Good Idea, Poor Execution

[TheLemmaLlama]

Scythes. Good idea for a farming tool, poor at putting people to death, actually.

Or I guess this joke

[DNoble]

you could not be more incorrect. Riverdale season 1 is a boring, mediocre, entirely meh teen drama. Season 2-5 are some of the best madcap black comedy ever made.

Like as soon as you get to the point where (one of) the cult leaders from (one of) the cults that tries to take over the town is about to take off in a rocket from his secret hideout in mexico in order to avoid the FBI, you can tell this show isn't meant to be taken seriously. But when he's chased down and confronted by a high school girl and her suburban chatty-kathy mom, only to grandstand to them about how great he is while wearing an evil kneevil outfit with his name emblazoned on his belt buckle, that's the part where you know you're dealing with some genuinely transcendent comedy.

[DNoble]

RWBY. God damn that series had so much potential and they have just continued to squander it with every single new season.

At least I can spend the next month or so fantasizing about how good Ice Queendom could be before it comes out and reality sets in and I have to accept that the actual product rarely ever lives up to expectations.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Well, I guess if you never planned to take the show seriously, then yea it reached its full potential. Otherwise, you might consider it a bit of a poorly written mess.

[DNoble]

I dunno, man, if you somehow manage to get to the point where the 4th serial killer is introduced, or the 2 cults try to take over the town at the same time, or the part with the underground prison boxing ring, or the weird gay tickle fetish video thing, or the weirdly-incestuous-twins-except-one-of-them-has-been-dead-since-episode-one-and-his-corpse-gets-used-in-multiple-subplots part, or the third secret twin sibling has been introduced, or the part where they do a flashback that is literally the breakfast club AND the satanic panic over D&D in the 90s at the same time, and are still trying to take the show seriously, I really just think you haven't been paying attention.

The show really does its best to give you every single opportunity to jump off the 'taking it seriously' train and on the road to comedyville starting at the very beginning of season 2. It honestly shocked me to learn how many people DIDN'T get the memo that Riverdale stopped giving a single shit about doing anything other than being as stupid as possible a looooong time ago.

[Stargazer31]

RWBY really went downhill, it's a shame because I used to really like it

[DNoble]

RWBY didn't ever go up a hill to begin with. It was sitting at the base of a hill and it kept saying it was definitely 100% for sure going to go up that hill at some point we promise for real. Don't worry guys we are definitely going up that hill any second now, it's comin', and it's gonna be really great when it does. We're gonna go up it, and it's gonna be great. The greatest hill climb you've ever seen, it's on the way. It's seriously gonna happen real soon.

And then they forgot that 'having a plot' and 'characterization' and 'cohesive worldbuilding' are really integral parts of going up a hill, so it just kinda kept sitting at the bottom of it and pretending like it was about to start climbing for like 5 seasons.

I beat that metaphor to death, but my point is RWBY has always had the pieces of an amazing show just sitting around, but never bothered actually putting any of them together.

[ShidoDraws]

The entirety of Netlfix right now, they have such cool ideas for shows but a lot of them nowadays are dragged to fit a 10-15 hours season that could just be a movie.

[fleurravenbooks]

I don't even want to talk about love triangle , i was shocked when that happened

[fleurravenbooks]

they undid Chloe's character developmen

THIS!!! I watched it as episodes came out ( season one) and it might be just nostalgia but i think season one was way better that newer seasons

[Aleksei]

The just revealed trailer of Gotham Knights, from CW. (Not to confuse with the game, that it looks fine so far)
Just watch it in pain.

[Kuma]

Saw it yesterday, the moment they show the owl my heart shrunk 3 sizes and imploded into a black hole of nerd rage.

[N1ghtm4r3]

who could forget the legendary underworld series ,it could have been so cool and epic and we got ... something

[RiidDisBuk2]

They killed of Michael and made no good use of Eve. Selene... came back 5 minutes after being presumed dead. That's just... naaaaaah.

[feuersichel]

The live-action avatar the last airbender movie... I was so excited to see this! It didn't took long to get borring and stiff as hell...

[DualDragons]

Well I dunno if it was a good idea or not but out of curiosity I once stumbled upon Dragon Ball evolution...

Summary

I'll put this in spoilers for people who want to get into dragon ball but the thing that ticked me off the most was how the film made Goku's Oozaru form the henchman of Piccolo lmao

[Fafnir]

if you watch the first two underworld movies, and pretend the rest don't exist its a great series. =)

[Fafnir]

This was ever present issue with american tv. Great first season, then it keeps getting renewed and spirals down into a sad abrupt ending.

Going way back, heroes was so awesome, and then so so bad...

recently I was super into Archive 81 on netflix. But the big dramatic ending sucked. If you make a show focusing on a DEMON, That demon damn well better be important in the end! Or scary, or something... not just sad and lonely. gah.

House on haunted hill also had a terrible ending. (i didnt read the book)

[RiidDisBuk2]

Rise of the Lycans was also kinda good.

[Fafnir]

true. prolly cause it was kind of a stand alone.