Thread: Things you don't connect with

Y'know, those things, tv shows, movies, fads that other people rave about, that you don't see the sense in, don't get excited about...what doesn't float your boat?

For me...it's Doctor Who and steampunk. The weird thing about both of those is that I am a confirmed science fiction fanatic. But Who leaves me scratching my head, and The Difference Engine, by two of my favorite writers, was sleep-inducing. I don't have any sort of fascination with the Victorian Age anyway, so maybe that's the hook I spat out. I dunno.
Doctor Who is just silly. I like Tom Baker though. Met him at ChiCon a couple of times. Cool guy. Good actor.
Oh, and zombies. Though I'm fascinated by the real thing, the powder, the serpent, and the rainbow, I don't get the Romero-inspired trendoid version. I think they're sparkly (and don't get me started about THAT.) I differentiate by spelling the stuff I'm interested in "zombi", like I call the stuff I like to read SF and not Sci-Fi.
How about you?

See I like the Victorian Era and I see a lot of similarities in our own time period but I don't like the punk aspect--it's like people forget that "beauty follows function" and just glue random crap to things. I like the look of brass and gears but I think it's useless if the gears are decorative and not functional.

I don't get sparkly vampires and sexy vampires. I just don't. I much prefer terrifying vampires and werewolves.

Also, Will Ferrell is not funny. I keep trying to meet him halfway but he just comes across as stupid.

Justin Beiber and the hate thereof. Some people really need to get a life and coming from me, that's quite an insult.

Most "comedians" should be billed as "alleged comedians" in my eyes.

Marriage.

High voltage AC current...

I don't get most things people rant and rave and fawn over nowadays. I'm so far out of the loop I can't even see the shoelace...

Hyphenated people.

Originally Posted by shadowwalker

I don't get most things people rant and rave and fawn over nowadays. I'm so far out of the loop I can't even see the shoelace...

Nicely said. I know the feeling. I left out hundreds of other things for brevity's sake. Media things, public figures, sports...I'm alienated enough to need SETI to contact me.

Originally Posted by benluby

Hyphenated people.

Do you mean people with hyphenated names? Or people who possess and use hyphens? I'm curious?

Originally Posted by moderan

Nicely said. I know the feeling. I left out hundreds of other things for brevity's sake. Media things, public figures, sports...I'm alienated enough to need SETI to contact me.

Do you mean people with hyphenated names? Or people who possess and use hyphens? I'm curious?

Either one.

Interesting-and quite odd.

Originally Posted by moderan

Interesting-and quite odd.

As Teddy Roosevelt himself said, when Americans' start hyphenating, One of the quotes he mad that I like and believe in?

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

I apply the same to married names. Either become a X or stay a Y. Don't become an X-Y hybrid. People that refuse to align one way or another are incapable of making significant decisions in my opinion.

*shrug* I think in both cases you're over-generalizing but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

Haha. We've had the Doctor Who conversation before, so no real point in going there, but -- to anyone interested -- moderan and I are both massive fans of speculative fiction in most mediums and have ridiculously detailed encyclopedic knowledge of the field.

He thinks Who is silly, I think it's one of the greatest things crafted by the hand of man. In the revived series especially, I can think of no other television show that tackles speculative concepts as deep as the show, or that illustrates them through character, emotion and how those concepts effect actual human lives. It's a show aimed at both children and adults that isn't afraid to be complex, nor is it afraid to target difficult topics.

Just one of those agree to disagree things.

And I don't care for zombies or steampunk either.

Originally Posted by moderan

*shrug* I think in both cases you're over-generalizing but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

Just pointing out something I don't care for, much like Dr. Who or Austin Powers movies. None of which keep me up at night. ROFL.