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[ SECRET POST #3332 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3332 ⌋

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(David Bowie)

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(Great British Bake Off for Sports Relief, Ed Balls)

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[Pokemon]

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[Star Wars: TFA]

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[Damian Lewis, Dick Winters, Band Of Brothers]

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[Daughter of the Lilies]

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[David Eddings]

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[Sengoku Basara]

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[JJBA]

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[Men In Black I, II, III]

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I was thinking about Broad City coming back tonight and how I love the idea of the show - female characters who act like real best friends! Acknowledgement that not everyone in life is living in fabulous apartments/working wonderful jobs! A realistic understanding of how social media works! - but in reality I've dropped off halfway through the first and second season because pot humor has never been my thing and Ilana's irresponsibility makes me want to slap her. But I'm glad that it exists, and I'm happy for everyone who loves it.

Anyone else feel this way about a show/movie/book/whatever?

Orphan Black, definitely. I like the whole female-driven science fiction thing, but I'm just really not interested in watching it.

Yup. Good one.

Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, all the recent all-female comedy movies.

I think they're the worst, most unfunny movies I've ever had the displeasure of watching, but I'm glad they exist and other people find them funny.

SA

On the other hand I loved movies like Bring It On, so it's not about the female cast. I hate the writing and unsympathetic characters of the first ones I listed.

Peaky Blinders. I get that it is set in an awesome period and is beautifully filmed. But I guessed a spoiler about something I did not want to happen, my sister verified it happened and I completely lost interest.

Hannibal in all forms. I just...cannot get into a cannibalistic character. I have no idea but the idea of cannibalism (even fake) completely puts me off the characters/show/movies.

Slash and the people behind it. I'd like it were girls instead.

Femslash is a thing, try looking for that.

I am grateful for the vast swaths of DC and Marvel TV shows (and sense8), expanding on canon and giving us strong female protagonists, but I just can't sit through that many episodes, I like my superheroes presented in grand theatrical releases.

Basically any movie that feels more like social commentary and obviously exists solely to push a political-social agenda.

I mean, as a gay liberal woman, I obviously support most of this commentary and if this media gets people fired up about certain issues, great. I just hate being preached to and I hate false characters that only exist as mouthpieces for an agenda.

Outlander. Spartacus.

One of my friends told me to watch that recently, but yeah, I don't really enjoy pot humour either.

I didn't enjoy Girls. Idk. I couldn't really identify with any of the 'girls'. It wasn't some enlightening feminist experience for me.

I struggle to enjoy anything without likeable or interesting characters. I've lost interest in Shameless completely because the writing is so terrible that all the characters are just horrible for no reason. I remember in the earlier seasons they would do a lot of shitty things, but everyone was trying to keep the bills paid and food on the table, and now they don't care about each other so I don't either.

Consistently interesting characters will keep me hooked. I've just watched five seasons of Justified and I'm still excited for season 6.

OMG GIRLS! A friend and I decided to start watching it together and we are basically just watching it now to see how much worse the characters can get. We've gotten through the first four episodes and hate all of them. We spend the whole time yelling at the TV.

I can take Broad City in small doses, basically when it's on in the background of me doing work/reading.

It gets too cringey for me to even enjoy hate-watching it.

I have a few shows like that. I'll watch it if I'm not just sitting there glued to the screen, but if I start paying attention I stop liking it.

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When do you feel that Shameless gets bad? I've watched the first three seasons and I found it really good (writing included), but I've been hesitating to start on S4 because I kind of got the feeling that it was about to hit that "cynical mess" phase some shows hit, where all the hopeful and beautiful things go out of the narrative and all that's left is this attitude like, "life is shitty and people are all shitty, there is just no end to the shittiness."

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I've watched most of the first season and a few episodes after that. I don't related to any of the girls specifically. It's too narrow of a perspective, even if she is just making fun of/sympathizing with a generation. I do relate to being on the go and not having established myself yet and being looked down on as some kind of incomplete adult. Though I work two paying jobs, pay for school and attend grad classes.

Painfully I can relate to having bad relationships with men, though not necessarily mirroring any of the relationships featured in the show. It's sad that I think Adam is really nice to her, isn't it? I don't even like the characters and even think some of the dialogue is borderline racist, but I do relate to the fractured relationships they have. I also think most people in their twenties are abhorrently selfish like they are.

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Most inclusive television shows. I wholeheartedly encourage them, I just hate television and wish some of that diversity would leak into mainstream movies.

A lot of lesbian themed romances that aren't tragic and Bury Your Gays. As a lesbian I love any positive lesbian media in theory... But I hate most romance stories.

Haha I'm another lesbian and I find myself really skeptical of gay fiction in general, whether men or women. I mean, I want to like it, but I'm also not into sappy romance and I absolutely hate reading stuff that reads like an LGBT Awareness brochure. I'd rather have cool plot-centric stuff that just so happened to feature gay characters/couples.

Like, I understand why Undertale has a fanbase, I understand what the game was getting at, it's just not for me.

I can see this. I get the impression Undertale was written with the expectation that people would play pacifist, get the true ending, and then restart and kill everyone. I generally don't play anything other than pacifist in games with pacifist runs, so a lot of the messages fell flat for me.

The first thing that came to my mind reading this topic was The Great Gatsby. The book. I could tell when I was reading that it was extremely well-written, but I never had any emotional response/connection to any of the characters. It was good, but left me cold.

Thank you for summing up my response to that novel so well. The entire time I was completely besotted with how it was written and would paw all over the sentences and how gorgeous they were but the characters/plot just don't interest me.

Most shows that are about women or minority members suffering within a context where they have no support whatsoever. I understand it's persuasive, but I'm more inclined towards stuff about the support networks people create to protect each other.

Honestly? Issue fic. 99% of it is poorly written OOC preaching and it can really annoy me (especially when it's clear the author doesn't know shit about what they're talking about) but at the same time I get where it's coming from. It sucks not seeing yourself represented in media and fanfic gives you the chance to rectify that and use your favorite characters to explore things that pertain to you. I can't get mad at (for lack of a better word) over representation in fanfic when there's such underrepresentation in mainstream media.

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