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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw the entire broadcast run of Clerks.

All both episodes.

Only six episodes were produced, and they eventually aired, but I did not find this out until years later. The internet ended a longstanding era where you could be aware of and interested in something, but know fuck-all about it, and have no sensible way of learning more. So I'd heard of Kevin Smith movies - but never seen any. Watching the Clerks movie would have taken a trip to a physical video-rental store, with my parents, and then convincing them (and myself) to rent a vulgar black-and-white movie for all of us to watch together. Wasn't happening. I was more likely to rent and watch any of the R-rated films that somehow got cartoon adaptations - which were part of that same impotent awareness. Robocop and Ghostbusters and fuckin' Starship Troopers were advertised anywhere and everywhere, and kids liked the shallow cool parts in the trailers, so executives said "fuck it" and licensed no-budget G-rated spinoffs to sell toys.

Anyway. The Clerks animated series exists because Disney wanted an adult-ish show to compete with The Simpsons. Everyone did. Disney knew they had a gap in their demographics for twenty-something dorks with disposable income. Aaand then they handed the finished episodes to ABC, who used a focus group of old farts and children. Of course it bombed. The first episode aired was a fake clip show full of flashbacks to episodes that did not exist. No, sorry, just checked Wikipedia: that was the second and final episode aired. The premiere ended with a wacky consequence-free style change, where the outsourced animators rebelled and delivered a lolrandom dance party.

At least Clone High got an entire season.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Great ended too soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Too soon:

Raised By Wolves

Santa Clarita Diet

GLOW

Utopia (the UK version)

Happy Endings

Freaks and Geeks

Popular (did anyone else watch this?)

Firefly

Too long

Big Bang Theory

The Simpsons

Master Chef

Sex And The City

TWD

Too long because started great but went suddenly downhill:

Westworld

Futurama

Arested Development (that final season omgwtf)

Game of Thrones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a great list except for Futurama and formatting issues.

Post-movies Futurama quality improved. I'd say it's on par with the first 2 seasons but not as good as 3-5. The bad episodes can still be funny and the good episodes are absolutely worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Season 4 of Westworld changed it from "Too Long" to "Too Soon" for me, personally. I didn't really care for season 3 when it aired, but season 4 made me more forgiving of it, retroactively. It seemed like they were setting things up in season 5 which required season 4, which in turn required season 3. Especially given the nature of the show, it felt like they were building some grand story which required these banal meanderings that would all make sense when they clicked into place at the end.

Now I'm really curious what they were planning in 5 and it looks like we won't get to find out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@agamemnonymous ah that's interesting. Yeah my partner preferred S4 to S3 but I felt the whole thing had jumped the shark.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how I felt after S3, but I gave S4 a shot and it justified a lot of the decisions I didn't care for in S3. Maybe S5 would've disappointed, maybe not, but it seemed like it was going to be the last season and I would've at least given it a chance to fully redeem itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did watch S4 with my partner, just didn't enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arrested Development should be in both the too soon and too long lists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True. The hiatus killed it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How to with John Wilson. Not too soon for the usual reasons. I believe he decided he had said his piece. But god damn do I want so much more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even though I'm a fan of both shows 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star have both been going on for far too long, them being forced to keep the teams together and not have any major character deaths, job changes, or major new additions really hampers how much they can do with the characters.

Terra Nova, Whiskey Cavalier, The Premise, and Y: The Last Man all ended too soon as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too soon: dirk gently's holistic detective agency.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not 100 percent sure. Season 02 was weaker than 01.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Definitely, and both were very... different from the books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stargate SG-1.

Season 7 finale was perfect… and then season 8 happened. It did get better with seasons 9 and 10, but the Ori arc was just a weird tonal shift from the original Egyptian mythos.

I love the show, but that’s my hot take. Should’ve ended with season 7 and just transitioned over to Atlantis instead of running alongside it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The worst "too soon" for me was Rome on HBO

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