NiF - please avoid this if it will annoy you

[frith_in_thorns]

I STILL haven't finished Nirvana in Fire, and have finally pinned down my reluctance to do so.


I'm pretty sure my entire watching of it has suffered from it being sold to me in SUCH an over-hyped way. Frustratingly, I think I would have enjoyed it so much more if I hadn't had managed to pick up the impression that it was completely Life-Changing, The Best Show Ever Made etc. Like, it's good? But people similarly tried to sell me on The Untamed as The Best Love Story Ever, The Saddest Thing They've Ever Watched, etc, and just nope.

Also, I guess when I watch things and talk about them as I go on Twitter (with hashtags) I tend to be pretty irreverent? Like, I talk about notable bits to me -- the things I enjoyed and also the things that made me laugh. But I definitely felt when I talked about NiF I hit a vein of "you are not allowed to say anything critical about this Perfect Show", I think unintentionally, but.... yeah. It definitely made me feel I wasn't allowed to enjoy NiF in the way that I was enjoying it, so I... stopped enjoying it.

I'm on episode 50, btw. I've been here for two months? Bleh.

[Edit: Comments now full of spoilers]

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

I think, sadly, I would have really enjoyed it for the OTT fannishness if I hadn't had it oversold to me as something Not OTT AT All. And I feel bad about it, because among everyone I've seen talking about it I seem to be the only person who feels this way, and I've felt very much (and I'm sure this is no one's actual intent!) that my feelings on it are Objectively Wrong.

And also, I confess, I just don't care about MCS in a fannish way at all. He's great! He's very entertaining to watch! But actually I'm not interested in h/c for him, which is rather disappointing given the source XD

I really should just get on and finish it so I can stop feeling guilty about it...

[sheron]

I think all of us would be happier if we stopped feeling guilty for things we like...and dislike XD

Also I have zero fannish feels about the relationships on the show, even though I really like them! So not alone in that at least.

[xparrot]

Ahahah...yeah I love NIF and I think it's a legit brilliant and epic show, but it is also COMPLETELY OTT and denying that is denying a lot of the pleasure of it! MCS is a ridiculous drama queen and that's why I love him (I do like MCS fannishly, and his h/c works for me. Ironically that's part of why I didn't get more into the show fannishly, because most of the meta I saw seemed to be about how MCS was so flawed a character that you weren't supposed to like him unreservedly, and I...did, and wasn't really into either defending or criticizing him. Rather like Shen Wei, I just wanted to squee about how much of a mess he was XP So yeah, I sympathize with feeling like you're fanning on NIF wrong, even if we're doing it wrong in different ways! XD)