What’s a piece of SF that you just couldn’t get into, even though you feel like you should?

I tried to watch Babylon 5, for instance, and just couldn’t connect to it. I know it’s popular and people love it, but it never hooked me.

Another is The Three Body Problem. I tried reading it after a friend’s glowing recommendation, but I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I even tried reading it in another language in case it was the translation I couldn’t connect with, but the same thing happened.

Both are things I feel like I should like, but just don’t.

    • theinspectorst@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think Crusade clicked for anyone. Hence Crusade getting cancelled midway through its first season.

      To be honest, all of the ‘post-B5’ B5 has been difficult. JMS apparently literally thought up the gist of the five season plot (which ended up being condensed into seasons 1-4 of the show as they were unsure if they would get cancelled - hence so much happening in s4) while he was in the shower, and it was one of the best sci-fi stories ever told. But it’s seemed clear to me that everything he’s done since B5 s4 has not reached anything like the same levels.

      He told a great story, and he created a great universe, but I think he doesn’t really know how to tell other great stories in that universe.