The agony of indecision

Can't take the mower to the club, not anymore.

Same energy

This is the lasting legacy of my childhood TV experience...porn 😔

Gargoyles...porn

Tiny toons...porn

Sonic the Hedgehog...porn

It's all porn now.

It's okay but it's a bit distracting what with all the sexy gargoyles

Based

You can stop watching Gargoyles when the voice of Keith David is available as a default TTS client on every phone.

Follow that up with Oz.

Yes?

Might just be interest. I can't remember yesterday, but I remember every bit of Halo lore that I've read.

One the upside, you can watch a show all over again like it's the first time!

I don't even mean because it's episodic, it just pops right back out of my brain. Just about to finish watching all of succession, an episode a day, and couldn't tell you half of what happened unless you remind me.

That's the worst for me. If I binge it just goes into the big Binge Pot of Media Memories in my head. If I watch it daily or weekly, then I'm thinking about it and talking about it, ie interacting with the material, as it's coming out.

Reasonable for a 3 season show, completely insane for an 8 season one

Did that with GoT and my brain melted from so much. You end up needing to take a break mid way through anyway, might as well just watch them when the season comes out and watch a recap

I like to pretend like I know what they're talking about and see how far I can get before they catch on.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

What, in your mind, is "fantasy?" Because for a genre whose name implies imagination and creativeness, it seems pretty pigeonholed into the European medieval folklore/fairy tale aesthetic somewhere between King Arthur and JRR Tolkien.

Yeah. I got it there too. There was this black flag with a skull on it...

When I turned in my iPad (Air 4) due to some issues with magnetic covers within warranty, I got a free replacement and a 90-day trial to Apple TV+. I watched Ted Lasso (all 3 seasons), Silo and Severance during these 3 months.

I'm not sure why you only got 7 days, but I would assume that Apple gives a longer trial to people who just got a new iDevice.

ps. I should mention that if I were to get a new tablet today, I would get one from Samsung.

Target gives out 1-3 month Apple trials from time to time.

The model worked back when episodes were self contained. I don't need to see seasons 1-20 (or whatever they're up to now) of The Simpsons to understand the latest episode. Old Star Trek was the same. You didn't need a huge back story. Kirk/Picard and chums were the good guys. The guy with the plastic on his face and angry eyes was the bad guy. It was easy.

But stretching a simple story over 10 seasons of gradually declining quality is nonsense. By their own logic we can only have a conclusion when the quality has declined to the point that nobody cares what happens. Might as well not even have an ending at that point.

Growing up in the years before and during Cable television, I am positive television was the most talked about topic over any and all aside from basic hello.

And if you didn't have cable, well you'd get filled in on whatever, but were oddly OK with it.

Yea you're right, I can't be too upset.

It is? Then I guess I am a shitty conversational partner.

It’s a shared experience, like the weather. Usually in person with somebody who experiences the same weather, but comparing/contrasting weather with friends across the country (US, so that can be pretty far) works sometimes too.

There are two new seasons and a movie!

I forgot about this, I need to go watch!

That reminds me, I went out on Halloween dressed as Butthead when I was but a wee lad hhhuhuh.

It's okay, not great, although I loved this episode.

Season 2 is definitely the slowest season I think. It's a bit of a slog but it's doing a lot of the legwork for seasons 3 and 4 to go wild so it does kind of pay off in the long run IMO.

That somehow made me love Jamie Lee Curtis even more...

I had to stop watching at some point, it was just too close to home. The overall feeling was just like christmas at home and I don't go anymore, because I value my sanity more these days. Holy shit what an episode.

I’m pissed at how absolutely shit the end of The Watcher is. It started so good.

I watched 10 minutes of the walking dead during it's episode 1 premier and said "nah this sucks", I tried watching game of thrones when it was premiering episode 1, and couldn't get out of the introduction sequence without saying "snorefest"

I've tried to watch and dropped every popular t.v series and straight up ignored the existence of all other shows. I'm just not a T.V person.

Lmao

it takes a while to get good

really? I thought that was squid game.

I also haven't watched that too.

Ahoy, the seas be waiting for ye matey. And a certain "girl" be waiting to give ye your sea legs, I hear she's quite "fit".

Yeah it is pretty long, but rewarding.

It's also not a "flashy" show, so you don't get the fatigue of the writer constantly one-upping themselves to shock you. It's just a fun drama with some great characters and actors. Once you've seen it, you'll join the ranks of those who yell "OMG IT"S AVON BARKSDALE" everytime you see Harris on screen, or any number of the other actors.

Yeah that’s about it. I also think it’s about the dawning realisation that this medium or format of storytelling has become increasingly commercialised; and that in spite of the vast hours of content available, there is paradoxically less genuine narrative than ever.

Do I really have a good time while watching these?

People are so different, I feel exactly the opposite. There's a bunch of games I'd want to play, but most of the time when I'm about to start playing, I'm just overcome with the feeling of "What's the point? It's just a waste of time". When I'm watching a show I'm processing a shit-ton of stuff, emotions, life, depression. Games are just "for fun". I just don't seem to get the same out of games no matter how "deep" or whatever they are. I accomplish something in a game, 99% of the time I just feel "Well, I could've used all that time and energy doing something real and now I just wasted all that time for some virtual character in a virtual world.".

I've thought about that. Games, especially ones with development like RPGs, provide that sense of accomplishment that life rarely gives or doesn't give clearly. Promotions at work might be years apart, buying a house, etc but I can feel like I got something done on a daily basis in games, plus I get a little chime sound and a popup when I do!

No! That's not true! We've just kept the best shows from that era! For every "The Wire" there were a dozen other terrible shows airing at the same time. It's true that there were fewer shows on TV so there were less to pick from but believe me, in another 10 years people are going to only point to "Breaking Bad" and other shows (Sherlock? Mr. ROBOT? Dexter? Game of thrones minus the last season? we can't say for sure right now) as amazing and they'll say "damn, 20 years ago was peak TV."

I will say though, it's impressive that HBO is really the only production company to consistently produce the best TV.

I'd argue about the waste of oxygen thing, but my gen x coworker says she mostly identifies with boomers.

I would say I feel attacked, but you're mostly right.

I see where you're coming from. But for Westworld the gratuity is sort of fundamental to the theme and plot of the show.

What's gratuity in this context? English is my second language and an the dictionary nor online searches for things like "gratuity in tv shows" were of much help. I saw most of one episode; do you mean the soft porn?

I imagine you have your own methods to handle these types of discussions, but this is my trick.

"Have you watched random niche show you've never heard of?"

"No, but I've heard it's pretty decent. What's it about?"

At this point, you can check out of the conversation while they talk about a show you'll never see. Personally, I like to half listen because I like to hear about stuff people have a passion for

I like to think he’s overwhelmed by an instant realisation of his own brief mortality in the face of what must be hundreds of cumulative hours of shows that he will most likely never watch

Imagine being downvoted for sharing an opinion on a tv show.

I liked the beginning, the later episode lost ny interest.

We have a standing appointment

Euphoria is garbage most people will agree with that. The ones that you should watch is succession and the boys, last of us is pretty mid and having watched severance I don't know why people are so excited about it.

That is an accurate assessment. It's great and I can't wait for the next season. But it also gave me anxiety while I watched it.

"Hello there!"