@Arkandel said in RL Anger:
Posts today that read "I'VE NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES".
... Okay? They're the same people around superbowl who post "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO'S PLAYING".
Damn, that's not something to be proud of. You're not special because you don't follow the herd, guys. Plus it's one thing to say you don't like something and another to not be into it because it's popular.
Hello, my name is The and I have never watched an episode of Game of Thrones.
(Hi, The!)
I'd like to share my shameful story. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, when I first came to China, it was hard to get English reading material. Any English books you found were treasured and shared among the (vanishingly small: 7 people) expat community. You wound up reading stuff you'd never even consider before. (I read Jackie fucking Collins!)
I happened upon a dusty, beaten-up copy of A Game of Thrones in a bookstore. I was somewhat of a fantasy fan (usually more SF than fantasy, but fantasy was up there) so I gleefully grabbed it, paid the ENORMOUS amount of money being asked (about a quarter of my monthly salary!) and scurried home.
I couldn't stand it.
I couldn't finish it.
The book was such a tedious slog that, despite being so starved for reading material I was reading Jackie fucking Collins, I couldn't finish it. Hell, I could barely begin it. I actually read the first Harry Potter book all the way through (although just barely) and couldn't stomach the first quarter of A Game of Thrones. I threw it out, not even putting it on the reshare circuit, because I wanted to make sure the book was destroyed.
So given this antipathy to the source material, and given how difficult and time-consuming it is for me to acquire up-to-date North American television episodes (read: not impossible, but a serious pain in the ass) there has never even once been a slight temptation for me to look at Game of Thrones.
Thank you for listening.