Unpopular opinions

[flannel slut]

Prefer rake and shovel to leaf and snow blower

[Davids_denim]

I never liked any of the current popular TV shows like The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, etc.

[Matt]

Help us out here. What do you like?

[chrisjohnnick]

I enjoyed Breaking Bad, but never watched any of those other shows. Not because I didn't like them, but just because I don't have the time or desire to start and watch a 5+ season show at this point in my life. Especially ones where I keep hearing something along the lines of "you just have to get through the first couple seasons, then in the middle of season three it starts to get good!"

Hard pass to that.

Other shows that fall into that category for me are Lost and Mad Men.

[Davids_denim]

@Matt rewatched all of Frasier recently that was a good time. The haunting of hill house was great. Dexter was good.

[pechelman]

surprised you didnt like some of the other shows if you liked Dexter. Feel like i should have stopped watching that show around the john lithgow days.

[Davids_denim]

@pechelman I actually agree with you there. It definitely should have ended then.

[Matt]

@pechelman that’s exactly when I stopped.

[Matt]

Breaking Bad took a while for me to get into but it definitely paid off. I actually never watched Sopranos. Game of Thrones was a favorite of ours but the last season was meh. I feel like that’s actually a show that could have benefited from more seasons as the final season felt rushed. Haven’t watched House of Dragons.

[seawolf]

@Matt House of Dragons was fine. I totally agree about the last season of GoT. What a bummer.

[GraemeE]

I genuinly believe the first Coldplay album is better than the first Radiohead album

Parachutes>Pablo Honey

[seawolf]

And Radiohead hasn't made a good album since OK Computer.

[mclaincausey]

I hate Coldplay and think Kid A might be better than OK Computer, and In Rainbows was good.

Game of Thrones was good for a few seasons but I lost interest. And from what I heard about the final season I’m glad I did. The same thing happened reading the Wheel of Time series. I guess I’m not an epic fantasy guy even though I read a ton of it when I was younger and enjoyed the LotR trilogy.

Breaking Bad was a slow start and I can see how it could be a challenge to get into. But it’s also the best drama ever created in any video medium if you give it the attention it deserves.

UnpopOp 1: zombies, vampires, superheroes… played out. We need new, creative ideas on the silver screen.

UnpopOp 2: this oughta trigger the forum: the world also has enough doom metal bands with inscrutable logos

[GraemeE]

@seawolf said in Unpopular opinions:

And Radiohead hasn't made a good album since OK Computer.

I'm deleting my forum account but not before i delete all my posts that don't have upvotes

[GardenState]

@GraemeE I see what you did there.

[seawolf]

@mclaincausey Unpopular opinion addendum: Admittedly, Rainbows has some good tracks. However, a good album does that not make.

[iamjustdanny]

@pechelman said in Unpopular opinions:

Feel like i should have stopped watching that show around the john lithgow days.

Same. If it ended there, it would have went down as the best show ever.

[Matt]

Kid A is the greatest album of all time. Accept that fact. That said, it’s not fair to base your opinion of subsequent albums on what they’re really capable of in Kid A. I like all their albums for what each brings to the table.

Now whatever this Coldplay nonsense I’ll let you guys figure out. I don’t know where to begin debating that.

[GraemeE]

I'm not sure what "wave" of britpop you would classify the early oughts but there was some objectively great pop music being made ie Travis, Doves etc.

I'm an exponentially bigger Radiohead fan than any of those bands but in their case the last remnants of "pop" was over by the bends imho

[Matt]

That first Doves record was a banger. I saw them with Elbow. There was some good music during that time.