Why do you assert that the best ones are the ones that break genre conventions? That feels like your opinion rather than a fundamental truth.
People recommend the example that they think displays the qualities they like the most because a) they want to share it with someone and see if they resonate with those features as well, and b) if the person doesn’t like it, they don’t have to keep digging for a better example.
I have to wonder if Dark Souls and the rest of Fromsofts recent offerings work on the same level to someone who doesn’t play a lot of video games the same way it does for me. One of my favorite things in those games is the subversion of expectations which only someone who plays a lot of video games would be expecting.
Or they end up seeing the best part of it, and it’s all downhill from there.
That’s what happened with me and anime. First thing I ever saw was Akira, sometime around 1992. Very, very few anime movies have even come close to measuring up to that first experience. So I actually don’t have a lot of interest in seeing much new stuff in that genre anymore.
Not arguing about Akira being peak, but “anime” isn’t a genre, it’s a medium.
Gotcha! I always just considered it a genre of movies I watch, but of course there are as many genres of anime as regular movies have.
People say that Blink is the episode to show people you want to watch Doctor Who. It’s a good episode, it’s a good Doctor Who episode, no doubt, but wtf it is NOT representative of the show. An episode that leaves me questioning “Who even is that Doctor person that was in it for an entire 5 minutes but seems to be the main character”? If that was the first thing I’d seen of Doctor Who, I would’ve been SO confused (and probably disappointed) by everything else.
Start at S01E01 Rose or S05E01 The Eleventh Hour or maybe S11E01 The Woman Who Fell to Earth or, if you’re very courageous, S01E01 An Unearthly Child. But BLINK?! Fuck.
I mean i get your point and i’m with you, but on surface, watching Doctor Who and wondering ‘Who is that Doctor’ seems like a win to me.
You could start at the Empty Child/The Doctor Dances too for another quality Moffat episode with more Doctor in it than Blink.
That’s why my recommendations are chronological. You start with at least the best of the beginning so you dive head first into the best of the present (if any).
Fair advice but S1 of Adventure Time is pretty bad and most of the worldbuilding was forgotten anyway
Yes, but without the context of the first seasons, the following seasons would not have hit as hard as they did.
I think that’s very subjective to each person doing the recommending and also the person wanting said recommendations preferences.
Yeah! Let me show you ant colony simulators. What we have here is something called Dwarf Fortress.
Man I sure do love the circus!
