So, admittedly, I'm errr...a bit touchy about my TV shows. But, specifically, it's really that I just have one or two very big buttons and when they get pushed, I'm done.
1. Bad writing and/or writing that makes not recognize the characters I fell in love with in the first place. Almost all the main characters on Gilmore Girls are unrecognizable to me now, and the characterization on BSG tends to happen on a weekly basis -- this week, they are person X and next week they are person Y and the ONLY thing that makes them the same character logically is that they're played by the same person and called the same name. I just find bad writing really obnoxious, like people can't be bothered to know what they wrote before and keep a consistant character. It's lazy and it's stupid and I find it sort of insulting to the viewers.
2. Changes in the show that, to me, feel like a manipulation of the audience somehow. Basically, I don't like shows that have a "We're going to screw with you BECAUSE WE CAN" attitude. Most guilty right now is BSG again, and, in my head, SGA. But I won't go into that.
Other than these two things, I really will stick with a show to the bitter end. I love my shows -- the ones that I choose to devote time to, anyway.
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1. Bad writing and/or writing that makes not recognize the characters I fell in love with in the first place. Almost all the main characters on Gilmore Girls are unrecognizable to me now, and the characterization on BSG tends to happen on a weekly basis -- this week, they are person X and next week they are person Y and the ONLY thing that makes them the same character logically is that they're played by the same person and called the same name. I just find bad writing really obnoxious, like people can't be bothered to know what they wrote before and keep a consistant character. It's lazy and it's stupid and I find it sort of insulting to the viewers.
2. Changes in the show that, to me, feel like a manipulation of the audience somehow. Basically, I don't like shows that have a "We're going to screw with you BECAUSE WE CAN" attitude. Most guilty right now is BSG again, and, in my head, SGA. But I won't go into that.
Other than these two things, I really will stick with a show to the bitter end. I love my shows -- the ones that I choose to devote time to, anyway.