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I've probably heard of some but can't think of any.

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

TV shows that went on too long:

  • House of cards
  • The Walking Dead
  • The X-Files
  • Homeland
  • Westworld

Movie franchises that went on too long:

  • Jaws
  • Alien
  • The Terminator
  • Predator
  • The Amityville horror
  • jurassic Park
  • The Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Rocky was on this list until creed came out and now creed has gone on too long

Book series that went on too long

  • The wheel of Time
  • The Earth’s children
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm glad Alien pushed through the terrible middle, now we have Romulus and Alien Earth.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 hours ago

Both of those are trash..

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The wheel of Time

Seriously. I gave up on that series at book 5 when the author hadn't resolved a single major plot point yet.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, I bailed in book 4. I never finished it. It was the same Storystructure. I mean I loved it, but it was just going nowhere. The gang gets broken up into Subgroups and then then it’s an escort mission.