What’s something that you feel like you should like, but for some reason can’t get into, no matter how many chances you give it?
For me, it’s The Three Body Problem. It should be right up my alley from everything I’ve heard about it (especially the second book, which looks at the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter!), but for the life of me, I can’t get past the first chapter at all. I even tried reading it in another language to see if it was the translation that kept me from getting into it, and nope.
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I never got into Battlestar Galactica when it was airing, I don’t remember why. Perhaps young me thought it was a Star Wars knock-off or something?
Anyway, after reading some discussions on Lemmy, I started watching it yesterday (began with the miniseries) and it’s very promising!
I never got into StarGate either. I liked the movie, but was annoyed that in the show Kurt Russel was recast by MacGyver. StarGate is now the next on my watchlist.
Stargate is one of the strangest and best sci-fi TV series.
It starts with humans just losing all of the time and a tone that is too serious for its content. As the show goes on there are episodes where everyone where there is a fake TV show of SG-1 and the villains are actively afraid of the US military.
Battlestar Galactica is the one I just can’t do. I didn’t watch it when it aired, but I borrowed the box set from someone around the time it wrapped up. I think I watched 3 very tense episodes, looked at how many remained, and bailed. If I ever try again I’ll pretend I’m watching them being broadcast and stick to one episode a week. I’m probably a wuss, but that show left me exhausted.
I am on my second year trying to get through the three body problem. It has drained me, but I refuse to give up.
I listened to the first book but wasn’t hooked enough to carry on.
For me, it was that the science just seemed too out-there at times. I can’t explain why it bothered me, I can enjoy science fiction with magical elements, or accept that some shows have bad science.
There was just something about this book that just completely failed to make stuff like the protons sound convincing.
I’m hoping the Netflix series will be good, despite the delay due to, um, a murder.
I also heard that there’s a Chinese series of it that’s already been released, and that it’s really good.
The beginning of 3BP is very, very dry and slow. There’s a lot of exposition, and a massive amount of footnotes (which I personally found very helpful as like many westerners, I have extremely limited knowledge of Chinese history).
I highly recommend persevering and soldiering on, there’s a reason why it’s very highly rated. One of my favourite series and totally made me do a 180 on my opinion of SETI.
I really enjoyed the cultural revolution stuff - very interesting. The VR world or whatever I absolutely just couldn’t care about. The folding and the desiccating were neat, once it became more real in the story, but in general I just found the writing or translation insufferable.
Dune. And outside the realm of SF… wheel of time and game of thrones.
Mostly it’s just the pacing and the epic nature. Bugs the crap out of me.
Levianthan Wakes was a slog. mostly because of all the preachiness about how starships were supposed to work.
