I also quit reading the IDW Angel books... and I'm not curious enough about the Spike teaser to go try it again... but if YOU love it then I might! lol
I usually won't quit reading a book because if I'm bored I have speed reading skills I'll employ to just plow through to the ending. I think there have only been a few times I've been so totally bored and disconnected that I didn't even want to find out the ending.
With movies: I hate walking out and wasting the money, so I'm usually wary about doing to movies in the first place. I would rather see something I'll love on DVD than pay good money at the theater for something I'm bored by. Normally I'll sit through the entire film and then make fun of it to all of my friends and family later.
But TV is a real time waster if the show isn't good... and normally I don't have to even try to give it up: I'll end up reading, going online, or channel surfing when I'm bored without even thinking about why the show was boring me.... It is only later that I realize that I had stopped watching the show, so clearly there is no reason to tune into it any more.
It is usually bad dialogue, predictable plots, and uninteresting stock characters who bore me... and I was bored with Avatar even with the pretty in front of me (the sameness and cartooniness of the pretty Pandora kept that from being visually engaging, for me)... but I can't make fun of it if I don't stay for the whole movie!
BTW Last nights Merlin was a winner! No spoilers, but we get a lot more of Tony Head (and I do love him!) and Jane Seymore was hilarious!
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Date: 2010-05-01 12:19 pm (UTC)I usually won't quit reading a book because if I'm bored I have speed reading skills I'll employ to just plow through to the ending. I think there have only been a few times I've been so totally bored and disconnected that I didn't even want to find out the ending.
With movies: I hate walking out and wasting the money, so I'm usually wary about doing to movies in the first place. I would rather see something I'll love on DVD than pay good money at the theater for something I'm bored by. Normally I'll sit through the entire film and then make fun of it to all of my friends and family later.
But TV is a real time waster if the show isn't good... and normally I don't have to even try to give it up: I'll end up reading, going online, or channel surfing when I'm bored without even thinking about why the show was boring me.... It is only later that I realize that I had stopped watching the show, so clearly there is no reason to tune into it any more.
It is usually bad dialogue, predictable plots, and uninteresting stock characters who bore me... and I was bored with Avatar even with the pretty in front of me (the sameness and cartooniness of the pretty Pandora kept that from being visually engaging, for me)... but I can't make fun of it if I don't stay for the whole movie!
BTW Last nights Merlin was a winner! No spoilers, but we get a lot more of Tony Head (and I do love him!) and Jane Seymore was hilarious!