Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25626-20150324180019/@comment-21519-20150404044451

Hey, no need to justify yourself here, Nelg. When I decided to give up on Doctor Who last winter, several people with whom I had discussed the show in the past leapt down my throat over it. One was particularly nasty. But you know what? If you no longer enjoy something, then you no longer enjoy it, and there's no sense putting in the time (even if you're not spending any money on it) out of some sense of obligation.

Of course if it's something you've followed for a long time, it's not a decision to be made lightly. As disappointing as DttE and TG were, I did not at all have high hopes for IatD, but after all those years I couldn't conceive of quitting TL-191 so close to the end. The next year was MwIH, which is as you describe: an interesting idea that mostly went all for nothing, thanks in this case to he heavy-handed parallelism. (And not just the Iraq stuff, either; how many iterations were there of "Heydrich does something nasty to the West and we back down because we're pansies; he does the exact same thing to the USSR but it doesn't work because they're hard core"?) It was all right, though. Then came TWTPE, and yes, when the project was announced I was excited. I never dreamed it would be so lame. It got slightly better from one year to the next, enough to keep me coming back, especially when the public library gave me the opportunity to read for free. (As for the time investment, the last couple of years I seem to have found myself in a prolonged struggle to find quality reading material, to the point that I don't mind investing a week or two in a mediocrity like the latter half of that series, because it's unlikely I would have found something any better if I'd had to choose another book.)

HT has had other projects in recent years that I've enjoyed more, like Atlantis (though that's stretching the definition of "recent" a bit at this point) and many of the Tor.com shorts. I had zero interest in Supervolcano and am not going to read JS either. I will read BA because the premise is intriguing, but after reading your post this already feels suspiciously like wandering into the same old trap. But while my real enjoyment of HT these days is in reading rereleases of works I missed the first time around, like Videssos, my enjoyment of the new stuff is not low enough that I want to quit. If I did I would.