Sci-Fi shows that let you down....BIGTIME!

POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Thursday, November 3, 2011 23:14
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OPPYH

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:44 PM

1) LOST-I'll admit I was hooked on this show. It filled the gap of Buffy, and Angel ending(still not nearly as good as those shows though). I thought the writing of the characters was especially well done. I hated the last couple seasons, and lost interest. I did watch the final episode though.

2) Star Trek Enterprise-Xindi story arc anyone? For a series that really needed to stay focused on exploration, and discovery as the main theme the Xindi story arc sure bogged it the hell down.

3) Planet of the apes(animated 1975)-I was very excited to see this released on dvd....then I watched it. Nostalgia be damned, the writing was horrible(even for a cartoon). And whats with the apes living in cities, flying helicopters, and driving tanks and jeeps?

4) Star Trek TNG-seasons 6, and 7. Brannon Braga.

5) Andromeda-Started out loving it, ended up hating it.

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BYTEMITE

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:28 PM

When I read the thread title, I thought it meant "Which (Sci-Fi produced by Skiffy) shows let you down....Bigtime!"

I no longer have any outlet for the series of hilarious jokes I came up with. :(

But, I have to admit, I was really looking forward to Dollhouse, and while I think it had it's positives and I don't think it was as bad as some people, I felt a little disappointed by the first episode. I guess I was expecting to find a moment that would just hook me and resonate, like the charm in Dr. Horrible when the very first song kicks in, or the moment the dialogue caught me in Firefly ("Right. We win."). But for Dollhouse that never really happened.

STORYMARK

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:32 PM

Enterprise

Heroes (big time!)

Dollhouse

Most others I either liked all the way through (Lost, BSG) or avoided from the get-go (Andromeda).

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DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:34 PM

Sliders

Seaquest, Earth 2 and a million things like them

Dollhouse.

I guess I'm not a big fan of TV in part for this reason: they almost all let me down, and probably all eventually. Buffy Season Seven, anyone?

Dr. Who still doing okay.

I don't remember STNG as degenerating, but I'm not going to watch again to see. I liked Jonathan Frakes better when he was holding the camera than in front of it. I found Riker initially uninspiring as a character, but later when he directed episodes I thought they kicked ass.

Overall, though, STNG was such a jump from cowboys in space of the classic trek towards some paramilitary pooftas in pajamas for a new galactic order of socialist uptopia, it was kind of hopeless.

ETA, Story first me on Dollhouse by 2 min.

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LWAVES

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 8:29 PM

Star Trek: TNG
I'll admit that I didn't last long with this series when it first aired as it bored me. Riker and Troi were portrayed so badly and blandly by the actors that it put me off continuing. Frakes is definitely better behind the camera. I have seen quite a few episodes over the years but the only ones that really interested me were the Borg episodes and the Q ones.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Re-wrote too much and didn't look right. It should never have been made. They threw too much Trek at us over the years that fans got turned off and this show came at a time when they should have taken a break. It's a pity because I actually liked some of the characters in this a lot more than Voyager or TNG.

Babylon 5: Crusade
After the 5 year epicness of the original show how could they go so wrong? A show that genuinely deserved it's cancellation.

Dollhouse
There was great potential in the idea but it got off to a bad start with poor episodes and studio interference. Plus, whilst I have nothing against Eliza Dushku she wasn't really up to be the lead.

The Cape
I don't really class this is sci-fi but others do so it's here. Could have been a take on Batman/Dark Knight on TV. Turned out to be Batsh*t. Only Summer kept me watching but even then I wonderered why.

Heroes
After a truly excellent first season they had nowhere left to go. They should have spread the story about saving the world over a few seasons. Done more of a slow build but they didn't and it went downhill from that moment on.

I could also mention: the new V series and Stargate Universe (to a small degree as I found it watchable).

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ZEEK

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:29 PM

Total agreement on Lost. I was really disappointed by the answers we got. They were pretty much all let downs. I was hoping it would be something clever or thought provoking. Instead we got something that just felt very small and pointless. "You can't leave...cause well...I don't know you just can't...lets fight over it for an eternity" bah

V was pretty bad too. I didn't make it through the whole first season even. I just couldn't stand that moron teenage son or the fact that the resistance group seemed so insignificant. There was just no way that group would have made a dent in the visitors plans. They really needed to introduce a much bigger movement and make our heroes one resistance cell or something. Then it would at least feel like there was a point.

WHOZIT

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 10:12 PM

Enterprise

Warehouse 13 (Should be cancled)

AURAPTOR

Thursday, November 3, 2011 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by whozit:
Enterprise

Warehouse 13 (Should be cancled)

Agree w/ Enterprise. It was great seeing Scott Bakula again in SciFi, but ugh... I never was drawn into the show. Seems to me that it'd be pretty easy to make pre ncc 1701 era technology. Early story lines dealing less w/ aliens, and more w/ man's struggle to deal with leaving the solar system...

Actually liking WH 13 more and more.

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, November 3, 2011 1:43 AM

Before there was Lost (which I never watched, actually) there was X-files. I was completely over the moon for that show at one point. I stopped watching it three years before the series ended.
I haven't watched Heroes since the first season.
Caprica bored me to tears. When the majority of the audience knows how a story will end, building plot tension is not really the way to go. You need dynamic and interesting characters, and I didn't care about a single one of those people.
The Cape. It could have been so good if they'd had writers that were half awake, but it was just painful.
The Dresden Files. Considering the source material (which I read after watching the show) this comes as an even greater disappointment. It could have been fantastical noir with great characters. It was really none of those things.
Red Dwarf. I know, it was never supposed to be a serious show, but the sheer lack of any continuity really started to get to me. It's fine to have random things happen, I'm all for that, but when you spend a season talking about one subject that's never resolved or something is completely contradicted in later seasons... meh. The hilarity doesn't make up for what is basically lazy writing, and the lazy writing starts getting kind of unfunny.
The Hitchhiker's Guide miniseries. Who hired those actors? Ford was the only one with any good deliveries, despite the prevalence of great lines.
I don't think Dollhouse was as bad as most do - actually there were moments when I really loved that show - but glimpsing how good it could have been makes the final result a letdown for sure.

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RIVERTAM1

Thursday, November 3, 2011 5:15 AM

Dollhouse had me hooked from the get go. I've known about it for five months less than Firefly... which I discovered in April. Curse Australian free to air TV. No Firefly or Dollhouse, as I don't have Fox channels...

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