Lost fandoms

[wiseheart]

So, which are the fandoms you've given up on because the creators took a turn you could not agree with?

Mine are:

- Angel, starting around the end of Season 2, when Joss brought in that stupid demon universe storyline. I stopped watching the show somewhere mid-season 3.

- Buffy, after Season 5, although I was seriously tempted to give up on it as soon as at the beginning of Season 4, when Buffy suddenly became an idiot. The last straw for me was the appearance of Dawn. I forced myself to watch the show to its bitter end, but honestly, I regretted having done so.

Andromeda, after mid-season 2, when Gold Trance came into the picture and Kevin Sorbo turned the show into Hercules in Space. I kept watching till the end of Season 4, but it just got worse and wordse. I never bothered with Season 5.

SG - Atlantis, after the Season 3 episode "Sateda". I liked that one. I bought Season 3 on DVD, but I seriously doubt that I would even bother to watch Season 4 and whatever might yet come on German TV.

Stargate SG-1. Stopped watching after Season 8, when O'Neill left and the annoying new guy entered the picture. The whole thing stopped being a slightly self-ironic sci-fi show and turned into some sort of stupid science fantasy. Oh, and I do hate Vala Mal Doran.

Earth: Final Conflict, after they killed off Boone, to get in the young Marty Stu, castrated Da'an and made Zo'or a stupid and incompetent villain. Watched sporadically till the end of Season 4, though, then stopped.

Queer As Folk, at the moment when Brian hit Michael, just because Michael said something "mean" about that annoying little slut, Justin. As if a piece of blond boy a§§ would be more important than a deep friendship of 14 years. Again, I watched the show to the bitter end and was shocked by the increasing badness of it.

Enterprise. I gave the show a chance, just because it was Star Trek. I gave up somewhere during the very first season. I even deleted the recorded episodes from the videotapes, it was so very bad.

These are just the fandoms in which I've invested much time and energy, and in which I also write. I've given up many, many more. *g*

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Funny. I gave Farscape a try but never made it beyond episode 3, I found all those puppets so stupid and the whole thing boring. Well, everyone his or her own, I think. I loved Stargate. A friend of mine, though, was absolutely nuts about Farscape; his wife meant it was almost a reason for divorcing him; that and Pokémon, she said. OTOH, she is a great Kevin Sorbo fangirl, and said friend is terribly jealous... *g*

[ajmckay.livejournal.com]

I don't like my sci-fi in any type of suits...military suits...nothing too structured. I love what Jim Henson Studios did for Farscape and the show never dragged during any of the seasons. It always had quirky moments and the 'wtf' factor going for it. There was so many social messages in the show that went beyond what Star Trek, Andromeda, or Stargate had to offer...and the aliens actually looked like aliens half the time instead of a human in a suit with a bunch of make-up dabbed on. I think I just like my sci-fi gritty and human, not structured and militant. =D

Edit: Sorry, this comment is me just trying to explain my love of the show, not that I'm trying to convert or put down other sci-fi shows...I know different tastes for different folks and all that.

[artemis10002000]

Hi fellow Farscape fan *waves* Just wanted to say that I love how you described what you liked about Farscape, because that's pretty much what I liked about the show, too. Only I wouldn't have been able to word it so nicely. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, I'm not bothered by other people liking shows that I hate. I do have a weird taste anyway.

It's all a matter of taste, isn't it? I always give a chance *every* sci-fi show that flatters over the TV screen, because I'm a geek, but I prefer the Trek-like ones.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Added, because I forgot to mention: what I liked in Andromeda was that the aliens - like the Than or the Perseid - were really aliens. And the creators came up with very detailed backgrounds for all those races, including their reproductive methods - finally we got away from the one male and one female cliché that most sci-fi shows gave their supposedly alien cultures.

Also, the structured and militant part mostly existed in Captain Hunt's mind, who was 300 years behind reality, after all. The crew of the Maru were a bunch of scavengers who didn't really identify with his lofty ideas... at least not in the first season, before Kevin Sorbo took over.