GregChristopher
First Post
I have not read the novels, nor do I care to. I gave up reading fiction when I started college, over a decade ago now. Note that I didn't say I gave up reading. I read voluminous amounts of material every day. I read huge quantities of non-fiction, both on the web and in actual books. And I read a ton of blogs (is that fiction? Eh... maybe). And I read RPG books, which are about creating your own fiction but I don't think they qualify as such.
I have no doubt that it is a good story. What I have heard in passing sounds interesting; a world with elongated seasons, clever politics, etc. My brother is a big fiction reader and he assures me it is so. He says the same about the Sharpe's Rifles series as well; another bit of fiction I can't be bothered to read. So why don't I read fiction? Because of the long long long string of movies that made me regret ever reading the book.
Jurassic Park was great. I bet I read the book a dozen times as a 13 year old. I can barely remember any of it now. Just a few tidbits like a scene where they hide behind a waterfall from a T-Rex. You see, once they make something into a movie or a mini-series, all that reading just fades away. It means nothing anymore. It gets replaced in my brain with much more memorable imagery. And most of the time, the characters I imagined in my head don't look like the actors they picked anyway.
As an adult, I have developed a patience I never had as a younger man. I don't go see hardly any movies in the theater anymore. Netflix and premium channels provide me with more movies than I could ever care to watch. Why do I need the newest shiny when I have the shiny of the past 30 years at my fingertips and I have barely scratched the surface?
Though I suppose the biggest reason I am not going to watch Game of Thrones is this: HBO's Rome
I got addicted to this show. It consumed my Sunday night for a long long time. I would sacrifice things for this show. I would rush home for this show. I would move mountains for this show. I loved this show. And I won't be sucked into that
again.
Serial releases are a marketing ploy, sucking you into purchases that are more costly that they would otherwise be, committing you to things based on passion that you would not commit to out of reason alone. And I intend on retaining control of my faculties this time, thank you very much. I will not be reduced to a swooning puddle of goo every Sunday evening for the next few months. I don't have time for that anyway with two little kids.
Besides, when it is all said and done, it will come out on DVD and I can watch it all in one fell swoop. Someone can give it to me for Christmas or my birthday or something. They never know what to buy anyway. My brother is probably the only person equipped to shop for me in any capacity whatsoever. After all, the man bought me old Birthright materials last Christmas. A genius? Probably.
So enjoy it folks. But enjoy it without me. In a few years, we can talk about how awesome it was.
I have no doubt that it is a good story. What I have heard in passing sounds interesting; a world with elongated seasons, clever politics, etc. My brother is a big fiction reader and he assures me it is so. He says the same about the Sharpe's Rifles series as well; another bit of fiction I can't be bothered to read. So why don't I read fiction? Because of the long long long string of movies that made me regret ever reading the book.
Jurassic Park was great. I bet I read the book a dozen times as a 13 year old. I can barely remember any of it now. Just a few tidbits like a scene where they hide behind a waterfall from a T-Rex. You see, once they make something into a movie or a mini-series, all that reading just fades away. It means nothing anymore. It gets replaced in my brain with much more memorable imagery. And most of the time, the characters I imagined in my head don't look like the actors they picked anyway.
As an adult, I have developed a patience I never had as a younger man. I don't go see hardly any movies in the theater anymore. Netflix and premium channels provide me with more movies than I could ever care to watch. Why do I need the newest shiny when I have the shiny of the past 30 years at my fingertips and I have barely scratched the surface?
Though I suppose the biggest reason I am not going to watch Game of Thrones is this: HBO's Rome
I got addicted to this show. It consumed my Sunday night for a long long time. I would sacrifice things for this show. I would rush home for this show. I would move mountains for this show. I loved this show. And I won't be sucked into that
again.Serial releases are a marketing ploy, sucking you into purchases that are more costly that they would otherwise be, committing you to things based on passion that you would not commit to out of reason alone. And I intend on retaining control of my faculties this time, thank you very much. I will not be reduced to a swooning puddle of goo every Sunday evening for the next few months. I don't have time for that
anyway with two little kids.Besides, when it is all said and done, it will come out on DVD and I can watch it all in one fell swoop. Someone can give it to me for Christmas or my birthday or something. They never know what to buy anyway. My brother is probably the only person equipped to shop for me in any capacity whatsoever. After all, the man bought me old Birthright materials last Christmas. A genius? Probably.
So enjoy it folks. But enjoy it without me. In a few years, we can talk about how awesome it was.
