Jumping the Shark - when a show has a critical moment that makes it clear that the show is no longer what it used to be, and the remaining seasons continue to decline in quality.

What are your favorite shows that have that moment?

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Yeah in my book GoT didn’t jump the shark from age or anything, but just total collapse. By the strict definition maybe it did, but GoT is special where the writers literally just checked out and wanted to close the show as fast as possible. Jumping the shark to me is getting whacky and zanier because they are out of ideas but the show keeps dragging on

      • njm1314@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        Well no, by strict definition it didn’t. That’s not what Jumping the Shark means. Collapse doesn’t mean Jumping the Shark. Like you’re alluding to, Jumping the Shark implies they’re out of ideas and there’s nothing left but crazy stuff. The show is just going on despite them being it being over from a story aspect. Game of Thrones they weren’t out of ideas. The ideas were just bad. Or more specifically the execution and writing of ideas was bad. But everything that happened in Game of Thrones is stuff that was foreshadowed in the first season or two. Nothing was tacked on. Dragons and living dead army was always going to happen from the first few episodes that was in the cards.