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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Worrgrendel" data-source="post: 8051393" data-attributes="member: 6801210">No. I do not have another term that fits the bill but I think "hate watch" overshoots the mark by a mile. So let's go through the "why's?"I love my wife and vise versa and we have a lot of interests in common. That being said I have shows I like that she does not and she has shows that she likes that I do not. We do not force the other to watch shows we do not have interest in. That's leading down the road to therapy and marriage issues. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have done this one time for as long as I can remember and I have regretted it for every day since. When the live action movie The Last Airbender came out my wife and I and a large group of friends all went to see it. My wife, bless her heart was the only one of us smart enough to leave the movie 5 minutes into it and get her money back. She had to sit and listen to us Nerd Rage about it for hours. Again, if it's that bad why continue to watch it?Edit: damn it. I did do it again. Curse you Rise of Skywalker! Man what a dumpster fire. Why did I do that?!? To my credit it had been about 15 years in between screw ups.See, this to me does not fall even remotely close into the category of "hate". I have given many shows a (long) chance and have been rewarded on some (Legends of Tomorrow) and not so much on others (The Cape). Some shows start out slow. On all of them that I have gone past an episode I never really felt like I hated them. They just never scratched my itch. I have ended several shows only part way through the first episode or movies only a little bit into them. Basically, I hit the "I hate it point" and that was the end of it. No need to go any further. Life's too short.If you are using movies as reference for educational/historical purposes I think you can find a better (more accurate, less biased, not Hollywooded up) source for that. To the understanding of cultural norms: I would hardly classify Twilight as a "cultural norm". Those books/movies turned back teenage social skills by decades by normalizing abuse (both physical and emotional) because its portrayal is deliberately apologetic for it. It exploits behaviors that most people would consider unethical and wrong as romantic and sexual, and she accepts all of those horrible behaviors because she thinks shes in love and that makes it all okay. Oh and suicide is okay too kids, look Bella tried it. She just wasn't that good at it. Unfortunately for the rest of the world. But, hey kids! You can do it better! Just don't be a loser like her!Sorry for the rant. Basically if I am close enough on a daily basis to need to "know my enemy" I should be rethinking who I am hanging out with.</blockquote>

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