Animated shows you've watched for a while and later decided not to watch them anymore

Yugioh and Pokemon. I still love both, but I fell so far behind on watching the episodes that I just decided to stop watching them. Now that you mention it, I may try to start re-watching the most recent season of Pokemon. It's the only one that I've missed.
 
Pokemon never was a show about characters. It was mostly about...well, Pokemon... so yeah, I don't think Misty was the thing that kept the show going, even though I actually liked her character. The reason I got ticked off when they removed her is that it displayed a certain cynicism... "Let's give one character an emotional send-off, and then introduce a character exactly like her" is not a nice philosophy. I think TVTropes has a name for it. That said, shoehorning her back into the show will probably just cause more problems. Plus, What I've seen of Dawn suggests she may be an more original creation. So... that's my thoughts on that.

As for the thread question..... I stopped religiously watching TV in general when I turned twelve, and quite a few shows got left out in the cold. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Sonic X, Kirby, Jackie Chan Adventures, Teen Titans... I still like all of those shows, and I'd be perfectly willing to collect them on DVD. I just got tired of television.
 
Dude, Misty was (IMHO) the best female character in Pokemon (no, not some sort of goddess but certainly not a mediocre character) She just became a cardboard cut-out in Johto along with all the rest.

Oh, and there's a reason for the nostalgia goggles; the nostalgic times of Pokemon were good. I've done some actual unbiased comparissions between Pokemon now and Pokemon then, so I know what I'm talking about here (or at least, I think I was unbiased. If I wasn't, then heck if there's no escaping bias!)



But May wasn't exactly like Misty at all. Dawn is the one who's almost exactly like May. The philospohy that bugs me is that they send-off the girl in the group just to replace her with another girl from another generation. And yet the keep the boys (Ash and Brock) despite them being useless and boring now! Now that's a good reason as to why I stopped watching Pokemon.:mad:
 
Inu-Yasha: Beautiful animation, but, boy, did that story go nowhere.

Family Guy: The new writers are horrible.

Ranma 1/2: Had a bit of a story going for the first season, but then fell into sitcom mode for the next five seasons.
 
Well, not to be too technical, but the Pokemon are characters on the show too, but I'm sure that you're talking about the human characters. Even so, I think that the show has always been able the human and Pokemon characters and their releationships.

I'm also wondering how you believe that May is just like Misty. Misty had only Water-type Pokemon, except for Togepi that she didn't do anything with until it evolved, wanted to become a Water Pokemon Master and didn't have too much on-screen training to accomplish that goal.

May didn't like Pokemon too much at first but after getting her first two Pokemon, Torchic and Wurmple, traveling with Ash and seeing her first Pokemon Contest, she decided to become a Pokemon Coordinator. She had some more on-screen training for her Pokemon, mainly Beautifly and Skitty, to learn some new moves. She was more battle active than Misty was at least during her last couple of years on the show and she had a firm goal in mind with competitng in the Grand Festival, similar to how Ash's goal in every region is to compete in the region's Pokemon League. She didn't even get a Water Pokemon until she went to Kanto with Ash, Brock and Max.

I also personally think that May had a better sendoff than Misty did since after having competed in two Grand Festivals, defeated her main rival Drew and reached the Top 4 in the Kanot Grand Festival, I think that she was ready to travel on her own. She did grow from being the trainer who couldn't even remember her Torchic's moves to one of the best Coordinators around.

I could see why people would say that May and Dawn are similar, but even then I could see some pretty striking differences between the two. Dawn had a much better beginning than May did, but that was because she knew she wanted to become a Coordinator from the start, trained with that goal in mind and the writers knew how to handle Contests better after going with the Contests with May in AG. Of course, mom being a former Coordinator also really helped her out.

I honestly think that May had a more realistic kind of start to her journey as a Coordinator than Dawn did. May had a pretty poor start, mainly because she put all of her attention on her appeal and not enough time on her battle skills, but she trained some more and greatly improved in her next round of Contest. While Dawn did have more benifits to her start than May did, it did feel kind of weird how Dawn made it to the semi-finals in her first Contest and then had a harder struggle after she won her first Ribbon.

In terms of their personalities, I could see some more similarities and differences. I thought that May was more of a tomboyish girl, especially as she continued to focus on her skills as a Coordinator. Dawn feels more like a girly girl with the focus she has on her apperance and hair. I'm not saying that either one of those is a bad thing for their personalities or anything like that, but it's just another difference I see between the two characters.
 
The Simpsons: Every show has its time to end and Simpsons is long past. I used to love this show but I cant watch it now while it tred alongs.

InuYasha: I used to like it but the show just kept going on and on and on. It kept going in some endless cycle never changing. After awhile I just gave the show up.

Pokemon: I'm very off and on with this show. I left mostly cause the show just wasn't that good anymore. The characters just seemed like they lost all there personality. I'm with Mad Mod 49 the older seasons were better. Afterawhile I just watched it when it was on and there was nothing else on tv and I was waiting for anther Saturday mornging show.

X-Men Evolution: I'm a huge X-Men and Wolverine fan so I was excited to see a new show. I didn't really take to it but stood on hoping it would get better it never really did so I left. Everytime I watched this show I couldn't help get the filling that I was watching a terrible fanfic in animation form.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 80's: I loved this show and probraly never would have stopped but when it moved channels it was constantly preempted and I never knew when it was coming on so I gave up on it and watched something else. By the time I could watch it The sky turned Red and Shredder was gone and they were fighting this lame villain called Dregg that made me feel not so bad about giving up on it.
 
Generally speaking, I'll temporarily stop watching many animated series, for a number of different reasons, but this mainly happens when I don't have enough time, resources or willpower to watch everything.

However...most of the time, if I'm honestly interested in what I've been watching, and this follows no specific rule or logic beyond my preference for shows with an actual narrative as opposed to episodic ones...I'll make an effort to go back or even do a full re-watch later. Once a show has got me completely hooked, sooner or later, I think it earns the right to at least that much.

Still, to name some specific examples of series I've voluntarily and permanently stopped caring about:

The Simpsons: I would say that this show will always represent a lot of fond memories for me, thanks to growing up watching it, but I've realized how repetitive it is and just can't possibly keep up any longer. I might catch bits of a random episode, rarely, and actually did go watch the movie, but that's it.

South Park: I was never a huge fan, but for a while I did make an effort to get into it. What seemed to be occasional sparks of brilliance grew old and the rest of its humor was too juvenile in the first place.

InuYasha: I had problems with my cable provider during my original attempt to watch this. That frustration made me want to see the series even more, whenever the opportunity arose. I really wanted to like it, considering the cast was interesting enough and the basic quest looked like it was getting somewhere at times, but then the damned thing dragged on way too much and, as I soon learned through spoilers, apparently wasn't even worth it. The decision to not watch anymore came easily.

Ranma 1/2: See InuYasha. Replace "basic quest" with "romance" and it's the same thing all over again.

Shounen Jump series: This isn't too specific, but after being a huge Dragon Ball Z and Saint Seiya fanboy, I've probably seen enough ridiculously long fighting shows for a lifetime. They're too repetitive, taking way too long to get anywhere and their endings usually go from redundant to pointless, especially whenever a new series or season is introduced. As a result, I have no real interest in Bleach, Naruto or the genre as a whole. They might actually end properly, but their basic formula doesn't seem different enough for me to try and wait for years.
 
Pretty much any show that stays on for years and years I eventually lose interest in. I guess I just lack the patience or the attention span to stay with a TV series fro more than 10 years, even when it's a show that I like. As soon as the shows' writing starts to fall off or some unnecessary change is made in an attempt to breathe new life into the show, I'm done.
 
For me, it would have to be VeggieTales. My friend got me into these videos when I was a kid and I adored them for most of my elementary school years (I have every VeggieTales video from Where's God When I'm S-Scared? to Lyle the Kindly Viking around the house somewhere). Sometime after Lyle the Kindly Viking came out and I got it, I just lost interest. I don't know what it was, maybe it was the fact I starting The Simpsons right around that time and started getting back into Looney Tunes and Disney animation but VeggieTales took a huge back seat until it just became some obscure childhood memory. A couple months ago, my friend and I ended up revisiting Dave and the Giant Pickle on a nostalgia kick and I've found myself slowly getting back into VeggieTales. I actually find myself enjoying them more than I did when I was kid, especially now that I get all the jokes.

Pokemon I basically outgrew, that's all there is to it. Same with all the post-Wild Thornberrys Nicktoons, and Ed, Edd n Eddy. And that's really it in terms of cartoons I stopped watching.
 
Naruto pretty much after the filler started, I've seen some assorted episodes but I've pretty much given up on it.

Bleach is starting to fall into this territory as well.

The Simpsons, enough said.

Spongebob and Family Guy as well, they're not as good as they were once were.
 
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