Actually, one word can sum up my hatred. LOST. Dead-Not-Dead people? Immortals (who may be biblical) mixed into Egyptian mythology? Are you kidding me?!? If the show had been marketed as sci-fi from the beginning, I would slightly forgive it. As it is, this show has completely lost the appeal of Season 1. The mysteries of the unknown are now the mysteries of crap. I once said that the show was awful due to the turn of Ben/Widmore, but looking back, that beats the hell out of the stupidity of time travel, vanishing islands, and overall ridiculousness. True, I still watch, but only because of my devotion to S1 and the hope that the show will end on some kind of plausible level. Ugh.
I stopped watching Primeval this series. The show, while never actually fantastic, grew into a derivative monster of the week show, with even less relativity than in the past. The cast changes didn’t bother me so much as the change in tone of the show, and for that, I’m out.
Robin Hood is teetering on being on this list, though the series isn’t finished yet. I know they have to set up for the casting changes at the end of the year, but they (thus far) have blown a great opportunity with Isabella in favor of the no-talent blond. Not loving it. The loss of Will and Djaq is hard to overcome, and Guy is just even more revolting than he was in the last two years. Ugh.
[Edit: 6/13/09 2:45pm OMFG. I just read a spoiler about one of the Outlaws and now I think I am demoting the show onto this list in no uncertain terms. F$%# !!]
With great pain, I must now add Doctor Who to this list, if for no other reason, than it has no real season this year. Planet of the Dead was dead awful. The more I think about it, the more I hate it. BORING. There’s no other word for it. BORING. What would have made for a boring regular episode became an excruciatingly BORING “special”. Ugh Ugh Ugh.
I’ve come to the conclusion that whatever ails me can be fixed by a healthy dose of The Ninth Doctor. I’ve been on a three day bender and my cold is nearly gone, I’m not grumpy about work, and I’m actually quite pleasant to be around. I don’t really know why I love Nine so much, I just really, really do. Even the eps from Series 1 that I don’t particularly love (The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances) beat just about anything else on the tube. The picture here is actually a wallpaper from here. Amazing work!
