I was thinking something similar, “…when I’m dead.”
I can’t see me giving up on SF, but I am losing enthusiasm for cult shows on TV. After having so many shows that I’ve gotten into axed it hardly seems worth while getting into a new show knowing that it will likely face the same fate.
Yeah. Some people have dubbed this The Firefly Syndrome. Trouble is, it becomes self-fufilling.
The other problem these days seems to be shows that have plots that go off in such weird directions that it really seems as if the writing staff are making it up as they go along. I’m hoping there will be more novel adaptation hitting our screens that have a plot arc to follow rather than being the product of a large writing team.
I’m pinning my hopes on Game of Thrones to show the world how this can be done well!
I tend not to think too much about genres, if I can help it. I tend to like good stories. Sometimes that means I watch or read sci-fi, sometimes historical fiction, sometimes sit coms (I’m really, really, REALLY into 30 Rock right now), etc. One is never too old for good stories.
And you know what? I kind of liked Thor.
I don’t think it’s fair to give up on an entire genre just because of oversaturation. Anything can be done well–I don’t read military fiction or romance, as a whole, but I’ve found authors and stories in both genres that I can appreciate. That said, I’ve been getting tired of things that I used to love. I haven’t cracked a new Star Wars novel in months, when I used to devour them the day they were out–I just can’t get into the direction the authors have been taking the franchise lately. And despite my love of comics and the movies that have come out over the past few years, I’m terrified that we may have reached the oversaturation point of superhero movies before The Avengers. And I really want The Avengers to be good.
Burnout happens!
Thor was awsome.