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

[sheron]

THIS. Exactly! I had the identical experience in terms of expectations vs reality when I watched it. It's exactly why I enjoyed it so much. I expected something way serious and then idk, it was connecting just enough with my fannish soul to draw me in without making me actually want to write any fics for it.

(I totally fast forwarded through the beetles, btw...)

[xparrot]

Some of my favorite things are those that can bring the plot and drama and all, but also the fannish feels, and NIF did that for me! And yeah, the humor too...I always like a show more for knowing how to use comedy. Though NiF is one of my "Type A" fandoms; I love to watch it and show it to people, but I don't want fic for it.