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I never learn my lesson (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

That's just how "real" fans are.

There's nothing real about them though, except their malice.

I am the kind of guy who will make fun of you for watching and enjoying the first few seasons of Disco and Picard because I think they suck, but I've stopped trying to tell people how to enjoy their media. The world is already a miserable enough place without trying to make people feel bad about their content watching habits.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

The world is already a miserable enough place without trying to make people feel bad about their content watching habits.

Exactly this.

I am the kind of guy who will make fun of you for watching and enjoying the first few seasons of Disco and Picard because I think they suck

If someone can be friendly while they're joking around like that, I'm all for it. But it's hard to get that subtlety into a comment.

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

There's kind of two modes with that. If you're in a bad mood it's easy to just become a bulldozer of anger and malice and just shit on every single aspect of the first seasons. Otherwise, it's just a discussion where we disagree on what things we enjoy.

I find it easier to have a simple discussion here on Lemmy. On reddit you're about 50/50 going to encounter somebody angry and malicious, but here it's probably more like 70/30 towards a good conversation.

... If you're in a bad mood it's easy to just become a bulldozer of anger and malice and just shit on every single aspect ...

This is a part of speaking with people online that I think a lot of us miss. Sometimes we're just cranky and not thinking at our best and sometimes it's the other person. But we too often assume we're dealing with the essential person

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

If you come to !Risa@startrek.website you can join us in lampooning then, which makes them much more fun to watch.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Risa is a great community. I don't post there, but I enjoy the memes.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

At the same time, Picard mostly sucked... But it was good enough for me to watch through

I feel like half the problem is that not all of us are on the same page. If I say "I think this sucked", I want to talk about it, and if anything I hope someone will recontextualize it for me and make it more enjoyable.

I want to hash it out, because anyone who does that in good faith sharpens their own opinion. Maybe I'm wrong and they convince me to give it a second chance, maybe I'm wrong and realize I only liked it for nostalgia. Or maybe we realize our opinions differ, and narrow down the reason why

I don't think I'd like Picard aside from nostalgia...I don't think it was fun or artistically valuable, but I didn't stop watching. I don't think it's good-If you like it, I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I will argue no one should watch it if they don't love Patrick Stuart already. Not even TNG, the rest of the crew was pretty hollow cameos - his character was badly written, but I watched it through because it was more of his character

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