Just as examples:
- I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
- I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
- Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.
Social media is the devil. I have Lemmy and that’s enough
Agreed.
I’ve heard “I don’t trust people who don’t have instagram” more than once, but the last time was in 2021, so I dunno how’s the current sentiment
Nowadays it’s “I don’t trust people who don’t have PixelFed”.
/s
I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.
I tried the first episode but barely got a quarter way through. Made me too sad
Aw, but it gets so much worse!
Yeah, the first and last episode aren’t even like the rest of the series, and include lots of weird stuff, the story which forms the framework… I’ve enjoyed them more than the middle part.
“This art made me feel things so it’s bad”
“This art made me feel things that made me no longer wish to consume it”.
FTFY
“Not for me” != “bad”
And then there’s me who watched the entire thing in 1 day.
Hmm, it seems there’s also S2 now.
you don’t know what you don’t know.
nothing in this thread so far screams weird to me yet.
I can’t make it more than an hour though the first Lord Of The Rings without falling asleep. It just doesn’t fancy me.
I have two of yours. honestly I just don’t care what I might have or not seen. there is just to much that flies by to fast in modern times and everything is fractured. Everything that is a thing now likely was never watched by a majority of people. its not like when the broadcasters were the only game in town. even with cable their stuff was seen by more eyeballs because it was available. I remember folks who felt it was a badge of honor to not see stuff everyone has seen. like its a wonderful life.
I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.
Star wars and Lord of the Rings
I’ve seen enough clips and overviews and “facts about” clips to understand that I am not interested enough to invest the time it would take to watch either series. The story of the production of Star Wars is very interesting, the actual story the movies tell, not so much.
Not quite what you are asking, but the first time I saw the video from 9-11 of a plane crashing into a building was around 2014-2015 when I moved to NYC. The people I was working with there couldn’t seem to believe that I had never seen it.
I have only seen the first four episodes of Breaking Bad, I just could not get into it.
I’ve watched all of Breaking Bad, except the last episode.
Breaking Bad was okay, but not great. I did like Better Call Saul a whole lot better. The cinematography in that show (BCS) is amazing!
I wasn’t a fan, but my shitty and abusive ex loved it.
I forced myself to watch it because everyone said it was so good - it wasn’t. It just never got any better. There was good scenes in it but as a whole it was boring as hell.
Seasons 4 & 5 are fucking nuts
Star Wars. I saw maybe 20 minutes of one film of the original trilogy, and 10 minutes of one film of the second trilogy, none of the rest. It’s beyond me.
As an adult I have watched some films, not all of them and not sure which, but I still don’t really like it. It’s like a zoo show for kids in space. I really don’t get the appeal for an adult.
I do plan on playing the Kotor games, maybe that would change my mind a bit.
Those and The Mandalorian would probably be more up your alley as an adult. Also I’m sure folks will want to include Andor on that list, but I found it to be boring mostly.
I agree. If I want to watch proper space shenanigans with Muppets targeting a more adult audience, I’ll watch Farscape.
Oh Farscape <3 <3 <3
The show that taught me English because I couldn’t wait for the subtitles back then! I rewatch it every couple of years, what a fantastic show! It was a long wait to get a proper conclusion when Season 5 was cancelled.
How did learning English from a show known for inventing fictional alien slang words go? Were you dropping “frell” and “yotz” into conversations?
we actually use those with my friends, as we all enjoyed the show ^^
Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”
I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.
I’ve read the books, and I had no intention of going through the pain again, watching the show.
I’ve never seen or read Game of Thrones either, despite also being a big fantasy fan. I just never got around to it when it was popular, and after hearing how it collapsed in upon itself at the end I don’t feel the need to.
I’ve tried multiple times, but it doesn’t gel with me. Alt history, like you said, bit also ‘lotr with abundant sex’ just doesn’t sit well with me.
And then the world was devastated by the badly written ending, and I felt vindicated without even having skin in the game.
I don’t really think that LoTR and GoT have that much in common other than both being popular and fantasy. LoTR is high-magic, focuses mostly on a small group or two of people, is done in the context of an impending apocalypse, and follows a quest. GoT is low-magic, follows many different story threads, and is mostly people navigating their political and social environments.
They both have dragons, both have some important characters be nobles, and both are kinda faux-European, but I can’t think of all that many things that really tie the two together. I’d say that most fantasy that I’ve read is significantly closer to LoTR than GoT is.
That being said, I’m basing this on the books.
Oh yeah Tal, my reference point for fantasy is only LOTR. So the people telling me to watch Got because I was a big Tolkien fan might have instilled the comparison in me.
But I lacked the staying power to get a proper comparison
I loved the books, but just kept wincing trying to watch the TV series, never made it through.
GoT’s rise to popularity is almost as crazy as its sharp fall into irrelevance.
Honestly odd to me. I mean its expected for any show to become irrelevant when it ends, thats normal. But the way it was hated on i dont get. The ending was exactly what was foreshadowed since the first season, but people were still confused and angry as if it was an illogical story progression.
I actually rewatched the whole thing starting last week and finished it today. All the characters make sense, they did what the always said they would. Maybe that was boring for people.
While the ending is exactly what I expected it to be, I think the last season was rushed. But I agree, I don’t get the hatred people gave it, I had stopped watching a few seasons back, but watched the last one because people around me were watching it, but from the books it was fairly clear that that was the ending all along.
It’s the expedience of it. It also started moving into dumb tropes starting in season 5, only worsening as it continued.
This Pitch Meeting really sums up the issues: https://youtu.be/jAhKOV3nImQ
Main Pitch Meeting: https://youtu.be/BASjRxn5QFU
One trope that I really hate are these bypasses where characters almost meet but then miss each other. Happens way to often in this show.
Thanks for the links :)
Fair enough, if you didn’t notice a drop in quality or whiplash character/plot developments all I can say is that I’m kinda jealous.
I will disagree with you on the fact that it’s normal for any show to become irrelevant when it ends. Shows that are good enough and capture audiences the way GoT did initially can go on to become much more and maintain relevance potentially for decades. It’s rare, sure, but I think the opportunity was there with GoT.
I’ve never seen 2001: Space Odyssey, I already tried watching it multiple times, but always end up falling asleep.
Similarly, I’ve never managed to finish Firefly, usually watch a couple of episodes and forget about it.
Also up until very recently (less than 2 years ago) I had never played any Call of Duty games.
I’ve only seen the first two parts of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
You monster. That’s somehow even worse than not seeing it at all
I watched the 3rd only for the sake of completion. I found the whole trilogy just okay. Fine as a summer movie but that’s it
“I bow to no one.”
…or whatever the hell Aragorn says when he kills Sauron.
I haven’t read or seen LOTR. Everything I know about it has been pieced together from parodies and references in other media. The magic the gathering crossover set was probably the biggest exposure I’ve had.
It would be interesting to get your take on LOTR and see how close you are to the actual story.
Ill news is an ill guest
Pokemon here. I played go for like 20 mins. I was in highschool and super busy when the first came out and never got interested.
Game of thrones and a ton of shows (when I lived in the US. I’ve been living in Japan the last 10 years so I have no clue what’s current).
Also hawk tuah and such. I don’t have TikTok or basically any social media anymore so no clue what’s going on.
I watched the very first episode of The Walking Dead and realized I didn’t like zombie stuff and didn’t want to get pulled into a show about it. No matter how much people were raving about it. Just not for me.
I also quit The West Wing about halfway through the first episode.
The west wing is very good.
Does the west wing get better? Similar to OP I watched the first few episodes and couldn’t stand it. It came off to me like the typical big network show of that time, with unrelatable characters, cheesy dialogue, and cliched storylines.
Yet I’ve seen lots of praise for the show…and memes with Martin Sheen’s character that I like. Would you say there’s a point when the show starts to get into its groove?
Eh, I don’t know. Been many years since and thus I don’t remember many details, but indeed the first few episodes where not very gripping for me, and the whole show started being very good after I had familiarized myself with the cast first.
I would say that the characters and the dialog are the strong points of the show. If that doesn’t click for you, then maybe skip it.
It is in a “typical” Aaron Sorkin fashion, at least from a couple of decades ago as I have not watched modern shows of him like Facebook etc. I did like it. I also liked very much, maybe more, the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip which had similar style and dialogs, which I would heartily recommend to anyone liking the style.
