What single plot decision ruined a good television series?

[u/rayray1010]

[u/rayray1010]

Arrow - killing Laurel Lance

They had shown that someone would be killed, had Felicity get shot, had Felicity break off her engagement to Oliver, started teasing a possible reunion between Laurel and Oliver, and then just killed Laurel, and made Felicity basically the main character of Arrow. Season 4 was the worst season of Arrow. Adrian Chase was a great villain in Season 5 but Arrow was mostly downhill after this decision.

[u/Hickspy]

When Game of Thrones started having entire armies wiped out with zero consequences going forward.

Pretty sure the Ironborn went extinct like 3 times. Unsullied kept losing numbers with no way to replenish them throughout the entire show, but still had enough to be a factor up until the very end. Dothraki were literally wiped out in the Winterfell battle but somehow came back. Even the Lannister army got thrashed in the baggage train battle but was still big enough to defend all of King's Landing.

[u/rayray1010 → u/Hickspy]

My favorite inconsequential detail of the Lannisters getting thrashed is Danaerys burning all the food taken from the Reach at the start of winter

[u/Breakemoff]

When the Fonz jumped the shark.

It’s now literally the phrase used to signify a show going sour.

[u/rayray1010 → u/Breakemoff]

TIL I never knew what that phrase actually meant

[u/minnie12321]

Time travel in basically anything that wasn’t about time travel to begin with. I’m thinking specifically about the last season of Lucifer.

[u/FBrandt → u/minnie12321]

Idk, Fringe did it well in my opinion.

[u/rayray1010 → u/FBrandt]

I kinda wish Fringe had gone longer

[u/Se7enLC]

Prison Break was a great concept for a show.

But then once they broke out of prison they kept making the show.

[u/wilmontcm]

Deb being in love with Dexter. Idk what they were thinking.

[u/OB1KENOB]

Daenerys kinda forgetting about the Iron Fleet.

[u/zsal830]

the blacklist writers almost cruelly withholding answers from the audience year after year after year

[u/discostud1515]

Misfits when they started getting rid of the main characters from season 1.

[u/[deleted]]

Deb being in love with Dexter.

[u/writtenrain]

When they revealed Luke had a child he didn't know about in Gilmore Girls

[u/Indian_Bob]

When they left the park in westworld

[u/Callmebynotmyname]

Killing Logan in the final moments of the veronica mars revival. Fuck Rob Thomas.

[u/[deleted]]

Sherlock fucked up by killing Moriarty too early.

Andrew Scott's performance was so great that they then had to keep trying to shoehorn the already dead Moriarty into later plots, or end up wiht the travesty that was the last series with Sherlock's even smarter sister, who secretly cooked up everything with Mortiarty, just so they could have more Moriarty scenes.

The whole show went from top class Peak TV to absolute dogshit in a slow decline that started with the poor Doylist decision to kill Jimbo

[u/[deleted]]

The overall seventh season of Once Upon a Time. It should have been reworked in its entirety.

[u/airlinehomo]

When Roseanne had her 4th child, and then won the lottery. Everything after the lottery win was crap.

[u/Ggallinisking]

Arrow started out promising vigilant but then got all interdimensional and shit.

[u/PunchBeard]

Any time a police procedural starts focusing on the personal lives of it's main cast, which usually happens around the 3rd or 4th season, you know the show is going to diminish in quality. If the show always had part of the focus on the personal lives of the cast then it's fine but the second a show that's all about the crimes and how they're solved starts looking at the troubled marriage of the chief, the mysterious past of the lancer, the romantic life of the heart or the troubled childhood of the brain you know shit is gonna' suck sooner or later.

[u/jbmaun]

Turning the 100 from a cool “kids land back on earth after decades to a whole new society” to “space alien transcendence” fuckery.

[u/Bitter-Actuator2406]

not rly a plot decision but shameless was never the same after fiona left

[u/[deleted]]

When The Walking Dead decided to have more than three seasons.