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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy
01/16/25 1:54:10 AM
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I think most people would agree that a LOT of television series would benefit from cutting some of the run time.

Which series do you think would benefit most from removing a season's worth of content? This can be either like an entire arc or cutting out an episode here and there to just make it more succinct.

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Enclave
01/16/25 1:59:00 AM
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Game of Thrones, cut out that last season.

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Super_Slash
01/16/25 2:00:47 AM
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Do cartoons count? Anything after the Exodus arc in TMNT 2003 needs to be cut. The series ended with Exodus Part 2.
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Nukazie
01/16/25 2:02:13 AM
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the boys last season, end it at season 3

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chris1001_the_sequel
01/16/25 2:16:20 AM
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Season 1 of the Office is pretty bad. Cutting it and starting from Season 2 would be make a better introduction.

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pazzy
01/16/25 2:18:20 AM
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How I met your mother's last season is really unnecessary.
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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy
01/16/25 8:56:03 AM
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Bump

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SocialistGamer
01/16/25 8:56:47 AM
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Season 1 of Gotham

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Winterking
01/16/25 8:58:31 AM
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Scrubs. You know the season.
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Hayame_Zero
01/16/25 9:00:47 AM
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The last season of Community. I disliked it more than the "gas leak" season.

Season 8 of The Office. Robert California isn't enough to elevate it.

Season 1 of Parks & Rec is like a TEMU Office.

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BlueAnnihilator
01/16/25 9:19:58 AM
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Season 3 of Prison Break

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Tyranthraxus
01/16/25 9:20:54 AM
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Delete Season 1 of Star Trek TNG

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Phanir
01/16/25 9:22:05 AM
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Winterking posted...
Scrubs. You know the season.
I liked it, but yeah. It'd still be much better without it.

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bigblu89
01/16/25 9:44:56 AM
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Every Big Bang season once they all got wives/girlfriends.

Whenever it went from "loveable losers unlucky in love" to "Friends, but with nerds".

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GeminiDeus
01/16/25 9:47:25 AM
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Gargoyles season 3. It honestly feels like it was made with no effort put into their plots or animations.

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LuigiChalmersJr
01/16/25 12:47:51 PM
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Martin Season 5 was horrendous. Martin was clearly in a bad place at the time. He looked out of it and checked out, and he and Gina couldn't even film scenes together because of a legal dispute. And the addition of Cole's girlfriend just sucked. Cole gimmick of being "stupid" was getting kind of old, so it wasn't a good decision to add a character that was somehow dumber than him.

I don't want to sound like I hated the show though. I loved it, just not Season 5.

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ironman2009
01/16/25 12:48:31 PM
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LOST and game of thrones could stand to lose a season

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Jerry_Hellyeah
01/16/25 12:56:32 PM
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I remember the first episode I ever saw, I sat down with some friends watching The Long Night, wondering how so many people can be dim enough to watch a story where THIS CRAP was the ultimate climax.

I know now its not really representative of the series as a whole, but boy oh boy would I have been disappointed fan.

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BB_mofo
01/16/25 12:57:58 PM
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Babylon 5

Literally. JMS planned for 5 seasons, but was forced to finish it in 4. Then the network gave him a 5th season when there was no more story to tell and it shows.

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refmon
01/16/25 12:58:19 PM
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Season 2 of Daredevil

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Solar_Crimson
01/16/25 1:00:28 PM
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Season 3 of Justice League Unlimited was kind of unnecessary.

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ApherosyLove
01/16/25 1:01:31 PM
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refmon posted...
Season 2 of Daredevil
Honestly, just the second half of Season 2.

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archizzy
01/16/25 1:21:38 PM
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I feel like its kind of cheating to pick the final season in a lot of shows because so many of them have poor final seasons. Like the previously mentioned Scrubs. Roseanne had an awful final season after they win the lottery. A lot of people complained about Game of Thrones but that show was off the rails to me for like the last 4 seasons. Anyway the list goes on and on.

I also think sometime the reverse is true where a show doesnt hit its stride until after the 1st season. I feel like Parks and Rec is a good example of that, especially with an abbreviated 6 episode 1st season. That show became great with Chris and Ben joining and then fully dialing in on what they wanted to do with the other characters.

Most of the stuff I dislike is either a bad start or bad end. Off the top of my head Im not really coming up with a lot in the middle. Sure there have been characters added I didnt like or people left I wanted them to stay but I still enjoyed the show. I cant think of where I wanted to wipe out a whole season in the middle of a shows run.


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PraetorXyn
01/16/25 1:49:37 PM
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Can it be only 1? Game of Thrones would be much better if you remove the last 4 seasons, and Dexter would be better if you removed the last few.

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Shamino
01/16/25 2:04:50 PM
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Probably the most famous one: The season Bobby died in Dallas. Even the show tried to hand wave it away by saying it was just a dream.

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BB_mofo
01/16/25 2:22:24 PM
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Shamino posted...
Even the show tried to hand wave it away by saying it was just a dream.

It inadvertently created the Dallas multiverse because in the spinoff show "Knots Landing" Bobby Ewing stayed dead.

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PissedOffMonk
01/16/25 3:01:54 PM
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House season 7. It was the turning point where the showrunners knew time and money was up, so they had to close it out on season 8.
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Shotgunnova
01/16/25 3:10:50 PM
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Just remove all but the first season of Sherlock.

EDIT: Maybe the same for True Detective.

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FolkenRawr
01/16/25 3:13:59 PM
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Season 1 Parks and Rec

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HighSeraph
01/16/25 3:15:07 PM
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Season 6 of Buffy

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DoesntMatter
01/16/25 3:16:26 PM
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yeah i second Scrubs. i already just pretend that that last season doesn't exist.

and to the people saying GoT, simply removing the last season would be woefully inadequate. the show was on a gradual decline ever since season 4, and in season 6 it took a steep nosedive. season 8 is merely when it plummeted all the way through Planetos and came out the other side just to nosedive again there.

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DodogamaRayBrst
01/16/25 3:17:14 PM
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Buffy season 7

Community season 4

Heroes season 2
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Mad-Dogg
01/16/25 3:17:39 PM
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I figured someone would get to boondocks before me in this topic.

But yeah, boondocks season 4.

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modena
01/16/25 3:17:44 PM
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Fargo season 3

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Hayame_Zero
01/16/25 3:19:02 PM
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refmon posted...
Season 2 of Daredevil
They tried to do waaaaaay to much at one time.

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dancing_cactuar
01/16/25 3:30:20 PM
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Promised Neverland was one season that the studio decided not to adapt more of the source material, ending on an ambiguous note yet one that can be considered a win for the kids. There definitely wasn't a season 2.

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Shamino
01/16/25 3:48:36 PM
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PissedOffMonk posted...
House season 7. It was the turning point where the showrunners knew time and money was up, so they had to close it out on season 8.

I think if Cuddy had stayed the show would have been better, at least Foreman would be part of House's team instead of a bunch of randos. I forget, was 13 on the team at that time?

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Link_of_time
01/16/25 4:07:18 PM
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The Strain. The final season is just kind of dragging all the same notes and prolonging the audiences annoyance with Zack. There's some interesting notes, but all the momentum was in the previous season leading to the season 4 climax.

dancing_cactuar posted...
Promised Neverland was one season that the studio decided not to adapt more of the source material, ending on an ambiguous note yet one that can be considered a win for the kids. There definitely wasn't a season 2.
I really think the 2nd season isn't bad in any way. It's just the ending(last few eps) that ruin everything. They could've done a whole 3rd season instead of just ending it the way they did. Similar to Darling in the Franxx.
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DarthDemented
01/16/25 4:09:42 PM
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That show that pretended to be scrubs after the finale. Also they could've done a half season of House to end it. There were just some whole episodes that didn't contribute to overall arc at all.

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creativerealms
01/16/25 4:11:21 PM
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Star Trek The Next Generation. No season one.

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RasterGraphic
01/16/25 4:15:57 PM
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Season 9 of the Simpson's.
So people stop complaining about that one episode that wasn't even particularly bad.

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DodogamaRayBrst
01/16/25 4:17:45 PM
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RasterGraphic posted...
Season 9 of the Simpson's.
So people stop complaining about that one episode that wasn't even particularly bad.
It was that bad.
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Shamino
01/16/25 4:26:13 PM
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RasterGraphic posted...
Season 9 of the Simpson's.
So people stop complaining about that one episode that wasn't even particularly bad.

It was terrible and served no purpose in the series.

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008Zulu
01/16/25 4:34:13 PM
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Shamino posted...
It was terrible and served no purpose in the series.
What was that episode? All the seasons have kinda melted together for me.

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Shamino
01/16/25 4:42:51 PM
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008Zulu posted...
What was that episode? All the seasons have kinda melted together for me.

It turns out Skinner was really Harmon Tamsarian (or whatever it was) when the real Skinner showed up.

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Kaitouace
01/16/25 4:43:10 PM
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008Zulu posted...
What was that episode? All the seasons have kinda melted together for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_and_the_Pauper

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Will_VIIII
01/16/25 4:43:33 PM
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BlueAnnihilator posted...
Season 3 of Prison Break
I'd have said season 4

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dancing_cactuar
01/16/25 5:04:40 PM
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Link_of_time posted...
I really think the 2nd season isn't bad in any way. It's just the ending(last few eps) that ruin everything. They could've done a whole 3rd season instead of just ending it the way they did. Similar to Darling in the Franxx.
Nah man, shit sucked ass the near exact moment the timeskip happened.

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PissedOffMonk
01/16/25 5:30:45 PM
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Shamino posted...
I think if Cuddy had stayed the show would have been better, at least Foreman would be part of House's team instead of a bunch of randos. I forget, was 13 on the team at that time?

Yes, the finale would have made more sense with her in the picture, but I couldnt blame Lisa Edelstein for not wanting to come back.

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Hayame_Zero
01/16/25 5:32:13 PM
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The Principal and the Pauper was dumb, but it had some funny parts, and wasn't what killed the quality. It was a slow decline.

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