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.

    • @dbaner
      1•1 year ago

      TBH I don’t tend to read SF for the characters. I was hooked when I got to the section with the camera/numbers. But then the detective guy basically says, we have no way of knowing what that is so just ignore it and get drunk. And it’s not explained or really mentioned again until the very end.