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Television shows we hate
Dissy:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat on 01 Aug 2008, 00:32 ---Call me then enemy or what have you. But Im totally over hating on mediocre famous stuff, I burnt out raging on Nickleback. But more to the point, Family Guy opened alot of doors into what became Adult Swim, really even if you dont personally like the show, to hate its existence seems very self defeating.
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But what if you never watched Adult Swim, and hated the Simpsons since like 1993-4, and hated every episode of Family Guy you have ever seen?
Chesire Cat:
Its internet backlash, once something that was once cherished by so few gets adopted by the masses its become tainted. That and syndication, having it on several times a day on several different channels makes the comedic trappings that much more obvious. But I've yet to meet someone whose dislike wasnt an affectation, and while Im sure you would all vehemently deny it (right up until I challenged you to) you at one time probably did like it, or at least tolerated it. And I can say in relative surety that there are shows on television that you would hate more, you just might not be as intimately aware of them.
Ozymandias:
Lost is a show that benefits quite a lot from DVDs. Watching an entire season of Lost in a week is incredible. Waiting week to week is soul-crushing.
Ozymandias:
I'm just saying, they make it pretty easy to watch. The season sets are fantastic and during the actual seasons, episodes go up on ABC.com for free until the DVDs come out.
HeyItsMatt:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat on 01 Aug 2008, 09:54 ---Its internet backlash, once something that was once cherished by so few gets adopted by the masses its become tainted. That and syndication, having it on several times a day on several different channels makes the comedic trappings that much more obvious. But I've yet to meet someone whose dislike wasnt an affectation, and while Im sure you would all vehemently deny it (right up until I challenged you to) you at one time probably did like it, or at least tolerated it. And I can say in relative surety that there are shows on television that you would hate more, you just might not be as intimately aware of them.
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I dunno man. I agree that the whole "once it's popular it sucks!" attitude can be common, but you don't want to assume too many things about other people's opinions as a result of thinking your own opinion is more valid. I admit I do this for The Office - when I hear people say they dislike it, my first thought is often 'I bet you don't get it!', but, honestly, that's pretty elitist of me. Sometimes I also wonder if perhaps people might not appreciate some of the characters if they have not encountered people in real life who were just like Michael Scott or Dwight Schrute, and thus recognize how on the money those characters are. But again, perhaps that's true of some people, but others just have different tastes...
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 01 Aug 2008, 11:03 ---Lost is a show that benefits quite a lot from DVDs. Watching an entire season of Lost in a week is incredible. Waiting week to week is soul-crushing.
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Yeah, I could see that being true. I just got tired of (from my perspective, at least) nothing happening and nothing being revealed, despite the show pretending that stuff was happening, over the course of many episodes. A Lost DVD marathon might be quite fun though. Perhaps Lost s like the Megatokyo of TV shows.
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