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What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? (lemm.ee)
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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a time where content wasn’t so abundant, people watch TV on the TV and marketing mattered a bit more. Back then you didn’t have 2137 sci-fi shows to choose from so you watched what you could.

Take Terra Nova. Released late 2011, Spielberg as an executive producer. Dystopian future, time travel to the prehistoric era, hint some dinosaurs. Hype. It was cancelled almost immediately after the first season due to how disappointing it was.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't consider it disappointing, I considered it a decent starting point for better seasons.

I was born before we had a 5 minute tiktok attention span and if we weren't blown away by the first episode that meant everything was obviously garbage.

Watch TNG season 1, one of the worst seasons of anything ever.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lots of good series have a terrible first season. I don’t think this one was salvageable due to how shallow everything was though. It wasn’t bad necessarily, it was extremely mediocre with most of the world building consisting of adding mysteries writers didn’t know answers to. Most were just indifferent to it in the end, which something beyond disappointment.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course it was weak.

But there was plenty of room to fix it, they had barely started.

We need to stop killing things when they start because they aren't the next game of thrones s1.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

"We" aren't doing any of it lmfao, stop blaming the populace for poor executive decision making lol.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

NUTREK ended up being worst, from s1-season whatever, almost all of them were bad more or less the same plot as each other, did you notice, how kurtzman made them all had a big bad at the end, with no resolution in the next season, just dropped it because it was such a bad plot. SNW could be better with good actors. the animated series seems to rectify this a little bit.