Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long?

livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a great list except for Futurama and formatting issues.

  Post-movies Futurama quality improved. I’d say it’s on par with the first two seasons. The bad episodes can still be funny and the good episodes are absolutely worth it.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @GlitterInfection have I fixed the formatting? I'm on kbin and lists with no enter between them look ok but I did sort of wonder if they don't on Lemmy.

    I'm super old and started not liking Futurama over a decade ago. You guys are convincing me to give it another watch.

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    • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Much better, yes!

      Also I loved the original series of Sex and the City. The movies and beyond were a mistake, though!

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      • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @GlitterInfection thanks for that! I'd been thinking how great it is to not have to keep pressing enter. Too good to be true.

        I liked the first 3 or 4 seasons but I felt it started flanderizing and also I was over Mr Big but he just ...kept being a thing.

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• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  New Futurama is just as good as old Futurama. Fight me.

  Arrested Developments Netflix seasons, though different from the original run in format, I found them enjoyable and worth rewatching.

  Game of Throne’s last half sucked but not because it went on too long, quite the opposite. The producers tried to rush the series to a quick finish so they could go do a Star Wars. HBO offered them extra seasons, they had plenty of source material they downright ignored or went against. The series was best when it was verbatim from the books. In the hands of someone who cared it could have been twice as long and quality all the way through. Obviously I’ll die on this hill.

  Couldn’t agree more on the rest of your list. Westworld would have been a tight one season limited series.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I think we actually agree on GOT - it is on my list because it suddenly took a turn for the worst in the last 2 seasons. I'd have loved it if they'd just made it all and followed the books.

    Who knows, maybe GRRM might have been motivated to finish them if it had gone down that way.

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  • Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    100% agree on Westworld and I would extend that to the movies and the books too.

    Yul Brynner in Westworld? Excellent. Yul Brynner in Futureworld? The world has gained nothing by its existence.

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good point!

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• insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Arrested Development should be in both the too soon and too long lists.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True. The hiatus killed it.

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    • smort@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d say the same about Futurama

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    • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it was timing too, something about scheduling… Can’t remember but anyway yeah, too much time had passed.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Futurama seems ok now? People seemed to enjoy the recent season

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @otter have to admit I haven't seen it in a long time, should check it out and see if it's returned to form.

    I remember in about 2011 thinking "huh, glad I didn't buy that Planet Express t shirt after all."

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me season 4 of Westworld changed it from “Too Long” to “Too Soon” for me, personally. I didn’t really care for season 3 when it aired, but season 4 made me more forgiving of it, retroactively. It seemed like they were setting things up in season 5 which required season 4, which in turn required season 3. Especially given the nature of the show, it felt like they were building some grand story which required these banal meanderings that would all make sense when they clicked into place at the end.

  Now I’m really curious what they were planning in 5 and it looks like we won’t get to find out.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @agamemnonymous ah that's interesting. Yeah my partner preferred S4 to S3 but I felt the whole thing had jumped the shark.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s how I felt after S3, but I gave S4 a shot and it justified a lot of the decisions I didn’t care for in S3. Maybe S5 would’ve disappointed, maybe not, but it seemed like it was going to be the last season and I would’ve at least given it a chance to fully redeem itself.

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      • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did watch S4 with my partner, just didn't enjoy it.

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I maintain that Big Bang Theory had 6 amazing seasons spread out over 12.

  If someone with too much time and effort to spare could run through and edit out every nerd joke for joke sake, every episode that doesnt advance the characters and so on you would wind up with 6 seasons of damn good tv.

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