What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

3 days ago by SwissArmyKazoo to c/asklemmy

For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don't think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it's so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.

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marzhall -2 points 2 days ago

Dune.

It's Y/A trash that had the benefit of coming out a long time ago and so being ensconced in scifi culture.

I'll give that it is interesting for its world, its one unique aspect, but the actual plot - chosen-one special boy's dad dies and so he immediately becomes the married leader of a group of locals and stages an insurrection against the antagonist in revenge - is so worn out you can barely turn the pages.

But I'm sure back when it came out, all the adolescents were drooling over the piles of teenage wish fulfillment.

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setsneedtofeed 2 points 2 days ago

Dune has an examination of the chosen one trope. You can pull a lot of meaning out it, but it certainly does more than unabashedly say it's a good thing.

Regarding the Fremen, idea of a chosen one in-universe only exists because it was seeded as a self-serving belief by a foreign religious group messing with their culture. It isn't a "real" prophecy, but one seeded so that it can be potentially "fulfilled" by someone in the know in-universe. The fremen follow Paul into war with fanatic zeal. This examines how damaging religious influence is.

The Kwisatz Haderach angle is another "prophecy" except it is being actively worked to be fulfilled in-universe using non-mystical means. Paul realizes how terrible it is to be this type of chosen one and rather than fulfill it he abandons it, and not in the cool "rebel taking down the system" way, but in the "overwhelmed by the weight of it", way. He becomes broken and all for nothing since his son just completes the path he was on anyway, and it leads to a lot of (nessesary?) evil at his command.

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