What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[Edgar Ironpelt]

Over the years I've become less and less interested in anything involving "moving pictures" - TV, Movies, or Anime - and now I'm at the "refuse to partake" point.

I never cared for audiobooks, either.

I don't much like "masquerade" works - urban fiction based on the conceit of a secret supernatural world/society hiding from the mundanes. It's not an absolute barrier, but it is a barrier that a work has to be particularly good to overcome.

Horror. I Just Say No to Horror.

Collectable card games. For reasons others have given up-thread.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Series and Movies
US war/FBI/CIA movies/series - Its smacks of government propaganda to me (not going to go any further). The only one I made an exception for was Catch-22 at the insistence of my sister - and I'm glad I did. It is excellent.
To be fair I also watched Homeland but Claire Danes is outstanding and I loved the Rupert Friend character. EDIT: And Costa Ronin's character.
Most Disney Media - Their direction and writing seems shallow, immature and dumbed down.
Fast and Furious - I do not think I need to elaborate, also not into fast cars, besides maybe F1. I have guilty pleasure watching, this is just not one of them.

Miniatures/Warhammer - Too expensive to import, no space for display, no real market here for play.

Collectible Card Games - I collected Jyhad/V:tes for about a decade. Loved it but my weekly playgroup community disintegrated. Sadly, my box with several of my favourite decks was recently stolen. I have no intention to get back into another CCG.

Larping and Actual Play watching - Not my jam.

Reaction Vids - I do not need to watch your reactions videos to something. Nobody should. Sorry, not sorry.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

US war/FBI/CIA movies/series - Its smacks of government propaganda to me (not going to go any further). The only one I made an exception for was Catch-22 at the insistence of my sister - and I'm glad I did. It is excellent.
To be fair I also watched Homeland but Claire Danes is outstanding and I loved the Rupert Friend character. EDIT: And Costa Ronin's character.

Sadly Homeland definitely falls into the "basically propaganda" category despite its controlled cynicism re: the US government and CIA, because its portrayals of other people and places are horrifically racist and reflect propagandistic narratives of that era. The easiest example being its portrayal of Hamra Street in Beirut:

It's not one example or angle either.

I am personally done with anything about the FBI or CIA for similar reasons.

Like, if this was London, imagine if we did the same thing, we'd basically get:

TV series version*:

vs.

Real version:

* = Actually from Children of Men, using it as an example.

(You would of course, as Children of Men does, use a green filter and desaturation to make Britain look horrible, just like Homeland used the racist yellow filter and desaturation to make wherever it shot - Turkey I think - look rubbish.)

 

[dragoner]

Never would have considered those shows geek media.

 

[payn]

Sadly Homeland definitely falls into the "basically propaganda" category despite its controlled cynicism re: the US government and CIA, because its portrayals of other people and places are horrifically racist and reflect propagandistic narratives of that era. The easiest example being its portrayal of Hamra Street in Beirut:

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It's not one example or angle either.

I am personally done with anything about the FBI or CIA for similar reasons.

Like, if this was London, imagine if we did the same thing, we'd basically get:

TV series version*:
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vs.

Real version:
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* = Actually from Children of Men, using it as an example.

(You would of course, as Children of Men does, use a green filter and desaturation to make Britain look horrible, just like Homeland used the racist yellow filter and desaturation to make wherever it shot - Turkey I think - look rubbish.)

Oh Homeland. I had the same reaction as House. Its ok for a min, but eventually you realize that no matter how smart or good at their job this person is, nobody would put up with the liability. She has a mental disorder that requires medicine and the CIA puts her in charge of a foreign CIA station? Guess what happens? Cmon...

 

[Deset Gled]

Oh Homeland. I had the same reaction as House. Its ok for a min, but eventually you realize that no matter how smart or good at their job this person is, nobody would put up with the liability. She has a mental disorder that requires medicine and the CIA puts her in charge of a foreign CIA station? Guess what happens? Cmon...

House makes a bit more sense if you put in perspective that the place he works is actually a smaller suburban hospital. They have access to modern equipment, but they don't use bleeding edge tech or research grade stuff. He lives in an apartment, has no dependents, and IIRC doesn't even own a car. They talk in the show a couple times that the hospital actually has a budget specifically for his insurance and lawsuits, which ostensibly is a factor in his pay.

Which is a long way of saying: you're right. No major or notable hospital would take on his risk. Which is why he's a relatively poorly paid doctor at a smaller hospital. He has prestigious reputation, but not a matching career.

Admittedly, the show isn't amazingly consistent with that. And being a small hospital doesn't really track with the number of mysterious cases that show up there. Oh well. Maybe they have the medical equivalent of the Hellmouth there?

 

[MarkB]

Oh Homeland. I had the same reaction as House. Its ok for a min, but eventually you realize that no matter how smart or good at their job this person is, nobody would put up with the liability. She has a mental disorder that requires medicine and the CIA puts her in charge of a foreign CIA station? Guess what happens? Cmon...

I gave up on House after the episode when he took an MRI machine out of commission trying to prove he knew better than the people who operated it full-time. That was an act that actually put patients at risk, and I'd had enough of the character's crap at that point.

 

[payn]

I gave up on House after the episode when he took an MRI machine out of commission trying to prove he knew better than the people who operated it full-time. That was an act that actually put patients at risk, and I'd had enough of the character's crap at that point.

I didnt watch it start to finish but saw more like a handful of eps each seasons. I recall him driving a car through an actual house and was pretty much done with the idea of ever watching it start to finish.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Admittedly, the show isn't amazingly consistent with that. And being a small hospital doesn't really track with the number of mysterious cases that show up there. Oh well. Maybe they have the medical equivalent of the Hellmouth there?

That's just Excessively Interesting Events Syndrome. You see it constantly in any show about potentially exciting events (cop shows, medical shows, emergency rescue shows, you name it) where the apparent number of unusual and/or exciting events exceeds the expected no matter where or how big the agency is, because they're clearly packed in a relatively tight time period.

In medical shows that tends to be about unusual diseases and conditions; things that might happen, but even as a set would be immensely more spread out that the show depicts them as. Because the reality is most of the situations you're going to see come in are going to be the same-old same-old and that's deadly for a drama.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's just Excessively Interesting Events Syndrome. You see it constantly in any show about potentially exciting events (cop shows, medical shows, emergency rescue shows, you name it) where the apparent number of unusual and/or exciting events exceeds the expected no matter where or how big the agency is, because they're clearly packed in a relatively tight time period.

In medical shows that tends to be about unusual diseases and conditions; things that might happen, but even as a set would be immensely more spread out that the show depicts them as. Because the reality is most of the situations you're going to see come in are going to be the same-old same-old and that's deadly for a drama.

House at least tried to mitigate that somewhat by having him work in a very specialized practice. He didn't do "same-old same-old" work.