What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[cranberry]

A lot of geek media has maxed out the threat levels that the hero's face. Everything after that seems pale in comparison. Remember when the Borg were an existential threat? And the multiverse angle is getting old fast with superhero stories

 

[Gradine]

Agree re: The Magicians TV show characters for sure. Especially Penny and Alice who irritated me a ton at first. Quentin though never ceased being fist-clenchingly annoying!

Quentin was so deeply infuriating that I dropped out of The Magicians in a hurry. Considering what I've heard about the show's later questionable relationships with the concept of consent, I don't feel like I've missed out on much.

Leverage is another nerd show that seems tailor made for me but whenever I watch it I find myself... just... thoroughly unimpressed by the whole production.

 

[Pedantic]

Leverage is another nerd show that seems tailor made for me but whenever I watch it I find myself... just... thoroughly unimpressed by the whole production.

I quite like not really watching Leverage. It's ideal in the background, checking in and see where they are in the formula or like, sick daytime or laundry folding television

 

[Reynard]

Man, I do NOT understand how people can have shows on in the background. I can do it with podcasts and YT videos about stuff, but if it is a narrative, I can't half pay attention.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Man, I do NOT understand how people can have shows on in the background. I can do it with podcasts and YT videos about stuff, but if it is a narrative, I can't half pay attention.

I think it's very genre-dependent, and particularly how trope-heavy shows are, for me. There are lots of shows, maybe the majority of shows, which I could not background-"watch" whilst playing a game or doing housework or easy work or w/e. Any show which is complex or has strong acting or writing, I probably wouldn't/couldn't. But say, police procedurals with a fairly specific format, like Law & Order and the sub-L&Os, I dunno if I could watch some of those not as background, because they're insufficiently attention-holding, their plots too obvious, and so on. But they're kinda fun as background stuff. Comedies can be the same way, or deeply unserious stuff like Supernatural. And a lot of things you've seen before can easily become background-watching too, though if they're good enough it can be distracting. Like, most of TNG which I've seen all of at least twice (many episodes more), I could background-watch very easily, but some episodes are good enough that you'd rather watch them.

I will say podcasts have largely replaced "having the TV on" for me though when doing stuff like laundry/dishes/etc. though.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Anything Grimdark, these days.

I enjoyed Abercrombie at first but eventually just grew bored of how terrible everyone is. Have heard it is less desolate as it goes but meh. ASOIAF same. Enjoyed Game of Thrones (the book), but just couldnt finish the second one.

That, and at this point i figure there are enough great books/games/etc out there that i have no need to read stuff by crappy people. If someone has been shown to be a POS, I will not consume their work.

Same with anything featuring generative ai content. Even Clair Obscur, no matter how good it is.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Quentin was so deeply infuriating that I dropped out of The Magicians in a hurry. Considering what I've heard about the show's later questionable relationships with the concept of consent, I don't feel like I've missed out on much.

For what its worth (and it might well not matter to you) in the cases where that came up, there were usually one or more people calling out it as pretty messed up.

 

[Gradine]

For what its worth (and it might well not matter to you) in the cases where that came up, there were usually one or more people calling out it as pretty messed up.

Adding as a mental note for The Magicians: "at least one step above Wonder Woman '84"

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Nope to collecting merch of stuff I like (like posters, funcopops, special editions, etc.)

Nope to LARPing, though I do still muse it might be fun to try cosplay some character someday

No interest in playing FPS by console controller (though on computer I like), nor in sports video games at all.

My wife and daughter love fanfiction but that just doesn’t have any appeal for me.

The animated Star Wars is so off putting in the aesthetic and movement I just … cannot.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Adding as a mental note for The Magicians: "at least one step above Wonder Woman '84"

Given the show spent a fair amount of time showing that powerful magic use could be, well, pretty messed up in different ways, that one was bound to come up some of the time, and as noted, a number of the characters had would could best be described as issues.