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What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with? (piefed.social)
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.

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[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok, maybe a warm take, but Jordan’s books are not great. The first 2-3 are great. But then it fucking drags. Sanderson does a decent job wrapping things up, but there is so much fucking fluff that was just unnecessary.

I will, however, protest having Padin Fain be a Forsaken. That was a definite misstep imo. Fain is supposed to be a chaotic 3rd party who can use the tools of the Forsaken but is explicitly not aligned with them.

Otherwise, season 2 was a big step up from s1. Haven’t gotten around to s3, since it got canned.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Add a fucking spoiler warning, I'm only on book 7!

Fucking damn it! Here I was thinking Taim would turn out to be Demandred. Fuck!

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago

Blood and bloody ashes!

[–] blueduck@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Scorching hot take: I thought the first book was a terrible fanfic of the fellowship of the ring and was embarrassingly bad. 

Then some friends told me that was the BEST book in the series until Sanderson took over 😬 

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I think I read WoT too late. It is the template of modern YA literature and since I had read and seen other YA products, WoT was lost on me. I did do three of the books and all three were so repetitive.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nobody ever told you the first book was the best. Literally nobody says that.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

The friend who introduced me to the series does!