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I don't understand why anyone likes this show. The dialog, jokes, and plots are all extremely cliche.
If you didn't make it past the first few episodes, it's totally understandable, but each one in the season gets better than the last
I made it through the middle of the 3rd season just because i was using it as mindless tv, and i completely disagree. It started off bad, stayed at that level for the first season or two, and then tanked and became straight garbage.
I can't disagree with the dialogue and jokes (it's still McFarlane); but the plots are very on par with Star Trek.
I'm an old Trekkie and I've liked a lot of Trek fanfic over the years, but I never had much of a taste for his quest to do Trek with enough of the serial numbers filed off and enough bro jokes about dicks and beer forced in to keep it classifiable as "parody" and therefore lawyer-proof.
I personally enjoy the implied sexual abuse as women MacFarlane is dating appear and then disappear from the show once he’s done with them. It really gets my starship engines going.
Well said! Calling people sexual abusers based on literally nothing is great for upvotes!
I don’t care about upvotes, dude’s just creepy and uses power dynamics to influence partners. If I cared about upvotes, I’d have posted my own comment, ya doof.