Which Film/TV/Game/Book is to better abandoned early?

Which bit of entertainment is much better if you stop before the end?

Stop watching Buffy at the end of Season 5.

Turn off Metal Gear Solid 2 as soon as you've completed The Tanker.

Switch off Toy Story 3 as they are heading towards the furnace.

The Simpsons - somewhere round season 11 or 12
Half-life 2 - just before Ravenholm
The Matrix - 2nd film
Chainsaw Man (manga) - as much as I still like reading every new chapter I think the ending of part 1 (100+ chapters in) after Power saves Denji before going back to hell and Makima gets what she deservesl would have been fine possibly just after Nayuta turns up

Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

still wrote:Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

You don't like fantasy and find elves/goblins boring, but tried several times and once got to within 100 pages of the end?

Sounds like the problem is with you.

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

You don't like fantasy and find elves/goblins boring, but tried several times and once got to within 100 pages of the end?

Sounds like the problem is with you.

I was 14 Moggy. It was supposed to be good.

still wrote:

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

You don't like fantasy and find elves/goblins boring, but tried several times and once got to within 100 pages of the end?

Sounds like the problem is with you.

I was 14 Moggy. It was supposed to be good.

At 14 most people are fully capable of thinking "yeah, that's not for me", without multiple attempts - one of which being over 1000 pages read.

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

You don't like fantasy and find elves/goblins boring, but tried several times and once got to within 100 pages of the end?

Sounds like the problem is with you.

I was 14 Moggy. It was supposed to be good.

At 14 most people are fully capable of thinking "yeah, that's not for me", without multiple attempts - one of which being over 1000 pages read.

Maybe. Maybe I wasn’t most people. I had a pretty gooseberry fool childhood to be honest. At 14/15 I was reading everything I could get my hands on by Golding, Greene, Lawrence, Steinbeck, Orwell, Huxley, Hardy etc etc. Tolkien didn’t really cut it. But those books were my solace. When I went to university I was too traumatised to talk to virtually anyone. Took me decades to overcome, nearly…, horrendous facial dysmorphia, clinical depression and chronic anxiety. These days I’m ‘just’ an alcoholic. But, believe me, that’s been a long journey to find the small peace that I have. I do apologise for not having the intelligence that you so clearly do have.

still wrote:

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

You don't like fantasy and find elves/goblins boring, but tried several times and once got to within 100 pages of the end?

Sounds like the problem is with you.

I was 14 Moggy. It was supposed to be good.

At 14 most people are fully capable of thinking "yeah, that's not for me", without multiple attempts - one of which being over 1000 pages read.

Maybe. Maybe I wasn’t most people. I had a pretty gooseberry fool childhood to be honest. At 14/15 I was reading everything I could get my hands on by Golding, Greene, Lawrence, Steinbeck, Orwell, Huxley, Hardy etc etc. Tolkien didn’t really cut it. But those books were my solace. When I went to university I was too traumatised to talk to virtually anyone. Took me decades to overcome, nearly…, horrendous facial dysmorphia, clinical depression and chronic anxiety. These days I’m ‘just’ an alcoholic. But, believe me, that’s been a long journey to find the small peace that I have. I do apologise for not having the intelligence that you so clearly do have.

Yeah, all that was very clear from your first post in here.

I'm sorry you had a gooseberry fool childhood. But that's not really anything to do with anything I posted.

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:

Moggy wrote:

still wrote:Book, obviously:

Lord of the sodding rings.

I remember trying to read this several times and once getting within 100 pages of the end. I couldn’t read any more unless, possibly, at gun point. Fantasy bollocks! For me, you can keep your elves and goblins, it just bores me to tears. (And not happy ones.) Sorry, oh devout fans…

(I realise this is not exactly what the original post is asking for but it is an opportunity to get it off my chest…)

You don't like fantasy and find elves/goblins boring, but tried several times and once got to within 100 pages of the end?

Sounds like the problem is with you.

I was 14 Moggy. It was supposed to be good.

At 14 most people are fully capable of thinking "yeah, that's not for me", without multiple attempts - one of which being over 1000 pages read.

Maybe. Maybe I wasn’t most people. I had a pretty gooseberry fool childhood to be honest. At 14/15 I was reading everything I could get my hands on by Golding, Greene, Lawrence, Steinbeck, Orwell, Huxley, Hardy etc etc. Tolkien didn’t really cut it. But those books were my solace. When I went to university I was too traumatised to talk to virtually anyone. Took me decades to overcome, nearly…, horrendous facial dysmorphia, clinical depression and chronic anxiety. These days I’m ‘just’ an alcoholic. But, believe me, that’s been a long journey to find the small peace that I have. I do apologise for not having the intelligence that you so clearly do have.

Yeah, all that was very clear from your first post in here.

I'm sorry you had a gooseberry fool childhood. But that's not really anything to do with anything I posted.

well i'd suggest stopping star trek and wars before you even start

Heroes - work on the basis that it's a one season show and you'll be good.

shy guy 64 wrote:well i'd suggest stopping star trek and wars before you even start

Don't watch Westworld past season two.

Rex Kramer wrote:Heroes - work on the basis that it's a one season show and you'll be good.

It wasn't even very good then.

Godzilla wrote:Switch off Toy Story 3 as they are heading towards the furnace.

Wait, what? That's strawberry floating bleak

Final Fantasy 8, just stop at the end of disc 1 and you’ll be fine.

Lost (TV series). Brilliant for the first five series; but sack off series six. It's not terrible but not much gets resolved in a satisfactory way.

Doctor Who. "New Who" is very good for series one through ten, but things really go downhill - in terms of the story plots and character lines - from series eleven. Hopefully the next series (fourteen/one) will be a return to form.

more heat than light wrote:

Godzilla wrote:Switch off Toy Story 3 as they are heading towards the furnace.

Wait, what? That's strawberry floating bleak

I assumed that's a joke

Toy Story 3 has a wonderful ending

Lost - Don't get me wrong - I love this show and will defend it until my dying days - but it should've ended earlier, probably at the end of S4.
Dexter - Another one which should've finished with S4.