• sbv@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      The world is already a miserable enough place without trying to make people feel bad about their content watching habits.

      Exactly this.

      I am the kind of guy who will make fun of you for watching and enjoying the first few seasons of Disco and Picard because I think they suck

      If someone can be friendly while they’re joking around like that, I’m all for it. But it’s hard to get that subtlety into a comment.

        • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          … If you’re in a bad mood it’s easy to just become a bulldozer of anger and malice and just shit on every single aspect …

          This is a part of speaking with people online that I think a lot of us miss. Sometimes we’re just cranky and not thinking at our best and sometimes it’s the other person. But we too often assume we’re dealing with the essential person

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      11 months ago

      At the same time, Picard mostly sucked… But it was good enough for me to watch through

      I feel like half the problem is that not all of us are on the same page. If I say “I think this sucked”, I want to talk about it, and if anything I hope someone will recontextualize it for me and make it more enjoyable.

      I want to hash it out, because anyone who does that in good faith sharpens their own opinion. Maybe I’m wrong and they convince me to give it a second chance, maybe I’m wrong and realize I only liked it for nostalgia. Or maybe we realize our opinions differ, and narrow down the reason why

      I don’t think I’d like Picard aside from nostalgia…I don’t think it was fun or artistically valuable, but I didn’t stop watching. I don’t think it’s good-If you like it, I’m not going to say you’re wrong, but I will argue no one should watch it if they don’t love Patrick Stuart already. Not even TNG, the rest of the crew was pretty hollow cameos - his character was badly written, but I watched it through because it was more of his character