When did VALIANT jump the shark?
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- sonicdan
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Oh, I'd say around Turok Evolution...
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I agree with this....dellamorte wrote:It's hard for me to nail down a time. Most books were good post Unity for a while. A&A should have been cancelled after BWS left since nobody else could handle those characters right. Harbinger was good until Lapham left then tolerable until #25. Chen's art was great but the story just wasn't strong after that. Shadowman is the only book I can say never sucked. Magnus, EW, Bloodshot seemed to hold together the pretty well. Rags work on Turok was great. Dr Mirage was a fun book and Bernards art was beautiful to look at. Everything else was kind of hit or miss.
and BTW, the "afro kid" still is creepy....
you know he is out there somewhere.... just lurking....
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I would say Birth quake.
Most of the series had up and down (shadow man is i too think the only one that was constant in quality thanks Bob hall), true harbinger up to 25 was great, post unity had its share of great stories, malev war and it tighten the universe up t'il chaos effect which was great but afterwards things fell apart.
Still some nice ideas came put all was lost sadly.
Most of the series had up and down (shadow man is i too think the only one that was constant in quality thanks Bob hall), true harbinger up to 25 was great, post unity had its share of great stories, malev war and it tighten the universe up t'il chaos effect which was great but afterwards things fell apart.
Still some nice ideas came put all was lost sadly.
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Er, duh... but I wasn't looking for anyone to say it out loud! A simple "Ayyyy" would have sufficed. (like behind my name last post?)X-O HoboJoe wrote:Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days . . .slym2none wrote:I'm wondering how many people actually know where the term "jump the shark" came from, without having to look it up.
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WTF? I thought this was another contest to win a "Screw YOU" book!slym2none wrote:Er, duh... but I wasn't looking for anyone to say it out loud! A simple "Ayyyy" would have sufficed. (like behind my name last post?)X-O HoboJoe wrote:Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days . . .slym2none wrote:I'm wondering how many people actually know where the term "jump the shark" came from, without having to look it up.
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Heheheheh...X-O HoboJoe wrote:Stop that.slym2none wrote:THAT is sig-worthy right there.....X-O HoboJoe wrote:Ah well, ask a stupid question, then any answer by me will probably suffice.
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They had a reunion special last year and Gary Marshall talked about that phrase. He said it's odd because the show was still doing well for a long time after that infamous scene.X-O HoboJoe wrote:Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days . . .slym2none wrote:I'm wondering how many people actually know where the term "jump the shark" came from, without having to look it up.
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Had completely forgotten that. Been a long time since I've seen an episode. Is it even in sydication anymore?X-O HoboJoe wrote:Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days . . .slym2none wrote:I'm wondering how many people actually know where the term "jump the shark" came from, without having to look it up.
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It still pops up occasionally on Dish Network, but nothing on a regular timeslot.Second_Death wrote:Had completely forgotten that. Been a long time since I've seen an episode. Is it even in sydication anymore?X-O HoboJoe wrote:Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days . . .slym2none wrote:I'm wondering how many people actually know where the term "jump the shark" came from, without having to look it up.
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