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Post by 5hole on Jul 24, 2017 0:53:22 GMT
Woman having sex with a shirt/bra on. Doesn't happen in real life. TV having to have that annoying teenage boy/girl who is misunderstood and has hair all over his face. (Walking Dead, (also Darryl even though he's not a teenage, his hair is),Fear the Walking Dead, The Strain). Not a fan of teenage hairy faced girls either. lol |
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Post by DarkManX on Jul 25, 2017 19:05:47 GMT
There’s a thing that’s both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ with TV shows nowadays, and that’s the writers of shows listening to fans. I realise there are probably very few shows that actually make adjustments to their shows based on fan comments, but I do think that it does happen on occasion. I know that there have been shows I’ve watched where lots of people voiced their dislike for a certain character or plot line, but their discontent was ignored. Sometimes they're listened to and alterations made actually improve things. However, I’ve also seen things go horribly wrong for some shows when the audience had too much input on what happened with plot lines or characters in them. I’ve seen side characters who’ve become SO popular that they’ve almost swallowed the shows they’re in, taking away from the actual leads. Even worse, I’ve seen villain characters who were kept around well past their time/when they should’ve been killed off or written out. So sometimes listening to a show’s audience can be of benefit, but other times it can be a detriment to the show. Tim Kring knows all about that. Executive Producers/Writers bowing down to the fans was a major cause for the decline in quality and ultimately death of Heroes. |
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Post by mszanadu on Jul 25, 2017 19:40:37 GMT
Definitely TV Characters that talk way too fast ( almost to the point of mumbling ? )  . I always have to put on the TV Closed Captioning ( especially on newer shows )  LOL . Thanks so much 5hole for your subject post  . |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 9:07:22 GMT
Prior villains becoming "part of the gang", even if they straight up murdered people in the past. Think Lional Luthor and half the cast of Buffy.
The extremely hot but oh-so-awkward nerd girl that has a crush on the male lead and exists solely in nebbish guys' fantasies. The TV equivalent of the manic pixie dream girl. Think Felicity Snoak, Willow and Fred from Buffyverse, that one girl from Smallville, etc.
Shows on the verge of cancellation having the audacity to end the season on a cliffhanger. Especially if it does in fact get cancelled.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 26, 2017 22:48:49 GMT
Prior villains becoming "part of the gang", even if they straight up murdered people in the past. Think Lional Luthor and half the cast of Buffy. The extremely hot but oh-so-awkward nerd girl that has a crush on the male lead and exists solely in nebbish guys' fantasies. The TV equivalent of the manic pixie dream girl. Think Felicity Snoak, Willow and Fred from Buffyverse, that one girl from Smallville, etc. Shows on the verge of cancellation having the audacity to end the season on a cliffhanger. Especially if it does in fact get cancelled. Yeah Izombie and Angel especially and Grimm. |
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 27, 2017 0:13:48 GMT
Characters living well outside of their means always gets me. Not so much in today's shows, but in the 1950s and 1960s, so many sitcoms not only featured families living comfortably in a one-income household, but also with live-in housekeepers. Did they work for pennies per day, or were Hazel and the other devoted live-ins just ex-cons who worked there for free as part of some prison rehab program? It's one thing for a well-to-do family to hire someone to do the drudge work, but these housekeepers would even be serving breakfast, down to pouring out the coffee, for the TV couple every morning as well as everything else. |
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Post by hemlin on Jul 29, 2017 17:16:01 GMT
Prior villains becoming "part of the gang", even if they straight up murdered people in the past. Think Lional Luthor and half the cast of Buffy. Movie franchises have started doing this too, Jason Statham's character in The Fast & The Furious films springs to mind. |
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Post by 5hole on Sept 23, 2017 1:06:54 GMT
All the focus on Oprah at the Emmys was annoying
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Post by hi224 on Sept 23, 2017 1:35:41 GMT
Shows having characters who are clearly right and we are meant to root for them no matter what because well they are right! looking at you Body of Proof and House.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 23, 2017 2:39:47 GMT
Clip shows where celebrities nobody has heard of talk about shows they are too young to have seen.
The general lack of happy endings these days.
Once-great cable channels changing their format to something stupid.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 23, 2017 3:04:44 GMT
Clip shows where celebrities nobody has heard of talk about shows they are too young to have seen. The general lack of happy endings these days.Once-great cable channels changing their format to something stupid. I can forgo the happy ending based on how it fits a story. |
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Post by kaasa on Sept 23, 2017 3:46:39 GMT
Lack of nudity.
Around the start of my teenage years I was watching UPN one afternoon waiting for WWE SmackDown to come on. I decided to watch Dark Angel right before it, because they hyped up Jessica Alba being naked in the teaser promo. I waited the whole episode for that scene to come on at the end. Her body obviously wasn't really shown, as it was obscured by the lack of light. I was so disappointed that I went to my basement, since my family was gone, to look at my Dad's porno mags for the first time.
The basic cable networks in particular like to play it safe. This is one of the reasons cable is dying.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2017 7:38:13 GMT
Woman having sex with a shirt/bra on. Doesn't happen in real life.   but they mostly do it to avoid having any nudity in TV shows and not all actresses want to or are comfortable showing their bodies on screen. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 30, 2017 18:38:14 GMT
DVD releases using the syndication prints of shows. I hate butchered syndication prints.....
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Post by 5hole on Sept 30, 2017 18:58:45 GMT
Woman having sex with a shirt/bra on. Doesn't happen in real life. There are plenty of solutions for actors who are not comfortable with nudity. •Don't show sex scenes •Use body doubles •Shoot from behind •Shoot from angles where nothing's exposed Anything's better than a phony non-realistic scene for no reason. It's just lazy and poor directing. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 30, 2017 19:11:24 GMT
The lack of quiet low-key little game shows these days. I mean shows like the 1960s version of Password, where the contestants were calm & relaxed...these days contestants on game shows are way too loud!
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Post by 5hole on Sept 30, 2017 19:20:19 GMT
DVD releases using the syndication prints of shows. I hate butchered syndication prints..... I didn't think anyone still owned DVDs. Threw out mine back in the 90s. You could start a DVD pet peeve thread I guess. |
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Post by flyerzzrul on Sept 30, 2017 19:57:53 GMT
Woman having sex with a shirt/bra on. Doesn't happen in real life. Or wrapping a sheet around themselves afterwards. YES! That has always been one of my pet peeves! |
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Post by flyerzzrul on Sept 30, 2017 20:08:46 GMT
DVD releases using the syndication prints of shows. I hate butchered syndication prints..... I didn't think anyone still owned DVDs. Threw out mine back in the 90s. You could start a DVD pet peeve thread I guess. I agree, nothing beats VHS. |
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Post by flyerzzrul on Sept 30, 2017 20:12:30 GMT
Killing off characters because the actor wants to leave the show or because the show is ending and the showrunners think an audience wants a big body count. Love triangles and people acting like they've been in a six year long relationship after knowing each other for only a few hours. What always bothered me is once someone leaves a show, their character is usually treated like they never existed. Another annoyance is how bad everyone's aim is firing a gun, especially machine guns |
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