Have you ever lost interest in a TV show you used to love?

For me, it's Law & Order: SVU. I absolutely loved that show for the longest time, but over the last few months of the season this year, I found myself watching it less and less.

There are reruns of the season on now, of course, and I was thinking about watching tonight's episode, as I had not seen it, and it started feeling more like a chore than something I wanted to do. So, guess I won't be watching.

Anyone else lose interest in a show they used to love?

It's dead to me now

:grr:

Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE that show, but I used to watch it almost religiously (not as religiously as I watch 24, but damn close). Now, it's a rare occurrence if I happen to be surfing the channels and I see House and decide to watch it.

I lost interest as soon as Mulder left and after Dax died.

in it when Mulder left.

Actually, I really started losing interest when they brought the brunette agent in and paired her with Doggett. I can't recall the actresses name, but I couldn't stand her character.

She was no Scully, that's for sure!

I was a devoted watcher of DS9 to the end though. And Ezri's one of the reasons I buy into the Kinsey sexuality as continuum thing. Rowr.

And don't much care.

Me and some buds turned the event into a drinking game...

when spooky music plays.. take a drink..
etc...

His absence wasn't that long, and he was still part of the plot. Before Doggett came on though, the monster of the week episodes started getting really lame. Once Doggett showed up, they actually started getting better again, contrary to popular belief.

even more skeptical of alien stuff than Scully was initially, and there SHE was, trying to convince Doggett that there might be something to the whole alien thing.

:7

David Duchovny's smugness irritates me. Gillian Anderson, the Lone Gunmen & Agent Doggett I really like. Obviously, i will be in a minority with this opinion

The X-Files was one of my favorite shows for the first 7 seasons... Seasons 8 and 9 were just... I couldn't stand the show after Mulder left. I still consider the first 7 seasons of The X-Files some of the best science fiction ever on TV...

As for Deep Space Nine, I was fully into it for the first five seasons... After that, I started high school and for some reason I stopped watching regularly. I blame homework. Anywho, I managed to catch up with the last two seasons over the last four years, and I found that there were some truly amazing episodes in those final two seasons.

and I thoought it was pretty good. wierd without Dax, but good anyways.

as for x-files, I just have no interest in finishing it.

As for the X-Files... You're not really missing much. I watched the series to the end and I STILL didn't get it. Evidently the whole alien virus/planned invasion thing petered out into this whole thing about super soldiers, but magnetite ore killed them somehow... I don't know.

I couldn't tell you what happened for the life of me.

but god, those first several seasons were fun, weren't they?!

They were REALLY out there... They were just so spectacularly good. I think the first episode came out in, what - 1992? 1993? I was 9 or 10 back then and I thought it was the coolest show I'd ever seen. The first 5 seasons are STILL some of my favorite sci-fi episodes ever!

Remember when Scummy and Moldy moved into a house to find out what was roaming around under the lawn? And Mulder was whacking the shit out of mailboxes? And Scully called Mulder "Poopy-face" as a term of endearment?

I think if they had gone with the suburbia angle more, it would have been quite interesting.

They didn't. They never got it on either. Oh well................:shrug:

I started watching it cuz The Duchov was brilliant as well as good looking. An English major even.

He invented one of my fave words: "Biff-dom".

"When I went to Princeton I saw the height of Biff-dom". --The Duchov

I couldn't take it any more.

How long did that goddamned stupid war last? 5 seasons?

After Roddenberry died, Berman couldn't produce his way out of a bag that had no sides, and Next Generation became Borg-focused and war focused, Voyager did pretty well but there was still a shitload of Borg-focus and stories about war, and DS9 was just fucking insane.

Fuck you, Rick Berman.

I hate you.

ZEFRAM COCHRANE WAS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI, NOT EARTH, YOU STUPID RETCONNING FUCKWIT!!!!!

There, I needed to get that off my chest.

Please don't get me started on the Retconning Berman did to the Trek universe during Enterprise.

Yet another show with potential lost....

Even before Mulder left things were just getting over complex and a little silly and frustrating...but I still occasionally watched until soon after Mulder's departure.

Though it's not so much a loss of interest as I just never got around to it. 24 I also watched the first season of, but lost interest after that.

:P

It's too bad you didn't stick with it. I will admit there was a lull during season 3 where the writing less than great (I didn't like Nate's wife Lisa...at...all), but seasons 4 and 5 were really good. There was one episode during season 4 that had me on the edge of my seat because it was so suspenseful and intense. Also, the last few episodes were well done and brought a very appropriate ending to the series. And maybe I'm a big sap, but I cried like a baby for the last half hour of the finale episode...and for another hour after it was over.

SFU was just a great series, and I still miss it. :cry:

I probably will check it out at some point.

Started off strongly, but I thought it bogged down mighty fast, and I gave up after a few weeks.

instead of character-driven, I kinda lost interest in it. I still watched every episode until it went off the air, but my heart wasn't really in it. Nothing compares to those first four seasons of TWW.

Except possibly the only two seasons of "Sports Night". B-)

I remember when he left, too, and I definitely noticed a change in the show, but I'm thinking he came back. I could be thinking of another person at a different show, though.

I'm a TWW fanatic; nothing gets by me unnoticed. Sorkin did appear in a cameo role during the last season, but by then, he had nothing to do with the production side of things.

Thanks.

Most recently, Battlestar Galactica. It got too soapy and jumped around too much. I couldn't keep track.

I am head-over-heels in love with Battlestar Galactica. My friends turned me on to it halfway through the first season and I was hooked at the first episode.

Right now, this series is on equal part with Star Trek: The Next Generation. After the fourth and final season of BSG, it could even replace DS9 as the best science fiction series ever made.

Just my humble opinion, of course.

Maybe I OD'd on it. I don't have cable, so I watched it via Netflix, and I'd watch like four episodes back-to-back.

By about halfway through the second series, I couldn't keep track of who's a Cylon and who isn't (especially with Boomer), and all the jumping around in time and from planet to planet was equally confusing to my linear brain.

I have a hard time keeping up with other serials, like "West Wing," because I don't retain bits o' tid from previous episodes that are often important in plot lines.

Watching so many episodes in clusters can be a bit difficult. I did that for a while and barely got though it. About once a week is all I can really handle with this show now... Just because it's so good.

Couldn't watch them after a while. Got too contrived.

Once Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of the show and the primary writer, left and took her unique voice with her, the show blew chunks. The worst part was the showrunner and other writers trying to imitate Amy's style. CAN'T be done. It was like watching fanfic. :puke:

I was so glad they finally cancelled it. Should've been done at least a year before then. RIP.

final season.

And I couldn't have cared less about Rory. Still loved Luke and the townies, though. But, yeah, it's a shame what became of a once charming show.

I think I may be falling out of love with The Office, as well. I'm not as excited about the upcoming new season as I was with past ones. Might be the whole Jim/Pam "romance" thing -- I'm one of those rare people who'd appreciate less of that storyline.

The last season was wasted fixing the mess that Amy Sherman Palladino left for the new folks. She wasted several seasons on Rory's pathetic behavior (Someone hurt my wittle fweelings, so I'm gonna drop out of free Yale education) and her last season on ruining Lorelei with the intolerable Luke has a daughter fiasco.

The rich supporting characters carried the show for at least two seasons. I'll miss watching Lane's family, Paris, Taylor Doose, and the other townies, but Lorelei and Rory were wasted characters. From strong and honest to whiny and pathetic.

But the new producers (one of which was the lead actress, Lauren Graham) and writers actually managed to make them worse. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than that last scene Amy Sherman-Palladino left the audience with. But Lorelai fawning over and marrying Rory's deadbeat dad, so soon after professing her love to Luke and practically begging him to elope, was THE nail in the coffin. As was Rory basing her life around her childish boyfriend. Yup, definitely "whiny and pathetic". Again, shameful.

I don't know... I liked Logan. :shrug:

but i loved the players: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly, et al...but the scripts & storylines went flat :(

felt the same way about American Gothic :( :(

and Ally McBeal, now that i think of it :( :( :(

Like you, I loved the cast though.

Huh?

It was the forerunner to Boston Public and Boston Legal...a drama based on some of the major issues of the day like a transexual schoolteacher and such.

Twin Peaks was TOTALLY different. At the end, pretty much stupid, but :shrug:

and he is not want for lack of reading what is viable and cashing in on it

Picket Fences is to Twin Peaks, what The Munsters are to The Addams Family

Twin Peaks was a single convoluted murder mystery with metaphysical undercurrents.

Picket Fences was a cultural soap opera with a lot of courtroom comedy/drama.

Not even comparable.

Kelley merely said, "Alright. Weird is in. That's cool. So I'll make a weird/strange. Ride out ole Lynch cause no one can handle him but in small, intermittent doses and BAM! The weird/strange pie is all mine too."

that Kelley went on to sire show after show of young, flirty professionals in expensive suits, and easy/intelligent women (now there's a come on) with too high hem lines in low cut tops was not the issue in Fences; least not as i recall, that is a formula

there were measures of oddities Fences pulled straight out of someone else's vision-scape...

...if you will: Blue Velvet!! Blue Velvet opens with, ahem, white picket fences...as a for instance. Kelley's Picket Fences opens with, as i recall...white picket fences

the allegory there in both, while having been explored by Lynch initially; is that superficiality is just that: superficial. certain things we hold as solid, staionary...even they may not be thus. some are instead fluid presenting movable targets to say the least.

many grand, truly visionary, straight-forward filmmakers are less able to sustain a viable commercial product on TV if only in that their eye is so vast...

but there should be no illusion that the small tube guys are not watching at FilmEx, in LA, Cannes, and international festivals elsewhere, not to mention industry 'buzz'

there had been a rumor, for instance, that Oliver Stone shot his U Turn as a very quick, low budget reply to David's: Lost Highway

people with the resources to do these things, well, do these things. they act upon timely socio-iconic trends. Kelley is considered quite clever for having done so repeatedly, and i say more power to him

Lynch is such a visionary genius, but as i say, only ingestible for many in small, infrequent increments

i understand what you are saying, i just have another perspective :)

From that perspective, you're probably right.

I watched Twin Peaks religiously until I couldn't understand it anymore, then I gave it up.

Picket Fences I ALWAYS got.

i'm sad to report we've been sending our netflix DVD's back 1/2 watched, or watched in a rather cursory manner or as background filler to stuff we're doing around the house :shrug:

cause I know we'd never watch it.

i think hubby has already dropped the last two from the queue: ker-PLUNK!

L & O SVU i do not like which is weird because i really like all the actors in that one. Regular L & O i am a huge fan of and have been watching since day one when it was George Dzundza and Chris Noth and Michael Moriarty.

was out on maternity leave, and they brought that other actress in to play her replacement.

Didn't like that woman, and quickly tired of the little attraction thing between her and Stabler. Plus I was getting tired of the divorce/not divorce drama between Stabler and his wife. :eyes:

If they stick mostly with the stories, then it's good. But it seemed that this past season, it became too soap-operaish, and that is NOT why I liked the show.

just the crime, the vic and eventually the perp and the trial.

I don't mind a little personal stuff; I think it helps flesh out the characters a bit more, but they started putting far too much emphasis on the the personal.

One of my very favorite episodes was when Olivia was all dressed up to go out, but she ended up on the phone with the little girl who said she had been kidnapped or something, and the squad was in a race to try and find her, while Olivia kept talking to her on the phone. Damn, that was a good one.

Except for Ugly Betty.

==================
GROVELBOT.EXE v4.0
==================



This week is our third quarter 2007 fund drive. Democratic
Underground is a completely independent website. We depend on donations
from our members to cover our costs. Thank you so much for your support.

I'm alerting the mods! x(


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:spray:

:rofl:

I am really not so much into "Highlander: The Series" as I used to be. I've stopped writing fanfic and I just really know, like, for sure? that the next movie will suck in ways that make "Highlander II" seem a little like "Godfather II." I will still like what the tv show was...and the actors who did their part on it--but what it morphed into? "Endgame" was Okay--but "The Source" promises to be heinous. Having written novels' worth of fanfic and logged hours of viewing time--I find that sad. For me. My t.v. should not ever make me think I wasted my time. (Although, shit--I wrote some damn good fanfic anyway...)

they should have never killed Catherine :(

x(

that Megan Gallagher had a better contract position as the series went along seeking more compensation, etc, so they were all like, "OK. Watch this. You're dead!! There's your answer."

it's not like it's never happened at that level, but that was just plain dumb cause the whole bottom dropped out :( :(

I thought it was a great series until they did that! x(

A fringe benefit is that I read more, paint more and generally feel better. :hi:

:loveya: :hug:

CMW still watches TV and I don't in any way feel superior for _not_ watching TV. It's just that there's so much drama in the real world that when I get some "alone time," I just can't bear to invite additional drama into my life. (I get my news mostly from the newspapers and the internets, and that's enough for me.)

I :loveya: , SeattleGirl. :hug: :*

My daughter and son-in-law (I STILL love writing that!) have never had a TV. They do get lots of their news on the Internets' Tubes, and we all send each other interesting stuff.

I confess, I'm something of a TV addict, though not as bad as I used to be.


Now I'm a DU addict! :rofl:


Good to see you! :* :loveya: :hug:

Lost killed it like an affair kills a marriage.
CSI is getting on my nerves so I never watch it anymore.

Criminal Minds was interesting at first and now it isn't. Honestly I can't remember the last time I watched tv, it's been a couple of weeks.

Criminal Minds is dipping its toe a bit too much in personal shit. What's great about the show is the profiling and stuff, and I hope they don't stray too far into the personal lives of the interactions between the characters on a personal level, or on their relationships. If I want soap operas, I will watch them during the day.

:(

he is my favorite. You are right, CSI is doing the same thing. Involving the characters in the plot lines is cheap, I hate that it's one of my tv pet peeves.

Also another reason I don't like it is the story lines are too overblown. I read alot about crime and criminals, and elaborate crimes like that they portray are rare. Most, like what you see on the half hour shows on court tv, are simple in nature, even the serial killings. I agree it's the profiling and pursuit of the criminal that intriques me.

edit, court tv not CSI, and the storylines on Criminal minds are overblown I mean :eyes: time for bed, lol

Loved him in Chicago Hope too.

You know, also, that he is a fabulous singer?

I will have to check him out. He makes that show for me I don't even know if I will watch it anymore. I didn't know he was on Chicago Hope, hospital dramas wear me out. I am going to bed, have a great night...:hi: :boring:

I have one of his tapes (bought before CDs were big).

Sleep well, idg! :pals:

He's amazing.

Here is a small dose of the awesomeness that was the first few years of Alias, set to "No Man's Woman" by Sinead O'Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6WsHj6e1II

you sleep well too :hug:

Not sure of your reference.

I have blocked that movie from my mind.

I used to work in the alcohol/drug treatment field, and at one of the facilities I worked at, we showed movies every Friday night. The director had to approve them beforehand (though one time, me and another counselor brought movies in that WEREN'T approve by the crazy old bitch). One of the ones we had in stock was Princess Bride.

I was usually in charge of the patients on movie night, though someone else usually picked the movies. I saw that damned movie so many times, I got sick of it.

twice a month.

Now, I do have movies that I can watch again and again and again, but Princess Bride isn't one of them.

To each their own, eh?

It's a gamer movie. First time I saw it was at a gaming convention years and years ago

:hi:

:hi:

I was working as an intern at an L.A. agency several years ago, and sometimes took over for the receptionist during her lunch hour.

I answered the phone, and I heard a voice say, "Is ___ there?" I said, "No, can I take a message," then he said, "Tell him Mandy Patinkin called."

Even better was on my birthday, in fact, when I had the same routine, and the caller goes, "Tell him John Landis called."

I said, "John Landis as in Coming to America, Trading Places, Thriller, etc.?" He said yes, and I said "I love your work!" to which he was very thankful.

:hi:

;) :hi:

I could just tell when the writers and producers just stopped trying. Even Jennifer Garner was pretty much just phoning it in by the end of the third season. Victor Garber, one of my favorite actors, deserved better.

Garber was great in that, Vartan was, Lena Olin was, everyone gave it 100% because they loved that show. It annoyed me when they brought Lauren in, and it really annoyed me when they brought that stupid twin sister in that I can't even remember the name of, that was so geared to the adolescent male 'threesome' fantasy, and I think most of Alias viewers were women, anyway. The last episode I saw, which was about Garber and Vartan, etc being chased by zombies, was embarassing....I had to change the channel.

After Rob Morrow left it was unwatchable, so I stopped watching it. ER after the first few seasons; I don't watch much episodic TV so I guess that's about it...

:(

writing-wise, w/ unforgettable characters; so many classic episodes...

of nowhere serving out a contract' was too precious...characters came along, setting was perfect, you're right it was spot on

I didn't know that. That was the whole point of the show!

Hmmm....

For me a lot of my loss of interest had to do with the fembotization of Benson's character. She became unrecognizable to the ultra cool season 2-4 Benson.

But - the Barbie locks are gone and I think we might see a return of the kick ass Olivia this year. I'm interested to see the first few episodes.

And it would be great if she showed up again.

It had been going downhill since the RileyBot, but Season Six really did it for me. :puke:

The first 4 seasons were great. After that, meh.

Also ER, after Dr Green left, and Abby came. Blergh!

after Sorkin left, it went to hell.


long time no see, how's life the universe and everything treating you?

Gettin' hitched in two weeks, just got into a new house, and all is right with the world. :D

You? :hug:

congrats to you!

liked em all a couple of years ago, but now? blech, no character development and its the same damn show all the time

It was good in its prime, but now it's just running on inertia.

I love Law and Order SUV...............:hi:

All of the Star Trek series.

One day in the early nineties, I watched a little program called Babylon 5 and was forced to ask the self-directed question-- why do Star Trek women wear high heels in combat? It was all downhill after that....

but I didn't watch much after Richard Crenna died, and eventually I stopped watching altogether.

I'll watch the reruns on TNT sometimes and they're all from the first 3-4 seasons. So, much better than the last ones.

Though I don't watch regular television, I've watched some shows on DVD. And then only one episode a week.

Alias went like gangbusters in the first season. By the second, it turned soapy. Finito.

I'm still with Battlestar Galactica (if they ever release season three on DVD) and I'll give Lost one more season.

McLeod's Daughters has been great the first season. On YouTube someone has posted the seventh season. I took a peek. Suck-O. Only two of the original cast members are left. And the most annoying one is now the boss. And with season three being so expensive, I'll probably end with the second.

I watched the first couple of seasons and about halfway through the third realized it was just an action-filled soap opera.

It seems as if every promo I saw last season started with, "Tonight on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mariska Hargitay...." WTF? Benson isn't the only character on the show and she's far from the most interesting one. (IMO that honor goes to Munch, thankyouverymuch, and they should do more with him, like they did in the first few seasons.) I think it was much better early on before they started delving into the personal lives of the characters.

I wish they would let him do more snarking!

it isn't even entertaining in a "I watched that and it didn't look anything like that" aspect. Oh the stain of a needless war, ignoring whole issues, and the end of democracy all for profit is really hard to mentally wash away.


I used to LOVE watching the news. I have found the truth elsewhere.

Yeah, he does some tabloid stuff, but he also does some great real news stuff. And he's upfront about the tabloid stuff, unlike other "news" programs who MAKE the tabloid stuff the main news items. Aargh! I hate that!

At first it looked pretty cool. Then it started dragging and dragging. And then the season finale sucked so freakin bad. I have no interest wasting my time with the next season.

I finally realized that I had no interest in trying to keep up with what was going on.

ER is the first one that comes to mind. I used to watch it regularly but I quit watching when Carter moved into the lead role, and then never went back even after he left. Don't get me wrong Noah's cute and a fairly good actor, but he IMHO is more a supporting actor than a lead.

Others are:

Charmed lost me when they wrecked my favorite character Cole aka Julian Mcmahon and then wrote him off in a horrific/ and IMHO totally stupid way, when there would have been better ways to write him off, if he wanted to leave.

Sorry to all the Lost fans out there but Lost lost me as well. It started when TPTB began taking the action away from the core cast and and IMHO concentrating too much on the "tallies" and the "others."

Law and Order the original lost me with the additions of Fred Thompson and Elizabeth Rohm.

and NCIS will loose me too if they don't write off permanently that completely ugly (IMHO) total Bimbo that Tony has been dating extremely early this seaon. I mean ASAP. I am so picky. LOL>

ETA: Also I tried to start watching General Hospital again because I love Rick Springfield and Finola Hughes but the storyline the writers have given them seems so stupid, I can't take watching it.

much time on Tony and the bimbo.

and Tony's outside relationship just takes too much away from that. I miss Tony the way he used to be. I don't necessarily want he and Ziva in a romantic relationship but I miss their banter.

characters that they don't need to highlight others, except as guest stars for 1 or 2 episodes. Beyond that, nah, leave them out.

And I love Ziva! She is kick-ass, and kick-ass funny!

they took a great show with potential and ruined it....

That show has really gone downhill. Did you watch the season 3 finale episode? WTF was that?!?!?!? The writers have some serious explaining when the show starts back up next year. I'm glad the series will be pulled after this next season, it's painful watching it die this slow death.

And I won't even mention the fact that the writers did away with D'Anna, my favorite character.

:mad:

24 and Law and Order

I woke up one day from a long bender of many years and realized how inane the characters were.

And how could an artist, a phd student, a coffee bar worker, etc afford such a kick ass apartment?

Once I discovered "Law and Order," I started watching it instead of "South Park." After Jerry Orbach left, I lost interest in all of the shows.

left. There were some moments after that that were okay, but no one can top the originals.

Whatever happened to that little Elian kid?

Use to be my fave back in the day....haven't watched it in years but last time I did, it was awful.

Law and Order. It isn't the same since Lenny Briscoe died.
Law & Order:SVU since that Ice-T person joined the force.
The Medium. It just got boring.
CSI. Too gory.
The West Wing. There were a couple of women characters I hated, so I stopped watching it after about the third year.
I can't think of the name of it (is it "Missing"?)... but the one about the FBI missing persons task force. Just got tired of it.

I really don't have much of an attention span for hour-long dramas anymore.

Anthony LaPaglia and Poppy Montgomery are in it.

I loved that show the first two years or so. Not sure why I stopped watching it, except I'm just really bored with TV in general.

Mulder and Scully's leaving for the former

Rob Morrow's leaving for the latter

one in particular someone else named.

X files when Mulder left

I'm sure many others.

:shrug:

except my daughters, my sister and my mother

My husband still watches it, along with John from Cincinnati, which I only watched once.

Don't understand John at all...

I have no desire at all to check out John from Cincinnati, but I've had people ell me I might like the other show (Big Love?).

I like the opening sequence, too.

You might give "Big Love" a look, and see what you think, SG.

The "secret" that they keep (one man with three "sister" wives) wears a little thin after a few weeks. The intimation is that almost NO ONE knows about this in their community.

Also, the devout LDS Mormons really have a beef, I think, which is regularly expressed on Internet forums.

Polygamy was outlawed in Utah in the 1800s, and it is only a small LDS-unrecognized sect that preaches "plural marriage."

With the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the scuzzy underbelly of the religious group has been in the forefront of the news most recently. Hardly the kind of publicity you might wants about this very different lifestyle.

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady Ellen

PS. My husband gets a kick out of how the three wives gang up against the husband! That tends to kill the illusion that having more than one wife might be FUN!!!!

Dropped it cold.:(

too, had I been watching it. x(

Monk is less funny and less original now as well.

Guess all TV shows eventually jump the shark.

I lost interest in Lost the year they had all those repeats. They'd have original episode followed by weeks of repeats. They also introduced too many characters and it became kind of like Gilligan's Island where they had everything at their disposal to make themselves comfortable. Also, were there no ordinary looking people on this flight?

McMahon has turned his shows into unwatchable crap.

I loved it first season, and second season wasn't so good. I tried watching the first couple of episodes of third season, but I just couldn't get into them. First season was campy and funny, but after that it just got silly.