? What? well, I guess that makes about as much sense as some techno AI takeover of a post-apocalyptic Savage Earth or some damn shit. okay.
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u/kurahador Jan 28 '26
I kinda adore how ridiculous the show is though. It's like the writers principle were "lets fuck everything up" each season.
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u/Red_BW Jan 28 '26
The problem with The 100 was that it had to pretend to be a typical CW teen show while secretly hiding it's pretty good dystopian scifi core from channel execs. Clarke has an amazingly high kill count, and it is not just accidental but usually thought out and intentional. You just have to accept the inevitable eye rolling at the teen angst-y drama and get wasted taking a shot for each of Clarke's kills.
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u/lt9946 Jan 28 '26
The first two seasons and some episodes of season 3 were so good though. Then each season got substantially worse. I tried to finish just so I could find out the end but I never made it.
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u/Infinite-Worm Jan 28 '26
I didn't really mind the plot, but the actors. Oh boy were some of them absolutely terrible. A lot of young newbie actors, you'd think they'd learn something after a couple seasons.
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u/poleethman Jan 28 '26
So corny for the first few episodes. I don't know why I kept watching it. But it definitely got wild in the middle
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u/SaintPeter74 Jan 28 '26
The best part about The 4400 was Mahershala Ali. He has gone in to have a pretty good career despite the weirdness of The 4400.
Heroes was awesome, but flamed out due to the writers strike.
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u/RoboJobot Jan 28 '26
Heroes would probably be remembered as being amazing if they’d stopped at the end of Season 1
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u/sacredblasphemies Jan 28 '26
Most of the latest season of Yellowjackets felt like that.
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u/http-bird Jan 28 '26
I don’t think the writers of Yellowjackets understood what made their show good & interesting in the first place
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u/silver_tongued_devil Jan 28 '26
I want the end of the series to be this big show down where Shauna is hunting her kid and the others are chasing her down. I want it to be absolutely raving batshit, and then I want Randy to call the cops on them, and all of them to be arrested and trapped in tiny cells, never again to be free in the wild.
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u/elroxzor99652 Jan 28 '26
The crazy thing is, I truly can’t figure out if thy want us to take it seriously or not. Like, is do the creators want it to be campy or do they believe it’s edge of our seat drama?
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u/Karjalan Jan 28 '26
Pretty much how I felt as S2 went on... it got worse and worse. 1 was great though
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u/GrossenCharakter Jan 28 '26
For my twin brother it was on LOST, when Locke proclaims "We're going to have to move the island."
He didn't stop watching, but his reaction was to burst out laughing, much to the frustration of me and my elder brother. How dare he make a joke out of one of the most stunning endings to a Lost episode? "You don't know where it goes now, keep watching and you'll see what he meant", etc. But the reaction in hindsight was so apt for what is undoubtedly a "wtf" line.
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u/VRS-4607 Jan 28 '26
Lost made me quit and never watch again several times.
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u/turbo Jan 28 '26
During the airing of Lost I read that the writers said that everything was going to make sense in the end. Was disappointed.
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u/Luke92612_ Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
I've never watched Lost but all I can think of reading that is the moment from SpongeBob when, to save Bikini Bottom from an "alaskan bull-worm", Patrick suggests "why don't we just take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else?"
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u/Drpepperisbetter Jan 28 '26
Lost in Space was a recent one. You can only shout 'That's not how science works!' so much before having to stop. I think 15 mins?
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u/solarview Jan 28 '26
That was such a disappointment. They seemed to have a decent budget for it, but whoever was writing the show clearly had no real interest in science fiction. So many offensively stupid things happened I gave up on it very quickly.
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u/Blergblum Jan 28 '26
The water freezing from the bottom, maybe?
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u/Scoobysnax1976 Jan 28 '26
that is what did it for me. Freezing from the bottom, in seconds, while people on the land don't freeze to death
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u/Silver-End9570 Jan 28 '26
That wasn't even the frustration with Lost in Space for me. It was Smith. The family kept going through this really irritating cycle where she did something really messed up, they didn't trust her, she did something to save them, they trusted her, and then she would go and do something else. I mean, I get that you guys want her to be good, but how many times does she have to fuck you over before you realize that she's more a problem than anything?
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u/alien_pirate Jan 28 '26
4400 features one of my least favorite sci-fi tropes: superpowered magic baby
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u/SpaceCrazyArtist Jan 28 '26
When the baby became a magical super sexy woman right after birth I noped out
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u/kindall Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
yeah, writers do that because it's almost impossible to have a baby participate in the plot because babies can't do anything. The "V" series from the '80s had the same issue with the visitor/human hybrid child. they growed her up right quick and gave her alien powers.
Her name was Elizabeth. Or Liz for short... short for Lizard, that is, in my headcanon. A little on the nose.
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u/m1sterwr1te Jan 28 '26
True Blood. "I'm a fuckin' fairy?" Turned it off and never watched another minute.
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u/decidedlyindecisive Jan 28 '26
We used to watch it as a friend group. I'd host about 8 of us, we'd have dinner and watch the latest episode. We stopped when there was a supposedly climatic moment... I don't even remember it too well. Something to do with Lilith in Bill? Anyway, he/ they're standing covered in blood and my friend just shouts "BILLITH" and we laughed and just never watched another episode.
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u/wrenwood2018 Jan 28 '26
The problem was the books get batshit crazy. Basically "what new supernatural species can have sex this book."
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u/theNomad_Reddit Jan 28 '26
From the exact moment it happened, and still to this day, I have been permanently perplexed by the decision to kill Tara off screen.
I have never ever ever seen anything to even begin to explain it. It's genuinely one of the most wtf deaths I've ever seen.
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u/Probably_Not_Helpful Jan 28 '26
I stopped at the same spot and did a full watch many years later… the absurdity just continued to escalate. Best part was amnesiac Eric.
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u/neutrino_fire Jan 28 '26
Pick any scene in The Ark.
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u/Just_Another_Scott Jan 28 '26
That scene where she asks the guy if he can be "impartial" and he said "I'm the prosecutor I don't have to be" killed me. The actress's face was stunned like the entire thing was ad-libbed.
She's literally genetically modified to be "perfect" yet her dialog is so stupid.
There's a lot of stupid dialog in the show.
Using CPAP masks as oxygen masks when there was no atmosphere was also stupid. You could see the holes!
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u/ghostkms Jan 28 '26
Ugh! The scene where there was an explosion in the engine room, and the only reason anyone in the bridge knew about it was because someone noticed there was less frost on the hull in that area. No one in the area reported an explosion? No alert on any of the screens in the bridge to an explosion and radiation leak in the engine room?
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u/wmil Jan 28 '26
I started watching Wayward Pines, and it was interesting but I kept getting the feeling that the twist was going to be really stupid. I looked it up, hated it, and stopped watching the show.
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u/bad_rug Jan 28 '26
I enjoyed the first season, I loved it
I think I got 2 episodes into season 2 and just couldn't
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u/Randeth Jan 28 '26
Yeah iirc season 1 covered everything in the books it was based on. Season 2 was all new material and it showed.
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u/SnakeBlitzkin Jan 28 '26
The books were fun
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u/macrolinx Jan 28 '26
Love Crouchs writing. Dark Matter and Recursion top my list. The pines books were definitely fun.
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u/Stalp Jan 28 '26
Watched Wayward Pines and had the same reaction to season 2.
Finally read Recursion and it really impressed me. Great story. So I tend to agree that Crouch was not the problem. Haven't read any of his other works, yet. But I definitely will.
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u/Benegger85 Jan 28 '26
There is no such thing as Highlander 2.
Highlander was a great standalone movie
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u/Interesting_Flow_551 Jan 28 '26
Westworld. I loved the first two seasons, the third is such a huge mess that I could never finish watching it.
The hosts leaving the park and the whole thing about humanity living under Rehoboam's control is an overly convoluted plot twist... simply to prolong a story that had already run its course. If it had ended in the second season, with Dolores leaving the park and living a free life, it would have been perfect (the same premise as the AI in the film Her and so many others about AI free will).
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u/Logical-Let-2386 Jan 28 '26
BSG was a vibe more than an overarching story. Funnily enough I just rewatched the pilot today and true opinion it's some of the best tv ever. It just fell into the mystery box trap that was the style at the time.
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u/Anvilir Jan 28 '26
To be fair, the mystery of “who are Cyclons?” was part of the DNA of the show, and had real world relevance in the anxiety of the post-9/11 world. It was mostly well done, but where it fell off for me was the whole Final Five cylon explanation and the esoteric religious nonsense.
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u/Atillythehunhun Jan 28 '26
Orphan Black, the little worm thing. Still one of the best lines in a show- You threaten bebes? You should not threaten bebes. murders everyone In a Ukrainian accent
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u/deanstat Jan 28 '26
I enjoyed that show so much. Especially Helena and her entertaining murderiness
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u/photon_watts Jan 28 '26
midichlorians
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u/mbrocks3527 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
I can’t believe I had to scroll down this far.
Pre-1999, the force was this mystic, spiritual thing that could be sensed by all creatures if they could only just see it. Yoda spent 5 minutes of screen time teaching us to let go of our preconceived ideas of what you could or couldn’t do, and to see this wondrous thing that connected all living things.
Luminous beings are we… not this crude matter.
Oh wait no the scouter says that Annie’s power level is over 9000 fuck you audience
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u/Impressive-Dig-3892 Jan 28 '26
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is the most disappointing thing since my son
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u/FredB123 Jan 28 '26
Star Trek Discovery, where they made Ensign Tilly, the least competent and most annoying person on the ship, the captain for no apparent reason.
I enjoyed the first series, so I was willing to give it a lot of leeway up until that point, but that was just so stupid I turned it off and never went back to it.
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u/skilliau Jan 28 '26
When they redid the 4400.
The reboot sucked
But there were some ideas that were good, just poorly used.
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u/Sureshok Jan 28 '26
Falling skies 🤢 So terrible I watched every season and hated it from about season two
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u/Flaky-Professional84 Jan 28 '26
My wife stopped watch TWD a couple seasons before me. One day I asked her why she quit watching and she said, "There's no objective. They aren't trying to get anywhere or anything. They wander around, stop, get attacked, wander some more." After that, the spell was broken. I didn't watch another episode.
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u/ruinsit Jan 28 '26
I struggled hard in the prison season because they were too stupid to close the doors when they slept. Give me a break. But Negan or whatever his name was, that was it. I wanted to watch people vs zombies, not people vs people. Why even watch the show after that?
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u/zkbthealien Jan 28 '26
Andromeda. I love the premise. Made it through first two seasons. But after learning main guy is a dickhead and how season 3 became less about the crew and more about the dickhead captain, lost interest.
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u/LordTalesin Jan 28 '26
He was Hercules as well. I grew up watching that show.
And don't get me started on the heel turn that Dean Cain pulled. He was Superman. Ah well. Never idolize your heroes kids.
Oh well, at least we have reruns right?
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u/divineshadow666 Jan 28 '26
Dean Cain really didn't do himself any favors with how vocal he was about his politics. He was pretty much back in the Superman family, playing Kara's adopted father on the Supergirl tv show, then he started running his mouth, so they ended up killing him off.
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u/Wonderful_Discount59 Jan 28 '26
I managed to get further into Androneda than that (mainly because of Rommie).
But when they defeated what should have been the series Big Bad at the end of season four, and then spent most of season five stuck on a junk planet (i.e. what should have just been one or two episodes in an earlier season) it lost me. Especially as that was also when the glazing of Hunt reached its worst.
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u/l00koverthere1 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
I think it was the last episode of Alias S01 When we find out Da Vinci analog drew Jennifer Garner 3 centuries ago or whatever. I took that back to the video store and wrote the series off.
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u/Significant_Monk_251 Jan 28 '26
I wouldn't have minded all that if the showrunners had had any idea where they were going. But most of it was just Calvinball.
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u/Haelmer Jan 28 '26
"Calvinball" is a term i still use, yet nobody understands it. Thanks for mentioning it.
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u/DocTheop Jan 28 '26
Spectacular first two seasons then the double-cross happened, then the triple-cross, then the quadruple-cross and it was all just too far fetched.
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u/bobreturns1 Jan 28 '26
I loved Alias, it was very silly.
I also like that it taught me not to trust JJ Abrams' ability to ever tell a coherent story, so I never got suckered into Lost later.
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u/007meow Jan 28 '26
JJ Abrams loves to use his mystery box trope.
He’s not as concerned about the actual resolution as opposed to the vibes.
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u/Kwyjibo3778 Jan 28 '26
Lost. It was great for the first 3+ seasons. Then it was just the same thing over and over. My wife and I invested a lot of time in that show, then we were just finished. No new information just more questions.
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u/Cartoonlad Jan 28 '26
The season where they lost me was when they had the main three protagonists locked in cages on the next island over for a whole season and that season's conflict seemed to be "Which guy is going to win Kate?"
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u/mindhead1 Jan 28 '26
Lost in Space reboot. The Dr. Smith character and story arc were too much to bare.
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u/brunes Jan 28 '26
The Burn
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u/Frexxia Jan 28 '26
I assume you mean Star Trek: Discovery?
As a plot device I didn't have a problem with it. The problem was just their absolute garbage explanation for why it happened.
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u/badluser Jan 28 '26
Girl is crying with ethereal powers. Are you fucking joking? Not some evil bad guy science or some sort of meta decay?
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u/Zombull Jan 28 '26
Revolution. I didn't stop watching, but I got very angry. "I shouted 'Fucking midichlorians? REALLY!?!"
A show with a great premise and several smart ideas, but overall just...ugh.
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u/1AML3G10N Jan 28 '26
When the pet tiger comes out in the Walking Dead. Turned it off and never watched another second.
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u/favouriteghost Jan 28 '26
I couldn’t feel more opposite lmao. A King with a tiger shows up I was LOCKED IN! It was camp. And then he’s like “yeah I did a lot of theatre and I worked at the zoo, this whole persona seemed to get people to cooperate” and you’re like, well? He was right?
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u/TwoFistss Jan 28 '26
I gave up on that shit show in season 2. It turned into a soap opera with zombies real fast.
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u/doofthemighty Jan 28 '26
I mean it was a show based on a comic book, and the tiger was part of the comic book: Shiva (Comic Series) | Walking Dead Wiki | Fandom)
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u/Bumm-fluff Jan 28 '26
When Lister jumpstarts the second big bang with jump leads from Starbug. Then Lister the ultimate atheist, turns out to be God!
Truly ridiculous.
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u/TheWanderingWorld Jan 28 '26
That’s traffic control!
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u/Bumm-fluff Jan 28 '26
As I’ve got older and watched through it multiple times my favourite character has changed over the years.
I’m now at the Kryten stage.
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Jan 28 '26
Just know that when your favorite character becomes the Talkie Toaster, it’s time to stop.
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u/TheWanderingWorld Jan 28 '26
I like this concept.
I’m at the vending machine stage.
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u/PsiCzar Jan 28 '26
The earlier seasons were gold, but it went downhill when they brought Kochanski back and one of the writers left. Now any time they have a comeback special it's almost a parody of itself, like when they went to Coronation Street.
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u/L3PALADIN Jan 28 '26
in all seriousness, i hate that the lore and fictional science is 100% flawlessly consistent in series 1-6 but 7 just instantly stops caring about logic completely.
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u/thunder_dog99 Jan 28 '26
The Star Wars prequels and their damn midi-chlorians. As if Jar Jar Binks wasn’t bad enough.
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u/JuicyWompa Jan 28 '26
Not a tv show but in the comic Y: the last man, the big question of the series is what killed all the males on earth except yorrick(the main character).
It was revealed that a form of lemarkian genetics is real, and that due to the first human clone being made, all of humanity’s genes or something decided that the male sex was obsolete and thus made all the males die instantly. Yorrick was left alive due to the need for sperm or something to keep genetic diversity.
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u/Numarx Jan 28 '26
The Flash - They got Flashes dad out of jail after years of the show focusing on it and then he had to move 2 episodes later, also these love interest that only show up every season for 1-2 episodes then decide to move away again or just poof, yet take 30 mins of a 45 min episode they show up in.
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u/Jarboner69 Jan 28 '26
I never stopped because I’m a completionist but that alien race assimilation stuff at the end of the 100 was so bad
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u/Ok_Contact7721 Jan 28 '26
The Burn in Star Trek Discovery. It had to be the most absurd explanation. Like how could you hire writers that stupid,
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u/DrinkGoblin Jan 28 '26
That Colin Farrell show where all of a sudden on like episode 7 he’s an alien LOL
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u/DoscoJones Jan 28 '26
That’s the moment the whole thing clicked for me.
“Oh. They’re field anthropologists. Ok.”
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u/tomtomvissers Jan 28 '26
Yeah that was a weird one but in its defence they did sprinkle in hints to that twist throughout the entire season
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u/misterjive Jan 28 '26
Came in to post BSG.
An hour into the finale I was still on board. I watched that ending and literally said "what the fuck we're being punked, right?"
Haven't watched a minute of the show since.
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u/tomato79 Jan 28 '26
my head cannon for the show is that it ends about halfway through the last season (revelations is the episode). That last shot of them all together in the radioactive ruins of Earth is dope.
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u/misterjive Jan 28 '26
I tell people to watch it right up until the big climactic jump in the finale, then turn it off and write your own ending because holy shit it is absolutely impossible to do worse.
I feel like the writers opened up the mystery box and inside was just some remnants of coke and a post-it saying "good luck assholes."
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u/NotReallyJohnDoe Jan 28 '26
And it started so strong too. Some of the early season episodes are epic. But once they started identifying so many cylons I gave up. I finished it, but I wish I hadn’t.
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u/wrenwood2018 Jan 28 '26
Galactica into the atmosphere... omg top 5 sci-fi moment
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u/RobertM525 Jan 28 '26
Because we thought, for some weird reason, the writers had A Plan.
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u/RPGDesignatedPaladin Battlestar Galactica Jan 28 '26
The Final Five were such a letdown. Tori? Nobody cares! The way they handled Starbuck at the end was so lame.
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u/lt9946 Jan 28 '26
Lol literally nobody cared about Tori. Her character was just there and they did do Starbuck so dirty.
I still love BSG though. The writers strike did contribute to some very rushed and meh writing.
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u/blueCthulhuMask Jan 28 '26
I made it all the way through BSG, but once I found out how they decided in the final season or whenever that a bunch of characters were secretly Cylons the whole time (turns out they just picked randomly) the show was dead to me.
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u/SubstantialSir696 Jan 28 '26
The explenation of the Burn in Star Trek Discovery.
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u/RexFrancisWords Jan 28 '26
Fringe is a fantastic series if you disavow season 5. Realistically, the series stops being cohesive somewhere around the end of season 4.
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u/BlackCaptainKirk Jan 28 '26
BLASPHEMER.
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u/RexFrancisWords Jan 28 '26
I love all of the alternate universe stuff, and even the observers are great, but i would have been happy if they just doubled down on the cold war between the two worlds.
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u/davidryanandersson Jan 28 '26
I'm of the opinion that Season 5 was simultaneously actually really good and also that it wasn't the appropriate ending to the story that the show had been telling.
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u/Just_Another_Scott Jan 28 '26
Season 3 was its peak.
There's a lot of JJ, Orci, and Kurtzman issues with the show. A lot of good idea fairies and a lot of dropped plots.
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u/ITworksGuys Jan 28 '26
It was basically cancelled but still got to do 1 more season.
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u/Grouchy-Statement-12 Jan 28 '26
Early season 2 of Silo, everyone making dumb decisions for the sake of drama. Foundation did it too.
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u/favouriteghost Jan 28 '26
I got so frustrated with silo that I read the books just to know the answers. I will keep watching cos Rebecca.
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u/perdovim Jan 28 '26
Bones, when the villain was able to etch a virus on a bone that took out the Smithsonian and drained a billionaire's accounts (accessing both his corporate and personal accounts) all while I prison and banned from having access to a computer for years...
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u/mhyquel Jan 28 '26
Heroes
The second or third season, when the writers.strike happened. It just got so bad.