People have different tastes.
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Tom Segura joke that I'll butcher real quick:
A stranger walks up to me
"Hey know any good restaurants?"
Yeah there's this really good dim sum place over there
"Oh, I hate the Asian world"
Oh, I didn't know that about you
I'd say. OP didn't like ATLA. Everything from mid season 1 on is gold.
People like to discuss tastes to understand differences of opinion and potentially change their own.
I've known a fair lot who are Office fans and these people are nothing basic. It's just different tastes. Sense of humor has a lot to do with cultural background too.
True. I've seen some episodes of the Office (American version, haven't seen the British one) and found it occasionally funny but not legendary. I'm attributing it to the lack of cultural background. I'm not American and never had dealings with relevant kind of company culture.
The Office is parodying for the lack of better term "small town/regional American office culture from early 2000s". If you ever worked in such an environment you'd probably find it hilarious.
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The office is like the Star Wars of sitcoms. It's a good show but the hoards of fans who incorporate it into their personality make you want to pretend you're not a fan.
Are people just really basic
Says the guy making a thread from 2009
The Walking Dead. Mediocre acting and worse writing. Production was really all it had going for it, which is ultimately just money that could have been better spent elsewhere.
I agree somewhat, I never actually finished watching it, I was shocked when it just seemed to continue season after season. The show turned into a zombie.
Yeah, I didn't make it past season 2. I've definitely watched more episodes of worse shows, but Walking Dead just did nothing for me. I am glad it helped popularize Steven Yeun though, he's awesome.
It actually WAS Community for me. I tried it a few years back and it just didn't click. I think because Joel and Pierce especially are such shitty people. Tried it again last year and loved it.
Same thing happened with The Orville. I didn't even make it through the first episode the first time I tried it. Loved it the next time.
Sometimes it's all about the timing in our lives or the experiences we've had.
Community is one of my all time favourite shows but lots of people just donβt get it. It was never a popular show when it originally aired.
I remember googling βcommunityβ and the top result was the Wikipedia article for community it was that way going on season 3.
Morbius It wasn't bad enough to finish or good enough to enjoy. Never said it was Morbin time. It had Dr. Who so there was that.
Did anyone actually like that though? I thought that was a meme because of how bad it was. I really don't know, I never saw it.
The memes were making fun of the fact that no one had seen it, somehow Warner thought that re-releasing the film would make the memers go to see it, but that would have gone against the point of the meme
No one liked it. But I only watched it because of all the memes.
Like there had to be something at least worth making fun of. Nope. It just kinda sucked till I turned it off.
That's why the memes were made.
No one had asked for a Morbius movie, no one wanted a Morbius movie.
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I first watched SpongeBob SquarePants as an adult and itβs shit. Maybe if Iβd started watching when I was five it might have liked it.
U had to have been there
So you are not feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?
Exactly my impression as well.
That's unfortunate since there's a lot of genuinely good moments in the show that I didn't fully understand until I grew up.
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Not a show, but a movie. I watched Napoleon Dynamite because of the memes and because several people I knew would quote it a lot. I found it to be slow paced and boring outside of the scenes with the memes.
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I haven't seen Morbius yet and I'm still disappointed.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine feels that way to me. Not that I think it's a particularly bad show, but I definitely feel like the memes spawned from it already contain the funniest parts of the show. The actual content of each episode is kinda predictable with the protagonist learning stone sort of lesson.
Also I so desperately wanted to get into Bojack Horseman because I love animation, puns, and to cry while watching shows. The memes showed so many really deep and interesting moments, but by the end of the third season, I just couldn't stand to watch Bojack learn a lesson only to revert to being a complete asshole an episode later. I get that's kind of the point, but it was more infuriating than engaging.
What you describe about Bojack is frustrating but I think very realistic and kind of the core of the show. Bojack is flawed in so many ways and has a lot of baggage weighing on him. Him struggling to fix his flaws despite being entirely aware of them is very relatable.
If fixing flaws was as easy as someone holding up a mirror for you then no one would struggle with personal demons. But it's not. It takes humility, self awareness, and constant self reflection to make progress. Bojack has an array of personality faults and trauma to overcome and it's no surprise he struggles the way he does.
It's the best depiction of mental health and addiction I've encountered.
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The Star Wars prequels.
The prequels were memed because they were awful (except episode 3 which I will still maintain is better than episode 6) but somehow perception warped to make people think they were good or okay at best. The first 2 are terrible.
If the star wars universe debuted with episode one, we would not have a star wars universe. The sound track rocked, and uh, there were rocks on planets.
That's a really astute observation, and not one I've heard before. Episode I would not have been enough to form the bedrock of the Star Wars phenomenon.
Out of curiosity, specify which Avatar
Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I also watched The Legend of Korra, which was also ok but not as good as the first show.
Avatar is generally better if you watch it as a kid and come back to it. Can't say the same for Korra as I've never watched it tho
TLA set the bar and Korra cant come close to that tbh. Korra is a good show but not as good as TLA.
I watched both as an adult. ATLA: solid show but overhyped.
Korra was distinctly average and I get the feeling most fans love it because they wish ATLA had more seasons.
Well one thing you need to understand is that Avatar is an actual kid's show. It was a lot of kids' first introduction to anime, so a lot of people have a "soft spot" for it. Like it's part of their childhood. Which it is.
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Pretty sure they're talking about TLA
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I think the problem is that a lot of shows become overhyped once they reach a certain level of popularity. While you may have enjoyed it if you came across it naturally, the hype you've encountered around it makes you expect more. Avatar and Parks and Rec are great shows, but they're definitely not the best shows of all time (although I do really love Parks and Rec) and you'd probably expect them to be these amazing shows if all you know about them is the hype from superfans.
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I think you should leave. Memes were great. Show was alright
I saw some memes with Good Omens templates and decided to give the show a watch.
Season 1 was pretty good, the kind of comedy that made me smile occasionally, which is fine.
On the other hand season 2 was mostly boring, 2 episode's worth of story was stretched out to 6, and the ending ruined the friendship between the main characters, which was the cornerstone of the whole concept.
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Spice and wolf. I saw "a picture" of the main girl Holo and was "intrigued" but the show it's was more about medival economics than what I expected.
Good show from what I heard, just not what 14 y/o me was interested in
Breaking Bad.
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