Henry Cavill complaining is the canary in the coal mine for when a show has jumped the shark

Halo has got to be a contender based on how little it actually accomplished across the two seasons before it was cancelled. All we got in the end was a very poorly written introduction to a story, though I'm still not actually sure what the story was going to be about because it basically stopped before it even started.

I couldn't even get through the first episode of Halo. I understand that they didn't care about the source material at all. To be honest, neither did i. I hardly ever played the game, i liked the book that i got from a friend. But even i realized that they didn't even care enough to get the sound of the guns right. They made it so hard on themselves just to fail.

First season of Westworld is awesome, second season wasn't terrible. The last two seasons were not great. Still wish HBO would have at least let them finish the story.

Westworld season 2 should have been Eastworld

There's a counter-narrative where the writers' strike was a convenient scapegoat for a production that was always going to be a trainwreck. IIRC they were going to turn the first season's titular heroes into villains and have an all-new cast of supers oppose them, and the obvious response of 'what no ew' saw them scramble to make up the trainwreck we got instead.

On the plus size, Zachary Quinto's career took off.

Westworld was an absolutely amazing miniseries that got drug along into more story than was available.

The other stuff is not as good, and that's okay. You can just rewatch season 1 and stop there. That story is almost perfect.

Came here to say this. 1st season was sensational 2nd was a good show then 3rd was forgettable and I gave up on 4th. The parks was by far the best bit.

That ending made zero sense, was so disappointed on how they chose to end that.

Damn, that concept seems amazing! How unfortunate!

Season 6 is book 6 out of 9. There’s 3 books left to adapt one day.

I partially agree, watched the show and thought the same. A coworker reccomended I read the books, so I started at book 7 and other than the Alex situation it was pretty seamless. The Laconia plot in the show was a teaser to what will come 30 years later in book 7. I didn't read books 1-6 but everything they covered in season 6 with Laconia was in book 7, so the showrunners wanted to give viewers hope and a minor cliffhanger that more could come.

The last 3 books are great, takes place 30 years after the show ends. Highly reccomend the audio books. One of my all time favorite endings to a franchise.

I know this was an unfortunate autocorrect on your part, but calling the show

The Expense

Is kind of funny

They were following the books. And they did try to incorporate the alien stuff in S06.

No that show would have been great if fucking NBC just let Eric do his thing. He always has a 5 season plan. Supernatural first 5 seasons are great. Revolution would have been great. Now Timeline that one he missed the boat on.

But he made it up with The Boys.

What a brilliant show!

I still don't understand why they made such short episodes.

.hack//SIGN was one of my favorite anime growing up. I was so excited for SAO when it came out. It had great animation, great music and sound design, great world building. And then the blandest, most Gary Stu protagonist, with the least engaging plot.

The forest level/area especially, when Kirito and Asuna "settle down" in the cabin and just try to enjoy a bit of a normal life. That called to me so much, it got me interested in playing MMOs again. I wanted that "live life, but in a video game" aesthetic in some form of media.

And then I discovered Log Horizon.

How do you feel about SAO Abridged?