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.

 

[Reynard]

I tried Dungeon Crawler Carl. I did. It just did not resonate with me.

But I guess some people really want to see it made into a TTRPG: Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable

 

[Thomas Shey]

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.

With SF TV shows that would exclude a lot of excellent shows; I'd go as far as to say almost all of them take at least a few episodes to get their feet under them.

 

[Reynard]

With SF TV shows that would exclude a lot of excellent shows; I'd go as far as to say almost all of them take at least a few episodes to get their feet under them.

That first season of TNG. Man, if Farpoint had not been so good, that show would have lasted half a season.

 

[gnarlygninja]

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.

Most of the people I've ever known who disagree with this are either people who are going to watch ~8 hours of tv every day anyway or people who just have the TV on a second monitor while they play video games. It doesn't really need to be good, just on, being good is a bonus.