Unnecessary cameos by guest stars that completely pull you out of the narrative. Bonus points if it's Ed Sheeran.
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the show catches up with the books
Is there a freefolk equivalent on Lemmy yet?
Not any active. I feel like most of the people interested in the show lost interest after the finale. I know I'm one of them.
Flashbacks.
Romance between two characters that seems to come out of nowhere because the main characters have already gotten together.
A new kid is added the show.
A new *sassy kid is added to the show 🤮
Fonzarelli jumping over a shark while water skiing in a leather jacket.
That's why some people will say "that show waterskied in a leather jacket " to mean that it's passed it's due date.
The shark jumping episode of Happy Days was season 5 episode 3. The series went on for 11 seasons, meaning there were more episodes after jumping the shark then there were before.
It's on Syfy.
The SciFi (before the rebranding) Dune miniseries are really good. They're my favorite versions of Dune so far, and they did Dune Messiah and Children of Dune too. Those two are both part of the "Children of Dune" miniseries.
The Expanse begs to differ. (Disclaimer, I own Dinocroc vs Supergator on DVD)
When a character that has fully and officially died or been wrote off, returns in some deus ex machina style lazy way
Often times for me if is when they clearly wrote a show to have 2 main characters to be together, and they make them get close as if they are going to finally get there in episode 6 (where I should stop watching) and then it doesn't happen until season 3 (when I'm fucking upset I bothered watching this shit because now I wanted them to never get together)
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The narrator asks you to tell your friends to watch the show
they didnt
Having the Baby.
The budding love story is a go to for writers. Everyone loves it, and makes you feel emotions when they finally get together. Problem is, it has a natural path.
2 to 3 seasons to get together. 1 season of new bliss, 1 season of ups and downs, ending with a marriage proposal. 1 season of engagement ending in wedding. 1 season of new marriage stuff. Now what?
Married couples are boring. So what do we do now? Now it's time for the baby.
And babies are horrible on TV. People watch TV to escape reality, not hear a screaming child. So the dream couple has a baby and it's so tiring and so much work, but suddenly the show starts focusing on other characters, and then suddenly you know it's over.
The office was famous for this one. Everyone loves Jim and Pam, until the wedding, then who cares. They tried to force those feelings again with Andy and Erin, but you just can't.
Parks and rec luckily took a different route with Andy and April, but you can tell they were teetering on the edge, and in the final season everyone had kids anyway.
HIMYM had a worse approach because it wasn't that Ted was on the path, but rather Lily and Marshall already were and so kids came in earlier, and again change the entire show.
The list goes on, it is an official trope now
A similar red flag, introducing a new, younger "cute" kid character because the previous cute kids aged out of the category.
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"We want to appeal to a wider audience that's not the typical X fan".
It's usually code for "stakeholders/execs want infinite growth, and we are too burnt out/creatively bankrupt to fight back. So, enjoy the change to another cookie cutter slop content".
Some shows even start out there already. Massive red flag.
I would say that most shows start out there already these days. There's a whole bunch of boxes that have to be ticked off, instead of just creating an organic storyline with realistic and natural groups of people.
When netflix picks it up and adds new seasons (using untalented writers instead of the ones that made the show good)
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Season 3 of a show that wasn’t originally planned to be 3+ seasons is usually around where it starts to drop off. There are exceptions, but I’ve seen several shows where S1 is fantastic, S2 is good, S3 is okay at best, and S4+ is utter trash.
Celebrity appearances.
Not to say the show goes downhill because of it. But I feel as if it's often used as a crutch to attract more viewers.
*screams in Ed sheeran on GOT"
When one or more of the original main character actors leave the show. They'll either introduce new characters to replace the originals or refocus the show on some of the existing, less-important ones. Sometimes a show can make it work, and occasionally you end up with something better, but it usually indicates the show has one, maybe two seasons of life left.
A character explaining that justice is following your gut rather than the law while being some sort part of justice system.
I stopped many show because of that.
That is also why I loved what B99 did so much.
Stupid law stopping us from searching his house! Ugh a warrant? So stupid and useless, right people watching?; we should get rid of those stupid amendments!
"my friend the cop is an honest guy! He only murdered a guy because he was pushed after all these drugs and corruption troubles into being blackmail. The whole squat should cover for him. That's the right thing to do." And so many horrible lines...
Alternative timelines
time travel in general, for me... unless the show is specifically about time travel.
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Starting to answer backstory questions no one really wanted to know. For example, I knew Seinfeld was running out the clock as soon as they gave Kramer a first name.
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Original writer/creator/actor leaves the show. There can be a lot of reasons why they leave, and sometimes it's a really good reason, but the show almost always suffers.
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Clip Show! Nothing says "We're out of ideas" like a rehash of the currently available greatest hits.
Clip shows are usually about “we didn’t adequately budget and need to make an episode using only one set and one day of shooting.”
Many years ago, before things like Youtube or even VCRs, clip shows were actually pretty popular (well, assuming they were decently put together). It was really the only way, other than catching a rerun at some odd hour, to see some of the show's best and most memorable moments again, and like a "Greatest Hits" album people liked them even if there really wasn't much of anything actually new in them.
Nowadays of course they are pretty much obsolete.
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when oliver shows up
seriously, one that really bothers me was Psych. my all-time fav buddy comedy. when the primary premise of the show is no longer on display, its time to wrap it up.
as the series wore on they relied less and less on 'shawns gift', and the magic was gone. they moved away from made the show great.. a guy succeeding with a unique talent despite himself. a comedic-ally driven contemporary sherlock holmes trope.
the subsequent movies doubled down on not using his talents and so they are even worse than the final years of the show.
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