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List your 5 favorite fandoms and when you think they Jumped The Shark, or you know, if they didn't.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Magic is now a drug, and Willow is an addict.

2. Angel: Either Evil Cordy, or never. It redeemed itself in season 5.

3. Highlander: The resolution to the Ahriman storyline. A midgit runs around with Richie's skull (probably not really), flowers bleed, Richie's killed, and Duncan does a kata to defeat the demon. Who appears as Horton for one last time, and screams. Starting here, season 6 is horrible. Except for brief appearances by Methos, and an episode that starred Fitzcairn.

4. Charmed: Cole is killed, and then comes back as an indestructible demon--until Paige gets stuck in an alternate reality he creates where he is able to be killed...and he is killed. That, or the appearance of The Magic School, that looks like a rip-off of Harry Potter.

5. Can't really think of a 5th one.

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Hmm, I'd almost agree on the first one. They nearly totally ruined Willow's storyline by wussing out with her descent into evil.
Mostly I think though that the worst part of s6 Buffy is not just the darkness in s6, but the lack of repurcussions for the socalled corescoobs in s7.

Willow literally gets away with murder
Xander is never forced to deal with his fears of becoming like his father, and instead just flichers out. They don't even deal with his bullying and bigotry.
Giles abandons Buffy and becomes a podGiles, instead of actually letting him make repurcussion for it.
And Buffy's turned into a domestic abuser and never ever has to take responsibility for that. Instead we're suddenly forced to see her as the victim, which she never was...

In fact at the end of Chosen, all the chars I still loved on the show were dead. (at least Spike got to come back)

I agree. The darkness of the characters as the season went on got really bad.

After season 6, Giles acts like a completely different person. I think it was during season 6 that I stopped liking the show and the characters for a short period of time. (I kept watching until the series finale, though.)

I had finally started to like Anya, when she was killed in Chosen. I read spoilers for the episode 5 minutes before the show aired. I was sad that Spike was killed. (Didn't last long, since he came back on Angel.)

I don't understand what 'jumped the shark' means. :/

It means: at what point did the show do something so incredibly stupid or bad, that it never recovered from that act.

"Jumping the shark" was taken from an episode of Happy Days, in which Fonzie actually jumped over a cage of sharks. It was ridiculous.

There's also a link to a site about shows that Jumped the Shark in my post. I forgot about it, too.

I liked the concept of Willow going nuts with Magic and then being all evil, but I really didn't care for how it was done. Acting not the best. But it did allow for a sweet Willow/Xander scene, which I really missed by season 6.

3 Wow, I really need to watch Highlander again, I don't remember the 6th season at all, except for no more Richie.

There were quite a few episodes of season 6 (Highlander) where Duncan wasn't around at all. Those episodes weren't that great.

Ugh... yes, Season 6 was the season of "revolving female immies guest-stars". *sighs sadly*

I know. They were trying to find someone good enough for a spin-off. Turned out to be none of them when they went with Amanda.

I watched the first episode of the spin-off, and it was boring.

When it became impossible to read and enjoy the X-Men without either

a) knowing a incredibly huge and detailed back story

or

b) only reading the ultimates

they've bounced back since the late 90's

That would be great for a 5th, too. Maybe also the numerous times that Jean has come back from the dead as Phoenix. I got that idea by looking at the icon I'm using for this post.

Jean has come back from the dead as Phoenix

X-Men III

True. I want to see how they manage to get that into a movie. It's more of an epic. (And how they can do that without her eating a star, drawing the attention of the Shi'ar Empire.)

First Act: Sentinels. Second Act: Act: Phoenix VS. Sentinels. Third Act: X-Men VS. Jean

I didn't like Evil!Cordy, but I loved Angel - Season 4. Therefore I don't think Angel ever did jump the shark.

Evil Cordy sleeping with Connor was the lowest point of season 4. It might not have been a jumping the shark moment, but it was real close.

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