Day #14 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #14 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge.

The prompt is:

Television Series you thought you wouldn't like and ended up loving

My choice:

Breaking Bad

I had to be talked into it. I tried it - didn't like it. Various people online loved it. Then I had a co-worker, frustrated screenwriter/current co-manager, who talked me into it. He intrigued me, and explained the third season is the best.

So...I gave it a second chance and got pulled in.

This happens more often than not with shows. Often I'll think, meh, and then somewhere around the second or third season - I get sucked in.

Comments

[shadowkat]

I had a similar experience with Fringe, but for the same reasons your husband did. I wasn't crazy about the X-Files and thought it would be the same. It's not. Shipperx talked me into watching it. She was a huge fan - and her write-ups intrigued me. It had a fascinating mythology.

But like you, I resisted, and didn't really start watching until the third season - so I had to rent all the previous seasons via Netflix DVD.

It does have a great fandom - none of the idiotic shipper wars that you get in a lot of the other fandoms. I think people have done cross-over fics. Can't remember. It was a while ago since I've been interactive in that fandom.

[wendelah1]

Yeah, Fringe fandom was full of people who had multiple ships, and threesome ships. There were even a few gen people (like me). It was great. Everyone was welcome. I miss that fandom.

[shadowkat]

I was more gen in that fandom. (When I ship its always canonical anyhow. I'm not that masochistic.)

[tellshannon815]

I have definitely written Fringe crossovers with Lost - Daniel and Walter in St Claire's together, and Miles having been a Cortexiphan kid and crossing paths with Olivia, Peter and Walter on a case in later life. I miss Fringe.

[wendelah1]

I miss it, too. I might do another rewatch, at some point.