Later seasons of house
Breaking bad
Inception
(slight diversion) the joker from Nolan's Batman.
DragonballZ
Superman
Clerks
Chasing amy
The shining
Star trek (the entire thing prior to the new films minus the excellent character trio of spock, kirk and bones... Of course)
Fight club
(I could go on for ages here)
Screw you!!!
Also, although the new films were good and did every Star Trek fan a favour by reviving the franchise it destroyed the Star Trek universe as we know it and worse it showed the whole world that Hollywood for some reason lacks or don't hire good writers.
They had to bring back Khan. C'mon!
But I love love love love Friends
yeah, if you're not hot for Worf, you must be a closet Rigellian!
I completely missed the joke. Should I feel miserable that I didn't get a Star Trek reference joke?
Hey did you like the new movies? I did actually like them including the one in which they desperately brought back Khan but I am disappointed that they ruined the story line and they had to - I repeat - desperately bring back Khan.
David Cumberbatch though did justice to the character. It was as if the role was written for him.
yeah, if you're not hot for Worf, you must be a closet Rigellian!
Screw you!!!
Also, although the new films were good and did every Star Trek fan a favour by reviving the franchise it destroyed the Star Trek universe as we know it and worse it showed the whole world that Hollywood for some reason lacks or don't hire good writers.
They had to bring back Khan. C'mon!
At least a modification to the scanner array didn't magically prevent everything from happening though.
Plus if Khan was the price of having Benedict in the film, I gladly pay it.
Farscape
That stands out because I'm usually into the nerd genres, but it had a fake, erratic feeling for me and I couldn't connect to it.
In one word: Chuck Lorre.Big Bang Theory.
Someone already mentioned it toward the beginning of the thread, but this was the first show that came to mind when I read the OP. In fact, some of my colleagues and I fell into critiquing it after work today. It is implausible, relies on lowest common denominator humor, and totally misses the boat on what shuld be a good opportunity to present good (i.e. real) science to the viewing public. Might as well watch reruns of Gilligan's Island.
Big Bang Theory.
Someone already mentioned it toward the beginning of the thread, but this was the first show that came to mind when I read the OP. In fact, some of my colleagues and I fell into critiquing it after work today. It is implausible, relies on lowest common denominator humor, and totally misses the boat on what shuld be a good opportunity to present good (i.e. real) science to the viewing public. Might as well watch reruns of Gilligan's Island.
Beyond the challenge of making genius accessible, is the technical difficulty presented by the medium of episodic storytelling. I'd imagine that having to come up with a problem that is both resolvable in a 20 or 45 minute timeframe, while being complex enough that it would take a seemingly brilliant mind to get to the bottom of it is a pretty demanding feat for a writing room. More serialized programs that allow for more protracted arcs between setup-->resolution can permit a world and characters with realistic shades and ambiguities to evolve, as well as the time a viewer needs to become invested in really understanding them. Such that when Walter White manages to get his money and the rest of his meth stash back from another drug lord armed with nothing but a bag of fulminated mercury, it's awesome rather than gimmicky.
Oh and Avatar... It was too long, and when everyone stood up and gaving like a standing ovation I just wanted to sprint for the exit
You bring to mind the miniseries of the John Le Carre novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Some people thought they had slow-paced plots, but I thought it was necessary to show how George Smiley solved the mysteries, step by step.
Avatar was a boring, predictable piece of crap. It was a beautiful, boring, predictable piece of crap, but it was still a boring, predictable piece of crap. I could predict every single plot development in that movie at least 30 minutes in advance.
I don't have an issue with the hero's journey, but for God's sake, put a fresh spin on it.