Too many “what got cancelled too soon” questions, what’s a show that went on too long?
Hard mode: no The Walking Dead
Futurama should not have been rebooted.
I tried watching the new Hulu release. It’s extremely forced and cringy.
Amazon’s The Rings of Power.
It should have been cancelled 8 episodes ago.
Star Trek discovery, should have ended after the intro
Ended way too soon:
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Invader Zim (there were plans for 7 seasons, but Nick said it was “too expensive”)
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Jimmy Neutron (again, f*ck you Nickelodeon)
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Inside Job
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The Misadventures of Flapjack (i mean, it’s length was ok, but i’m salty about it’s rushed ending).
Went on for too long:
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Stranger Things (looking back, only S1 was good)
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Rick & Morty (it was pure filler from S3 onwards)
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The Simpsons (should have ended with the movie)
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Spongebob Squarepants (also should have ended with it’s 1st movie)
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The Fairly Oddparents (i share the common thought that the show ended in “Channel Surfers”, but there were a few good episodes afterwards).
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Regular Show (mainly about Mordo’s disasterous love life, everything else was fine, and the ending brought me manly tears :')
Inside Job is so good, I was crushed when I heard they canceled it. Such a fun concept for a show, and I thought it was really well written. Was really funny, but also had it’s sad moments. I’m bummed about that one for sure.
Deadwood was pretty disappointing, especially with the movie. I was expecting the movie to wrap stuff up nicely, but it basically leaves stuff exactly where it was except (SPOILER) is dead. It’s not even a horrible ending, it just doesn’t feel like an ending at all and it makes me sad that there’s not more
Stranger Things should have been an anthology series with Matthew Modine’s character and his experiments as the common thread linking each season.
Simpsons. Hasn’t been great since Season 12. Maybe glimpses in a few later seasons. But it’s now running on 35 years. Most of the original voices have left as have long gone all the good writers. The remaining can’t voice characters outside their ethnicity. And the show. Just “fart jokes.”
Probably the most brilliant show for a dozen seasons. Now just a husk.
The remaining can’t voice characters outside their ethnicity.
This fucking overcorrection has got to stop. If every fictional character must be portrayed by a person who is as close to being that character in real life as possible, it’s no longer “acting.”
If they banned men from playing women visa versa, Bob’s burgers would get cancelled first and that show is just beautiful
I often wonder who’s still watching it. Like obviously someone is, because it’s doing well enough to keep getting renewed. But what’s the demographic? I don’t know many young people, but I’d assume they’re not watching it. Certainly nobody in my age range ever talks about it (or if they do, then they just say what the people in this thread are saying - it used to be great, haven’t watched it in years), and I don’t know of anyone in the boomer/parent age group who ever talks about it.
Of course, just because nobody I know watches it doesn’t mean nobody at all is watching it. But just like… who are they?
Every time I make an attempt to watch a newer episode, I have to stop simply because of the voice actors. All the main cast sound so undeniably old. It can’t be hidden and can’t be worked around. Hearing these aged actors just keep going, like everyone is pretending it’s not strange, just makes me so sad that I can’t stand it.
I heard it’s been better recently but I watched an episode like 2 years ago and didn’t crack a smile the whole time, it was terrible. The Simpsons movie was a good bookend to the series I think.
“stop stop… he’s already dead”. Pretty much how everyone feels about the show.
Most of the original voices have left. The remaining can’t voice characters outside their ethnicity.
What? The 6 of them are all still there. Hank Azaria gave up Apu/Lou/Carl and Harry Shearer gave up Dr. Hibbert, but the vast, vast majority of characters are still being voiced by the same actors.
I do think that the fact that The Simpsons has been on so long that they had to go ahead and do that is strong evidence that the show has run its course + ought to end, but the re-casting is a symptom, not a cause.
Also not to be morbid, but IMO they should really think about wrapping it up before the main cast starts to retire or pass away. The actor who voiced Mrs. Krabappel already died, and I mean… Harry Shearer is 80 this year, and the rest of the cast is getting up there too. I guess they could always recast or (God help us) try to use AI or something, but yeah, they should try to send it off with a little bit of dignity left I think.
