This has absolutely nothing to do with percentage of the whole, that's an absurd metric. Looking up a list of long running television series on wiki, I see that All My Children has over 10 309 episodes, your touted 2% of which would be over 206 episodes. You will no doubt be shocked to learn that I judged my disinterest in the series in far, far less than that. You, of course, would certainly never make such a judgment. I don't know how many hundreds of episodes you would have to watch before you found yourself capable of determining whether you liked it or not, having no real indication of how slowly your brain works.
I gave the show the opportunity to go through several scenes that could and should have drawn my interest, and none of them did. That is how I based my judgment. I didn't decide "well, this series has fifteen minutes to make me like it", that would be utterly ridiculous. I drew judgment after 15 minutes because the series had given me enough material to make that judgment in fifteen minutes.
Now for another thing, you and others seem so desperate to defend this series that you need to delude yourself into thinking it is under attack. I never judged whether the show was good. You are correct in saying that the little I watched is largely insufficient to determine this. What I said was that I did not like the series. Appreciation is a measure of personal enjoyment of something's qualities. It is not a judgment of quality. While I am certain that you know of this distinction, you have chosen to ignore it in order to fuel your desire for self-righteous indignation.
It's staggering that even though many people urged me to reconsider, Cannoli was the only one to actually respond to the reasons why I did not like it and try to offer arguments to persuade me to actually revise my judgment. I never thought I'd say this, but you should try to act more like Cannoli.
Now, see what you've done?
I gave the show the opportunity to go through several scenes that could and should have drawn my interest, and none of them did. That is how I based my judgment. I didn't decide "well, this series has fifteen minutes to make me like it", that would be utterly ridiculous. I drew judgment after 15 minutes because the series had given me enough material to make that judgment in fifteen minutes.
Now for another thing, you and others seem so desperate to defend this series that you need to delude yourself into thinking it is under attack. I never judged whether the show was good. You are correct in saying that the little I watched is largely insufficient to determine this. What I said was that I did not like the series. Appreciation is a measure of personal enjoyment of something's qualities. It is not a judgment of quality. While I am certain that you know of this distinction, you have chosen to ignore it in order to fuel your desire for self-righteous indignation.
It's staggering that even though many people urged me to reconsider, Cannoli was the only one to actually respond to the reasons why I did not like it and try to offer arguments to persuade me to actually revise my judgment. I never thought I'd say this, but you should try to act more like Cannoli.
Now, see what you've done?
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Am I the only one who didn't really like A Game of Thrones?
06/08/2011 10:52:41 PM
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I very much enjoyed the first season..
07/08/2011 12:45:35 AM
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Not exactly.
07/08/2011 01:35:42 AM
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That's ridiculous
07/08/2011 04:21:00 AM
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Not at all.
07/08/2011 05:17:40 AM
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That's fucking stupid
07/08/2011 06:17:39 AM
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Your opinion has been noted.
07/08/2011 07:52:37 AM
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So, you are saying
07/08/2011 11:52:33 PM
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That is an inane argument.
08/08/2011 12:32:30 AM
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posted in wrong place...ugh *NM*
07/08/2011 07:29:31 AM
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As a reader of the books, I think HBO series is good, but not great.
07/08/2011 01:16:42 AM
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Yes. Not the greatest fantasy fiction out there, but an excellent TV show *NM*
07/08/2011 03:48:51 AM
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I'd rather talk about True Blood. ::: How awesome is Marnie/Antonia?!?! *NM*
07/08/2011 02:51:13 AM
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It's like a different interpretation. Why watch the Disney cartoons, when you know those stories?
07/08/2011 03:47:54 AM
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well there was some great boobs so I wouldn't say nothing was gained
07/08/2011 05:10:28 AM
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This is a better representation of the series
09/08/2011 04:49:15 AM
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Yes, that was very nice. *NM*
09/08/2011 05:59:04 AM
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If we're doing clips
10/08/2011 04:34:31 AM
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I prefer this one
10/08/2011 05:08:02 AM
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Ok, I admit...
10/08/2011 05:08:54 AM
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Aidan Gillen so has to get rid of that moustache.
10/08/2011 07:52:40 PM
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No way, the mustache is cool. *NM*
10/08/2011 10:20:51 PM
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I haven't read the books so I'm a bit wary of watching the TV show
16/08/2011 02:59:18 PM
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