So just watching on episode of The Flash here. Season 6 episode 16 and just remembered why I gave it

AMKC

Up. So Joe is driving his car while Rag Doll sabotages it so he has no brakes and it starts to speed up. Anyway the only way out it seems for Joe is to jump out of the car lol. So at 120MPH he jumps out of the car somehow survives who knows maybe he has super strength lol and is standing up talking about it without even a scratch 2 minutes later. He would be dead sorry. Not hope any human could survive that with the forces involved. So yes that is just one of the many reasons I gave up on this show which started out OK but got progressively worse with every season.

So any shows you gave up on because of terrible writing or scenes on them or bad scenes in them?

Oh and Happy Saint Patrick's Day by the way.

is_that_so

Many of them. Bad acting is another reason to drop them.

The Blacklist - no story left to tell

TWD - just running on a loop for the last 5-6 seasons.

Lost - the pilot - I could see the 4 seasons+ spread out before me!

The Sopranos after 1 season -just didn't like any of the characters at all. Ditto for Succession after 2 episodes.

Gotham - just got really boring

Big Bang Theory -became very intermittently funny as it aged.

Penn

Not a TV show, but the only time I've ever walked out of the cinema during a movie was the film What Just Happened.

Robert DeNiro's character was separating from his wife, and was in their former bedroom, and he finds a man's sock sticking out from under the bed. He realises she's moved on and is sleeping with someone else. The sock was a red golf sock, very standard red golf sock.

A few scenes later he's stopped at traffic lights, and he sees a friend (played by Stanley Tucci, can't remember who he was in the film) across the street. Tucci is in golf gear because he's getting ready to go golfing. He kneels down to tie his shoes, and we see, he's wearing yellow golf socks. DeNiro takes the red golf sock (yes, he took the sock with him) out of his glove compartment or something, and does a back and forth looking at the red golf sock, and Tucci wearing yellow golf socks, and realises Tucci is sleeping with his ex-wife.

I can't remember anything else from the next 15 minutes of the film before I walked out because I couldn't think about anything else. They were standard golf socks. They were different colours.

Don't have a tele so hardly watch much in the way of shows. But with things like "The Flash" that are not really to be taken seriously - I am quite good at turning myself off to silly scenarios like the jumping out of a car without a scratch.

Put the same scene into a more serious show and I would judge it harshly. How critical I take a show tends to scale with how seriously the show takes itself. And the Arrowverse - especially the "Legends" - do everything but take themselves seriously.

My biggest issue with shows like the Flash and the rest of the arrowverse type stuff - is you could literally make a drinking game out of the trope of characters blaming themselves for one thing or another. If you hit a whisky everytime someone said "It's all my fault" you would come out the other end an alcoholic.

It's like every script is written to the formula 1) Bad thing happens 2) Hero blames themselves, usually wrongly 3) Goes into a self destructive spiral of self hatred 4) Gets pulled out of it by the team and goes back to win 5) repeat.

razorblunt

Lost - the penultimate episode, yes that far along. I remember thinking ‘fúck it’ and switched off.

Breaking Bad - the wife wrecked my head

The Walking Dead - the fake out Glenn death

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058237748/so-just-watching-on-episode-of-the-flash-here-season-6-episode-16-and-just-remembered-why-i-gave-it

If you hadn't started your thread title with the superfluous 'so' that people are so fond of these days, the 'up' at the end of the sentence could have made it into the title. Just saying... 😉 😀