Rambles are great! Rambles are the soul of Snowflake, IMO :) (or at least I've been going on rambles all over the place)
Anyway, yeah, I don't consider Person 3 as a rec at all, and would just ignore it. I watch/read things because I think I will like them / they seem interesting, and representation is all well and good, but tells me nothing about whether I'll actually enjoy something or not. (I mean, the best book I've read in the last five years and the worst book I've read in the last five years both had women of color as protagonists, largely POC settings, and African-American women as authors, for an example.)
Person 2 -- unless it's a personal rec from someone whose taste I trust -- is also not a very useful rec, and I'd probably only take it into account if I've already heard other, more substantive things about the show or was already thinking of checking it out.
In general, "I love thing A, so you should also check it out!" is not, I think, a very useful rec-ing method, because over the course of years of talking with people about shared favorite books and shows, I've come to the conclusion that even when there's significant overlap in the things we like with any person, we very often like the things for different reasons, and also have different things that would turn us off about something. So in general I try to give recs which are more along the lines of, "I loved thing A! I think you might enjoy it, too -- the central relationship reminds me of [pairing that they love], and there's a great car chase/heist montage/huddling for warmth/etc. scene in episode 2, buuut there might be more violence than you would enjoy" -- so, yeah, person 1 all the way. (I mean, I also have things that are fundamental enough to me that I would say "I love thing A -- I'd be super excited if you checked it out so we could talk about it" -- but that's not a rec, that's "come join me in my squee for my sake", and I don't foist that on people who aren't family members or very close friends.
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Date: 2021-01-07 08:02 am (UTC)Anyway, yeah, I don't consider Person 3 as a rec at all, and would just ignore it. I watch/read things because I think I will like them / they seem interesting, and representation is all well and good, but tells me nothing about whether I'll actually enjoy something or not. (I mean, the best book I've read in the last five years and the worst book I've read in the last five years both had women of color as protagonists, largely POC settings, and African-American women as authors, for an example.)
Person 2 -- unless it's a personal rec from someone whose taste I trust -- is also not a very useful rec, and I'd probably only take it into account if I've already heard other, more substantive things about the show or was already thinking of checking it out.
In general, "I love thing A, so you should also check it out!" is not, I think, a very useful rec-ing method, because over the course of years of talking with people about shared favorite books and shows, I've come to the conclusion that even when there's significant overlap in the things we like with any person, we very often like the things for different reasons, and also have different things that would turn us off about something. So in general I try to give recs which are more along the lines of, "I loved thing A! I think you might enjoy it, too -- the central relationship reminds me of [pairing that they love], and there's a great car chase/heist montage/huddling for warmth/etc. scene in episode 2, buuut there might be more violence than you would enjoy" -- so, yeah, person 1 all the way. (I mean, I also have things that are fundamental enough to me that I would say "I love thing A -- I'd be super excited if you checked it out so we could talk about it" -- but that's not a rec, that's "come join me in my squee for my sake", and I don't foist that on people who aren't family members or very close friends.