Brace yourselves, unpopular opinions are coming!
I was tagged by the awesome @Winst0lf to embark on a perilous journey through my unpopular opinions, and dude, they are unpopular, so consider yourself warned!
A Popular Series You Don’t Like
The Big Bang Theory. I’m sorry, but I just don’t like it, and please don’t hate me! 😉 I find the laughing track to be overkill and obnoxious.
Every time someone asks me if I’ve seen this show, I pretend I haven’t because it’s so beloved, and I just don’t want to deal with it, ha ha!
A Popular Film/Show Everyone Else Hates But You Love
Battlefield Earth – I thought it was interesting, and I liked the depiction of a future an eternity from now where aliens have conquered Earth. I don’t think it deserves to be called the worst film of all time.
Battle: Los Angeles – I loved the action, the story, and the overall theme of helping others. This film doesn’t deserve all the hate it gets.
A Love Triangle Where The Person Ended Up With The Person You Didn’t Like
Where do I start with this one? There are so many that I just can’t stand, and those ones always seem to be the One True Pairing of the fandom, so I’ll narrow it down to a few!
Delenn and Sheridan from Babylon 5 – She deserved so much better than an overbearing alpha male (more like the alpha of all alpha males). I wish she would have ended up with Sinclair or Neroon. I feel that either of those two would have complemented her strengths, and the pair would have become a power couple without trampling over each other.
Every single pairing at the end of the Harry Potter series.
Every.Single.One—–Including Snape not getting over a crush from high school.
Delenn Neroon
A Popular Genre That You Hardly Watch
Romance – I touched on this in SGS: What’s Your Cup of Coffee?, so I’ll focus on another genre that I don’t watch much of.
Most sitcoms from 2010 onward – I hate laughing tracks, and they tend to have every trope I utterly hate to the point of overkill. I just don’t enjoy most of them.
A Beloved Character That You Don’t Like
Brace yourselves. Trust me. Odds are you will not enjoy what I have to say about a certain Jim from The Office–You might want to just scroll past this one.
Jim Halpert – He is my least favorite character on The Office because he is a self-centered narcissistic individual.
From Wikipedia:
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of empathy toward other people.[2][3] People with NPD often spend much time thinking about achieving power and success, or on their appearance.[3] Typically, they also take advantage of the people around them.[3] Such narcissistic behavior typically begins by early adulthood, and occurs across a broad range of situations.[3]
Everything has to revolve around him. If it doesn’t, he either interrupts whatever is going on to make himself the center of attention or mistreats someone until he gets his way or the reaction he wants.
He only cares about himself and about the proverbial prizes (namely Pam) he *has* to have. He kept going after someone who was in a relationship (Pam). He ditched Karen the second it suited him (he literally ditched her in NYC after she moved to Scranton just to be with him).
When he couldn’t eat his cake and have it too (ie, work in Philly and reap all the benefits from not having to deal with an infant and toddler while working full time. Pam had to do all of that all by herself), he treated Pam like garbage the second she said or did something he didn’t like; when she accidentally messed up the recording of their daughter’s recital comes to mind. Pam had every right to lose her temper and initiate marriage counseling.
His one saving grace is the time when the pretty temp tried to sleep with him and he enlisted Dwight’s help to get rid of her.
A Popular Show/Series You Can’t Get Into
The Americans – I watched the first season, and there are just no likable characters. I hated the way the spy couple treated their new boss, and I got the feeling that they wrote it that way because the boss wasn’t a young supermodel.
A Popular Trope You’re Tired of Seeing
Female characters getting pregnant in the final season of a show because there’s some weird, outdated assumption that pregnancy is the only gateway to happiness.
A Popular Show or Film You Have No Interest in Seeing
This one is probably going to get me into trouble more so than my dislike for Jim, ha ha!
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Not a fan of that animation style or the current trend with cartoons to have characters exclaim everything in the loudest, most hyper active voice possible. I’m also not a fan of the CBS All Access delivery model.
Granted, this is based off of a trailer, but still; I can tell that it’s not my cup of coffee.
A Movie Show Or Adaption You Prefer More Than The Book
The Man in the High Castle – I love the book, but the show added so much more depth to it by adding characters and creating such a vivid world for the eye to see. I was completely immersed in it, and that’s something you can’t get from a book.
