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It's terrifying... (lemmy.world)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What is your favourite TV series?

Would you recommend it to others?

Would you recommend it if the first 3 hours weren't very entertaining, but were necessary for plot development?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Not the guy you're talking to, but my opinion is the only good shows spend time building their world like that. It shows the world is complex and matters. If you blow past that then your world must either be identical to ours or it isn't interesting.

    My favorite show I think is Battlestar: Galactica. You have to watch a entire miniseries before it gets into the swing of things; when the episodes start. The viewer needs to be immersed in the world to be able to understand the stakes and actually care about what's happening, for any world anyone creates that isn't our own.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Idk if I have a favorite TV series but I guess some recent picks would be The Midnight Club and Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, both of which are pretty gripping from early on tbh. If both of them took multiple episodes for stuff to start happening and multiple seasons to resolve any plotlines then I would never recommend them to anybody: at that point reading books is more thrilling.

    A series serves better as a collection of stories whose whole is more meaningful than their parts.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Depends on the person I suppose.

    I thought Game of Thrones was dull to start, but I was glad to have stuck with it while it was airing. It's a shame it turned into shit though.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I think Game of Thrones had lots of intrigue in the first few episodes but I also didn't like that one because I'm not a big fan of incest, murdering children, discussion of if prostitutes do or do not constitute skill in getting laid, and rape by the ocean. Also, sociopolitical landscapes of medieval Europe in grimdark lack of proper succession contexts.

    But I won't judge people who do like it.

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