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I spent the last week or so finishing Chuck, which I loved, and reading Redshirts, which I really wanted to love. But oh my god. Why did it come so recommended? Originally I was just kind of meh about it, but I got halfway through the first coda and was just done. I now actively dislike it, and I can't even bring myself to finish the coda, let alone the other two.

I'll have a final review of both eventually (until then I've got some Chuck thoughts from seasons 1-4), but tell me I'm not the only one not thoroughly disappointed in this book. (Also, is this a sign I should avoid Scalzi in general, or might this be an anomaly book?)

Barring that, let's share some other things that you had high hopes for but wound up not liking.

How I was hyped for Legend Of Korra:a 20 chapter novella
Although it did introduce me to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

I love BBVD ;)

I thought I would love Six Feet Under after watching the first few episodes. Seriously, it was SO AWESOME. Creative and hilarious and poignant and elegant and smart. And then the everyone-is-a-selfish-neurotic-loser storylines turned out not to be the starting point for character development, but the status quo from which they would never recover. So my interest was utterly demolished because I either hated or didn't give a shit about any of the characters. And I realized that the show wasn't irreverent like I thought, but actually took itself so seriously.

I still regret watching every episode of that show. I was so into whats-his-name from Dexter...

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Pushing Daisies

Ditto. It was a little too cute for me, which couldn't have been more surprising.

I came here to say the exact same thing. It was just too...absurdist? Which Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls should have been but somehow weren't. And I loved the Mockingbird Lane special/pilot/episode and that was much more absurd than Pushing Daisies, but it just worked; Pushing Daisies didn't :(

The Fault in Our Stars. I admit I went into it without having any clue what it was about, but ALL my friends were salivating over it and I thought it had to have some merit. I hated it. Totally hated it. I'm pretty sure I've read the same story under different names before. I do not see what is so great about it at all.

Same. I read the book and just didn't get why everyone loved it so much.

I've read fanfic that was like that book.

The Hunger Games, I read the first book and it was just pretty meh and that was it... I didn't hate it, but I still have not read the rest of the series... (or seen the films)

Also Game of Thrones, I am like 100 pages into the first book, and the show is pretty much okay, not amazing or great but good enough that I watch it if I have the time.

I disliked the first Hunger Games book (just...reasons) but I really enjoyed the movie. My sister says the following books were better but I thought the first one was just kind of crappy so not sure if I'll give the others a try.

I really do think the Hunger Games movies are way better than the books. The writer has good stories but bleh prose, and you can watch the films without having read the books (actually I watched the first one before reading the books and LOVED it, then thought the book was only ok)

Suzanne Collins is great at world-building, but she's not a good writer. The first book is the worst of the three though.

I gave up reading GoT after 100 or so pages it was so boring.

BBC Sherlock. Oh dear. I was so sure I would love it.

Funnily enough, I had the exact opposite reaction to the Ritchie films, although that's largely because my expectations and predictions were so dire, and I don't take them too seriously.

Same

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When it first came out, I thought I was going to love Kakumeiki Valrave. Then... Things happened, and a section of the fandom as fucking creepy and gross as it was possible to be about it. I just dropped the show, and things I heard later made me glad I did.

On the other hand, when Last Exile: Ginyoku No Fam came out I was sure I would hate it, but I ended up loving it just as much as the first series.

DS9 episode "Far Beyond The Stars." I still think it's good and like it, but not as much as I thought I would. I think my expectations were just too high. I knew they were too high, but I still couldn't help it. It's just such an amazing, perfect idea that is almost designed for me to love it.

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Game of Thrones (the books) and Sleepy Hollow (the show). My grandma bought me the GoT books before they became super famous, and I'm generally a sucker for fantasy like that, but I couldn't even get through a few chapters of the first book. I hated the writing style too much to bother with the content.

I have no idea why I can't get into Sleepy Hollow. It has the makings of everything I like--the main characters are awesome, the plot is supernatural fantasy that's a great balance of silly and legitimately dramatic/interesting, but... I don't know. I just don't love it.

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Thought I'd be into Destiel from the talk online but ended up actively disliking the pairing. :/

Some tv show where the future was a dystopian disaster with resources dying so people were sent back in time to dinosaur era.

I think I made it a good 6 episodes before I lost interest due to cliche storylines

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Arrested Development. It has all the features that I enjoy in a comedy. But when I marathoned it, I had this feeling of appreciating it in theory but not actually laughing. It's like I can appreciate it in an abstract, objective type of way, and I can see everything that it's trying to do, but I'm just not as *entertained* as I should be, even though everything about it is my type of thing.

It's beautifully put-together and executed, but somehow it's not greater than the sum of its parts. Maybe I need to watch again.

Hulk and the Agents of SMASH. I thought that the Hulk episodes of Ultimate Spider-Man were by far the best that show had to offer, and I expected it to be more of the same. Instead we got... what we got.

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