Well then I'm happy to say that I'm not "many people"!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!
I just don't like shows that glorify what I find as being the most despicable behavior mankind is capable of. I don't care if anyone else watches it and my husband is a huge fan of
both TWD & The California "Well Tanned Dead" (or whatever it's called
). He is also a huge fan of GoT and has watched Survivor since episode one..... We've agreed to disagree and one or the other of us just leaves the room (usually me and usually with a book in my hand). I understand that they are hugely popular shows, I personally just kinda regard it as junk TV.......
It resembles too much of what I hear on the news, read in papers and listen to on the radio and I don't find people treating each other like crap entertaining. I will admit that when I heard Geoffrey (Game of Thrones) had been murdered, I agreed that he had it coming. But I'm pretty sure I wasn't watching at the time..... It's just not my thing.
I'd rather watch some Dude cruise around the Galaxy in a Blue Box that is smaller on the outside than it is on the inside! Or see what's up in Gene Roddenberry's neighborhood, Or (and this works for me because it's "Supernatural") wish that John Logan had pulled his head out of his.... ahem..... "behind" and saved Penny Dreadful because to me, that was magnificent programming! Or watch some of the Marvel Superhero movies (although I confess to being all a twitter over the upcoming DC's Aquaman!) or anything else along those lines.
Yes, they have violence in them and yes some of it is weird, over-the-top and gore-filled. But for the most part, none of it is in anything that is even vaguely "reality" based..... I also, by the way,
loved season 1 of "Lucifer". I thought it was some of the most creative TV I'd seen on air in years. I think TE is brilliant and that's one of the reasons I'd really like to see him at the controls of the TARDIS for a season or 5!!!!
So I watch unusual programming too and some of it is absolutely downright bloody and monstrous! But the key is: "Monsters". I like monsters, the supernatural, science fiction and the like. I also watched the Alice Croft Movies because Raccoon City and whatever company that funded it was more Horror/Sci-Fi to me than anything else. Got and TWD (to me) seem to try too hard to focus on "keeping it real" and I've met guys in real life who'd like nothing better than to become a "Governor" or a "President" in order to take advantage of everyone else they could just because they could do it..... Hell, it's happening in my country right now.
So I'll take the fake monsters thank you very much! Life is tough enough as it is with a real one already in the White House!