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[personal profile] fscom 2025-10-12 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
In general, tv shows should not last 10+ years. Even amazing shows lose their quality when running that long. Stargate lasted 10 years but was really only good for 8 of them. The less said about the later Grey's Anatomy years the better. I can't think of many shows that have remained good for longer than 6-8 years.

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(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
the only shows I can think of off the top of my head that were still good after 10+ years (not counting food-oriented shows) are Archer and Frasier, and even in Frasier's case I hated the "fat Daphne" shows which were about season 10. After Jane Leeves had the kid the show got better again, but I hated their using her pregnancy as an excuse to trot out tacky fat bashing jokes.
yes, I liked the "alternate universe" Archer eps.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
*laughs sadly in X-Files*

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
lmao facts. that show ended at the season 7 finale and you can never convince me otherwise.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-13 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
DA - TRUTH.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I can count on one hand any show that I've watched past 5 seasons of it. I think even shows that have 6+ seasons should stop by that point. It's hard to make most plotlines interesting that long.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I feel like in general most shows are good up until about 5 seasons and after that they just...fall off.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I'd agree with this. Ideally I'd like 3-5 seasons to tell a story, but not go on for much longer than 6 because there are few shows that don't overstay their welcome.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
7 is a good sweet spot, if the series is mostly good it's 5-6 solid seasons, if it wavers you still have 3-4 good seasons against the meh. too little is as sad as too much.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. These days I won't watch a show that doesn't have at least 2 seasons. I hate getting invested and then the show is cancelled after just 1 season.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely agree

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I agree with this. Especially the part about Stargate, I often pretend that that the later seasons (and a few chacacters I don't like) does not exist. And as I'm getting further along into The X Files I'm really staring to feel that a lot of plot lines are going nowhere.
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[personal profile] philstar22 2025-10-12 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that Stargate has 8 good seasons is pretty awesome. They just should have stopped there. The new characters weren't great, and some choices they made were stupid (like having a new character as captain/team lead rather than giving that role to Sam).

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I never forgave Mitchell for getting to be team leader over Sam. I also never really clicked with Vala and I didn't like where they went with Daniel, so I clocked out for the last few seasons. Early SG1 is still one of my favourite TV shows though.
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[personal profile] philstar22 2025-10-12 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Same. I didn't hate Vala, I like the idea of a redemption for the character. But they never tried to earn it, just suddenly she was good? Only she hadn't changed all that much? And I didn't like her with Daniel at all, especially given how creepy she'd been towards him in her first appearance.

And early SG1 has such a place in my heart. I love it, and it was one of my dad's favorite shows, so we watched it together a lot. He had the dvds of all the seasons.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-13 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
OP.
I really find Vala to be a very annoying character, that you might tollerate for a story line or two but not as a regular, pluss her romance with Daniel is weird. And I have seen cartboard cutouts with more personallity than Mitchell, so brining him in as team captian is a baffling choice instead of giving the role to Sam. I guess both Vala and Mitchell were an atempt by the crators to bring the Farscape fans over to Stargate.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-13 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, once you get past about Season 3 of X-Files the mytharc plot goes nowhere, though there are still good individual parts of it here and there. It doesn't really turn bad until the monster of the week episodes also get weak, though. Seven strong seasons and a few bright lights in season 8.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-13 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
OP.
I was really hoping that this mytharc would get some kind of pay off, but I'm on season 6 now and I'm pretty sure they are mostly just pulling it out of their ass as they go along, and if they ever actually had a goal in mind it's long forgotten.
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[personal profile] tabaqui 2025-10-12 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I really gotta agree.
*looking at you, Supernatural, which I utterly adore, but...yeah*
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[personal profile] philstar22 2025-10-12 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
First 5 seasons of Supernatural are amazing tv. After that, though, quality drops so dramatically. It picks up slightly again after a few seasons, but still isn't great and nothing matches the heights of seasons 1-5.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-12 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
M*A*S*H, but yeah, the shows that can last that long and keep doing it well are few and far between.

I would actually give Grey's Anatomy the first 10 or maybe 11 seasons (I liked it up until the way they killed Shepherd), but then they should've quit. I will say that though I drifted away from ER for some time, I came back and caught up, they did have some rougher seasons, but I liked several of the seasons past 10, including the last one.

(Anonymous) 2025-10-13 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
*laughs in Simpsons*

(Anonymous) 2025-10-13 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
My absolute ideal would probably be like 5 seasons of around 16 episodes each. Long enough that the story has time to develop lots of interesting plots without rushing them, and you get to fully immerse yourself in the story and get deeply attached to the characters. But not so long that the writing becomes flabby, weak, and directionless.
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