What’s a piece of SF that you just couldn’t get into, even though you feel like you should?

I tried to watch Babylon 5, for instance, and just couldn’t connect to it. I know it’s popular and people love it, but it never hooked me.

Another is The Three Body Problem. I tried reading it after a friend’s glowing recommendation, but I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I even tried reading it in another language in case it was the translation I couldn’t connect with, but the same thing happened.

Both are things I feel like I should like, but just don’t.

  • metaStatic
    5•1 year ago

    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?)

    • theinspectorst
      3•1 year ago

      Is Enterprise the best Star Trek series? No way.

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

      • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶
        3•1 year ago

        Enterprise is a mixed bag for me. I very much disliked the temporal cold war and the season long Xindi war.

        But, they had some of the best mirror universe eps. in all of trek and I think, a great cast.

        • theinspectorst
          2•1 year ago

          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 wouldn’t behave the way they sometimes do, yet we’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.

    • effingjoe
      3•1 year ago

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

      • BonKH
        2•1 year ago

        @dave

        I just talked about this with customers im my shop last week…

        I’m a Trekkie and a Trekker. 🖖

        If Swifties become Swifters, the merch people could clean up! 🧹

        Furries & Bronies, Furrers & Broners? 🤣
        Um, nah. Sounds naughty. 🦫🍆

        @stopthatgirl7 @bingbong @metaStatic

    • oo1
      1•1 year ago

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

      without that we’d have no Zapp Brannigan!