What DVD series did you find the hardest to endure ?

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UPDATED: Saturday, July 24, 2010 07:41
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GWEK

Friday, July 23, 2010 1:25 PM

I'll second TIN MAN. My wife and I had it on the DVR for close to a year, finally sat down to watch it, and could barely make it to the end of part 1.

On B5: It's a shame that the first season is so weak (in terms of acting and, let's be honest, budget), because overall the series is some of the best-written sci fi on TV. I will put the WRITING up against anything out there (including, possibly, FIREFLY). The problem is that the other elements don't match the strength of the writing.

As for painful series: I'll very rarely stick with them if I have trouble getting through the first disc. Possibly one of my biggest disappointments was LA FEMME NIKITA, which looked oh-so-cool, but turned out to be oh-so-dated. Another disappointment was LOST. Loved watching the show when it first aired (at least the first few seasons), and thought that it would be great to re-watch to look for clues and such. Not so much.

Many of the shows I watched and enjoyed as a child/young adult have been pretty disappointing: TAXI, WKRP IN CINCINNATI (although renting the first disc was worth it just for the adult realization that the theme song was pretty much cribbed from Harry Chapin), REMINGTON STEELE (not bad, but soooo slooooow to watch episode to episode... I wound up just skipping to the "mythology" episodes), MOONLIGHTING (often, what is cutting edge at the time is pretty crappy after the time has passed...).

Both miniseries for V were very disappointing (especially the first one), but the series was, surprisingly, much better than I remembered.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

ZEEK

Friday, July 23, 2010 1:28 PM

Arrested Development. My brother sang its praises and I watched it all but it never worked for me. The characters were just too stupid. I could see characters like that on the Simpsons or some cartoon, but trying to have live action people act that stupid just doesn't work for me. I can't get past thinking these people would surely have died before adulthood.

LWAVES

Friday, July 23, 2010 1:42 PM

B5 is a tough first season to watch but it does pay off later when story points come about again. Also in Season 5 when Tracy Scoggins is on screen.

Torchwood Season 1 was a real struggle on first viewing, every week I told myself not to watch it anymore. But I did and Season 2+3 were great. Having watched Season 1 again I actually like it now for the most part.

I struggled through Dollhouse Season 1. I had given up on it but then went back after I heard about Epitaph One. I almost didn't get through it again but I kept telling myself it's Joss and it's only a few more episodes.

The Pacific was another one and I still haven't watched the last two episodes. I just didn't care for the characters and they concentrated too much on three guys. Band Of Brothers had far greater depth and when someone died it got to you. The Pacific didn't have that and was pretty boring even in some of the action scenes.

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DMI

Friday, July 23, 2010 3:42 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Arrested Development. My brother sang its praises and I watched it all but it never worked for me. The characters were just too stupid. I could see characters like that on the Simpsons or some cartoon, but trying to have live action people act that stupid just doesn't work for me. I can't get past thinking these people would surely have died before adulthood.

Everyone I've ever met has told me how much they love it and I finally agreed to watch it when I made a deal with a friend of mine who hadn't seen Firefly. He loved Firefly (of course) but I only got through two episodes of Arrested Development. I didn't hate it but at some point I realized that I hadn't once laughed out loud. I may give a few more episodes a shot at some point but I've been busy.

Thanks for all the discussion of B5. I've been meaning to check it out and now I'll either cross it off the list or try to find out which episodes from season 1 are worth it.

The one show I'd like to add to this list is Lexx. Back during the whole richlabonte TV_Vote thing we had a guy on here who said he'd vote for Firefly if we voted for his fav show Lexx. I didn't want to vote for something I hadn't seen so I found the first episode and sat down with it. That was the most painful hour of my life. I've never seen anything worse EVER. And the pilot is two hours long. Couldn't do it, had to cut it off.

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ZEEK

Friday, July 23, 2010 4:33 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Arrested Development. My brother sang its praises and I watched it all but it never worked for me. The characters were just too stupid. I could see characters like that on the Simpsons or some cartoon, but trying to have live action people act that stupid just doesn't work for me. I can't get past thinking these people would surely have died before adulthood.

Everyone I've ever met has told me how much they love it and I finally agreed to watch it when I made a deal with a friend of mine who hadn't seen Firefly. He loved Firefly (of course) but I only got through two episodes of Arrested Development. I didn't hate it but at some point I realized that I hadn't once laughed out loud. I may give a few more episodes a shot at some point but I've been busy.

I agree with that assessment. I didn't hate the show. I just never got to the point of really laughing at anything. It was just meh the whole way through IMO.

BORIS

Saturday, July 24, 2010 7:41 AM

I love Arrested Development, but don't find it very funny.I'm just fascinated by the characters...they are so abnormally flawed and cartoonish...It is a live action cartoon...probly why I like it so much because so am I.
I found Season 3 of Venture Bros a little Meh...so haven't attempted season 4 and am rewatching season 2.
I want a "helper"

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