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Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?

Hard mode: no The Walking Dead

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[-] planish@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Honestly? Stargate SG1. One of my favorite shows.

The whole theme of the first seven or so seasons was teching up and gathering allies to say "you're not my real dad/god" to the evil sufficiently advanced aliens.

But then having reached the end of that arc and wanting to keep the show going, they introduced some even more godly evil aliens who weren't just sufficiently advanced but were actual magic. I felt it deflated the point made in the whole first arc, that there ain't nobody better then you, to then trot out some evil canonically supernatural entities.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I definitely disagree on that. SG1 (and Atlantis for that matter) were top quality till the end imo.

The point with the Ori was imo that you shouldn't follow evil gods EVEN if they have magical powers and a nice message. It made the arguments far more tricky, because they couldn't just reveal their false godhood and automatically win. To me it felt like a very natural progression of the underlying theme, kinda like the next level of difficulty.

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[-] ranok@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago
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[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The Simpsons

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amazon's The Rings of Power.

It should have been cancelled 8 episodes ago.

Stargate: SG-1 should have ended at season 8. They beat Anubis, all the conflicts were tied up, there's a nice scene where the crew is just relaxing at O'Neill's pond. And then they ordered another season. So they did the same thing that Xena did and said "Well we ran out of ancient dead religion gods, I guess Christianity is next except they still exist so we have to be kinda cagey about it" and just kept making the show.

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[-] Prinny@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The Office (US version). NBC should've put it out of its misery after Pam and Jim married if they had to hold on to airing it. But really it could've ended way earlier than that.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] Pinecone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Archer should've stopped right when the coma stuff started.

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[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Small show, but Eureka. Everything after the time traveling reset shouldn't have been made.

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[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

The Battlestar Galactica reboot should have ended after Season 2; 3 was meh and 4 was terrible.

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[-] TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scrubs should have been done with season 7, saying good bye to JD. no weird season 8 with new side stories that all sucked!!

Oh and Family guy... when Seth left the writing and production of the show and only did voicing, the shows quality changed .. it's funny, but its no where near as on the nose funny as season 1 through 10.. now when they break the fourth wall for a brake away joke, it just feels... off.. peter is not ironically funny anymore.. the meg jokes got stale and honestly cruel to where it was not Soo funny anymore.. Lois used to be a great loving mother, even to meg, then became just cold and unrelatable to me... Stewie was funnier as a world domination deviant before they completey changed his character around.., Brian used to be more relatable and then just got pretentious and misogynistic that really wasn't ironically funny anymore.. Chris is maybe the one character who has barely changed from the early seasons... idk it's just not that funny any more to me..

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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

The last season of Scrubs. They basically switched out the main character. Should have been a different show.

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[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago

Spongebob had an astounding three season run. I could probably even go to bat for a few of the season four episodes.

But thirteen seasons and counting? Other than handsome Squidward, I can't think of a single joke/scene that people love from an episode post-movie.

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[-] ProfessorGumby@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago

The canonical answer is "Happy Days".

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[-] eee@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

For me, Lost.

Writers introduced way too many mysteries that they didn't resolve. ABC should have given them less episodes so they were forced to tie up loose ends faster.

[-] nxfsi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The expanse (the novels). Time jumps in sci-fi are hard to do right. The show had the good sense to end it before the time jump, but they still had to put in admiral Duterte and MCR II (Laconia) in the final season with little to no follow-up because that was in the books

[-] shrodes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I know it will probably never happen but I find it fun to think they could do a time jump IRL, do a new season after years so everyone is literally older

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I remember watching a couple of episodes of Under The Dome and then getting bored of the concept and bailing on it. I forgot about the show for a couple of years and then saw something advertising a third season and I was like "How are they still under that fucking dome?!"

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Me with Prison Break. Watched the first season, thought it was pretty good but moved on with my life. Then a few years later saw a trailer for Season 4 or 5 and said "you mfers already escaped from the prison! What are you doing back there??"

[-] jwing@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
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[-] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The office should have ended when Mike left.

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