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.
Futurama never worked for me. I don’t like the Simpsons either, so maybe that’s why.
Anything by Matt Groening is always the same. He’s always trying to make fun of TV tropes and subvert them but at the same time he’s stuck with the restrictions of commercial, ad-compatible mainstream TV.