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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's weird with Big Bang Theory, when it first started me and my friend circle loved it, thought it was brilliant but yes it did lose something after a few seasons.

But online everyone just seemed to hate it - could it be because we're British and it just landed better with us..?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It was good the first few seasons, people shit on it because they shit on everything popular, but it WAS a good sitcom, it just never grew up.

Also, I found the depiction of the Indian guy funny at first but it quickly got racist and never got better, they just kept piling on the racism

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their depiction of "nerds" was also offensive and shitty in many of the same ways. But because that's what the writers told you is nerd behavior and culture, it seemed more acceptable somehow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

my sentiments exactly..

to be honest, i felt like that general view of culture fueled its way into the real world. i have people at work thinking the IT department is just some bastion of antisocial hermits that you can just talk to anyhow, or know automatically what exact issue you have when you say "my computer is not working".

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, I found the depiction of the Indian guy funny at first but it quickly got racist and never got better, they just kept piling on the racism

Interesting. I didn't like it for a very similar reason. Their depiction of nerds or geniuses or whatever you want to call them was pretty offensive. I could never get into it.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying that I'm a genius or even particularly intelligent. I'm not. But the barrage of stupid nerd stereotypes was just obnoxious and offensive.

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

To me it wasn't that they were making fun of them because they were smart, it's because they weren't neurotypical. Several of them would be considered to have ASD if they lived in the real world and that's treated as the butt of a joke. It disgusts me.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah I shit on it because it was shit, for something that was supposed to be a comedy it wasn’t funny at all, it is subjective of course, I’m sure people did find it funny

Anything with a laugh track immediately turns me off, watch some of the clips with the laugh track deleted and that’s the humour you are left with.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's unfair to remove the laughs, fuck up the whole flow and call it bad. If the show had been written to be without a laugh track it wouldn't come out that way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nope, I'm British and I hated it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The newer characters they introduced were just not likeable. Bernadette and the other female lead just dragged the show down. Stuart was shit too. They should have centralised the show on the main characters from the start and actually built on their stories a bit more. Instead they all became flanderised

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

On the pilot, Leonard even implies that Sheldon masturbates a lot. A few episodes later and that accusation is unthinkable for the character.