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[cacophony]

I started to post in the Storylines You'd Like to Change thread and realized this was a different topic. I find there's a few shows out there that I would watch more often if they'd take my advice and ditch some dead weight. Or shows I already enjoy that would be that much better without the excess baggage. Such as...

Gossip Girl
Granted, I haven't watched this show in ages. Really, I tuned back in just in the past few weeks but I got a stark reminder about why I tuned out in the first place. Do we need Serena? Really? Has she not fully entered Marissa Cooper territory already? I'd rather follow the eternally boring Nate Archibald than watch horrible Serena be horrible and sulky.

Community
This one's gotta be obvious right? I like this show. It never fails to make me laugh. I would love it so much more if Pierce had been the one who died in a tragic accident.

Game Of Thrones
Roughly 25 per cent of the cast, frankly. I've already missed a couple of episodes and I really haven't missed it that much. I don't care about the blond chick, her rapey dead husband or her dragons. I don't give a crap about Stannis Baratheon or his weird witchy mistress or any part of that world.

Spoiler

Not horribly sad about the possibly dead tiny Starks, either. They've been pointless for awhile now. Their demise is just further proof that the entire family is several bricks short of a load.

Does anyone else have the tendency to streamline TV casts or am I just grumpy?

Edited by cacophony, May 15, 2012 @ 12:27 PM.

[minneapple]

Vampire Diaries

Talk about cast bloat. My viewing was sketchy this year partly because I don't care about the Originals at all. It seems like Julie Plec likes to create new characters rather than writing good storylines for her regular old characters.

[SnideAsides]

Neighbours. Because... seriously. The ONLY two characters in the entire bloviated soap opera cast who aren't six years past their use-by date are a semi-regular gay character who's pretty much used only to propel other peoples' stories forward, and his even less regular boyfriend. Literally EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERSON ON THE SHOW could be culled, and you wouldn't lose anything of value.

[Laira]

House could lose Taub, Foreman and Adams without missing a beat.

[joanne3482]

Community
This one's gotta be obvious right? I like this show. It never fails to make me laugh. I would love it so much more if Pierce had been the one who died in a tragic accident.

I liked Pierce a lot in the beginning, but the feud he has with the showrunner just makes the show uncomfortable now. It is like watching an old basset hound get kicked. I don't like it.


Glee. They are adding in the 'winners' of the Glee Project as well as so many other characters. If they were able to juggle the storylines effectively that would be one thing, but they can't. With so many 'graduating' this year they should have done what Degrassi does fairly well and start bringing in younger members to transition out the older ones. Instead next season they'll follow the New York graduates and the OH current students which just sounds like a big muddled mess to me.

The Office is trying to fix the hole left by Steve Carrell by adding new characters and it isn't working. James Spader could have been awesome. He wasn't. Nellie (I think her name is) annoys. Now we have Daryl's new love interest in the warehouse and they kept Erin even though Pam just made up her own job title. Let's not forget we have both Toby and Gabe because one sad sack downer wasn't enough.

Edited by joanne3482, May 16, 2012 @ 1:26 PM.

[ribboninthesky1]

Scandal - all of the staff of Olivia Pope's firm, save for Huck. Maybe Stephen, but only for his friendship with Olivia. Quinn is a non-entity, as is Harrison, and Abby is so self-righteous that I can't be sympathetic to why she's that way. I mean, when I'm unsympathetic to an abuse survivor, you're doing it wrong. The show is rather soapy, but at least the White House staff is well worth watching. If they want to keep Olivia's firm, maybe she can contract out, as needed.

[jonnypaul12]

Grey's Anatomy OWNS this topic. They need to lose about half the people they currently have...it's too confusing trying to follow all these people we just don't care about. I think they originally had 6 or 7 main cast members--now we're up to like 12. Cut them out!

[FoolishWanderer]

Only twelve? Game of Thrones has so many characters that the story has balkanised into six or seven distinct groups of characters spread out across two continents.

[quietone]

90210 - Yes, I'm ashamed to admit I watch this. Annie is selfish, whiny, and all around annoying. I also cannot stand how every guy she meets falls head over heels in love with her. Plus, Shenae Grimes' hair usuallyy looks as though it needs to be washed, combed, styled or something. Another character I can do without is Austin. Why is he on the show?

Speaking of Gossip Girl - I'm over Lola and Ivy. If they hate the Upper East Side and the people in it they should leave. I hate the morally superior attitudes they have even though they've both resorted to using devious schemes and tactics to get what they want.

[BlakeSpeare]

True Blood was the first show that came to mind for me when I saw this topic. Season 3 was a disaster in this regard, IMO, with over 30 characters, and so many of them unnecessary.

Fortunately, they got rid of a number of them in season 4 (Sam's brother, Sam's parents, Debbie Pelt, Jesus all appear to be gone, and maybe even Tara). But they still have a ways to go, as far as I'm concerned.

[GeoBQn]

Not that anything can actually make the show good, but Secret Life of the American Teenager never lets any characters go. They just keep adding characters and they all keep having sex with each other in various combinations. Even when they got rid of Grace's dad permanently by killing him, they continued to have story lines about him by revealing that he had a secret girlfriend and son in South Africa where he went on medical mission trips.

The problem was further compounded when Brenda Hampton filmed a pilot for a new show. (Basically, it would have been like SLotAT, but with marijuana instead of sex.) The pilot didn't get picked up, so she basically grafted the characters from the failed show onto SLotAT.