Every character sucks unrepentantly and I can't watch it. Same issue with Boardwalk Empire, there are zero good and likeable characters in the entire show, everybody is awful.

I think I just watched two or three episodes and just wanted them to catch one small break but it was just downward spiral which kind of made me lose interest. If they don't have any success then what's that point of them losing.

I'm sure it changes later but I didn't have it in me. I understand that it's a masterful series.

Great characters and some interesting plotlines, but the whole thing revolving around drugs and their distribution has been a great put off. I found Better Call Saul more enjoyable for that same reason.

Yup. That show sits in an odd place for me where it's genuinely interesting but it's too intense.

Same. GoT always struck me as scripted misery porn

I love Dr who, but I don't ever recommend it because it's a very... specific taste...

It’s kind of silly.

I watched some. A lot? I don’t regret it, but I came away with the feeling I got dropping Supernatural: I’m not nearly done, yet I watched too much already.

Good input. Yes doctor who is very divisive, either you like it or not.

However it's always pronounced doctor. Never Dr. Fight me, lol.

I might’ve gotten unlucky and been fed a series of episodes that were intensely related to characters developments.

More than once the Doctor was put in a spot that seemed to require an ingenious solution, and instead he banks on reputation or contacts to asspull himself from Daleks or whoever else it is that time.

If you watched through peter capaldi's entire run and didn't like it, you're free from ever needing to try it again. Some of those episodes were masterpiece magnum opuses, built, layer by layer, as towering behemoths of interwoven , humanistic cultural lore. You cannot watch them. You just earn them. Much of doctor who is like that, especially as it gets super fucking good. I'm talking probably some of the best television that exists, maybe one in the top three tv things that exist.

And if you couldn't get there, that's okay. People have different tastes, different experiences, different enjoyments.

With doctor who, though, it's really easy to hate if you don't understand it or tolerate the British cheese.

I'm curious what you'd put as your top tv things (shows, eps, stories, whatever), and also why you didn't like doctor who.

Yeah, I didn’t like the gameplay.

Watching quest highlights on YouTube is a good way to enjoy it, though.

TW2's combat and overall gameplay I could stomach and even enjoy, but for some reason I could never do the same with TW3 (and RDD too, they just felt so slow). Which is a pity cause it looks like a great game if I could just get over its, well, gameplay. 🙃

Liked Witcher 3, but absolutely hated Gwent that most people seem to love. What do you mean players use their own cards? How could this be even remotely balanced? I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.

(The sentiment applies to IRL card-hoarding games)

While each one of those games climbed mountains mechanically, they started in daggerfall and ended in Morrowind, with less charm.

Any specific reason? I'm curious about it as I enjoyed it enormously

I feel that if I had more insights regarding dnd and it's spells and classes I would have a better time.

Same. Tried a few times and but the tough fights took so long I’d start getting impatient, especially when I kept losing and had to keep redoing them. People really love that game so feels like I’m missing out but I just couldn’t get into it.

Loved Outer Wilds, but yeah, some clever "time dilation" could be applied while exploring inside of planets or particularly complex segments or close to a goal. So many times I had to go into Ash Twin to try to finish a puzzle before the sand rises. It does help that translator pauses time though, and options let you pause conversations too.

Opening: “Oh no, a disaster. Everyone I care about could die. I wonder how I can prevent it.”

Don't remember the exact seasons but I think the first couple were a little slow/off. It picks up.

The Hobbit book isn't great. The Lord of the rings books are great. They're just written differently.

I'm glad I saw them in theaters. I'm glad they contributed what they did. They're cool every many years. But holy fuck those are long movies. And people always want to watch the super extended directors cut versions that are like 4 hours each. One time we watched the first one after eating brownies. What a horrible mistake. That felt like literal days. I couldn't believe how slow time was passing, and then when we were done, it was only the first movie.

Just watched it for the first time recently and while I thought it was good it had the problem a lot of male writers/directors have of writing really flat female characters. All of the women only existed for the men to have feelings about or to motivate the men by their death/suffering. Just kinda ruined the movie for me.

Yeah I binged the first season, said "this is the best show I've ever seen but I get it and now I'm sad" and never watched again. Same deal with Better Call Saul, actually.

It is sad, the show ends with him going to prison as a sex offender.

The best parts of that show were the seasonal guests like Rob Lowe and Callum Keith Rennie.

1season and 2 were a really god monster of the week hunting show. Downhill from there but still watchable

The first one in the series? Yeah, it’s cool for being one of the first open world games but it gets very repetitive. I quit partway through and tried AC2, and that was a big leap forward in gameplay, story, and missions. I recommend giving it a try if you liked anything about the first.

I tried the first one (likely years after it was released) but didn't enjoy it at all

They aren't contiguous. If you actually want to try, preview their soundtracks and visual styles and pick based on what you like the most and just play that one.

1-5 are old af, 6 is old but the pinnacle of them, 7 8 and 9 were on newer hardware, 10 was on even newer hardware and is widely considered the last good one. 11 was an mmo, 12 was bland as fuck, 13 was less bland but the whole game was a hallway going one direction, 13 has a few spinoff/sequels, 14 is an mmo, 15 was 12 but newer and worse, and 16 is trying to be partially dark souls and is kinda boring.

Honestly, if you can put up with ps1 music and graphics, pick from 7, 8, and 9. Or just play 10 from the ps2.

And if you can't decide and only can put up with playing one, just play 7. Apparently it was the very first AAA game ever. Which is weird to think about.

the latest on seemed to be connected to machine god in ff13, bhunivelze, his own creations(LINDZEI goddess) were loosely responsible for the lore of the later FF games.

If a likeable main character is a requirement then it's no surprise Breaking Bad doesn't appeal to you, and that's fair.

I must point out one thing though.

I understand there's probably something to it, maybe the drama is interesting, maybe it's really well acted, maybe the sets are beautiful

You seem to assume Breaking Bad is loved by many people in spite of its flawed main character, but I'd argue that's one of the main reasons for its success. Shows that do an interesting exploration of a "villain" are not that common and, even rarer than that, Breaking Bad pulls off the rare stunt of having the main character of a multi-season series evolve and change dramatically over time.

So yeah, I get that disliking Walter White being a turn off for you, but for many that character and his story is precisely why they love the series.

I recently got into Curb Your Enthusiasm and it made me realize just how bad Seinfeld is. Not the show, but the guy. He's a terrible actor. The character isn't too bad, but next to the rest of the cast he stands out like a sore thumb. It's funny the show is named after him, because I think it would be better without him in it.

especially what seinfeld is for a while. his co-stars were definitely the better actors.

Yes, it had a new and unusual aesthetic for a horror movie, but that's about it.

For me that was enough. I think it's fine for a movie to focus on doing one thing really well. Midsommar was memorable precisely because of it's novel aesthetic, and the world created around it.