Unpopular Geek Media Opinions

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The reviewers and critics I most often hear say this and the communities where it most often comes up tend to be marked and marginalized people: queer, disabled, not white, etc. not surprising - they’re more likely to be conscious of having politics (if necessarily having politics). They’re also most likely to say things like “I agree with the values on display here but this story makes an utter hash of consequences or implications in ways A and B.”

Which is one reason I spent reading time with such folks.

Yeah, I have had my eyes opened to a lot of things that slipped by me in the past by broadening my circle of acquaintances and friends. It's been a growth experience, to put it mildly.

 

[Reynard]

Cannon is silly to worry about.

Cannon are dangerous, especially at sea. I'd worry.

 

[Reynard]

I mean, he wasn't entirely wrong. There's been a serious uptick in that concept in fiction, speculation and personal beliefs that can be pretty much traced back to that movie. Not "take the world by storm" serious, but significant.

Indeed. The "simulation" nonsense is as pervasive as it has ever been.

 

[Parmandur]

Tron came out over 15 years before the Matrix, and pushed a way stronger form of Platonism (albeit not a Gnoatic form).

 

[Autumnal]

Yeah, I have had my eyes opened to a lot of things that slipped by me in the past by broadening my circle of acquaintances and friends. It's been a growth experience, to put it mildly.

Oh yes. It’s not always comfortable (<— understatement), but immensely worthwhile. And for someone who’s now 58, it’s great to keep discovering things to know and think about, new ways of expressing ideas, the whole deal. I’ve long had as a high priority not ending up as one of those people trapped in the intellectual and artistic world of their teens and twenties.

 

[MGibster]

Tron came out over 15 years before the Matrix, and pushed a way stronger form of Platonism (albeit not a Gnoatic form).

I don't remember Tron suggesting we all lived in a simulation and none of this was real. I do remember it teaching me that Master Control was a real jerk.

End of line.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't remember Tron suggesting we all lived in a simulation and none of this was real.

The opposite: our world is the higher World of Ideas, and the cyber world is the lower world receiving emanating from the higher reality, and one of the gods even descends into the lower world to save it.

Tron and hia buddies are like the humans in Clash of the Titans, while the programmers and corporate suits are like the gods playing chess.

 

[Mad_Jack]

"You are not a 'real fan' unless you have consumed all of X and insist that you love Y" hurts geeky franchises more than any Hollywood suit ever has.

Gatekeepers are for castles.

On a related note, whenever I find people arguing over who's the bigger fan of something, I generally end the argument by reminding them that, unless they're over 8 feet tall or 900 pounds, they are most likely not the "World's Biggest Fan" of X...

 

[payn]

On a related note, whenever I find people arguing over who's the bigger fan of something, I generally end the argument by reminding them that, unless they're over 8 feet tall or 900 pounds, they are most likely not the "World's Biggest Fan" of X...

Are you talking about Bill Braski?

 

[JEB]

While I think Buffy should have ended at season 5, my low opinions of seasons 6 and 7 were no doubt formed in part because I watched it on DVD in quick sessesion rather than on television as it aired. You don't have time to digest the episodes and since a week hasn't passed everything is fresh in your mind so it sometimes seems repetitive. I don't know if I'd be so harsh had I watched those seasons when it originally aired.

My family and I watched them when they initially aired, and we still definitely didn't enjoy those seasons as much as earlier ones. I suppose bingeing them might have made it an even worse experience, though...