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[ SECRET POST #5247 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5247 ⌋

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Inspired by today's secret #7. Books, movies, games, music, whatever you were once hyped for but ultimately did not meet your expectations. They may or may not be 'bad' per say, but yes, they were certainly disappointing for you.

I've started watching Steven Universe recently, and even though its cute with some pretty good designs, a large part of me doesn't get how the show got as popular as it did.
I mean, I get that it's probably because of the queer representation boosted by sites like Tumblr at it's peak - but the writing is a bit... bland? Idk it's not bad and I'm still on the first series so it might get better, it's just overall not what I expected.

I think this is mostly true in general of media made for kids and young adults, and I'm consistently baffled why things like that seem to constantly get, not just crossover fans, but huge, dominant fandoms including large numbers of adults

But it'd be a funny old world if we were all the same I guess

Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

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Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

(Anonymous) - 2021-05-19 15:12 (UTC) - Expand

As someone who was into it at its peak, the parts that I personally like about it are the middle parts of the show. The beginning had the "townie" episodes which were kinda eh. The ending? I didn't agree with either, and it felt rushed. It's the middle part of the show where you still had plotlines and potential for them that were interesting to me.

Yeah I agree and remember Liking Gumball Better which is pretty much heresy

Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

(Anonymous) - 2021-05-19 12:36 (UTC) - Expand

I like the fantasy of a world where abusers can actually be talked into being better.

oh totally the LOTR and Hobbit movies. I nearly walked out of Fellowship on opening night I was so disappointed and frustrated. Never saw the Hobbit movies just based on reviews and the fact they split a short lil book into three fucking movies and shoehorned Legolas into it. LOTR is the only book (series) that I'm a die-hard book purist over, so literally nothing met my expectations even after I lowered them.

though, on belated rewatchings I'm finding the Harry Potter movies also a lot worse than I remember them being, but I'm not as emotionally invested in those books.

oh and Star Wars. 2 and 3 were utterly disappointing and I've never watched anything after them.

I'm also pre-emptively disappointed in the upcoming Samurai Warriors 5. There is nothing about "instead of covering 1560-1615, we're only covering up to the Battle of Nagashino, cutting all the later Toyotomi, Tachibana, Chosokabe, etc, and aging everyone down into mobage bishonen teenagers" that I want any part of. There are already 5678364 mobages based on Sengoku period historical figures, don't make the long-running Musou series into another one.

SA

(Anonymous) - 2021-05-19 04:32 (UTC) - Expand

I just thought all the Gem lore was really cool, and the mysteries about their species and what their homeworld history and the Diamonds were like was interesting to see unravel bit by bit. I can see how watching it all at once after it's over could be a duller experience.

It likely got popular because it's story telling was pretty easy-going and if you clicked with the characters they were fun to watch. It's like how MLP: Friendhsip is Magic got hugely popular years prior, sometimes the right things happen to make it appealing to a large audience base outside of the target demo.

Hobbit movies definitely are up there.

The DCU movies. Superman is my favorite superhero. But the DCU movies just haven't been good, apart from the first Wonder Woman movie being good and Aquaman being semi-decent.

The Rise of Skywalker. Ugh. I loved The Last Jedi, so I was hopeful we were going to get a good conclusion to the trilogy. Instead, we got the hands down worst Star Wars movie of them all. TROS is just a bad movie. There are a few scenes that are enjoyable, but the overall plot is bad.

Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney. Two series that I liked a lot, together. Unfortunately I think the writing unfortunately took after the bad parts of Professor Layton rather than the good parts of Ace Attorney.

(It's not really BAD bad, pardon to anyone who enjoyed it. This is only my personal opinion.)

I was too weirded out by the clash in art styles to ever play it.

I enjoyed PL vs AA up until that... interesting conclusion. And by interesting, I mean, they really should have gone with something different instead of relying on discount early PL game twist to explain the world's existence. I mean... they could have just said shit was genuinely what it was. I would've even taken time travel. Fuck, speaking of that, (spoiler for those who haven't completed a certain PL OT game) THAT is the twist they should've borrowed, and made that world "real."

But the rest of the game is a lot of fun, and I do enjoy the extra episodes.

More spoilers for Professor Layton games.

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Re: More spoilers for Professor Layton games.

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God I hated Layton in that game. I like him in his own series but he came across as really unlikeable to me in this game for some reason.

Star Trek Into Darkness

I really will hate that fucking movie until my dying day

Yes, it really wasn't good.

Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

(Anonymous) - 2021-05-19 05:15 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

sparklywalls - 2021-05-19 08:23 (UTC) - Expand

Little Dragons Cafe, aka, the worst PS4 game I have the displeasure of owning. It's not fair, it has such a cute concept and art style but plays like shit.

Final Fantasy 9. I'm just... very meh about it. Everyone hyped it up as a return to old school FF, which I do see. But I barely remember anything about FF4 or FF6, and didn't even finish FF5. I tried to push through FF9 but I am just not connecting with any of it. And grinding is a joke so far. Maybe it gets better at a certain point, but I've just put aside for now so I can play other games instead.

And of course Game of Thrones season 8, which is objectively bad (with the possible exception of 8.2).

Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

pantswarrior - 2021-05-19 03:23 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What were some of the most disappointing pieces of media for you?

philstar22 - 2021-05-19 04:26 (UTC) - Expand

The Conduit. Never had I played a game that had so much of what hardcore Nintendo fans ask for (especially in third-party games) and so little of what they want.

And it's not like High Voltage wasn't trying! They did their homework on the alien conspiracy references and the Washington DC geography! But I kept asking myself why I should care about what was going on in the campaign, especially once the tone shifted from X-Files to Halo, and the multiplayer could have saved it if you could play it offline.

First thing that came to mind was Star Trek: Into Darkness, and I was reminded of FFIX by an anon elsewhere...

Another I just remembered though - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I get that I was not the target age group by about 25 years, but I had friends about my age who were really way into it and thought it was absolutely amazing and said it was definitely better than the usual kids' fare. So finally I asked someone where I could find it to check it out, and watched a couple episodes and... it wasn't BAD, it was just pretty much what I'd have expected from a decently-put-together cartoon aimed at young girls and don't really understand what made so many people of my age of all genders latch onto it.

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Kingdom Hearts, Yuri on Ice... Too many to count really?

I really enjoyed Rainbow Rowell’s book Carry On. I was super excited for the sequel. Then I read it and I could physically feel my excitement disappearing. It was horribly boring and not what I wanted out of a sequel. I hadn’t felt so pissed off at spending money on a book since Breaking Dawn.

The first Harry Potter movie. I was twelve and beyond excited for it. I'd been counting down the days in my journal for the better part of a year, lol. And then it was awful. It was just all wrong, to me, in almost every way. I still feel that way about the HP movies to this day. They just feel so clunky and fakey and poorly adapted. I have a weird affection for them because they're part of my childhood and I do love the story and they're a visual rendering of that story, so there is this weird fondness for them...but I simultaneously hate just about every choice that was made in making them.

I Want To Believe (the second X-Files movie). That was during the peak of my X-Files obsession, and I stupidly allowed myself to get excited and to think maybe it would be really good. It was not. It was not good at all. I never did watch the new seasons, so I have no opinion on those (except that fellow X-Phile friends told me S10 was horrendous and that they wished they'd never watched it, so there's that).

Halloween (2018) - It's a direct sequel to the original 1978 movie, which I was a little dubious about, but willing to go with. And then, just, almost every choice they made with it, starting with the name, left me nonplussed and/or annoyed.

Every single Jane Eyre adaptation ever. They are not supposed to be pretty! They're not supposed to fuck on the drawing room floor before she leaves! Etc/ etc.

Sherlock.

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