Morning, squiders. I did my training for my new job yesterday, and I have one week left in-person at my old job (I’m going to support them for a further month part-time and remotely). Weird times.
August book goal: 6 (currently zero)
(And the goal shall remain 6 until we catch back up.)
I didn’t actually get to go to the coffee shop on Friday, but I did have some coffee at the Cub Scout camp my youngest and I went to over the weekend, and there is literally no difference between having coffee and not having coffee. So yay, I guess.
Anyway.
Why is it so hard these days to find a genre television show that isn’t ungodly violent? We recently started watching Fallout, as we’ve played at least some of Fallouts 1-4 (and spent like 100+ hours on Fallout 3), and Holy Moly. I spent half the first episode with my hands over my eyes.
I only made it through two seasons of Game of Thrones because it was too violent for me (and a lot of that violence was sexual violence, which I decided I just didn’t need in my life).
Spouse wants to watch Last of Us but we played those games too and honestly the games (ESPECIALLY Last of Us 2) were almost too much for me, so I imagine the show will only be worse.
Star Trek is the only saving grace right now.
This seems to be a trend right now in science fiction and fantasy shows. Gritty, violent. Like we have to show how awful the world is/could be or we can’t be taken seriously.
Why? Aren’t things terrible enough with having to go through that sort of thing in our “escapist” media? Why can’t we have hope and optimism and your average video game levels of gore?
Like, we’re playing Final Fantasy XVI right now. (Beautiful game, story is making less and less sense as it goes on.) We’re fighting things all the time, but aside from a little bit of blood in the cutscenes (flecks on the main characters after a big battle, or if someone gets run through or some such) there’s hardly any.
Although, maybe that’s part of it. Final Fantasy XVI is obviously a video game. Its characters are stylized and nowhere near the uncanny valley territory that some newer games get into. Maybe the same level of blood that is in the game would freak me out when translated to a live action television show.
I don’t know. It’s just wearying. I don’t want to watch people get killed or their limbs shot off or their heads bashed in.
Any recommendations for recent scifi/fantasy shows that aren’t so focused on violence? Thanks, squiders.
