What’s a piece of SF that you just couldn’t get into, even though you feel like you should?
I tried to watch Babylon 5, for instance, and just couldn’t connect to it. I know it’s popular and people love it, but it never hooked me.
Another is The Three Body Problem. I tried reading it after a friend’s glowing recommendation, but I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I even tried reading it in another language in case it was the translation I couldn’t connect with, but the same thing happened.
Both are things I feel like I should like, but just don’t.
Came here to say this and I’m so relieved there’s someone else!
I read the first couple of books long before the series was a thing, they were ok but didn’t grab me enough to keep going. And then a few episodes into the TV version I gave up on that too. There’s nothing in particular I could point to that’s “bad” exactly, it’s just not for me.
The way people talk about it makes me think of revisiting it sometime but honestly, life’s too short to keep trying when something doesn’t appeal.
For me the Expanse really started to shine towards the end of season 1. Then when they hit seasons 2 and 3 I fell in love. But I totally get not being able to get into it, especially because the first season takes a long time to get rolling