Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2026!]

[CleverNickName]

If a show or game or book or comic series or whatever has a delay to "when it gets good" I am OUT. No, I will not play 20 hours of a bad game in order to get to the good game. i do not have that kind of time.

I hear this all the time, and it has never helped my level of enthusiasm. Not even once.

"I swear it gets good after the Xth episode!"

"You really need to see the first X films in the series, in this specific order, to really appreciate this one."

"You need to read the books first, then the series will make sense."

All of those statements can be true, but I'll never know. I've already walked away.

 

[Reynard]

Note that this isn't the same thing as a work being challenging. Challenging is okay, but it still has to be good. A great example for me is the second season of Andor: those first few episodes are slow and challenging but they aren't in any way bad. they ask something of you as a viewer, and that's okay. Good even.

I guess that is another complaint: waaaaay too much media caters to the attention deprived these days. please give me something I have to actually pay attention to. Please do not reiterate the plot to me 100 times.