Star Trek Picard. Gave up on it after 4 episodes. I had intended to go back, but I caught a serious case of the MEH.
“The Boys” irks me on a FUNDAMENTAL level. A test tube baby is granted superpowers and turns into an asshole that abuses them is SO ORIGINAL that I’m sure Alan Moore wants to shake your hand. Also, the casual mass murder and body horror gore that just gets shrugged off by the general public completely breaks any nascent immersion I might have had. (see also “Squid Games,” and “The Hunger Games.”)
As a rule, I find ANY media that deals with the cannibalistic undead to be also DOA in my interest. A “zombie apocalypse” would never achieve that kind of scale. Even Covid was a flash in the pan compared to some of histories’ big viral killers, and the vast majority of humanity pulled through that. Zombies rot. Rotten muscle no longer functions, and bones cannot move them selves without them so the “zombies” would exist in a state of constant weakening until there was nothing left. Also, Vultures would be EVERYWHERE.
(I do like how it was framed in the “last of us” btw, but I never played the game, and so I have no interest in the show.)
While we are on the topic, I also could NOT get into Fallout (the games). I like Oblivion, but Fallout just does not have the same sauce, and it’s early game is absolute trash beyond the tutorial level. Oblivion at least gives you a direction to travel and some general clues about what you might want to do next. Fallout is just an excuse to wander around some ruins that look like suburbia, and when you are not doing that, it’s a simulator showing you exactly how fucked you are until the game actually bothers to drop a decent weapon at you. Except it always seems to do so when the weapon has already been horribly outclassed.
There’s a bunch of movies from the 90’s that I’ve never watched and as they were a product of their Zeitgeist, I probably never will due to the emotional impact of the film being lost on me or the humor missing beats because it assumes things the audience is aware of that may or may not be wildly prophetic or equally so incredibly incorrect that a powerful scene or somber scene is rendered into comedy, when that’s not the tone attempting to be converged. Most of Quentin Tarantino’s early work is Particularly egregious in this regard, and so I probably will never watch any of it.
Another type of movie I try to avoid is/are films like “Titanic.” James Cameron hasn’t made a decent movie IMHO since Terminator 2. All of his current films are 2 hours of key jingling to basic romance novel reading suburbanites who just like pretty explosions.
To be clear, all the fallout games or only number 4?
Interesting perspective if you have this take from fallout 1.
Fallout one and two are the real deal, three and four are in the same vein but given 3d and pulled back to more standard gaming fare, and four is a walking simulator through an area that resembles a fallout game.
Star Trek Picard. Gave up on it after 4 episodes. I had intended to go back, but I caught a serious case of the MEH.
“The Boys” irks me on a FUNDAMENTAL level. A test tube baby is granted superpowers and turns into an asshole that abuses them is SO ORIGINAL that I’m sure Alan Moore wants to shake your hand. Also, the casual mass murder and body horror gore that just gets shrugged off by the general public completely breaks any nascent immersion I might have had. (see also “Squid Games,” and “The Hunger Games.”)
As a rule, I find ANY media that deals with the cannibalistic undead to be also DOA in my interest. A “zombie apocalypse” would never achieve that kind of scale. Even Covid was a flash in the pan compared to some of histories’ big viral killers, and the vast majority of humanity pulled through that. Zombies rot. Rotten muscle no longer functions, and bones cannot move them selves without them so the “zombies” would exist in a state of constant weakening until there was nothing left. Also, Vultures would be EVERYWHERE. (I do like how it was framed in the “last of us” btw, but I never played the game, and so I have no interest in the show.)
While we are on the topic, I also could NOT get into Fallout (the games). I like Oblivion, but Fallout just does not have the same sauce, and it’s early game is absolute trash beyond the tutorial level. Oblivion at least gives you a direction to travel and some general clues about what you might want to do next. Fallout is just an excuse to wander around some ruins that look like suburbia, and when you are not doing that, it’s a simulator showing you exactly how fucked you are until the game actually bothers to drop a decent weapon at you. Except it always seems to do so when the weapon has already been horribly outclassed.
There’s a bunch of movies from the 90’s that I’ve never watched and as they were a product of their Zeitgeist, I probably never will due to the emotional impact of the film being lost on me or the humor missing beats because it assumes things the audience is aware of that may or may not be wildly prophetic or equally so incredibly incorrect that a powerful scene or somber scene is rendered into comedy, when that’s not the tone attempting to be converged. Most of Quentin Tarantino’s early work is Particularly egregious in this regard, and so I probably will never watch any of it.
Another type of movie I try to avoid is/are films like “Titanic.” James Cameron hasn’t made a decent movie IMHO since Terminator 2. All of his current films are 2 hours of key jingling to basic romance novel reading suburbanites who just like pretty explosions.
To be clear, all the fallout games or only number 4?
Interesting perspective if you have this take from fallout 1.
Fallout one and two are the real deal, three and four are in the same vein but given 3d and pulled back to more standard gaming fare, and four is a walking simulator through an area that resembles a fallout game.