Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

Overrated: Uncanny X-Men after the death of Jean Grey. It was effing dynamite before that, but after Jean's suicide it really kind of sputters out over the course of the next few years. Much of the chemistry that had been growing between characters starts to get staler and staler. As much as I respect Chris Claremont (particularly his Avengers Annual #10), he ended up being with the title too long.
I'll pretty much agree and I started reading the Uncanny X-men not long before the Mutant Massacre was published. In my opinion, the Uncanny X-men went downhill a bit after Byrne left, but I still found it enjoyable through the Mutant Massacre and X-Men vs Fantastic Four. I did manage to stick it out through the Fall of the Mutants storyline due to a few interesting bits and tried to give the X-Men a chance for a bit beyond that, but ending up dropping the title.
 
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It would have been truly interesting if we had them bonking.
That likely would have resulted in the continuation of the Skywalker line.

Guys, the one point that is fairly consistent across the films is that Kylo was a petulant man-child. Nobody should be wishing him on anyone as a romantic, much less sexual, partner.

Petulant-man child doesn't get the girl. That's rubbish.
 
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Guys, the one point that is fairly consistent across the films is that Kylo was a petulant man-child. Nobody should be wishing him on anyone as a romantic, much less sexual, partner.
A petulant violent man-child. Definitely a no.

Edit - They wanted to end the Skywalker line, in the films, so my poorly articulated point was that it wasn't going to happen.
 

Guys, the one point that is fairly consistent across the films is that Kylo was a petulant man-child. Nobody should be wishing him on anyone as a romantic, much less sexual, partner.

Petulant-man child doesn't get the girl. That's rubbish.
See, you say that, and I understand why - but the one fan fiction I have ever read had a love triangle with Kylo Ren, General Hux, and a self-insert character. I will not say who wrote it, other than it was a married woman with children who has had a geekier job than most of us. But I read it because of knowing them, not because I was enamoured for the the subject. Some women definitely wanted Reylo.
 

See, you say that, and I understand why - but the one fan fiction I have ever read had a love triangle with Kylo Ren, General Hux, and a self-insert character. I will not say who wrote it, other than it was a married woman with children who has had a geekier job than most of us. But I read it because of knowing them, not because I was enamoured for the the subject. Some women definitely wanted Reylo.
You also have a distressing number of women thinking that Joker/Harley is a love for the ages. Doesn't make them correct, though.
 

Overrated franchise: Every fantasy series with books the size of a phone book that still requires 11 volumes to tell a complete story

Underrated franchise: Stand alone novels and, especially, short stories
I just admit these days phone book sized books are a turn off. I’d rather read three really good shorter books than one time. Or I will try to read something that is a classic instead
 

Guys, the one point that is fairly consistent across the films is that Kylo was a petulant man-child. Nobody should be wishing him on anyone as a romantic, much less sexual, partner.

Petulant-man child doesn't get the girl. That's rubbish.
I think the reason people may have wanted that is the actors and the characters, for whatever reason, had chemistry on screen. I mean Han was a jerk but had chemistry with Leia. Definitely the way they did it with Kyle and Rey in the third movie made zero sense but from the first to second you could almost see it. Romance in movies doesn’t have to fit what we want for partners in life. Sometimes people connect who you think wouldn’t. Both are fictional characters so we aren’t saddling real people with a bad relationship if a less than savory character gets the girl. Obviously Rey is the better person. There is no argument there
 

I think the reason people may have wanted that is the actors and the characters, for whatever reason, had chemistry on screen. I mean Han was a jerk but had chemistry with Leia. Definitely the way they did it in the third movie made zero sense but from the first to second you could almost see it. Romance in movies doesn’t have to fit what we want for partners in life. Sometimes people connect who you think wouldn’t. Both are fictional characters so we aren’t saddling real people with a bad relationship if a less than savory character gets the girl. Obviously Rey is the better person. There is no argument there
 

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