What’s a piece of SF that you just couldn’t get into, even though you feel like you should?
I tried to watch Babylon 5, for instance, and just couldn’t connect to it. I know it’s popular and people love it, but it never hooked me.
Another is The Three Body Problem. I tried reading it after a friend’s glowing recommendation, but I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I even tried reading it in another language in case it was the translation I couldn’t connect with, but the same thing happened.
Both are things I feel like I should like, but just don’t.
Something about the Stargate franchise has simply never appealed to me. I saw the original movie as a kid and enjoyed it, with a distinct memory of the “Rainbow Road” travel effect feeling pretty intense because I was sitting closer to the screen than usual. It was fun, if a bit slight.
I’ve seen a bits and pieces of the shows here and there, and nothing about them is drawing me in. I might like them, but I just have zero desire to dive in. Seems like low-budget camp with a learning curve.
Honorable mention to The Orville, which I do like quite a bit, but I find the unadulterated love for it baffling; it’s a deeply flawed show that makes up for a lot with sheer heart and some decent scripts from the Star Trek slush pile.
The Orville is just Star Trek fan show with sex and poop jokes (and one that doesn’t take itself serioisly, sometimes to a fault). It’s enjoyable but it just doesn’t try to be anything more than “funny Trek”. Fun, but too derivative.