You know why that is? The goa’uld carried the show. Once they weren’t the biggest threat anymore, there wasn’t really anywhere to go. SG1 relied on Earth being the scrappy underdog on the verge of being wiped out. Each individual goa’uld could act as the big bad of the week, get defeated and you know that there’d be another one to take its place the next week. The goa’uld were simultaneously familiar, threatening and varied. Once they were out of the way, the replicators and ori got wiped out a good season or two after being introduced. They didn’t have the staying power that the Goa’uld did. And worse, near the end of the series, when youve killed what are effectively gods, how do you create tension? Earth is basically an interstellar power, SG1 are essentially demigods and the biggest threats are effectively gone.
But seriously The Handmaid’s Tale about halfway through the third season it became too obvious they had no plan and started introducing things that contradicted things that had already happened
The good wife. It became a bit distant from early episodes and meandered a bit. New characters were good but it was odd having main cast not share scenes due to personal falling out.
Sex and the city. Started out topical and fresh. Became a melodrama. Now revived as a melodrama.
Downton Abbey. Good cast and stories but time jumps meant you kept losing plots, characters and subplots, so it fizzled out.
I loved Supernatural when it started but fell off at season 5. It became too much about angels and demons and lost the monster-of-the-week flair.
And although I love the entire series, I’ll add Farscape as well. Season 4 wasn’t bad, but the penultimate episode of season 3 would have been the perfect place to end it. Crais had his redemption arc and everything felt wrapped up. I’m grateful that we got more after that, but it still detracted from that perfect ending.
What’s worse is that now I end up having it binged every now and then because my wife still likes even the later seasons. When you watch it like that, all the little issues show up more.
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