I’ll go first:

Breaking Bad.

I can’t do it. I’ve seen the first season! I know what you’re going to say next: oh but it gets better after the first season you HAVE to watch it.

The Walking Dead.

Can’t do it. There is so much walking dead bullshit I simply can’t watch it.

Battlestar Galactica.

I know its good. I’ve been told over and over and over again. I simply can’t!

None of these shows are going to live up to the hype I can feel it in my bones.

Andor might be in that boat but I did watch it all the way through. Probably won’t again. I liked it, but if you haven’t seen it yet I can’t imagen it lives up to the hype. Maybe a little.

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Battlestar Galactica.

    lol. lmao, even. This one had such a strong start, but then it devolves into some kind of Mormon version of Salman Rushdie-style magical realism (magical sci-fi?) starting in the third season and just kind of spirals out of control from there. It’s up there with Star Trek: Enterprise for “if you watch this in 2025, you’re torturing yourself” factor.

    • MarxusMaximus [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I loved Battlestar Galactica when I saw it when it first came out but I rewatched it recently and even that strong start is kinda meh. It’s incredibly “American military is awesome”-coded and despite the fact that it’s about the last 50 000 people in the world who are all living as refugees actively fleeing a pursuing military, they talk about how they have to focus on keeping their free market economy alive and thriving. The only man who questions this and points out that humanity has been wiped out so money shouldn’t be a priority is portrayed as deranged and gets called a terrorist.

      • wideopenarms [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The “strong start” was Adama’s retirement speech from the uh … prequel/pilot episode? I forgot how it works, cause episode 1 actually starts with the aftermath of the nukes being fired.

        Regardless, it gives you the false sense that it’ll be an anti-imperialist/America-critical kind of show in the aftermath/midst of GWOT. And then the nukes fly and it’s like that speech never happened (I still think it’s a good speech tbh).

        My conspiracy theory is that the shows production was captured by the NVIXM cult (a surprising amount of the actors/actressess were members, including Sharon’s actress), which was probably controlled by intelligence, and that derailed any sort of progressive message the story might have ended up having.