Varekai79 t1_jd32km0 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:16 PM

True Blood. By the time the witches show up, I was like, "yeah I'm out."

Star Trek: TNG's final season 7 was bonkers as well. There are some amazing episodes in there and an incredible series finale, but some of the stuff in between was truly off the rails where you can tell the writers had just run out of ideas.

SirFritz t1_jd3omeo wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:42 PM

Almost the whole season is full of episodes centered around the main characters family members. It's just bizarre. And then there's that troi/riker/worf love triangle..

Varekai79 t1_jd3p7gk wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:46 PM

Oh yeah, all these rando family members that we had never heard of before suddenly came out of the woodwork. Even a fake long-lost son for Picard, which is kind of hilarious that we now have his real long-lost son on Star Trek: Picard.

ElectricPeterTork t1_jd3htta wrote on March 21, 2023 at 3:59 PM

They were spread too thin.

At the same time, essentially the same crew were producing TNG S7, DS9 S2, Creating Voyager and gearing up for its first season, and writing Generations. IIRC, it was so hectic, while they were concentrating on Generations, they forgot to write a finale for TNG, so All Good Things was knocked out as an afterthought.

They had also stopped taking outside submissions by that time, so that cut a source of ideas.

twbrn t1_jd52e9r wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:56 PM

DS9 had the benefit of a separate showrunner and writers IIRC, but yes, the TNG crew were essentially trying to double-up handling both TNG and Generations at the same time.

That said though, the writers have also talked about how after seven seasons they were basically running out of plotlines, finding it increasingly difficult to come up with something that they either hadn't already done, or it had been decided previously that they weren't going to do.