How do you feel when you find yourself losing interest in a show you once liked?

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ibrahim200429

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To me, its a horrible feeling. While some shows of course you watched as a kid you're not going to like as much when you're older, how do you feel about shows you *really liked*, as in shows you should still enjoy as an adult, but don't get as much enjoyment from it anymore?

I find it really strange. For some shows that I used to find so fun and entertaining, it honestly feels like a chore to sit through it now. It is strange how something that can give you so much fun and entertaining at one point you could be totally indifferent to or find boring at another point in your life.

It bothers me greatly, and I look at some of the DVDs on my shelf and say, "Am I ever going to watch through this show again? Maybe I should sell this DVD on ebay or something."

^ Anyone else think like that?
 
This happened to me about midway through the Thundercats Season 1/Volume 1 box set, I used to love this show when I was a kid but today it is really just kind of cheesy and I feel horrible because up until recently it was probably my favorite animated show of all time. Another this this has recently happened to me with would be the original G.I Joe, it was great to me when I was young but it's damn near unwatchable these days for me.
 
When I was younger, I loved watching Little Bear on Nick Jr. whenever possible. Somehow I lost interest in the show just before 2000, while it was still airing a few new episodes. For some awkward reason, I didn't pay any attention to them. I was about 14 years old at the time, so that may had to do with myself getting older.
 
What?:confused: I never watched Little Bear, but I outgrew Nick Jr. for the most part when I was 7. What would a 14 year old find entertaining about a Bernstein Bears knockoff? You must have found some hidden subtext that I didn't pick up. Little Bear sounding like Littlefoot doesn't do much to redeem himself in my eyes.
 
I know I really enjoyed the first few season of Yu-Gi-Oh!. When it moved off the weekdays and then moved to 11, 11:30 on Saturdays, I stopped watching it. I saw some of the episodes online, but I don't think I've seen the complete seasons 4 and 5.
 
I actully saw Little Bear at my daycare's house when I was little. The problem was that we saw it everyday, so most of the episodes I saw were on more than once or twice.
 
My little brother and sister are both fans of the show, so I wind up watching it pretty often with them. It's actually an okay show. What sets it apart from the rest of today's 'little kid' programming is that it doesn't talk down to the kids or even try to teach them anything. It's just a fun show about Little Bear's adventures with his friends.

The writing is intelligent, the animation is solid, and the music is top-notch. The characters are likeable enough, if a bit bland at times. There really isn't much to dislike about it. And no, it's not much like Berenstein Bears at all.

As for the actual subject of the thread, I lose interest in shows I like all the time. My interests are constantly fluctuating, though, so it doesn't usually bother me. One day I don't care, the next day I'll sit down and watch ten episodes in a row.
 
I recently realized that I don't truly like The Fairly Oddparents all that much anymore. I just liked it as a kid and it's kept me going through sheer nostalgia, but now my intrest in it is nil. I never watch reruns, only tuning in when a new episode is on. Even the older episodes, back when it was good, don't do much for me anymore.

It's a sad part of growing up, I guess. It happened with Rugrats too. While it's sad to let things go, you just have too.
 
I have this feeling every so often. Sometimes it goes away, but sometimes I can never truly love it again.

For instance, InuYasha used to be MY show, but recently I just can't get into it again.
 
I can't watch the early DBZ episodes anymore. It was a fun show, but I just can't do it now. Same deal with the 1st season episodes of The Simpsons, but then, I can't make myself watch the new Simpsons episodes either.
 
Frustrated if it's something I used to really enjoy, such as The Simpsons or South Park. But it's just easier to just let it go and remember the good times rather than torture yourself by forcing yourself to watch what it's become.
 
Agreeing with Fairly Odd Parents. I thought for sure that I'd grown to dislike the show due to it's gradual changes in writing, but even the older episodes that I used to watch while having a laugh with my friends years ago I find extremely difficult to sit through without being completely bored out of my skull. I'm not really disappointed in the fact, but it's a bit annoying to channel hop, see that it's on and not even be able to stay tuned in to have it as background noise at the least.
I doubt it has much to do with 'growing up', as I can even sit through old Thomas the Tank Engine (dead serious here) episodes and still be entertained. Really, there are very few shows I liked during childhood or my teen years that I don't find entertainment value in to this very day.
 
I'm also going to agree on FOP. I got so fed up with the screaming voices, obnoxious music and sound effects and immature, repeating jokes (such as man eggs, man skirts and Uranus) that I really can't even watch the old episodes anymore because I see this stuff there too, albeit to a lesser extent.
 
I feel that for several series, noticeably Pokemon. Deep down inside I never thought it was that great of a cartoon to begin with, but I love the action and I like the character designs. And I use to watch it religiously when I was in Japan. But then I started to just lose interest. And I watched all the movies too, but around the 9th one, they're all starting to become the same thing, and I don't think watching giant monsters blast each other is fun anymore.

Yu-Gi-Oh was an even better example. As I stopped liking that a long time ago. Reasons are that cool plot aside (a bond between an alter ego ancient spirit), I got tired of watching people play card games all the time. It took me awhile to realize that that's kind of stupid.

The reaction I get is that I can't believe I watched these shows in the first place.
 
Ya mean when they went to ancient Egypt?
It was alright. I watched it in Japan when it first aired, so I didn't really know what was going on.

EDIT: Dang, I need to proofread what I write.
 
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