Just as examples:
- I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
- I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
- Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
I can’t make it more than an hour though the first Lord Of The Rings without falling asleep. It just doesn’t fancy me.
I have bookshelves full of Superman comics, graphic novels, books, basically anything in print I can get my hands on. And I’ve read every last one of them. I grew up on Christopher Reeve Superman films and will still watch all 4 of them. I’ve watched the old Fleischer cartoons, Super Friends, the 90s animated series, and all Justice League shows. I own the entire Smallville series on DVD. I was one of the dozen or so people who subscribed to DC streaming service before Max. And I’ve watched every Superman movie and TV show that came out in the last 25 years.
I’ve never gone back and watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. There is no reason I’ve never watched it other than I just haven’t gotten around to it.
I’ve never seen 2001: Space Odyssey, I already tried watching it multiple times, but always end up falling asleep.
Similarly, I’ve never managed to finish Firefly, usually watch a couple of episodes and forget about it.
Also up until very recently (less than 2 years ago) I had never played any Call of Duty games.
I’ve yet to watch Schindler List. I feel like it’s signing up for feeling bad for 2 hours 😕
I’m also big into Sci-fi, and have yet to watch the OG Star Treks, Stargate, Babylon 5, or Dr. Who
Never watched Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. (Or countless other shows)
I’ve never seen Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or any of the rest of the mandatory drama television genre. I gave up partway through watching Battlestar Galactica and kinda just stopped watching television.
For awhile there, the only non-technical conversation I could have was “Did you see Game of Thrones last night?” “No, I don’t watch that show.” “Oh. Bye.” Humanity’s ability to talk about anything except heartburn drama television for the last decade and a half kind of weaned me off of socializing.
Not having tik tok or instagram seems to count? I dunno if wildly popular social media counts though.
Social media is the devil. I have Lemmy and that’s enough
Agreed.
I’ve heard “I don’t trust people who don’t have instagram” more than once, but the last time was in 2021, so I dunno how’s the current sentiment
Nowadays it’s “I don’t trust people who don’t have PixelFed”.
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I have never read the Harry Potter series.
I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.
Yeah I think I’m cool with that.
They’re not bad, if you enjoy the movies the books are at least as good, and they explain lots of the plot-holes I had with the movies. But they’re definitely not great, there are still several plot-holes and stuff that she clearly made up as she went. That being said, they’re enjoyable, and you should get through them fairly quickly.
Do you still enjoy fantasy aimed at kids? if you do the series is good. If you don’t you’ll see all the flaws
I never watched Squid Game and don’t intend to. Battle royale material just isn’t my thing.
I tried the first episode but barely got a quarter way through. Made me too sad
Aw, but it gets so much worse!
Yeah, the first and last episode aren’t even like the rest of the series, and include lots of weird stuff, the story which forms the framework… I’ve enjoyed them more than the middle part.
“This art made me feel things so it’s bad”
“Not for me” != “bad”
“This art made me feel things that made me no longer wish to consume it”.
FTFY
And then there’s me who watched the entire thing in 1 day.
Hmm, it seems there’s also S2 now.
Not quite what you are asking, but the first time I saw the video from 9-11 of a plane crashing into a building was around 2014-2015 when I moved to NYC. The people I was working with there couldn’t seem to believe that I had never seen it.
I’ve never had Instagram, tik Tok, twitter, or most other socials. I had Facebook, that’s pretty much it. But no longer.
No Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. I tried a little and gave up.
Never used any music or video streaming service. Yo ho
Never seen any of the Lord of the Rings and have no plans to.
Correct.
You are better off
Game of Thrones maybe. To coin a phrase, “spare me the drama, and the incest.”
I love fantasy, it was right up my alley at the right time, but all the grit in GoT for me just resolves to alt-history Europe.
I’ve never seen or read Game of Thrones either, despite also being a big fantasy fan. I just never got around to it when it was popular, and after hearing how it collapsed in upon itself at the end I don’t feel the need to.
I’ve tried multiple times, but it doesn’t gel with me. Alt history, like you said, bit also ‘lotr with abundant sex’ just doesn’t sit well with me.
And then the world was devastated by the badly written ending, and I felt vindicated without even having skin in the game.
I don’t really think that LoTR and GoT have that much in common other than both being popular and fantasy. LoTR is high-magic, focuses mostly on a small group or two of people, is done in the context of an impending apocalypse, and follows a quest. GoT is low-magic, follows many different story threads, and is mostly people navigating their political and social environments.
They both have dragons, both have some important characters be nobles, and both are kinda faux-European, but I can’t think of all that many things that really tie the two together. I’d say that most fantasy that I’ve read is significantly closer to LoTR than GoT is.
That being said, I’m basing this on the books.
Oh yeah Tal, my reference point for fantasy is only LOTR. So the people telling me to watch Got because I was a big Tolkien fan might have instilled the comparison in me.
But I lacked the staying power to get a proper comparison
GoT’s rise to popularity is almost as crazy as its sharp fall into irrelevance.
Honestly odd to me. I mean its expected for any show to become irrelevant when it ends, thats normal. But the way it was hated on i dont get. The ending was exactly what was foreshadowed since the first season, but people were still confused and angry as if it was an illogical story progression.
I actually rewatched the whole thing starting last week and finished it today. All the characters make sense, they did what the always said they would. Maybe that was boring for people.
While the ending is exactly what I expected it to be, I think the last season was rushed. But I agree, I don’t get the hatred people gave it, I had stopped watching a few seasons back, but watched the last one because people around me were watching it, but from the books it was fairly clear that that was the ending all along.
Fair enough, if you didn’t notice a drop in quality or whiplash character/plot developments all I can say is that I’m kinda jealous.
I will disagree with you on the fact that it’s normal for any show to become irrelevant when it ends. Shows that are good enough and capture audiences the way GoT did initially can go on to become much more and maintain relevance potentially for decades. It’s rare, sure, but I think the opportunity was there with GoT.
It’s the expedience of it. It also started moving into dumb tropes starting in season 5, only worsening as it continued.
This Pitch Meeting really sums up the issues: https://youtu.be/jAhKOV3nImQ
Main Pitch Meeting: https://youtu.be/BASjRxn5QFU
One trope that I really hate are these bypasses where characters almost meet but then miss each other. Happens way to often in this show.
Thanks for the links :)
I loved the books, but just kept wincing trying to watch the TV series, never made it through.
I’ve read the books, and I had no intention of going through the pain again, watching the show.
I’ve never seen a (modern) marvel movie, despite being a fan of the comics and cartoons as a kid.
I’ve never seen a harry potter film.
The harry potter movies were not good. Daniel Radcliff, however good of an actor he is now, back then, wasn’t. he literally ruined those movies.
You’re not missing out on much with Harry Potter. It’s one of those stories that are “just there”. Not really much depth.
I fell asleep during all of the Harry Potter movies I tried to watch. That’s not meant as a judgement on the quality of those movies. I just couldn’t help it.
I was not interested in Harry Potter until I visited the Universal Studios portrayal of Diagon Alley, that is really well done and sucked me right in. Watched all the movies after that. Even then the plots weren’t amazing but the world building is great.
i was thinking i’m weird when my friends are talking about harry potter and i only know few things about it while they talk the whole story 😭
