Why stuff you like is really quite shit

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by walkertexasdruid

I am sure that you have a whole bunch of things to say about this list:

Dragonlance (As a campaign setting, not so great. The novels, especially The War of the Souls trilogy and the Dark Disciple trilogy, are very good and could definitely stand on their own.)

Fantasy is the shitpile of literature, a reliance on flashy action and crazy magic to distract you from the lack of quality, with races standing in for characterisation and killing the baddy standing in for character development. It's pretty much authors who read the gothic novels and completely missed the point- taking the fantastic and supernatural elements without the greater elements of artisitic and societal criticism.

The original Yu-Gi-Oh! (I have all of the available DVD's except for Capsule Monsters. Who doesn't like a series about a kid who thinks he can save the world by playing a card game?)

The card game as rendered on the videogames is hideously easy to break as in I managed to beat the story fights that you were supposed to lose (he had a stacked deck and cards far better than you could acquire in game).
As for the show- Yugi doesn't save the world tghrough card games, he saves it through some kind of crazy set of magical rituals which involves cards but in no way has any coherency as any form of game. Basically we are witnessing the ramblings of a mental patient but whereas that could be quite good (such as the Cabinet of Dr Caligari) Yugioh pitches the ball too straight in that Yugi's delusions are clearly seperated from his non-delusions (through the medium of card games) thus allowing the viewer perfect knowledge and oncoming boredom.
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Harper's Island (You take a slasher horror movie and turn it into a thirteen part dramatic series which no one else seemed to like. I posted a thread about it and 0 responses. That was the start of my seperate Threadkiller breakdowns, but I am feeling much better now.) [/QUOTE
Nobody responds becuase nobodies seen it. Let this tell you something.

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind (It surely has flaws, such as excessive violence and sex, and it gets preachy towards the end, but overall it was a good series of books. Unfortunately, Goodkind seems to be a one-trick pony, The Law of Nines was basically a rehash of Confessor that takes place in "our" modern world.)

Fantasy- see above.
[QUOTE] The X-Files (I loved all nine seasons, and the first movie. I was disappointed with I want to Believe, since it was basically a remake of the MST3K classic, The Brain That Wouldn't Die.) [QUOTE]
Here's the thing about the X-files. After the first episode if you had to guess what it was about you would guess government conspiracy, working with aliens. That is what was hinting at. Then they spend 9 seasons dicking around denying this idea and then, oh wait yes that is exactly what is happening. What the fuck was the point of those 9 seasons again?

Since we are on that subject, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Take a guy and two robots, force them to watch horrible movies, and comedy ensues.)

So you actively choose to watch bad movies when you could just watch good movies? This is self-evidently bad taste.

Originally Posted by Mannix

Did I mention I watch action movies and play with dirt while taking my morning bowel movement in a clean, safe, private environment?

I need clarification as to type of action movies, like some examples.

Originally Posted by Aerozord

ok, how about a real challenge. I like, this

I going to read the Axecop archives before I answer this one. It looks like a good answer though- mostl because to refute it I have to make a 5 year old cry.