I feel like I’m pretty much only willing to try something if someone I know and respect recommends it to me. I’m always super unwilling to just randomly pick up a book or a movie or whatever on my own… I feel like ever since being vaguely into Marvel slop, I’m just so much more aware of how finite my time is and I have to know I’m going into something worth seeing and engaging with before I’ll commit to even trying something. Does anyone else feel this way more? Is this just the process of me calcifying as I get older, or is it to do with how society is?
Not like there wasn’t bad media before, but Marvel slop really drove home to me that I can’t just take people’s recommendations. I checked some out because my partner at the time wanted to watch some to see what their friends were so excited for and there was nothing good about it.
Hard agree. Too many stories are just bad and aren’t worth the time investment. Or they don’t even have an end or resolution because the studio that made them (looking at a lot of shows) cancelled it leaving the story unfinished.