Whatā€™s a piece of SF that you just couldnā€™t get into, even though you feel like you should?

I tried to watch Babylon 5, for instance, and just couldnā€™t connect to it. I know itā€™s popular and people love it, but it never hooked me.

Another is The Three Body Problem. I tried reading it after a friendā€™s glowing recommendation, but I couldnā€™t get past the first chapter. I even tried reading it in another language in case it was the translation I couldnā€™t connect with, but the same thing happened.

Both are things I feel like I should like, but just donā€™t.

  • metaStatic@kbin.social
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    The original series is just god awful and I basically love everything else up until to the new movies. (Any trekies in the house wanna fight about Enterprise being the best trek series?)

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      Is Enterprise the best Star Trek series? No way.

      Is Enterprise s4 arguably the best individual Star Trek season? Very possible.

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          My problem with the earlier seasons is that the human characters all behave like irrational over-emotional caricatures of humans, as if they were written by Vulcan logic absolutists expressly for the purposes of anti-human propaganda. A moderately intelligent human today wouldnā€™t behave the way they sometimes do, yet weā€™re to believe that the best and brightest of humanity in the 22nd century would.

          By season 4 they had ironed out the kinks and finally told some great stories, but by that point too many people had switched off.

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      1 year ago

      I am really digging Strange New Worlds. It feels like Star Trek to me. (As opposed to Discovery, which-- well, letā€™s just say Iā€™m not a fan haha.)

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      First, the Trekkers would like a word with you about that slurā€¦

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        @dave

        I just talked about this with customers im my shop last weekā€¦

        Iā€™m a Trekkie and a Trekker. šŸ––

        If Swifties become Swifters, the merch people could clean up! šŸ§¹

        Furries & Bronies, Furrers & Broners? šŸ¤£
        Um, nah. Sounds naughty. šŸ¦«šŸ†

        @stopthatgirl7 @bingbong @metaStatic

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      hah, the only ones i liked were the early ones.
      square acting, awful dialogue, kirk sh*gging random aliens.
      comedy gold.

      without that weā€™d have no Zapp Brannigan!