A supposedly great thing that I'll never watch again- Great media that left you cold

[Zardnaar]

Think I read Discworld and left it at that.

 

[trappedslider]

Big text!

Yeah, that was his first. I don’t like it either. Not even the same type of book as the rhythm he later settled into. Never got to the end of it. But it changes massively as he figures out what sort of book he wants to write. He wrote so many and some are awesome and others aren’t.

Any recommendations? I'm willing to give it another shot.

 

[embee]

When I read that, I thought you were talking about Season 6 of Buffy!

Indeed I was. Magic is the most insidious drug of all...

EXCEPT FOR SPEED!

Part of my "Joss Whedon is grotesquely overrated" belief.

 

[Zardnaar]

Indeed I was.

Part of my "Joss Whedon is grotesquely overrated" belief.

I think he's overated but still good.

Firefly was awesome.

He's a lot better than other hacks like JJ Abrams.

 

[Morrus]

Think I read Discworld and left it at that

Well after 41 books I don’t blame you. But he kinda made that decision for you.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Indeed I was.

Part of my "Joss Whedon is grotesquely overrated" belief.

I will totally go to the mat for season 6 of Buffy.

I mean .... bored now? Skin?

(I'm not going to put in the gif. This is a family website.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Well after 41 books I don’t blame you. But he kinda made that decision for you.

I liked it but it didn't grab me enough to go further.

I had an older friend at the time basically recomming and supplying a lot of Fantasy and that's when I was reading Eddings, Feist, Shannara, Hobbit, Tad Williams etc.

Didn't dislike it just didn't love it shrugs. Didn't do it for me.

Gene Wolfe bored me senseless.

 

[prabe]

Any recommendations? I'm willing to give it another shot.

What the Pratchett fans I know (including me) have taken to recommending is to start with "Guards! Guards!" It's the first book about Ankh-Morpork's Nightwatch, introduces lots of new characters.

 

[Retreater]

Willow discovering that drugs are bad

When I read that, I thought you were talking about Season 6 of Buffy!

And here I thought you were talking about the escapades of Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer.

 

[innerdude]

This is going to hard to explain, but it's top-of-the-mind awareness for me right now ----

Tomb Raider


But maybe not in the way you think.

So, I'm just finishing the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider . . . . Yeah, I know, it's been 7 years, so sue me. I'm a mid-40s family man with a career in financial technology, it's not like I have all the time in the world to game these days.

And there's just so much wrong with this game --- the completely out-of-context, over-the-top violence of the protagonist. The rampant misogyny evidenced in the deplorable plot. The entire lack of enough actual, you know, tombs to explore.

Despite my age, I never got into the "original" Tomb Raider games (basically, TR:1 through TR:6) back in the late '90s, mostly because I never owned a PlayStation and the PC versions were kind of crap.


But I completely fell in love with the "minor reboot" versions that came out in the mid-2000s --- Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and Tomb Raider: Underworld (though Underworld was a total rush job with a million things to nitpick).


However, my enjoyment was never really about the character of Lara Croft as protagonist. I liked the games because they strongly emphasized exploration as their primary function. The fighting/violence, while still present, was de-emphasized and mostly in the background.

So it's one of those things where if someone were to ask me, "Do you like Tomb Raider?" I kind of have to respond with lots of caveats and provisos.

"Well, yes, but really only this one, small, niche part of the entire franchise, basically 2 (or 2.5) of the video games that came along in the middle of its run. The first two movies were amusingly forgettable at best and laughable at worst. The third movie (2018) was a little better, but still wasted most of its initial promise with an absolutely horrible last 1/3 of the film. I don't really care about any of the games prior to 2006, and don't really care about any of them after 2013. But, yeah, I guess I still sort of like Tomb Raider?"