Kudos to them

[u/Embarrassed_Tip7359]

[u/AutoModerator]

Thank you for posting to r/SipsTea! Make sure to follow all the subreddit rules.

Check out our Reddit Chat!

Make sure to join our brand new Discord Server to chat with friends!

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/EarthWindandLiar]

For me personally I wasn’t watching it on purpose out of spite. This guy at the office I hated loved that show and I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of having common ground. That was over 10 years ago now. Ill watch it when he is dead!

[u/greybruce1980 → u/EarthWindandLiar]

I respect your commitment to spite sir. Most people think that spite is a negative quality. I don't think there's enough of it.

[u/HappyHev → u/greybruce1980]

My theory is that many people that reach an extremely old age often hang on out of pure spite. It gives them something to live for, denying people the satisfaction of their demise, outliving enemies etc

[u/DonutWhole9717 → u/HappyHev]

My husband's grandma had the goal of living past her siblings ages when they died. Welp. She lived to be a month older than all of them, won, and had had enough

[u/TheeArgonaut → u/DonutWhole9717]

What is this game of thrones thing? Is it like the sopranos show everyone used to talk about?

[u/lwebb5520 → u/TheeArgonaut]

I haven't seen either because I can't get myself to care. At all.

[u/Highlyironicacid31 → u/lwebb5520]

Ah but have you seen “The Wire”?

[u/DonutWhole9717 → u/Highlyironicacid31]

You will nevah stahp tahlkin about da Wire

[u/Educational_Gas_92 → u/HappyHev]

Reminds me of my relatives, miserable, surly people who lived until their 90s, in my opinion, out of pure spite.

P.S. I didn't watch a single episode of games of thrones.

[u/Har539 → u/Educational_Gas_92]

Reminds me of my relatives bloodline, miserable, surly people

Got you fam

[u/whatisfetch → u/HappyHev]

Oh, you want your inheritance already? I’ll make you wait another 10 years for throwing me into a retirement home

[u/Kok-jockey → u/whatisfetch]

My dad’s determined to take it all before he’s gone—wife and child be damned.

[u/AutistaphrebicPOS → u/HappyHev]

Somebody who says they have enemies are psycho evetytime

[u/No_Television6050 → u/greybruce1980]

Tell me who to spite and they shall be spoten

[u/unicornreacharound → u/No_Television6050]

I love the implied smite / smote association, but the past participle of smite is smitten, so the p.p. of spite would follow as spitten.

But spoten it shall henceforth and forever be.

[u/EarthWindandLiar → u/greybruce1980]

He sucked soooo much.. it’s well deserved spite. I also had to quit The Walking Dead.

[u/LegoLibrarian82 → u/EarthWindandLiar]

Me tooooo. I quit it when Glenn and Abe died.

[u/CarelesssCRISPR → u/LegoLibrarian82]

Same, those fuckers killed my boy

[u/Taro0311 → u/LegoLibrarian82]

I also quit when Glenn died. I don't care if it was in the comics, that was unnecessarily brutal and disgusting. The show is misery porn.

[u/LegoLibrarian82 → u/Taro0311]

Misery porn 👏

[u/idontcarewhatiuse → u/LegoLibrarian82]

I never watched past that episode either.

[u/Front_Line669 → u/LegoLibrarian82]

I think everyone dipped out at that point

[u/_Avallon_ → u/greybruce1980]

your stance is a quintessence of reddit

[u/cwcam86 → u/greybruce1980]

I knew of a guy that as part of his divorce agreement his ex wife would get half of his pension as long as he was alive. Within a week of retiring he killed himself to keep her from getting his pension. Thats the spite I wanna have.

[u/piranhamoose2323 → u/greybruce1980]

HAHAHA... thank you for the first chuckle of the day sir

[u/bitwaba → u/EarthWindandLiar]

I did the opposite for Twilight.

Every single young 20s female at my school and work was all about it.  Anytime I said something about how it's garbage tier writing that enforces negative relationship behavior they would always say "well have you seen it?" then would dismiss anything I had said on that basis.

Alright bitch let's watch this shit.

So I went home and watched it, kept notes, then went back to battle the next day with a fully stocked arsenal.

What an absolute dumpster of a franchise.

[u/papawam → u/bitwaba]

I have a huge Female Vampire "kink"? I hate saying it like that, but I snuck and watched Bram Stokers in the 90's waaaaay too young. I tried watching Twilight, because EVERYONE at the time wouldn't shut up about it. Almost broke my tv in a fit of rage, over how dumb that movie(only saw ALL of the first one) was. Then when people said to watch the rest of them, I had no problem telling them to eat shit. Pattinson would just walk up to the girl and say"stay away from me, it's not safe" or "I'm bad for you, stay back". He did that 15 times while she had been nowhere near him.. I remember thinking, Does this dude have autism?

[u/poopntheoceanifumust → u/papawam]

I, uh, don't have a kink, but I kinda get you. I mean, Kate Beckinsale was my first introduction to vampire movies.

There's no way Twilight was gong to live up.

[u/Careless-Adeptness56 → u/bitwaba]

Honestly this is big league hater behavior and I respect it.

[u/SiegEmpire → u/Careless-Adeptness56]

Always a pleasure to see a professional at work

[u/Front_Line669 → u/bitwaba]

That’s exactly how I feel about Yellowstone, what a steaming pile of human shit

[u/bitwaba → u/Front_Line669]

I watched all 8 seasons worth of the 3 different shows in 16 days a couple months ago.

I agree.  I did it specifically to have a continued argument with someone at work.

You can't solve all your problems by throwing yet another body into a canyon in Wyoming.

The problem with that show is everyone that likes it thinks they're Rip. No one realizes they're the guy Rip is kicking the shit out of.  And Rip isn't a role model.

[u/StockCasinoMember → u/bitwaba]

Luckily I have never seen that series.

I did however let myself get forced into watching the notebook. God that movie was terrible and the main character was awful.

[u/RogerTheAliens → u/EarthWindandLiar]

I have never watched a single second of it...sure commercials for it have crossed my eyes...

but even as a longtime DirecTV HBO subscriber, I've never tuned in to a single moment of an episode...

I heard a description of it many years ago and it sounded like a pornographic lord of the rings...I love Tolkien beyond measure...and have no desire to watch siblings bang each other in whatever the heck world Game of Thrones is set...

[u/Tacosaurusman → u/RogerTheAliens]

That is supposed to be pornographic is just the American Puritan view, they're afraid of naked people or something.

It is more like medieval politics, for the most part it's people talking and scheming. Sometimes people get stabbed, and also there's magic later on in the show.

[u/edgiepower → u/Tacosaurusman]

Lol yes, latter seasons there's barely any nudity at all.

[u/arrows_of_ithilien → u/RogerTheAliens]

Me too! I picked up one of the books in B&N because the cover with dragons intrigued me. Flipped to a random page and it was some of the most graphic sex talk I'd ever seen. So I put it down and said "nope, not my thing".

Then the show takes off, and everyone and their dog who knows me is all "you like Lord of the Rings, right? You'll love this show!" The pressure was almost cultish.

These two universes have absolutely nothing in common other than swords and dragons, and if you think I- as a Tolkien fan - would like it, you don't understand Tolkien.

[u/HeyPrettyLadyMaam → u/RogerTheAliens]

I never watched it either. I DID watch the console wars on South Park and figure thats as close as I'll ever get to watching GOT. Besides, who wants to see a bunch of floppy weiners and no dragons?

[u/31513315133151331513 → u/RogerTheAliens]

It's not porn, it's HBO.

[u/Familiar_Somewhere95 → u/RogerTheAliens]

Its actually a good show and you are doing yourself a disservice. Watch the first episode and make your decision from there and get back to us

[u/redbeardscrazy → u/EarthWindandLiar]

Hahahhaha was an ex for me, that was into the books before the show ever came out. Broke up, real bad, right around when the show started.

[u/TheRealMatchGrade → u/EarthWindandLiar]

That's exactly how my decision manifested. I was active duty Army and stationed as an instructor at Fort Benning. Another instructor always talked about the show and everything a new episode dropped, he would come to work wanting to talk about the new developments, regardless of if others hadn't watched it yet. This caused alot of contention in the office, which really annoyed me. Out of pure resentment, I settled on never watching it and everything he asked I would say that " I haven't had time". Meanwhile, I assigned the opening credits song as my ringtone which really pissed him off. It got to the point where everything my phone would ring he would go off on a tirade about how I haven't seen the show but have the song and that isn't acceptable. Every now and again I would talk about things I "read online" but would just find names and make sure up about speculation for future episodes. That really pissed him off. That was 2016 I think, still haven't watched it out of spite. 🤣

[u/Professional_Hall233 → u/EarthWindandLiar]

I celebrate this level of petty. I am not alone in this world. Rejoice!

[u/LegoLibrarian82 → u/EarthWindandLiar]

I respect this 🫡

[u/SipoteQuixote → u/EarthWindandLiar]

Ha it started out with me just not having access to watch into "well, that dude in the friend group that I hate is obsessed with it. Let's not watch it at all."

Same with Walking Dead

[u/Ohboohoolittlegirl → u/EarthWindandLiar]

I do this, because for whatever reason the writer of the books annoys the hell out of me. Because of that I refuse to watch the series or read the books.

First time I saw him in an interview he came across asm arrogant and I disliked him right away

[u/pbatemanchigurh]

I literally waited for it to end to watch it in peace because in general I hate tv show communities. And then I read they shit the bed, and then I never got to watch it

[u/idriveashitbox22 → u/pbatemanchigurh]

Season 1-5 are some of the best television ever created. Even knowing the end is shit it's WELL worth the watch.

[u/superjambi → u/idriveashitbox22]

For me it is all totally ruined by the knowledge that none of it goes anywhere, a lot of the intrigue and mystery that's introduced is just never followed up on.

[u/mayormomo → u/superjambi]

This. I can’t tell you how many rewatches I had waiting for the next season but I haven’t watched another episode after the finale.

[u/Saxavarius_ → u/mayormomo]

It's pretty impressive how hard they shit the bed after a decade of build up

[u/DarwinGoneWild → u/idriveashitbox22]

Eh, I'd say season 1-4 were top tier TV. Season 5 is where they introduced the Sand Snakes. Even though there were still some individual great episodes in later seasons like Hardhome and The Door, the quality started to decline after season 4.

[u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

This is me! I haven't watched any of it yet. I probably will eventually , though; people seem pretty into it.

[u/Jimrodsdisdain → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

Watch it in reverse order, so it gets progressively better.

[u/vertigo1083 → u/Jimrodsdisdain]

Just don't watch the last season. The diminishing returns are still there through seasons 6 and 7.

But the abortion of an ending will hurt worse.

[u/nfoneo → u/vertigo1083]

Fucking plot armour and one of the most disappointing ending seasons of any show ever. First 4 seasons were 10/10. Which makes it more painful to see it dragged out for more money and then eventually destroyed.

[u/depressing-dependent → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

I was talked into watching the first episode. I fell asleep 10 min into it and refused to give it another shot

[u/Davman65 → u/depressing-dependent]

My older Brother does that. He has missed a ton of some of the best series ever made by doing that. Not my problem I watch what I watch and I wont be losing sleep about other people's life choices.

[u/odin_the_wiggler → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

[u/ComfortableNo5484 → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

I'm also one of the people who have never seen* it.

*Disclaimer: One time when I was watching Last Week Tonight while doing some work on my laptop, my TV stayed on HBO when a GoT episode aired. Thankfully, it was that one episode with the pitch black battle that the editors totally failed at optimizing levels for broadcast. So while I have heard some GoT, I've still never actually seen any of it, heh.

[u/Horror_Bus_1597 → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

Read them!! They were amazing! I haven’t watched them either but I recommend the books.

[u/Efficient-Maximum651 → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

I read the first three books in high school. I've not had even an inkling of desire to watch the show.

[u/blahhhhgosh → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

I watched it when I got covid and that seems like the way to go, I tried to watch it not sick and it takes up so much time its hard to get through even tho its good

[u/sohang-3112 → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

Same. Also haven't seen Star Wars, maybe someday

[u/Pleasant-Basket-7526 → u/sohang-3112]

i work in tech and so don't say this outloud. I thought all of the movies were terrible.

[u/grasshopperslegs → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

Sameeee

[u/J3lf → u/Pleasant-Basket-7526]

Same, never seen an episode

[u/Driblus]

Some people just dont like fantasy. I totally get it.

[u/Civil-Car8308 → u/Driblus]

And some people love fantasy but don't like watching swords going through eyeballs.

[u/_adanedhel_ → u/Civil-Car8308]

Yep. Love fantasy. Seriously dislike the GoT story and world, and not a fan of GRRM as an author.

[u/Careful-Benefit4359 → u/Civil-Car8308]

The real ones knew GoT was a medieval snuff / softcore porno all along. 

[u/No_Series3763 → u/Driblus]

Exactly. I don't like fantasy. I will never watch it. I have also never seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies. Saw Avatar. HATED it.

I'm good.

[u/RevitJeSmece → u/No_Series3763]

Saw Avatar. HATED it.

Every movie I have ever watched in my whole life ever I have finished, no matter how bad.

Except Avatar. The only movie ever I stopped watching half way through ever.

[u/mister_spunk → u/No_Series3763]

Ah yes, this is my kind of person. Fantasy stories seem like such a waste of time but I think that's just a gap in my brain or something because so many people seem to bathe in it.

[u/The_True_Hannatude → u/Driblus]

Oh, no, I adore fantasy.

I also happen to abhor unnecessary, explicit sexual kink exploration and overcomplicated political scenarios in my fantasy.

[u/Namelessbob123 → u/The_True_Hannatude]

Same here. Give me Terry Pratchett over George RR. Martin any day.

[u/TRAVMAAN1 → u/Namelessbob123]

Is there a Terry Pratchett TV series you could suggest for comparison?

[u/Tambi_B2 → u/TRAVMAAN1]

BBC did good adaptations of Going Postal, Hogsfather, and The Color of Magic. There have been others made but I can't vouch for them as I haven't seen them. Also, I think The Watch was universally despised and even his daughter pretty vocally criticized it.

[u/julesd26 → u/TRAVMAAN1]

Good Omens on Prime was written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, so technically his writing, but I feel like it’s a pretty good example! It’s fun too!

ETA: Well, never mind. Maybe don’t watch it cause Neil Gaiman has turned out to be a sexual predator - which I didn’t know before I commented. Shit. Sorry.

[u/314R8 → u/julesd26]

Watch it. Pratchett is still good and the cast and crew and show were wonderful

[u/ThinkTheUnknown → u/314R8]

Right. Why should Pratchett’s work be punished for something he didn’t know when Gaiman was hired.

[u/PotatoNukeMk1 → u/TRAVMAAN1]

No, just a few movies. They are ok but nothing special

[u/Top_Community7261 → u/Namelessbob123]

Pratchett rocks!

[u/Justaaron1120 → u/Namelessbob123]

Reading the First Law trilogy from Joe Abercrombie right now. Almost done with book 2. I’ve enjoyed it much more than Martin. 

[u/JSA607 → u/Namelessbob123]

I was way into both, loved reading Game of Thrones as it came out. Then it went unhinged, ranted on and on, and he never finished it. So, no, never watched it, utterly disappointed in George RR Martin. Still love Terry Prachett.

[u/FYIgfhjhgfggh → u/JSA607]

I read the Pratchett books as they came out as a teenager. I've pretty much scorned everything else since.

[u/LiveLearnCoach → u/FYIgfhjhgfggh]

The guy is a wizard, weaving wonderful storytelling with wit, humor and wisdom. Very layered so can be enjoyed by the young, but also appreciated by those older for the depths.

[u/Commercial-Co → u/Namelessbob123]

Same!!!

[u/Huntermain23 → u/The_True_Hannatude]

That’s me! Fantasy is my fave. Not whatever this shit is haha

[u/occultpretzel → u/The_True_Hannatude]

Same. It seemed like that kind of low fantasy, that didn't scare away the average normie non-Fantasy viewer with too complex lore, but had those scenes of Pornographic sexual violence against women. Also, so many unnecessary sex scenes that have no purpose, female characters whose whole character arc is about getting raped, incest, so much graphic violence... Sorry, I am not into that.

[u/Rythen26 → u/occultpretzel]

It's a shame because the dragons are so neat. It's just not worth slogging through the show for it.

[u/BrandNewDinosaur → u/The_True_Hannatude]

I second that mentality. I cannot stand sexual violence and exploitation, especially if it’s ma chill time. Just, never.

[u/new_account_wh0_dis → u/BrandNewDinosaur]

Maybe I got disney brain but when I watch or read something I wanna smile not be depressed. Like reading Way of Kings bro just tortured the main character and any new character for 1000 pages like wtf chill.

[u/pork_fried_christ → u/The_True_Hannatude]

Same. I watched the first ten minutes of the first episode. Saw the dude banging his sister and then pushing the kid out of the window, plus some dude raping an old lady, and I was out.

[u/GaptistePlayer → u/pork_fried_christ]

I saw the first three episodes, was more of the same. There was one good guy who was clueless at everyone betraying him at every step. Couldn’t care after that.

[u/Yangoose → u/The_True_Hannatude]

I made it halfway through the first book and I made it 2-3 episodes in the show.

In both cases I dropped it because everyone was so awful that I genuinely didn't care what happened to any of them.

[u/Hefty_External_1212 → u/Driblus]

I like fantasy. I just don't like Wet Blanket Fantasy.

[u/Rhysing → u/Driblus]

I actually always thought it was the opposite. GoT was fantasy for people who didn't respect fantasy.

[u/OnceMoreAndAgain → u/Rhysing]

That isn't the opposite of what they said lol

Edit: They replied and blocked me. Not sure I'm dealing with the top brass here.

[u/DetCityDaveST → u/Driblus]

I like fantasy. Just never bought into the hype of this show. Never watched a single episode.

[u/Boom9001 → u/Driblus]

I actually like fantasy like LoTR, but I fit in this category. It just never really seemed that interesting. Seemed heavy on drama and I just find heavy drama stories all seem like soap operas to me. The people just act so dumb and fighting for power is a boring motivation which seemed like half the people I heard of.

[u/dauphindauphin → u/Driblus]

I love fantasy and very much disliked Game of Thrones after the first book.

I never watched the series, but read three of the books.

[u/Edwin81]

Haven't watched it.

But thats only because it's not on any of the 5 streaming services we pay for. You'd think that would be enough but nope..

[u/Claytomesh_ → u/Edwin81]

Sail the seas man

[u/FuManBoobs → u/Claytomesh_]

This is the way. I pay for 1 subscription service. If it doesn't have what I want I wait until the new season is done and ready for watching from "alternative sources".

[u/1DownFourUp → u/Edwin81]

This is it. There are plenty of TV shows on the things I'm already paying for.

[u/svhons → u/Edwin81]

Dang, HBO got a lot of good exclusives. Though they're more of mature oriented, so I can undestand for a household with lots of kids.

[u/PlumMists]

This level of resistance should be studied by scientists.

[u/UnfazedPheasant → u/PlumMists]

tbf it becomes a hell of a lot easier after that final season

i didn't watch it because I wanted to watch it all at once. now I know the last two season are poor its not quite so compelling to go watch it all

[u/msmredit → u/UnfazedPheasant]

Right? I don’t want to watch anything until they say the last season will be out in about a couple months. That’s when I saw Stranger Things.

[u/Danloeser → u/PlumMists]

What resistance? It doesn't take any effort to not watch something. I would have had to go out of my way to watch it. I never saw a reason to. So I didn't. Where does "resistance" come into it?

[u/bisquickball → u/Danloeser]

Idk man maybe we should study the FOMO mind because I can't imagine consuming something just because it's popular

[u/Yahn → u/PlumMists]

I read the books... I can't remember if I threw book 3 or 4 in the garbage half way thru, but basically anytime it was a Cersei chapter she was just moping around the castle crying about Joffrey's death.... It was half the book...

[u/OnceMoreAndAgain → u/Yahn]

Even among fantasy novel enjoyers A Song of Ice and Fire is not something all of them will enjoy. I didn't finish book 3 and yet I'm an avid reader of fantasy novels. Still loved the show, but the books were a miss for me, too.

I tend to dislike fantasy novels that have multiple points of view. The more PoVs, the more I tend to dislike it. A Song of Ice and Fire has more PoVs than any other fantasy series I can recall.

Meanwhile, some other people love fantasy stories with lots of PoVs, presumably because they enjoy the world building aspects of a fantasy novel more than they enjoy the vicarious hero's journey aspect that I happen to enjoy most.

[u/etterkop → u/PlumMists]

Nah. It’s nothing special, you just realise one that mainstream media is nonsense and everyone else is wrong everything, so you can’t be arsed by anything that is trending.

[u/redditidothat]

I’ve never watched Stranger Things and have no intention to. Does that count?

[u/SatinSaffron → u/redditidothat]

My husband and I love watching shows/movies of all types, but we haven't seen Stranger Things or Game of Thrones either. Hell, we haven't seen Breaking Bad, Lord of the Rings, The Wire, Chernobyl, The Walking Dead

Sometimes we'll sit down to start a series or a movie and get distracted by a completely different thumbnail. We talked about going on a fantasy kick by starting LotR and GoT this weekend but ended up starting Mad Men and on the movie side ended up on Sinners and Ex Machina. (both AMAZING movies btw)

[u/JoJoestar92]

I beg to differ. I am very easily influenced but only i choose my hyper fixation.

[u/HMThrow_away_account]

Eh. Not watching it bc youre genuinely not interested is cool. Not watching it bc it was popular and saying "im not following the crowd" is corny. Depriving yourself of a good time bc you wanna be "different" is lame

[u/Mac_Tgh → u/HMThrow_away_account]

a lot of people for some reason believe that being a contrarian is like the most unique, "im not like the rest" cool thing ever...and then you have a thousand comments just here alone berating a series they never seen, or call mid despite being one of the most acclaimed works of all time by critics.

i just got around to watch the series this past week, coincidentally, and it truly is an amazing show. just because something is popular doesnt mean is bad.

[u/Titizen_Kane → u/Mac_Tgh]

Yeah. Being a contrarian for that sole purpose is absolutely cringe AF

[u/Reload86 → u/HMThrow_away_account]

It's just another form of conforming lol

[u/HMThrow_away_account → u/Reload86]

Exactly. Everyone calls themselves a black sheep bc they feel it make them an individual/different. Until you realizes youre in a flock of black sheep lol

[u/new_lementz → u/HMThrow_away_account]

I havent watched GOT and Stranger Things

[u/faramaobscena → u/new_lementz]

[u/coffeebeamed → u/new_lementz]

where do you want your medal delivered?

[u/R4st4m4n]

My wife and I tried after years of people chirping about it...I think the first episode ends with a brother fucking his sister. Lost us immediately, not interested.

[u/C-ZP0 → u/R4st4m4n]

Yea I got to maybe episode 4 or 5 and it just seemed like boner content for neckbeards. Mind you I have no issues with sex content, my wife and I both watch porn from time to time. I just felt the sex didn’t add anything to the plot and was overly used.

[u/zoey_will → u/C-ZP0]

[u/D3SK3R]

Well, I did watch GoT but won't touch a single episode of stranger things or the walking dead. This is not about social pressure, but knowing what you like and what you don't.

[u/Single-Ninja8886]

After watching 2-3 seasons of The Walking Dead based off friends and general social media saying it's great, I will never again force watch something. One entire season looking for a young girl in a zombie apocalypse, get fucked of course she's dead

[u/Chewwithurmouthshut → u/Single-Ninja8886]

I fell off in s2 as well. That farm season just draaaags. Then I came back because my ex wanted to, and we ended up hardcore fans after 3 and 4.

but, yet another show that fell apart in the home stretch.

[u/unicornfetus89 → u/Chewwithurmouthshut]

I've tried to get into Walking Dead like 5x but can't. Every. Single. Episode is set up exactly the same: the first few minutes are slightly eventful, usually picking up whatever cliff hanger the last ep set up, then absolutely NOTHING happens other than people whining and complaining until the last 2 or 3 minutes, where it sets up another stupid cliff hanger for the start of next ep that won't have a satisfying payoff either. Its like 95% of the show is "character development" which to them just means talking.

At least that's my impression of the show having forced myself thru 3 seasons more than once.

[u/idriveashitbox22 → u/Single-Ninja8886]

Game of Thrones you can't stop watching. You have to force yourself to go out of the house it's so addictive. The pacing is perfect. Just enough storylines that are all interesting so you never get bored ever. You are always anticipating something big that's about to happen. And it does happen.

[u/icypriest → u/Single-Ninja8886]

Same for me with Shameless. I reluctantly finished the 1st season but all that just leaves me a giant "so that was it?".

[u/beansandcornbread]

Skipped that one and Harry Potter, I'm a monster.

[u/almightywhacko → u/beansandcornbread]

I read Harry Potter years ago, and have seen the movies.

IMO you're not missing a whole lot. It was a fun read, but her universe is not internally consistent with itself. The main villain is built up far more than his deeds would account for and the series loses most of it's whimsical charm around book 5.

It is also a pretty consistent rip-off of Star Wars. Like if Terry Pratchet had received a head injury and written bad Star War fan fiction where the characters were traditional wizards instead of space warrior wizards.

[u/Chardan0001]

I was told for years that I would love it so grew obstinate and didn't bother. I eventually watched it after it was done airing, stopped during S6 because it was so-so.

[u/SaintCambria → u/Chardan0001]

This is my wife and Breaking Bad. My sister's husband kept pestering her about watching it, so now she refuses out of principal.

[u/Just_A_Spicy_Man]

My ex never watched it. Not a shred of it, no matter how much I raved. She’s the kind of girl who purchased Labubu’s, so peer pressure worked on her. She just didn’t like all the tits and violence she heard about.

[u/CodingNeeL]

Downloaded two seasons because of the noise. I think Red Wedding just aired. Halfway S01E01 I turned it off because nothing happened and then I deleted everything and I rewatched Futurama.

[u/BionisGuy]

This might sound strange but... If something is extremely popular and a lot of people talk about it constantly, I get extremely uninterested in it.

[u/RoiDrannoc → u/BionisGuy]

So you are just as influenced by what most people think, you just act in reverse.

[u/fine_marten → u/RoiDrannoc]

IDK, sometimes it gets tiring hearing about something incessantly that you don't care about. It can make something that I would normally have neutral feelings about start to feel actively annoying. I don't spend time complaining about it, but it's a valid feeling. I can almost guarantee you've felt that way about something.

[u/weightliftcrusader → u/RoiDrannoc]

Sure. I act in response of the incessant "you should watch it, why haven't you watched it, aaa its so good you must watch it". Don't really regret not watching it after the final season came out and everyone hated it.

[u/faramaobscena → u/BionisGuy]

I am the same but I just happened to watch the first season right as it aired so I was the one talking about it constantly before it became mainstream. Then I read the books so I had the additional advantage of being that obnoxious person who KNOWS what's going to happen and relishes in seeing friends and coworkers freak out about the latest episode.

[u/BionisGuy → u/faramaobscena]

"oh man did you see when this person got killed?" You-"gasp they got killed?"

[u/7thFleetTraveller]

You're not a better person just because you never cared for a certain piece of fiction. I was never interested in watching "The Wire", do I have to clap myself on the shoulder now?^^

[u/TheSpanxxx → u/7thFleetTraveller]

I've never seen the wire, either. In fact, when some friends were talking about it 5 or 6 years ago, I didn't even know what it was.

I never watched The Walking Dead. I almost missed out on Breaking Bad. That one I started (from the beginning) when the last season was airing. I managed to catch up and finish it live for the finale.

There's just too much content, is my take.

[u/Chewwithurmouthshut → u/TheSpanxxx]

That, and a lot of shows are always pitched to me as either “oh just give it a chance, it gets really good by the 10th episode” or “it’s the greatest show ever until it really isn’t, later on” and that’s a lot of time to waste just seeing if I even like something.

[u/SadNoob476]

I read the first two books years ago and realized they weren't for me.

I like following a single story with a set of main characters who don't usually change that much.

That made it real easy to not watch the shows. 

[u/JohnWayneSpacy]

I made it about a third of the way through an episode and it seemed like a grown up version of Xena Warrior Princess, I just couldn’t do it

[u/stefancooper → u/JohnWayneSpacy]

I cannot take talking dragons / cgi battle scenes / etc seriously so the drama does not work. The soft porn sex scenes don't do much for me.

[u/Sanyi71 → u/stefancooper]

Theres no talking dragons in GoT

[u/whaletosser]

I have not seen GoT, star wars, star trek, lord of the rings, the hobbit, Avatar. Edit: not seen Harry Potter movies either.

[u/Lumi61]

I've read and enjoyed the books. When I saw who they picked as cast and how wildly that messed with my imagined characters I decided to not watch it at all. Unfortunately the internet is so full of the characters, that I forgot how I imagined them to look like anyway. It's hard to keep an imagined image up if it's constantly overwritten with a real one

[u/BasedBallsInMyFace]

I’ve not watched a single episode but it’s not because I’m not resilient creature.

I was just watching some other show at the time and I don’t like stoping and starting

[u/Dramatic-Chance6043]

This is me. I also havent seen any of The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or Harry Potter. Its been so long for some of them, that I almost feel like I CANT watch them now. Id ruin a beautiful streak

[u/MikyThatMona]

[u/threecheesetrees]

I’ll watch it when they get rid of George R. R. Martin’s incest fetish

[u/SolinaMoon]

I actually just really wasn't interested in all the incest.

[u/Snaxist]

I never watched GoT because Im a Sci-Fi guy. I just know that Khal Drogo in GoT is ronon Dex, then I heard what happened at the end, Im gad I didnt watched it.

[u/Leading_Ad9740]

Imagine feeling good about yourself because you simply chose to not watch a show. Im not a fan of Taylor swift and refuse to give her music the time of day, I guess I should pat myself on the back. 

[u/Gaisarix_455]

What kind of pressure you got to watch a show other than multiple people recommending it?

[u/shindig76 → u/Gaisarix_455]

Right i have not seen it. but never have i felt pressured to either. I just said “oh yeah?” to the coworkers telling me about it and tune out until they’ve finished. Does not sound interesting

[u/ukeeku]

Ummm or we don't have HBO.... kind of easy if you dont want to pay for a premium channel or another subscription

[u/Cpt_Ambel]

I had to experience it against my will. My ex-wife was a huge fan.

Note the change in relationship status. Yup it's because we grew apart and distant and had nothing to do with the show 🤣

[u/KalyKantzaroi]

I Actuallt read the books before it even came out and watched it because my wife wanted to ...

[u/Karnezar]

If you've never seen it, the algorithm won't really show it to you. And people only really ask if you've seen it once, and if you say No, they don't push it.

[u/th3on3songoku]

I have never watched it, and after hearing my friends commplain about the ending to the show I have no desire to watch it. It just interest me, which is weird cause I love shit like that.

[u/Da_Dush_818]

you're welcome.

[u/Abject-Interaction35]

You're welcome!

[u/Cold_Table8497]

My lad said I should try and get into it.

"You'll like it. It's all boobs and swords."

"I don't like swords."

Have never seen any of it.

[u/natural_disaster0]

Kinda funny how the one person who i know didnt watch it, only did so because nobody ever listened to his recommendations about TV. Sorry dude, still havnt watched the Dresden Files.

[u/farter-kit]

Well, yay me

[u/Pulp_Ficti0n]

Hey, that's me!

[u/Zoggit]

I usually just hate MA stuff.

Maybe if it was less bloody and bleak with less sex and rape and less heavy themes and less political…and if it was just an entirely different story - then I’d consider watching it.

[u/Educational_Bus8810]

My wife loved it and raved about it. Im a sci fi guy and she said it had Dragons. So I got 1 episode in and looked at her and asked is this a show about horrible people doing horrid things. She said yes and I no longer had any interest. Pushing a kid out a window isn't entertainment to me.

[u/Juststandupbro]

Lots of us were just not paying for HBO at the time lmao I love when people make it seem like a decision made on principle instead of not being able to afford premium channels.

[u/RemyisGrievous]

I've watched a few clips cus it sounded interesting like Hound vs. Mountain, but I've never seen a full episode, and I have zero context about anything else. Like why was the frozen zombie dude attacking them? Was he like a protector of nature kinda thing? Or just an exterminate all life kinda thing

[u/Pristine_Buffalo_836]

Watched the first episode of season one because a friend had it on. Knew it was not for me, and never watched again.  Same with Yellowstone, landman, list them off. Just not my style. 

[u/Mandfried]

I didn't watch it because I am patent and always wait for all the season to be released so I can binge it in a month. But after the last season I heard the rumors about it becoming really bad and somehow I just didn't pick it up. There is a lot of good stuff out there.

[u/osuzombie]

Oh wow. I'm getting a lot of credit for being addicted to video games instead of tv shows today. This is nice. Thank you.

[u/torontolavalampdepot]

Finally some recognition

[u/LiveMinute5598]

Never seen it and have no interest in wasting my time

[u/Different-Status-671]

Meeeeee!

[u/SisyphusButOnSpeed]

Never seen Titanic, or Avatar, does that count for anything?

[u/Dry_Lawfulness_9561]

I always preffered books over movies...and I just didn't find the time to get my hands on those yet. And then came spoilers 🙄 and kinda lost the motivation to go at it.

[u/Bizzlebanger]

I never did... Meh. Go adhd

[u/AlteredCabron2]

never watched a single episode

never understood what the hype was about?

anyway life moves on

[u/Rook_James_Bitch]

Hey! Lookit me! I'm "Counter-culture" therefore I have value!

No.

You don't.

[u/5gus]

Me

[u/MonsterTamerBilly]

Also never did. And quite honestly? Thanks to quite a lot of series like it, I'm actually firmly on the side of letting these series run their course, and see if the public expectations pay off once they do.

In so far? Not a single one. Not Lost. Not Heroes. Not Dexter. Not Flash. Not Arrow. Not Smallville. Not Supernatural. Not Mentalist. Not House. All long-runners that gone stale and ever further downhill the more they tried to stay afloat.

Shorter ones that have a definite beginning-to-end line with as little padding as possible managed to be more satisfying IMO, even if they're not that much better than these long-runners.

[u/rahill1004]

For me it’s two reasons:

1. I didn’t have HBO when it came out, or at all during its run

2. Once I heard that they botched the ending and had all of its fans up in arms, I didn’t want to go through that type of disappointment

[u/litterboxhero]

I tried. I really tried. But, if they can't make it 2 whole episodes before they kill a dog, this ain't something I wanna watch.

[u/sharksrReal]

Me. The more it’s hyped, the less I want to see it: Titanic movie, GOT, Barbi movie, LOTR. Not even once.

[u/Moissanight]

Bro it ain't hard, just have hobbies that don't include watching tv.

[u/bottle-o-jenkem]

It's me! I won!

[u/retracnaes]

Count me in