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Have you ever watched a show because you hoped it would be good, even though it really wasn't? The kind of show that had potential in some way, either in the characters or the world building or whatever, but it just never quite gelled into the show you thought it could be yet you tune in week after week anyway?

More and more I'm finding that the show I'm watching is not the one that airing, but rather the shiny version I see it becoming (if the acting was better and the writing less flawed and the plot tighter etc etc etc) and then, as a result, being disappointed. The shows aren't grabbing my interest enough to truly be fannish about and fulfilling any of my needs that way so I'm just left watching and sighing over what might have been.

Sometimes I keep watching, other times I give up or the show is canceled or not renewed and just fades away. And every time it's just disappointing.

(I started to list all the current or recent that fit into this category for me and was so depressed by its sheer size I deleted it. *sighs*)