The invention and continued allowance of advertising-supported media. It has done nothing but harm.
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A little late to the party but I don't think I will ever get over what Amazon did to Wheel of Time. I've read through that series so many times and knew no one would be able to translate it to a live action format. I didn't think they would throw the baby out with the bathwater, though. Just absolutely unwatchable in any way.
not as bad as RINGS OF POWER. which likely sucked the budget out of the other shows, invincible had so much degrading quality in animation, and potential writing there. and they refused to make another stargate series, because it has to be a worst version of sgu.
Torture porn and gore in Star Trek Picard.
From the restrained brilliance of "there are four lights" to.. that shit.
Among many other complaints about the show
STD is kind beats picard there, picard had a good premise going on, but they just copied STD.
the cancellation of the buffy re-boot
cancelling STARGATE reboot.
For me, the Mass Effect 3 ending at launch. It's still aggressively mediocre after several patches and DLCs, but the original at launch was genuinely insulting. I have only been invested in a piece of media like that a few times in my life—the shittiness of that ending really ruined me for a few days. It was an entire decade before I could muster up the desire to replay the trilogy. I'll still be mad about it when I'm on my deathbed.
Game of Thrones ending was less disappointing for me.
I only played 1 and 2, is it better to leave it like that?
No, if you loved 1 and 2 you should finish it. They have updated the ending so it's not miserable, but set expectations accordingly. However, ME3 does have some great high points. It was a rushed mess at release. Face import failed for characters that played through 1 and 2, for example.
I have a lot of complaints, but I wouldn't completely ignore the game if you love the series.
Firefly being canceled
Fox never gave it a fair shake. It premiered in a time slot where TV shows go to die, and they aired episodes out of order. The pilot episode, which sets up basically everything wasn't the first episode aired. Damn shame.
The biggest tragedy in SF shows. I watch it again and get angry at the
end of the final episode all over again.
1899 being cancelled after one season.
"Second screen content"
also with the Lord of the Rings, just deleting the scouring of the shire.
There's so many, but one that I can never forgive is Disney & Sony cancelling Spectacular Spider-Man
or all the x-men spinoffs, like gifted, runaway.
Star wars. I just have such a love/frustration relationship with it. This includes stuff produced by George Lucas btw.
I feel like it tries to appease all crowds. The family friendly crowd, the autistic nerdy crowd, the politics obsessed crowd and so on.
Andor for example is peak star wars, because it's made specifically for one audience. No one's taking their 6yo to watch this.
The problem is when a kids' show has the prerequisite plot for a show with a totally different audience.
Take the clone wars for example. It started as nothing more than a kids' show. Then, it ended dark. Same with rebels. Look at episode 3. Amazing amazing plot with the transformation of the Republic into the empire. And then you have jar jar binks.
Let's not even begin to talk about Disney.
Star wars just has so much potential due to its huge world and the Jedi/sith stuff. But it's just so frustrating to see how such art can be wounded by the will to earn money.
I know this isn't "the most unforgivable sin" or whatever, but I suppose it's definitely up there. It's the sin of painting an angry face emoji on top of a beautiful and detailed painting of an unimaginabley cruel monster, just so that more toys can be sold.
The biggest problem with Star wars is how each subsequent movie keeps inventing bigger bigger lasers to destroy more and more planets. It's as if they can't think of anything else.
In the last movie the first order destroyed multiple planets in one shot, despite the fact that they supposed to be this scrappy little fighting force that's all that's left of the empire. They're supposed to be terrorists or something and yet they have technology that can rival the empire at its peak. How's that supposed to work?
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A lot of the original episodes of Pokemon were never dubbed in Danish. I will never forget. Never forgive.
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In reference to books words->minutes of film
Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Hobbit (in three parts and clocking in at a full eight hours) is an outlier, spending five minutes per 1000 in visualizing that story
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