I’ve probably heard of some but can’t think of any.
I’ll say… Star Wars, The Simpsons, the Xanth novels, superhero movies, Pokémon and Naruto.
The Vikings TV show went on wayyyyyy too long. It should have ended when
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Ragnar’s kids were celebrating avenging him. At the table, before one of them kills the other.
As a south park fan, I’m not excited for new episodes
I was until recently. It’s not south park time. You cant really take the piss out of the happenings in USA without looking like a political cartoon in a newspaper, and you cant just ignore it and focus on other stuff or you look complicit.
I love south park and want more, but now is not the time.
The last batch of 10 episodes, I only rewatched 2 of them after all 10 came out. Barely remember the rest.
The Matrix.
The first film was perfect as a standalone.
Magic:the Gathering. The 2018ish takeover by FIRE Design destroyed my favorite TCG. Its all power creep and external franchises that have nothing to do with fantasy.
Kurtzman Trek
i can’t work out how to explain this but “pieces of media you’ve consumed that kept making more content” is one of the most depressing sentence constructions i’ve ever read.
anyway, the evil dead is about to hit this point if it hasn’t already
Spinoffs and alternative universes are mostly a sign it is going too far. Oh and having more prequels than the main story is immediate signal of extreme milking.
The Belgarion novels by David Eddings. It would have done well as a trilogy, but the initial five-book series was OK as well. But then came The Malloreon, or The Quest for More Money. I finished it because I’ve got a bit of a completionist streak, but not because it was good.
And then I found out what kind of person Eddings was.
Marble Hornets.
Also, One Punch Man, because he hardly ever does anything!
SpongeBob
And not just because of the usual ‘it’s gone on too long’ gripe either, but also because Nick is basically pissing on its creator’s grave keeping it going long after his death, as I pointed out in an edit on my post, Nick should’ve just ended the series after Hillenberg died out of respect for the guy.
No, seriously! If Nickelodeon wasn’t gonna grant Hillenberg’s wish to have SpongeBob end after the 2004 movie (and really, they didn’t care about that, they’re Nickelodeon), they should have ended it when he passed.
They could have done one last big hurrah special in memorium of him, but then that’s it.
And besides, Tim Kenny, I love the guy, but he is even saying it’s getting harder for him to voice SpongeBob.
Even Nintendo and GameFreak/The Pokemon Co. care more about Pokemon, at least enough to finally retire Ash as the main character recently and bring someone new on as the lead.
But really, how Nick is treating Spongebob is as terrible as you can possibly get, like I said, they’re pissing on Hillenberg’s grave.
As for Family Guy, Seth McFarlane is basically begging for it to be canceled at this point with how sadistic and unfunny it’s gotten from what people have said about the newer seasons of it post-Brian’s revival.
Silent Hill should have ended with SH3.
The Simpsons.
Supernatural
I absolutely loved the show, it could’ve been wrapped up sooner. It could’ve ended before the leviathans and I would’ve been happy.
The fifth season was intended to be the end of the story, it would have been the right place, the original creator bowed out at that point I believe. It was kept alive.
It’s my favorite series of all time and I still have the last season to watch pending… After that season where it was supposed to end the one and half after were kinda painful, but got better on later seasons again.
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
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.
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.
I’m glad Alien pushed through the terrible middle, now we have Romulus and Allen Earth.
Both of those are trash…
