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I think a lot comes down to expectations. I've been involved in RPGs online for many years (don't judge) and more than one fellow player kept recommending GRRMs "Song of Ice and Fire" books to me, but I ignored it as I'm really not into fantasy. When the TV series Game of Thrones was announced, I thought "OMG, this is going to be more endless hype about some craptastic nonsense like Lord of the Rings" (so here's MY unpopular opinion: I can't stand Lord of the Rings). I also thought "okay, I'll watch 1-2 episodes, so I can tell people I tried and it wasn't for me" and started on GoT with sub-zero expectations, then found to my surprise that I was getting drawn into the stories and by season two was hooked. If I had had high expectations, maybe they had been disappointed.

I do agree that HBO has done themselves a great disserve by peppering the first seasons with way too much gratuitious nudity and I understand that many people couldn't move past that. It's shame because GoT is for me one of the very few shows that has always had a great range of really interesting and well-written female characters which is part of its attraction to me.

So many shows have suffered from TV execs thinking that gratuitious nudity is a selling point while it seems in fact to turn people off. Same with "Black Sails" - so much potential, so ruined by cheap sex scenes in the first season. I persevered and it got better with each season, the more it focused on plot and the less on the two obnoxious damsels. "Marco Polo" on Netflix had all the potential for being a fantastic historical drama but was also ruined by gratuitious nudity. "Versailles" only just managed as did "The Borgias" - both shows with great subjects and so much wasted potential because cheap nudity seemed to matter more than good plotting.

Sorry, rant over. I'm fine with people recommending stuff to me, which is how I discovered some lesser known gems like "The Wire" or way back "Firefly" but there's also a lot of very popular stuff whose attraction eludes me and where I gave up after a few episodes. The only thing that bugs is when people slam something without having seen it. A friend of mine nurses a huge hatred for Harry Potter and JK Rowling without having touched a single book. That's daft IMHO, at least give it a chance and see for yourself, then you can still dismiss it as not being your cup of tea.

I’m generally just bitter because some of the shows I love have been long running series but I just can’t find anyone else who loves them, e.g. Psych; Jane The Virgin; The Good Wife; SNL; White Collar; Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

I can’t fathom how some gory show about sexy people whose names I can’t pronounce, fighting for a fictional throne and coming back to life, beats a damned good comedy or legal drama

I loved Firefly, it felt VERY tailor-made for me, but I can't watch it anymore because it sucks knowing that the actor who plays your favourite character is 100% pure undiluted asshole. (Also Whedon himself is more than a li'l dubious but at least I don't have to look at his face while constantly feeling disappointed.)

Jamael Weston ( currently playing Alexander Hamilton with all the charisma of a plank of balsa wood) being nominated for ‘Best Actor in a Musical’ just goes to show what a load of tosh those awards are. They made it even more ridiculous by putting him against the wonderful Giles Terra ( currently playing Burr) who blows Weston off the stage every night and has a wealth of other outstanding performances on his resume.

As for Michael Jibson winning Best Supporting Actor in a musical for his minuscule contribution to the show. Unfathomable and a really daft snub to some of the other excellent cast members like Cleve September, playing double roles and knocking them out of the park.
Who makes these daft decisions? It just renders the whole exercise as totally random and irelevant exercise.

Bits?! 😀 #rude

Snap! So glad im not alone.

Or in the case of Order of the Pheonix, an Editor, period. I was told by someone in the know that the book didn't get an editorial cycle at all - just light copyediting - because she delivered the manuscript so late that they didn't have time for it before the pre-set, hugely hyped and expensively-marketed release date.

When it then became a huge bestseller it then proved that kids will read anything, no matter how chunky the page count and clunky the writing. This proved a huge boon to authors of children's books who were struggling with very restrictive page counts because of publishers thinking chunky books put kids off, but not so great for editorial quality.

I thoroughly enjoyed the books. Once. Having read them I felt no desire to ever go back for a second look and eventually gave the whole set to a charity shop.

I did the same. One read was enough. With the films, I watched the first two then gave up so I did at least get to the end of the series with the books. I thought the end of the last book, where it jumps forward a couple of decades, read like not very good fan fiction.

David Walliams’ gay act is becoming rather boring. I just wish he and “Simon” would give it a go and stop making such a fuss about it.