• MourningDove@lemmy.zip
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    55 minutes ago

    The same point can be made about Star Wars. Most “fans” only like three of the movies. Maybe it’s just me, but like ⅓ of a product doesn’t make you a fan of it.

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      No loss. The last good one was in 2022 with the Death Note and Westworld parodies. One of their best episodes ever, even compared to the golden years.

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          Yes, and it was animated by a studio that assisted with the actual Death Note anime. Western shows parodying anime always have an ugly, super off style, but they went the extra mile and it looks like the real thing! Highly recommend it to any fan of anime in general. It’s Treehouse of Horror XXXIII and the segment is called Death Tome.

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        Speaking of fall in quality, Westworld had so much promise! I didn’t even know if there’s a season 4 because I stopped following anything about it in the news 2 episodes into season 3. I think I could rewatch the first 2 again. But that’s going to have to wait until after DS9 I started a couple days ago.

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          I’ll actually come in and defend seasons 3&4 of Westworld.

          If you were primarily watching it for the Western setting, then yeah - fair enough they won’t be for you as they are set within the ‘real world’.

          But if you were enjoying the meta-narrative of human self-destruction via AI - then those last two seasons are truly on-point, even more-so now than when they first screened.

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            Fair. I think I was just into the setting, although I would’ve loved some more of that samurai setting. Maybe I’ll give it a second shot.

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          I only ever saw the first season. Maybe I’ll get around to season 2 one day, but sounds like I can just skip the rest! Seems to happen to most shows nowadays.

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    I salute the Simpsons for its longevity, but I haven’t watched it in years. If it ever ends in my lifetime, you can be sure I’ll be watching the finale.

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    You don’t have to have blind devotion to something to be a fan of it. I don’t like new Pokémon but still am a fan of the first 3 generations. I’m a fan of the office but I don’t watch after season 7.

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      You don’t have to have blind devotion to something to be a fan of it.

      Fan was originally short for fanatic, so it does actually imply blind devotion. Etymologically at least.

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      Recently I was wondering if I could apply that reasoning to Game of Thrones. I haven’t watched it since that trainwreck of an ending.

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        I have friends who utterly refuse to acknowledge the last episode of Farscape. If it never happens for them, they can assume the adventures go on indefinitely.

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        One of the few endings that was so utterly awful it retroactively tainted my perception of the first solid 4-5 seasons.

        Probably also the reason the book series will never get finished now :>

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            Lost was good for a season and a half or so. If they would have kept the story moving instead of filling in fluff just for episodes and longevity, it could have had the same impact.

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          I like it. The whole thing is a tragedy about bickering over petty human power-struggles while eventually being overtaken by the problem you should have been working together against. Bring Peter Dinklage back in to narrate something to that effect over the scenes of the whitewalkers rampaging. Series sort of salvaged.

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        There’s a fan edit called Game of Thrones Redeemed. Apparently it fixes that trainwreck into something reasonably satisfying, although I’ve not seen it yet.

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      How about the meme with Homer looking thin and having tons of skin on the back.

      While I agree with you, there are just soooo much new Simpson stills that some do happen to make good memes.

      And remember, those are from the episodes released so far…