Shows/Anime You Were Disappointed In
 

There have been times I'm sure we've all been through were there was a television program or cartoon being made you were excited to see, either because you had liked other versions of it, or by word of mouth. I'm equally sure there have been times where those expectations have led to disappointment. I'm wondering what some of those are for everyone else. My own are:

Hellsing (original TV Series)-

I was a big fan of the original manga, so I was excited when I heard they were animating it. My excitement remained until I saw the second episode, where it became fairly clear that the authors didn't feel understand the characters they were working with, or what the tone of the story should be. Many of the characters personalities were changed drastically (primarily Alucard, Seras, Integra, and Anderson), and the incredible and ferocious villains of the manga were cut for a villain who was relatively lame in comparison. The animation also suffered, as four different anime companies worked on the animation at different times, as studios had to be kept switching out since they had such a small budget, leading to relatively poor animation after episode 7 in comparison to the early episodes. That's not to say that the anime was a BAD anime; it wasn't a fantastic anime, whether on its own or being compared to the original, but it was far from being bad. I prefer the OVA series, as it seems more familiar to me and to the manga, which I had read before seeing the initial anime, and I have a tendency to like the thing I see first more than other versions. The OVA also has better animation, though it lacks in soundtrack, which was the one fantastic thing the original Hellsing animation had.

Trigun -

I kept hearing about how great the series was and, honestly, it fell far below my expectations. Like the original version of Hellsing, it wasn't a bad anime (and I would say it's far superior to the original animated attempt of Hellsing), but it was nowhere near as good as a lot of friends had made it out to be to me. A lot of it was somewhat dull in my mind, and the basic premise of the series had been done before, and done better. A great anime, but I was ultimately disappointed in it.

Sonic Underground -

I had been a gigantic fan of the Sonic SatAM series, so I was pumped for this. I was also horribly disappointed by it, especially since I was a child at the time and had high hopes for it. It was kind of like a kick in the teeth almost.

Neon Genesis Evangelion -

I do think NGE is a great series, and that it is a work of art (as long as you exclude End of Evangelion). However, it is HORRIBLY overhyped, and overhyped for the wrong reasons to watch the show. While a great series, it doesn't deserve the amount of praise it tends to receive from most people, as there have been far better anime created, both in terms of depth (Hellsing Ultimate, Akira, Princess Tutu, D.Gray Man, Mind Game), and in terms of importance to anime in general (Akira, Dragon Ball Z, Tekkonkinkreet).

BLEACH. No clue how it got so popular... It's pretty much the same thing as Naruto, only even more emo and ZZZZ inducing.

For me it was the "New" TMNT cartoon (the one aired in 2003, I'm not really sure what it was called). Everyone just looked -bleh- compared to the original animated series. I guess I was just too used to seeing the "cuter" faces from the original, so it was more of a shock than anything else when I saw the new version.

The Darkstalkers anime - it was decent overall, but made a few very strange decisions on which characters to emphasize. they ignored their most famous one, for example.

Fatal Fury (all three). Should have followed the games better. Would have actually had a better running storyline.

Joey-When I first heard of the Friends spin-off, I thought it would be a great show. But after watching it, I was turned off by its lack of humor, good plot and even the acting wasn't good enough.

Personally, I'd always had the feeling that the show in question was doomed to failure right from the start. I'll admit that I never actually watched it, nor had I watched Friends consistently for quite some time, but when I heard that they were doing a spin-off called "Joey", it just struck me as a pretty transparent, and frankly quite production line-ish attempt to repeat Paramount's one-off success in spinning "Frasier" off from "Cheers". Of all the major Friends characters, Joey had never exactly struck me as being one of the strongest. I couldn't really imagine how they intended him to carry a show on his own.

I was disappointed in "Joey" too. I'm a hardcore "FRIENDS" fan, and looked to the spinoff with great optomism. I had the best hopes for it. I think they had some good ideas going, it's the carrying out that they didn't do so well.

Another show I was disappointed in was "That '80s Show". I tried to enjoy it, I really did. The decade of my childhood held many of the best times in my whole life. And although I did enjoy the pop culture flash backs, they just let it get stale much too early than anyone expected. The show only lasted one year.

bleach. i mean, ive only seen a few episodes, and its okay, but its not the best thing ever made.


after watching a few more episodes with aizen in them, i take that back.


same applies to naruto. in fact, naruto is very high on my list of dissapointments. they ruined ninjas for me.


and inuyasha. its okay in small doses, but as a whole it feels repetitive and kinda stupid.


another one is most of the newer pokemon seasons, because they just let me down in comparision to things before them (anything from jhoto or earlier i mean) and the games.

I'm afraid that Inuyasha will have to be my pick. I really like the show but it got way too formulaic way too fast. Another one would have to be Beast Machines. I really wanted to like this show, I really did but it was just so different from Beast Wars and just took many of the characters, and overall direction of the series, in a direction I just couldn't get behind.

Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles

This show started out so excellently, such magnificent effects and use of the terminator robots. It had good action, good choice actors, and I loved Thomas Dekker (John Connor) from "Heroes" previously. All was going fine until the show got REALLY STUPID and jerked around with time travel, totally disrupting the movie connection for a stupid "let's make it in the 2008 era" simply for the shallow excuse of modernism. It was a good show wasted.

Ben 10: Alien Force

I was really looking forward to this, I mean really looking forward. And even though its only had 3 episodes aired (2 if you count the hour one was one episode), and I tried to understand other's views on the show, its just a poorly thought out show. They totally screwed the charm of the aliens of the old, made too many changes, and literally nudered one of the best villains of the old show. Its cool that its a serious mature show now, but its become so utterly backwards from its original series, its a poor, poor sequel.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

I am probably in the supremely small minority of crazy people about this, but I seriously did not feel this anime was as "masterpiece" worthy as people crack it up to be. Its a good series, the end MOVIE is a masterpiece, but I just didn't find this anime to be that legendary or groundbreaking. At times it became too confusing and mixed things weirdly with the dark serious stuff and comedic stuff. Without the movie, I don't feel the show would be seen as "godly" as it is now and that's my main issue, the movie kind of did all the work.

Beast Machines

Pretty self explanatory if you've ever seen Beast Wars and the show side by side, plus I agree with what Medikor said about it too.

Bionic Woman

Was expecting this to be a hot new sci-fi series and instead I got a dull, turd of a series which is shocking because I thought a super cybernetic bad ass babe couldn't go wrong.....I was wrong. The show barely made any GOOD use of its cyborg star, she was a bland, dumpy looking woman who barely caught my eye or interest. The mystery in the show wasn't that interesting or cool, and the rest of the characters were rather average. There was so much potential to make this fun and cool to watch but eventually, I just didn't care to watch it anymore. I was watching out of habit not for fun, so I stopped.

Kevin, I'm assuming?

Alien Force definitely feels different compared to the original series. The new aliens are ok, but why they'd scrap the old aliens? And Max dies (supposedly)? Not ok.:(

Oh Max didn't die, he just joined a special op's unit and changed his name to Col. Roy Campbell. :D

I support The Sarah Connor Chronicles, because the continuity of the films don't even synch up qith each other. I've always taken the films to be set in different timelines than the previous, same applied here. That's just me though. Plus it has the guy who plays Doctor Venture in it as a villain towards the end so it gets a double vote for me.

I was disappointed with DragonBall Z. My friends talked it up like it was sent from heaven. Then I watched it. It was terrible. It was long, drwan-out, and a litle cliche, the characters didn't really grab me and the dialogue fell flat.

I was also disappointed with Ninja Turtles Fast Forward, all of the goodwill of the 4 previous seasons was dashed against the rocks with this one. Not the worse show ever, but an attempt to bring the show back to the 1987 lightheartness coupled with the 2003 grittiness and it just didn't work. There's not much more I can say about this one except it failed.

I must be honest, at the moment, with the recent episodes,
Family Guy

I mean the plots are meh, but it seems it's just the same old stuff over and over, for example: The Vaudville guys, who were both shot, they brought the ghosts back, and said Johnny liked little boys. Completely unnessecery...I was satisfied killing them off.

Family Guy, right now, seems like with the past episodes, they're making episodes just to make episodes, Also, the chicken fights, Done. Get them over with. They're just 8-10 minute fillers completely unfunny and just boring. Personally, whenever they come on, no matter which one, I turn off the channel.

So, I'm a DIE HARD family guy fan, but please, please, Seth and the writers, make some interesting plots...

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H2O, the new show on nickelodeon.

It's a pretty crappy turn on vampires or werewolves where they turn into something at midnight. Of course, the slightest showing of blood or violence or gore sparks a nationwide uproar, so guess what they turn into. Mermaids. Happy, Giddy, Mermaids. Oh JOY! Nick, Come ON!, I am old enough to turn away from your channel already, but I CHOOSE to watch it. So, excuse my language but Damnit, I want a frikking enjoyable show to turn on when all other stuff bores me.

The Simpsons and Futurama:
Honestly, a few episodes are good, but there's nothing redeeming about either show. However, the Simpsons movie was pretty good...

ALL of the new Nickelodeon shows
Bad plots, dumb characters...pretty much everything about them. Puts me right to sleep.

Naruto
I used to be really into this series, but it soon got boring and pointless. The plots seem to be getting more and more confusing each time. And, what the hell is Orochimaru? Some anime version of Michael Jackson? Dear God...

Robot Chicken
Ok, it's pretty funny...sometimes. For a comedy series, the humor is VERY immature.

South Park
Got old after 3 seasons. Honestly, come up with something different. Enough of the same old things.

American Dad
Haven't liked one episode. It's not funny, there's never a good plot, and the dad (Stan, I think) is a jacka$$. Seth needs to focus much more on Family Guy.

The only reason I didn't mention the newer Pokemon seasons is because I think the movies are the only things that keep the series tied together. But the TV series...I stopped watching it.

(No one kill me for saying the Simpsons...please) XD

I risk making myself incredibly unpopular for saying it, but Family Guy is one of those shows which I never really "got", so to speak. I caught one of the early episodes in 1999, before it became such a massive cult phenomenon (shortly before it's UK premier, I remember reading an article which reckoned that it could be the next Simpsons, and that intrigued me), and, if I'll be totally honest, I thought it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen (no offence intended to the FG fans here). I thus concluded that the article had been full of crap, opted not to watch any more episodes and was able to put it out of my mind for a while.

Then, a few years go by, and Family Guy is suddenly this big cult phenomenon which everybody loves. I began to wonder if maybe I'd misjudged it, or perhaps just caught it at a bad episode. I happened to be at a friend's house when her housemates were having this big Family Guy marathon, so I decided to stick around and watch it with them, just to see if I had been too hasty in my previous judgement. But no, numerous episodes later, and my opinion still hadn't changed. I still found the characters to be annoying and unlikeable, and the humour and storylines to be far too senseless and random for their own good. *Shrugs*, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but the appeal of this show has always totally passed me by.

i always thought the chicken fights were some of the best fillers ever written. that, and just the way they are done, are the main reason i find them more intresting than most of the other random jokes.

back on topic, the newer simpsons episodes. i havent even watched the show in a while because it got stale to me. (that, and i got more important shows to watch.)

also the fourth series (season) of digimon. i just dont like it. i loved the first two seasons, the third season was almost as good as the first two, but the fourth just, to put it bluntly, sucked in my opinion.

Vh1's new show, "I Love Money"

Just useless in my oppinion, giving the worn out stars from Rock Of Love, I Love New York, and Flavor Of Love, i believe. The stars have earned their 15 minutes of fame...so god, let them all go! I was sick of seeing all of them on the original show, so why would I NOT be sick of them seeing one more season of boring, non-sensical shows? Vh1, give it up! Let all the "I love" and reality shows go. What ever happened to Video Hits 1?

While I'm on the subject of networks not showing what they were made for....


MTV in a whole, all the shows, are just incredibly moronic.....Music Television? It's not anymore. Why would I care about what rich spoiled teenagers in LA are doing? Or why would I care if Joe And Suzie broke up or got back together? I don't even know them!
So, if you are gonna create a station devoted to MUSIC, stick to JUST MUSIC!

Agreed 100%. Both are so pointless and useless that I deleted them from my DVR's channel selector. Neither one has anything worth watching.

I agree with you there, Jackie. I use to watch VH1 a lot, found it very entertaining, and it kept me up to date on my favorite celebrities. But over the last five years or so, it's all become redundant and just boring. I'll admit I loved the "I Love the '70s", "... '80s", "...'90s", they were fun. But it's becoming way too over-aired now. And yeah, I noticed too that they're using all the same lesser-known actors and actresses, as if trying to give them another jump at fame. But I'm not enjoying it near as much. I never really watch it anymore.

I never really watched MTV though, so can't say much about that. But I do wish there were still stations that just played music videos 24 hours strait. I never had a dull moment when I had insomnia. Aah, I have fond memories of music videos... *drifts off into reminisces*

Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles

I was really hopeful for this show, I thought it was a kick ass concept and a daring move to take a movie so popular with history and turn it into a TV show set between the 2nd and 3rd movie. I thought they had a great actor for Connor and some really excellent robot designs for the special effects.

But....they ended up ruining everything by messing up "history" and modernizing the series into something more 2008-ish and I felt cheated. I felt they messed up too much actual integrity of the movie by doing this and most of all, the actress playing the good female terminator I felt was bland and dismally weak.

I didn't care for her acting and I found her utterly un-compelling along with the rest of the show. I started out really into it at first, but then just gave up on it. Same with Bionic woman. Had a good shot at being something good, started out nice but ended up becoming less and less compelling and more bland and ordinary.

Yeah, I like those 70s 80s and 90s shows, too. Very fond.

And also yeah, I would love a station with music vids 24/7

Didn't you say the exact same thing like two pages ago?

If I did then i forgot, I was tired and didn't recall if I said it before or not.