30 Days of TV - Day 5

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Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever

Day 05 - A show you hate

This is a sad story. Because it's about a show I used to like, and now the very thought of it fills me with stabby kinds of rage. Oh, Bones, why have you forsaken me?

You can read about my very public break-up with Bones here, but if I'm honest, I haven't really been happy since Zack was ruined left. It's not really Zack specifically - I like the interns, or at least the ones who actually get to be fleshed out characters rather than one-note caricatures like Muslim Dude and No Personal Business in the Lab Dude. It's more just an overall sense that the show has lost its way, like the life has been drained out of it. The characterization is haphazard and subject to the needs of the plot, the concept of continuity doesn't seem to exist at all, the murder cases have gaping holes in their logic, the set-ups are increasingly ridiculous purely to create "funny" (by which I mean stupid) scenarios for Booth and Brennan (apparently, writers get a bonus if it involves outfits, it's the only explanation I can think of), and the constant hammering on the Booth/Brennan will-they-won't-they is like driving nails into my skull.

I miss the old Bones. I miss "Aliens in a Spaceship" Bones. When Booth and Brennan were very close friends, and they would never think of dating each other because they're like family. When people actually made decisions that made sense and were in character, instead of doing whatever serves the plot. When Angela was actually likable. When Hodgins and Zack competed over King of the Lab. When Sweets was an actual psychologist rather than a blatant Booth/Brennan shipper. Remember THAT show?

Honorable Mention: Heroes, which provoked similar rants on my RL blog when I broke up with it early in season 3. You know, I don't really hate shows. I either love them or I don't watch them. So it's a singular achievement, really, to have become a show that fills me with such rage. It takes quite a bit of maneuvering to get me totally hooked so that I'm invested in the show and thus absolutely furious when it completely falls apart in spectacular fashion. Well done, Show. Well done.

And the rest of the days, for those who want to play along...

Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Haha! I've watched about half of the first season of this show and enjoyed it fine, but now I'm very glad I never got invested in it.

But I hear you about Heroes. It was definitely at about that same place for me. I remember giving up on it a couple of episodes before they killed of Adam (which I'm still bitter about, btw). I wish I could remember what the tipping point was for me when I finally said to myself, "This show sucks. NO MORE!"

Gah. That show got bad.

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Oh, I know the exact moment when I gave up, lol. The episode before they killed off Adam, I'd decided I was done. Halfway through the episode, I realized I had no idea what was going on (mostly because I'd zoned out a few times, but also because the show made no logical sense), and more importantly I didn't care. When I realized I was actually rooting for Sylar to kill people (and I so desperately wanted Adam to kill Hiro, GOD I hated Hiro), I figured they'd pretty much lost me.

The next week, I almost reconsidered - Chuck ended and I was too lazy to find the remote. And then they killed Adam in the first 7 minutes, and I was like, CLICK. Thank you, Heroes, for making it easy for me.

I was pretty bitter about it, because I said from the beginning that Heroes was overrated and it couldn't possibly be as awesome as all the hype, but eventually I broke down and watched the first season, and I got hooked, only to have the show spiral into such nonsensical drivel. So it turned out I WAS RIGHT. Bah.

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Huh. There is some funny business going on in this post. I can't see penny_lane_42's comment, which this was supposed to be a reply to. *shakes fist at LJ*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I posted it and then couldn't see it. It was very strange. I thought I'd lost my comment.

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I don't know what happened to it - maybe repost?

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Eh. I'm not horribly depressed if it isn't preserved for posterity.

I'll just sum up: I liked Heroes and then it became AWFUL.

:D

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Hey, look, now it's back. Oh, LJ.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Really? Insanity.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I still adore Adam. And Elle. And I really did still like HRG up to the end (they probably ruined him, too). I HATED that the kept bringing Sylar back and I pretty much disliked every other character. Well, I liked Micah and all his family members (UHURA WAS HIS GRANDMOTHER!) except Nikki. But yeah, I hated everyone else.

And it really was good the first season! Not the best TV ever, but very enjoyable!

And then it BOMBED.

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Haha, yeah, I totally would've watch the Adam, Elle, and HRG Show. I liked Peter, Nathan, and Claire for a while, but then they got really, really stupid. (I had a theory that Mohinder's power was stupidity, and Peter absorbed it, and that's why he suddenly started acting like an idiot, but that doesn't explain everyone else.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I was never crazy about Claire, but I did like her BFF. And Peter and Nathan...and then I started hating them.

As an aside, I find that I relate to Erica Strange a lot. We're at the same place in our lives...except that she's nearly a decade older than I am.

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Yay! Erica love!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

AGREE. Gah, it just became so awful.

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I KNOW! What is up with that?

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I hate breaking up with my shows, but Bones and Heroes made it too easy. Remember when the were clever and the writers seemed like they were excited to write the characters?

I miss the zany good time of King of the Lab, too.

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I know, I hate it, too. In fact, the only other show I've broken up with EVER is Gilmore Girls. So it clearly takes a lot to push me that far.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I broke up with Gilmore Girls, too! Although not nearly as dramatically as my breakups with Heroes and SPN.

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Haha, yeah, my break-up with Gilmore Girls just involved me backing away slowly, whereas the other two involved much rage and rending of garments.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

That pretty much sums it up for me as well.

Man, JM has such an expressive face. I love Bendy's icons.

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Me too! LOL I have about a thousand of them, but I have to rotate, otherwise my entire (now doubly large) icon package would be full of her icons.

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

*jumps in with a question*

At what point did you break up with GG?

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That one I'm less sure of, but I know I didn't watch the last season after ASP left. I remember being annoyed with Luke/Lorelai fighting and breaking up every episode (like, if you're going to get your WT/WT couple together, LEAVE THEM TOGETHER, don't break them up again every five minutes) and the whole thing with Luke's daughter (who was a mini-Rory) was eyeroll-worthy.

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

I watched bits of that last season but it was epic WTFery. It was on my TV at a very unpractical time. Like it was ok for my ex to spend all morning watching Discovery Channel but when I wanted to sit and watch GG between 5 and 6pm it was a major inconvenience. And VM was in the same timeslot.

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

I'm still watching Bones (well recording it every week) but I hear ya!!
It's not nearly as fun as I remember it. :(

I broke up with Heroes at the end of season 1 when I realised that Skylar was coming back in Season 2 and there was no one on that show that I actually liked all that much...

*random thought of the day*
I was scrolling back up and say the item for Day 20 - Favourite Kiss.
As I'm typing this I'm watching Toby balance that ruler and it makes me want to go either watch TWW now or go stare at my Josh/Donna mood theme.
Favourite Kiss = that time at the hotel when Donna tells Josh they won some states and he kisses her. ^_^

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Heh, at first I was annoyed that Sylar was back - then when I got annoyed with all the other characters, I was happy Sylar was around to kill them off. :)

I was never a Josh/Donna shipper, so that's definitely not my favorite kiss, but you'll have to wait another two weeks to see which one it is. :)

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think I even watched the last 2 episodes of season 1 of Heroes, that's how much the cbf factor was by then.

I can't wait. And I have to watch TWW again.

Heroes Woes

[ravenholdt.livejournal.com]

When I realized that my favorite characters were destined to become hollow-eyed soulless grey machinima...and then the world was saved...but then it wasn't....so then came Sylar, and I thought oh cool...oh wait...

Uh oh.
Well...uh...the kid. The kid is COOL....oh. PETER! PEter will save the....oooh. Ouch!
Um.
Nathan? Nathan whats HAPPENED to you?! *horror*
Wait, why are all the women dying horrifically?

Wait...where did my people of color go?

Ah shit.
When did Hiro....and why did he go back in time to kill that....but then he stopped himself, so...dammit! DAMMIT!

Shenanigans!
*click*

::This has been a stream-of-consciousness post-render from the mind of Holdt::

Re: Heroes Woes

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your average episode of Heroes to me!! ;)

Re: Heroes Woes

[ravenholdt.livejournal.com]

LOL