TV Shows which you stopped watching before the first season ended

[sakabatou]

Netflix's Cowboy Bebop. Good god was that a shit show.

[patphil]

1. I don't care how good the Netflix version is, I will not watch it.

My memory of this great anime series is full and complete, and I'm not interested in polluting it with any reboots.
Just like I haven't like most of the batman movies.
Adam West as Batman in the 1960's TV series played true to the comic book.
As did all the other characters in that TV series. I particularly liked Eartha Kitt as Catwoman.
I don't like any of the recent reboots of this series, and especially don;t like Joker.

[Chainfire]

2. It is funny how people can view the same thing so differently.

As a kid, I was a huge Batman fan. I could hardly wait for the next 80 page annual (that must have come out every quarter) I liked him because he didn't' have near magic powers to get him out of jams. (Superman) It was next to impossible to jam up Superman. For heaven's sake's, Superman could even make the whole world time travel, go back and undo the dead....I didn't buy it. but Batman was human and in my child's eye, possible.

I remember waiting for the Batman TV program to start, and I have never been so disappointed. I thought the Adam West series made a mockery of my hero and I despised Robin. Of course, the TV program came about in the same part of my life where I was discovering that girls weren't as bad as I had previously thought, and comics were slipping away from me.

I did like the Batman Movies, but they were nothing like how I remembered the comics, but I found them entertaining in an odd way.

[rsdsharp]

3. I agree with you. I was 11 when Batman debuted in January 1966.

I looked forward to it eagerly, and was disappointed, even though I watched both episodes a week. Batman had a pot belly, his cowl and cape were wrong, his utility belt was wrong, the Batmobile was wrong, and I had no appreciation of “camp.” And Holy Shit, Batman, shut that little weasel up!

I kind of liked most of the villains, especially Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, and Frank Gorshin as the Riddler, and Julie Newmarket as Catwoman caught me just as my hormones were kicking in. All she had to do was wear the costume.

I didn’t like the ZAP, BAM, POW stuff, or the odd camera angles. Still, my butt was in front of the TV, “ Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel.”

[Chainfire]

4. Yea, the TV batmoblile's Jet looked like trash burning in a barrel. ;)

I liked Catwoman too, but to change the subject, at 14 I was in love with Barbara Eden.

[rsdsharp]

5. Well, so was I. And Mary Tyler Moore, and Dawn Wells, and Elizabeth Montgomery, and. . .

[Chainfire]

7. Mary Tyler Moore wasn't attactive to me as she seemed more sisterly for some reason.

Elizabeth Montgomery didn't do it either. I was quite selective. If fact it stuck with me through the following few years, and I married a very pretty, petite blond with magic powers over me. She is sitting next to me as I type.

[LakeArenal]

6. Not even the second weeks of:

The Renewed Rosanne and The Connors.

[Emile]

8. The Dome

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. SeaQuest DSV.

It had such promise. And then they decided to make it a complete fiasco.

[Earth-shine]

16. Roy Sheider said he hated it.

He said it became a cross between "Star Drek and 21 Jump Street".

I think he said that at the beginning of the second season when they took on some new characters played by actors formerly of the Jump Street show.

It was supposed to be underwater Star Trek. Given your user name, that he called it Star Drek might make you mad.

The first season of DSV was rather good.

[OldBaldy1701E]

18. Yup.

It always amazed me that they could manage to persuade someone as legendary as Scheider to do the show and then screw it up as badly as they did.

No, that phrase does not bother me. Unlike some people, I don't go off the deep end just because something I like is used in a less than worshipful way. Such preferences are subjective and only children flip out because someone does not agree with them over something like music or film.

[Axelrods_Typewriter]

10. Almost every American show made in the past 20 years.

I've gone all-in on the classic British shows. There's real brains behind the writing, it's not the same story everybody else has just with different SFX.

[sakabatou]

12. Without writers, shows turn to shit. Scab writers can be even worse.

[Axelrods_Typewriter]

13. Absolutely. The same thing happens when you don't pay writers what they're worth.

Or expect them to pump out 2 hours of work in one.

[beaglelover]

11. Walking Dead

[mitch96]

14. I know some will think this is sacrilege, but I watched one or two episodes of Breaking Bad and thought it was junk

I did like the episode of Myth Busters where they tried to redo the machine gun in the trunk though...
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[Earth-shine]

15. Stranger Things

[skypilot]

17. House of the Dragon

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