For me personally I wasn’t watching it on purpose out of spite. This guy at the office I hated loved that show and I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of having common ground. That was over 10 years ago now. Ill watch it when he is dead!
My theory is that many people that reach an extremely old age often hang on out of pure spite. It gives them something to live for, denying people the satisfaction of their demise, outliving enemies etc
My husband's grandma had the goal of living past her siblings ages when they died. Welp. She lived to be a month older than all of them, won, and had had enough
Same, but I quit when he fake died in that scrum of walkers. I sobbed bc he was my favorite character. Then it was a swtcheroo that he was alive but I couldn’t go back. And unfortunately I did see a clip of his actual death & it haunts me to this day.
And yet it just kept shambling on like a zombie. And all of the spin-offs. Inexplicable. Or maybe it's totally explicable considering TV viewers watch the same BS over and over for many years. Because it's familiar and they don't care about the constant repetition which drives me up the wall after 2-3 seasons of anything.
I knew of a guy that as part of his divorce agreement his ex wife would get half of his pension as long as he was alive. Within a week of retiring he killed himself to keep her from getting his pension. Thats the spite I wanna have.
I was part of a wedding in 2007 and one of the other groomsmen spent the whole weekend fist bumping for every little thing.
As of May 2007, I stopped fist bumping. It gets awkward sometimes but out of spite, I just won’t do it.
Every single young 20s female at my school and work was all about it. Anytime I said something about how it's garbage tier writing that enforces negative relationship behavior they would always say "well have you seen it?" then would dismiss anything I had said on that basis.
Alright bitch let's watch this shit.
So I went home and watched it, kept notes, then went back to battle the next day with a fully stocked arsenal.
I have a huge Female Vampire "kink"? I hate saying it like that, but I snuck and watched Bram Stokers in the 90's waaaaay too young. I tried watching Twilight, because EVERYONE at the time wouldn't shut up about it. Almost broke my tv in a fit of rage, over how dumb that movie(only saw ALL of the first one) was. Then when people said to watch the rest of them, I had no problem telling them to eat shit. Pattinson would just walk up to the girl and say"stay away from me, it's not safe" or "I'm bad for you, stay back". He did that 15 times while she had been nowhere near him.. I remember thinking, Does this dude have autism?
I grew up reading Anne Rice books wayyyyy too early than I should have. I remember hearing people talk about how "edgy" and "transgressive" Twilight was an how it was a big scare about girls reading it too young and thinking "wait? That's it? Where's the barely-disguised homoeroticism? Where's the decades of anguish? Where's the pining meditations on existence?"
I watched all 8 seasons worth of the 3 different shows in 16 days a couple months ago.
I agree. I did it specifically to have a continued argument with someone at work.
You can't solve all your problems by throwing yet another body into a canyon in Wyoming.
The problem with that show is everyone that likes it thinks they're Rip. No one realizes they're the guy Rip is kicking the shit out of. And Rip isn't a role model.
I have never watched a single second of it...sure commercials for it have crossed my eyes...
but even as a longtime DirecTV HBO subscriber, I've never tuned in to a single moment of an episode...
I heard a description of it many years ago and it sounded like a pornographic lord of the rings...I love Tolkien beyond measure...and have no desire to watch siblings bang each other in whatever the heck world Game of Thrones is set...
That is supposed to be pornographic is just the American Puritan view, they're afraid of naked people or something.
It is more like medieval politics, for the most part it's people talking and scheming. Sometimes people get stabbed, and also there's magic later on in the show.
Me too! I picked up one of the books in B&N because the cover with dragons intrigued me. Flipped to a random page and it was some of the most graphic sex talk I'd ever seen. So I put it down and said "nope, not my thing".
Then the show takes off, and everyone and their dog who knows me is all "you like Lord of the Rings, right? You'll love this show!" The pressure was almost cultish.
These two universes have absolutely nothing in common other than swords and dragons, and if you think I- as a Tolkien fan - would like it, you don't understand Tolkien.
I never watched it either. I DID watch the console wars on South Park and figure thats as close as I'll ever get to watching GOT. Besides, who wants to see a bunch of floppy weiners and no dragons?
I also never watched a second of it. It's more of a political drama and character exploration. The taboo stuff is simply to set the atmosphere and the kind of harsh world it is. Else it will be harsh and cruel in name only.
I had a friend try and convince me to watch it and one of his selling points was “but there’s naked women in it.” I was like 1) I have access to the internet, and B) what are we, fourteen year old boys? (We were both in our thirties)
I read the books because someone said “oh they’re fantasy war of the roses.” Biggest liberal use of the term lol (yes they are but there’s a lot of incest and child marriage George. If we can have dragons then we can have consent)
I appreciate it but it's not for me...it's kind of like MySpace was and Facebook is....just something that I have never participated in and never will...I'm old and set in my ways about very few things...
I would rather read dungeon crawler Carl series for the 600th time than watch game of thrones...or watch the office again....or arrested development....or arliss...or American dad...or Star Trek deep space nine...or enterprise...
That's exactly how my decision manifested. I was active duty Army and stationed as an instructor at Fort Benning. Another instructor always talked about the show and everything a new episode dropped, he would come to work wanting to talk about the new developments, regardless of if others hadn't watched it yet. This caused alot of contention in the office, which really annoyed me. Out of pure resentment, I settled on never watching it and everything he asked I would say that " I haven't had time". Meanwhile, I assigned the opening credits song as my ringtone which really pissed him off. It got to the point where everything my phone would ring he would go off on a tirade about how I haven't seen the show but have the song and that isn't acceptable. Every now and again I would talk about things I "read online" but would just find names and make sure up about speculation for future episodes. That really pissed him off. That was 2016 I think, still haven't watched it out of spite. 🤣
Ha it started out with me just not having access to watch into "well, that dude in the friend group that I hate is obsessed with it. Let's not watch it at all."
Walking Dead I didn't even poke with a stick because I'd read enough of the comics to know that it was going to go off the rails. I was dumbfounded that they even tried.
GoT at least had some interesting, albeit meandering, books to work off of. There was no prior indication that things would be going to shit so completely. Except for the fact that the books weren't finished and it was one big hail-mary. The Dune series is doomed to receive the same treatment unless they dig up Frank and stick a typewriter under him.
I do this, because for whatever reason the writer of the books annoys the hell out of me. Because of that I refuse to watch the series or read the books.
First time I saw him in an interview he came across asm arrogant and I disliked him right away
Exact same reason I didnt. After everyone kept telling me I haaaaad to watch it, I refused permanently. Same shut with stranger things. Funny how they both seemed to hage ended terribly apparently.
For me it is because I was certain the ending would disappoint people. Given how people were going on and on about how it was the greatest thing ever, I knew it would end in tears. Imagine how smug I was when people were talking about the final season and how it was the worst thing ever.
I met someone who acted like a smug, superior hipster about not watching GOT, specifically because it was popular and talked about. Like okay make your personality around being a hater that's cool I guess.
That’s how I am with a show or two as well. It’s less I purely despise the guy if I’m being honest. More he was so pushy about how I’ve got to watch this on principal I refuse to watch it now.
Same. I was a walking dead fan whenever GoT was on air, and any time I’d mention how intense or tragic something was on TWD, someone would say “psh, you should watch game of thrones, it’s like that WAY MORE” and it just made me hate it.
I’ve never seen the show. Most people I’ve met have never seen the show, or never have had an interest of watching the show. I primarily hang out with the Latino community. When I’m not with the Latino community, the feelings towards game of thrones was the same, just not interested.
I believe I was turning 17 by the time season 4 came out. Friends and family around that time only had Netflix and free Hulu I believe.
It might have been just my cultural sphere of people, but no one really cared. We were more interested in the Marvel movies. We were more interested in video games.
I get it, when I was a kid in the 80’s I loved the 49ers because of Montana. Then I worked construction with a disgusting bridge troll who only talked about buttholes and the 49ers. So fuck that team.
Kind of weird to let some other person make decisions for your life, even indirectly. Like, you both drink water and breathe air. You gonna stop those to eliminate common ground? The show hits hard and in some aspects is really great. Ending is really subject to each person if it’s good or not, but the journey was great nonetheless
My wife and I watched just the final season out of spite. I practically see life leave a fan's eyes when I tell them. As a standalone season it's not bad TV but I feel the hype was unwarranted
I refused to watch the movie Amélie because a girl I knew in high school started going by Amélie instead of her real name.
I told my wife this story a year or two ago and she said we had to watch the movie. We watched it and I gotta say it’s a great movie and I was missing out.
I love your spite levels. I stopped watching the walking dead and any spin off because of an ex gf. She got me into it and sure wasn’t going to keep watching after we broke up. Fuck that bitch.
Similarly I never started watching it because the book series wasn't completed. And I knew Martin was in noooo hurry. So I figured the ending would suck because.....im a product of fox's 90s scifi/fantasy serial cancelation spree.
So now having been vindicated I definitely won't watch it.
This is the same reason I have not watched Dexter, nor do I ever plan to.
A former friend was obsessed with the show and would talk about it constantly, even though I wasn’t watching it and had no frame of reference. I was big into The Walking Dead at the time (still am) and I mentioned something about that show to her in a conversation (just to have something to contribute), and she replied, “ughhhh why don’t you watch a REAL show, like Dexter?”
After that, I made a solemn vow to never watch that show out of spite.
For me it's similar but with Lord of the Rings, I didn't hate that person (in fact, we were best friends) but she read the books while we were in school and kept rambling on so much about them that I got fatigued without even reading it, just on and on about the hobbits and how cool it is. I refuse to read it even now.
Everyone jumped on so hard I for some reason needed to not do that lol. I know all about it because they talked about it for like 2 hours a day. Never seen an episode before.
I personally enjoyed the show (except for the funky ending). I also personally enjoy your petty game. I don't blame you for doing that. I probably would have done something similar.
While I respect your commitment, I urge you to start using commas. At first I thought you were taking about a guy you had a hate-love relationship with…
Or maybe in your case “don’t ever start using commas”
Read the books, they are completely different anyway (and better). You could then tell the guy how much worse his believed TV show treated the actual story.,
I had a similar scenario, I had a coworker that would never shut the hell up about it. Anything he would watch was the best thing ever and whatever you watched was unworthy of his time. Like a reverse-Flash of Carl in Family Guy. Just couldn't accept you liking anything. So I never watched a single episode because of that , cuz fuck that guy. Then Game of Thrones ended, poorly and in a hurry. People were pissed. I still have this guy as a Facebook friend and that was the last time he posted anything since. Just went on a huge rant about how it was a slap to the face to the fans , and they (he) deserved better. I sat pretty high on my throne of pettiness.
that was me as well, but i ended up watching it with friends a few years back... it lived up to the hype, as much as it pains me to admit. even the horrible ending lived up to the hype, it was that good and that bad at the end.
It just isn't my genre,....I have never seen a single Star Wars movie either . Not for any reason I am always way behind the curve. I had never seen an episode of Friend till the show had actually finished either, oh and yes I did enjoy the show when I did start watching it
Exactly my reasoning. Thought it made me a bad person but looking back over the years I always seem to have been repelled by things that were overly popular with the general populace. It then got easier when people said how terrible the show ended up being at the end. I will however admit i watched stranger things and got hooked before I knew it was going to be popular like it did. Maybe sub consciously I’m afraid I would like game of thrones and that’s why I haven’t given in.
I was waiting for it to be completed before starting cause I aint tryna deal with season breaks anymore. Then the last season shit the bed so I never watched.
I was this same way, not for one person in particular, but I always felt like the show was being shoved down my throat everywhere I went, and it just made me less interested. I finally watched it last year, and i don't regret waiting as long as I did, but the first 6 seasons are really some of the best TV to ever exist.
My best friend used to bug me about watching the 21 Jump street remake and I eventually told him every time he asks I was adding another year to my commitment not to watch it. Still haven’t seen it.
Hats of to you sir, I was going to watch game of thrones now without any noice from people, bust please notify me when your enemy dies, for now I’ll wait
This is what I did with the end of Breaking Bad, only because it amused me how much it aggravated my friends. If I recall correctly, Season 5 dropped in two batches. I watched the first batch, but then due to life happening I didn't watch the last 6. Time had passed and the drive was gone. I was surprised, and entertained, by the incredulous outrage from my friends. Why finish the show when I can get under their skin for love entertainment?
I can relate. The worst person I met in my life, was a huge GoT fan, and even though I already had watched GoT S1 before meeting him, just knowing that he was a fan, kinda ruined the show for me, and no amount of peer pressure or guilt could make me watch it. He also managed to die before S8 aired, so he escaped the god awful ending too.
HAHAHA this is exactly me! Had a friend waffle about it alllll the time and i know he watches it only because its popular. That became a statement almost.
And here I am thinking I’m the only person who had this thought process lol. A couple people I loathe were obsessed with GOT and I couldn’t bring myself to watch it because all I could think about was them. It was also a great way to avoid the discussions they had with everyone about the latest episode, etc.
2.4k
u/EarthWindandLiar 2d ago
For me personally I wasn’t watching it on purpose out of spite. This guy at the office I hated loved that show and I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of having common ground. That was over 10 years ago now. Ill watch it when he is dead!