Unpopular Opinions Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

None of you are even in the Big 12 anymore.

[MikeDeTiger]

They never were.  

It was all just a buncha SWC and Big 8 malcontents anyway.  

[utee94]

B12 forum reaches far beyond conference affinity or alignment.  It's the Backporch, always has been, always will be.

[FearlessF]

good reasons why it wasn't the front porch

[utee94]

good reasons why it wasn't the front porch

Well, yeah.  You didn't want the whole street to be able to see when sooners or ags were visiting.  It's okay to interact with them out of the public's eye, but nobody wants to be TOO closely associated with either one.

[MrNubbz]

Yeah this thread exists because not many of you B1G folks bother to venture down to B12 land.

Must be too busy trolling Michigan Boards or Life - it actually got into the '70s around here

[SFBadger96]

Ok well...the LOTR triology is mediocre and extremely repetitive. They adventure, some non-human group that is suspicious of humans decides to help because the evil threatens them, too; the protagonists face almost certain ruin in a climactic battle at the hands of stampeding hords of evil, then a savior comes from far away and turns the tide of the fight. Frodo suffers and struggles along his path, but always manages to escape certain doom. Eventually Frodo destroys the ring. The end.

[utee94]

Ok well...the LOTR triology is mediocre and extremely repetitive. They adventure, some non-human group that is suspicious of humans decides to help because the evil threatens them, too; the protagonists face almost certain ruin in a climactic battle at the hands of stampeding hords of evil, then a savior comes from far away and turns the tide of the fight. Frodo suffers and struggles along his path, but always manages to escape certain doom. Eventually Frodo destroys the ring. The end.

You sure about that?

[MikeDeTiger]

Ok well...the LOTR triology is mediocre and extremely repetitive. They adventure, some non-human group that is suspicious of humans decides to help because the evil threatens them, too; the protagonists face almost certain ruin in a climactic battle at the hands of stampeding hords of evil, then a savior comes from far away and turns the tide of the fight. Frodo suffers and struggles along his path, but always manages to escape certain doom. Eventually Frodo destroys the ring. The end.

Books or movies?

[FearlessF]

There has been a nerd thread provided 

[SFBadger96]

You sure about that?

Ok, the ring is destroyed at the end of Frodo's quest. He makes it to Doom. The Ring is destroyed. Happier now?

[SFBadger96]

Books or movies?

BOOKS.




(movies, too, but it's the books that I forced myself to read. The movies are over in a few hours.)

[MikeDeTiger]

That is quite the unpopular opinion.  

My knock on the books is that they're very tedious to read.  However enjoyable I find them, a description about a leaf that goes on for three pages can be a slog.  (Ok, that's an exaggeration and not really in there, but you know what I mean.)

[betarhoalphadelta]

I read the trilogy back when I was 13 or so... Then re-read it in college when they started doing the movies. 

I found it an entertaining read. 

But @SFBadger96 -- isn't that a template for a HELL of a lot of stories? How many stories are there in literature of an unlikely alliance between disparate forces of good, fighting evil, building suspense as the odds [and danger] to them rises, and then they miraculously [or conventionally] prevail? It's the central arc of most good storytelling.