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What are some tv shows (or book, film, or game series) that were great in the beginning, but you eventually gave them up? Why did you drop them?

The Walking Dead. Quit after the episode where Negan raids their neighborhood. I just could not stand him.

The MCU counts I guess. I stopped watching after Endgame. Steve was my favorite plus that felt like a great place to naturally end.

I feel like I've given up the MCU too. I did watch some post-Endgame stuff, but haphazardly and without the same need to see it all. I may pick up again if the next Avengers movies are good, not sure. Steve and Thor were tied for my favorites, so if Thor is still there I'll probably watch again.

When I was a young'un and new to fantasy literature, I loved David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean series. But as I got older, I realized how... weird and one-dimensional his female characters were. Ostensibly they were strong women who sassed the male characters, but no matter how powerful they were, they still did the whole "batting my eyelashes at a man to get my way" thing that was portrayed as cute. I also got creeped out by how often he mentioned that one of the female characters was child-like in figure, petite, slender, like a child, etc. etc. in the context of how sexy that was. That wasn't the only issue, but those were the main issues. They were also really repetitive in plot and just not terribly interesting after I'd read more fantasy. Ended up giving away all the books because they bothered me too much.

I dropped Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series because AGAIN the weird sexual hang-up about dominatrix characters with penis-like pain sticks, plus the lame Star Wars plot combined with the author's heavy-handed philosophizing.

ew. Glad I didn't ever read those. The idea of making child like women out to be sexy makes me want to throw right up.

god, Sword of Truth is the ultimate in "series where the first book is so promising and then it's a fast ride downhill from there." I gave away/sold everything I had except my copy of Wizard's First Rule. It had SO MUCH potential! You can even sort of ignore the weird dom cult chapters and not lose any of the actual story, and it ends solidly with no need for sequels. Once it became a series, it was extremely gross getting way too intimate a look into Goodkind's kinks. Please, no, sir, keep it to yourself. Write fanfic for your own book.

Right? It was one of those books where the author's need for therapy and a better outlet for their kinks was so, so naked.

Oh man. I admit that I still somewhat like the early Sword of Truth books. Terrible author, terrible philosophy, but something about the characters and world in the first four books just hooks me.

With Eddings, I own those books, but I never managed to make it through. I really like the world and lore, some interesting ideas, but the characters just never grabbed me and things moved so slowly I got bored. And yes, part of it is the stereotypical way he writes women, even Polgara.

The sword of truth books had some really weird dynamics and political messaging. They also started to basically be the same thing recycled over again. I'm glad I dropped them when I did.

The thing that really bothered me about Eddings' books was the same as you, but then years later it turned out that they were all co-written with his wife. Which gave me much more ick, a woman writing about coy and sexy younger women, and older women who just wanted to settle down and make their own soap (yes, really).

And THEN it turned out that he and his wife did jail time for abusing their two adopted children. In the late 60s, when you could get away with an awful lot of what would be considered child abuse today. And a lot of their books have adult mentors raising adopted children harshly for their own good.

Also Eddings and his wife are convicted child abusers. So there is that too.

I used to love the Simpsons but they did way too many episodes that weren't funny or made no sense or both. Gil especially annoyed me. Whining desperation is not funny.
House was my favorite but only the first three seasons.
I loved Cheers until Kirstie Alley ruined it.
I loved Star Trek Next Gen but the recent Picard show was just too depressing.

I dropped One Piece right at the time skip because it didn't feel like the same characters that I'd grown to love.

Time skips in general seem to be an ending point for me though.

You're missing out, the Dressrosa arc is probably one of the best of the series (yes better than Enies Lobby). The characters didn't change. Oda's focus changed - he needed Fishman Island to get some lore established, so if you didn't ride that out, you have no idea how much better it got. He did well with Wano, but since then he's been playing catch-up on lore again. Some characters have had significantly less screen time and yes, that is a legit detriment, but they haven't changed. They aren't different. They're just not on screen as much as they were when he only had six or seven characters to focus on.

Srsly tho if you think the characters are different I don't know how to to explain that they're really not.

Yeah, agreed. Some of them have definitely grown but in ways that aren't incongruous with their core selves.

I dropped it when everyone had had their arcs over the 2 year time skip. I don't care at this point to try and catch up. That was over a decade ago.

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The MCU.

And I was a pretty big fan but post-Endgame everything felt more phoned in and I just stopped caring to watch any of it. I think the last movie I watched was Eternals and that was so goddamn boring.

Same. I kind of got off the train too. I haven't watched anything Marvel in a long time, and the last time I did, I was not paying attention to it at all. For me, it lost the magic.

Same feels.

I was looking forward to Eternals but...meh.

I dropped the MCU after Civil War (they made such a mess of it.)

Criminal Minds after season 4 or 5 - whenever the writer's strike happened. The writing went down hill and they messed up continuity.

Harry Potter after reading book 5 (you could tell the editor stopped doing their job).

Oh wow, are you me?

I dropped the MCU after Civil War (though I have enjoyed a few of the TV series and The Marvels), and dropped Criminal Minds after Season 5 because they had lost all interest in the victims and only wanted to do more shocking! edgy! cases and fucked up continuity for the main characters.

I did not drop Harry Potter after book 5, but I should have, for the same reason.

How I Met Your Mother.

Doctor Who. The classic series relied on good acting, good writing and people who'd served in wars and knew what the stakes were. The new series - well I got bored and gave up.

Really? The only Doctor Who writer I can think of who had served in a war was Malcolm Hulke, and I'm not sure what difference that really made. Who else are you talking about?

lol, I was one of the people who stopped reading Death Note when L died. Oddly enough, Matt and Mello ended up as my two favourites, but knowing what happened to them too, didn't exactly give me any reason to pick it back up again.

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