SJ Longthorne

Understanding why people like things is an important part of being a creator, so I always try to analyse why a particular piece of medium I dislike resonates with others. But I think it's also important to acknowledge that people can like bad things, and popular != good.

Sometimes I don't get a piece of medium because it's a "different flavour of good I still need to acquire". Sometimes people enjoy different kinds of trash.

Practical example: Twilight is objectively a terrible book, but I can understand why people like it! It's just not my kind of trash! Thor 3, on the other hand, is an objectively good movie I LOATHE for personal reasons. So it's good, but not for me.

Perhaps one day I’ll stop trying to rewatch Marvel films and telling myself ‘this time you’ll love it, you just weren’t engaged before’

is this a safe place to admit that i found thor ragnarok equally as boring as the other mcu films

I thought it was just me I’ve watched so many of them thinking ‘this is the one that I’ll love’ and each one without fail elicits the same ‘eh I don’t care’ response which, I understand, is largely considered heresy