When You Lose Interest In A Series You Once Liked

eclipsenow said:

The idea of pain as we age scares me.

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It shouldn’t, in my case I have an hereditary illness with aggravating factors. Its statistically unlikely you would experience the same discomfort. It only became apparent in my case well into adulthood as pain I had historically normalized or written off earlier in life became impossible to ignore.

keith99 said:

And Tribbles were 14 years old when they were plagiarized into a Star Trek episode, a Martian Flat Cat is the same by any name.

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Thank you for doing Heinlein some justice by pointing that out.

Isaac the Recluse said:

I like the response of just calling it "growing up". Also, a large draw of SciFi was the concept, the what if. I guess that when the ideas are nearing a quarter of a century old, and have been growing in familiarity all that time, they just lose their shine a bit.

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If SF is based purely on the speculative plot element as opposed to on other concepts it is vulnerable to becoming yesterday’s news, or lack thereof, such as the case may be. Not so much growing up, but the passage of time.

Most people don't realize they got free will, it's a precious gift from God.
If one doesn't use his free will, he is not a free person.
Humans got free will

My mom is a Jane Austen fan. I have watched Pride and Prejudice with her so many times that I told her I was not watching it again anymore. It got boring and dull.

Tuur said:

Not new episodes of series you like, but when you revisit an episode you once did. I was a Star Trek fan from when the original episodes first aired. Tonight I found one of my favorite TOS episodes on, The Trouble with Tribbles. I watched it and didn't enjoy it that much. There were mildly amusing moments, such as Spock declaring himself immune to the trilling effect of tribbles, all while he was stroking one (and this was noticed by his shipmates), and Kirk's dressing down of Scotty for the brawl. But...I didn't enjoy it. This is was an episode that never failed to delight, until now. Obviously it's myself that changed, not the episode.

Has this happened to you? Have you gone back to an episode of a series or a film that you once liked, but now find it kind of "meh?"

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I was excited to get a copy of Ragtime, I had enjoyed it so much all those years ago but now I find it boring

Tuur said:

Not new episodes of series you like, but when you revisit an episode you once did. I was a Star Trek fan from when the original episodes first aired. Tonight I found one of my favorite TOS episodes on, The Trouble with Tribbles. I watched it and didn't enjoy it that much. There were mildly amusing moments, such as Spock declaring himself immune to the trilling effect of tribbles, all while he was stroking one (and this was noticed by his shipmates), and Kirk's dressing down of Scotty for the brawl. But...I didn't enjoy it. This is was an episode that never failed to delight, until now. Obviously it's myself that changed, not the episode.

Has this happened to you? Have you gone back to an episode of a series or a film that you once liked, but now find it kind of "meh?"

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I was a diehard fan of most everything Star Trek. TOS 100%. TNG 50-70%. ENT 100%. VOY and DS9 not so much... then along came DISC which I tried to like but only repeat watched episodes 1 / 1 and the series finale. From it came SNW which I liked so much I started a Facebook page that got as many as 27k members. Then the strikes and delays upon delays between seasons 2 & 3 occurred. And I ran out of ways to keep interest in the FB page members and me personally. Then season 3 came and it was under whelming to say the least. "Jumping the shark" as they say in the business. And at the end of the 10 episode season it hit me "this is not worth waiting even a few months for another 10 episode season. So I lost interest in the series and the whole Star Trek genre. I shut down the FB page.

I had some minor interaction with Hollywood behind the cameras elites. And I can assure you they are more threatened by new / other talent than they are at getting quality entertainment out to the audiences. Which is more frustrating than I can put into words. So many good writers, producers, actors, crew are turned away by these elites.

JohnD70X7 said:

So I lost interest in the series and the whole Star Trek genre.

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I refuse to let Kurtzman-era woke trash ruin classic Trek for me. It’s a pity Paramount / CBS didn’t sell Trek to the chap who did The Orville and Family Guy; he might be a secular humanist, but he at least was a true fan who understood Trek, and The Orville felt more like Trek than anything produced by Alex Kurtzman.

I am currently toying with a project in the brainstorm phase, involving man's venture out into space (Space Venture)... involving a more probable means of transportation than warp (wormhole transit via kugelblitz technology to create temporary black holes using just light itself) with more realistic time frames (i.e. cutting the ties with ground bound humans whose time is out of sync with space venturers).

But as I said, I have gone back into online ministry and such projects (the above) take too much time. When I retire in 7 years I may give it more consideration.

JohnD70X7 said:

I am currently toying with a project in the brainstorm phase, involving man's venture out into space (Space Venture)... involving a more probable means of transportation than warp (wormhole transit via kugelblitz technology to create temporary black holes using just light itself) with more realistic time frames (i.e. cutting the ties with ground bound humans whose time is out of sync with space venturers).

But as I said, I have gone back into online ministry and such projects (the above) take too much time. When I retire in 7 years I may give it more consideration.

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Space Venture is also the implied name of the spacecraft being prepared for launch at Space Mountain at Disneyland. You here it referenced in the comchat.

The SF epic I’m close to completing uses a slight jest for how the interstellar travel works (making the design theoretically possible to falsify, but no scientist would risk it, since what you’d probably wind up with is a carcinogenic neurotoxic fire, and it is highly improbable. However, I am for a hyper-realist treatment of the effect of the drive system: all movements through space are movements through time, so if one wants to avoid time dilation, one has to accept time travel as part of that. Thus much of the SF aspects of the book deals with how a civilization functions across different regions of spacetime. I’m also a stickler for realistic relativistic behavior of spacecraft in terms of orbital mechanics and manuevering.

I am also in the ministry, albeit as clergy, but I’m too ill to serve the liturgy right now, so I am focusing chiefly on this and on improving my knowledge of AI systems.