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What are your favorite shows that Jumped the Shark? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
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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?

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Jumping the shark" is a term describing the moment a creative work, most often a TV show, reaches a point of irreversible decline in quality, often marked by ridiculous or implausible plotlines, as an attempt to regain viewership after exhausting its initial premise. The phrase originates from a 1977 episode of the sitcom Happy Days where the character Fonzie (Henry Winkler) literally water-skied over a shark.

For me, Arya Stark jumped the shark, more specifically, jumped out of the darkness and performed an impossible feat within the framework of the fiction.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In what regard?

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can tell me, but I'm not watching any fucking videos.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Wow what a badass lol, quick close your eyes