Not to watch something just because DH thinks its the best thing ever?

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AIBU or is DH for getting in a huff with me?

DH is massively into Game of Thrones. I have never watched any of it, it's not my kind of thing at all. There's a battle scene called the battle of the bastards which he has gone on about several times about how it's the best thing he's ever seen on TV and it's like Saving Private Ryan but medieval. I'm in the middle of working this evening and he says, "Come and watch for 10 minutes" because it's this scene he loves. I say, "I'm not interested" and he insists, saying, "It's only 10 minutes" and "But it's like Saving Private Ryan but medieval" I point out that I wasn't that interested in Saving Private Ryan either. I'm just not that bothered about watching people killing each other.

Now he's got all huffy with me because I wouldn't stop working and watch it. If I asked him to watch something I was finding fascinating or lovely e.g. the Three Girls documentary, the film Lion, he absolutely wouldn't watch it with me. So why should I watch his stupid battle scene?

That's nothing mejijus.

Jon Snow's aunty has three bloody DRAGONS 🐲🐉🐲!!

I read title and tjought yanbu unless its GOT. Yabsooou. Bob best scenesever

YANBU. Game of Thrones is disgusting. Yes it really is.

YANBU. I love GoT, but anyone who doesn't realise that it's not everyone's cup of tea is a dimwit. It kind of depends though - is he insistent because he's got good reason to think you really will love it, or is it just that he loves it and wants to show it off? I'm positive my dd would love Indiana Jones but for some reason she won't watch it .

My DH is currently watching the Tour de France in his pjs (he's retired).

This made me chuckle. As if MN readers are wondering 'What the hell is he STILL doing in his pyjamas, the feckless waster. Unless of course he is retired, then pyjamas are allowed until about 11.30am'

only read your first post. YABU to not watch GOT - it is epic...

but BOTB i find hard to watch, the emotion, Jon snow gasping for breath, the violence and why oh why didn't Rickon just zig-zag!

give him ten minutes of your time. then you can say i watched it and i did not like it. and you wont have him in your ear again.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! You are totally not a GOT fan... I nag DH to watch with me every new season (he didn't rewatch S6 in prep for S7 today, but I'll let him off that)

He doesn't have to like it, but I like snuggling with him when we watch TV, and I watch his programmes, and actually pay attention so we can talk about stuff too! its swings and roundabouts, give and take, marriage! (but not a GOT wedding!!!)

my DH makes me watch

Amazed at the amount of people saying YABU because it's so good.

It's got good points but after a couple of seasons I stopped watching because the torture is so horrible. Nakedness isn't a problem, grime, violence,people dying, OK. But it seems to wallow in torture and I just don't like it. I've also read books 1-3 so I'm not uneducated about it.

If it's not for you that's fine.

I'm sitting in the conservatory Mnetting while his lordship is watching GOT. I can't even be in the same room as it.

I hate Suits, absolutely loathe it. DH has tried to make me watch it but I won't. Ever. Not even for 10 minutes. There's something about the main actor's face mole that makes me feel a bit sick lol.

DH has spent over 13 years trying to convince me that the Stargate TV programmes are fantastic and wonderful and The Best TV Ever, when clearly they are a pile of shite. He got in a right strop once when he realised the dc don't like Stargate either, and accused me of deliberately making them not like it.

I haven't watched GOT yet, at first because I didn't think it sounded that interesting and these days it's because people never bloody shut up about it.

My DH loves game of thrones too. I hate I. I wouldn't watch it just to keep him happy though - and I'm sure there are plenty of programs I like which aren't hiccup of yes either.

He WBU to make you watch BotB without any background or context. With context, and if you've watched the preceding SIX series, it's one of the most powerful and emotionally-charged scenes to ever be committed to film reel. The nobility and self-sacrifice of Jon Snow. Sansa, who has gone on the biggest journey of self-discovery and change, who has suffered beyond reason, who is now fighting to take back her home & take revenge on the man who raped her. Their relationship as half-siblings (and Jon's bastard status). The fact they are fighting against one of the most evil villains ever created within fiction. The fact there's a fricking giant on their side! And that he's the last one left in the world and when he dies, there will be no more giants. The fact that their army has united factions and groups that have been fighting each other for generations. But yup, haters, if you want to think 'oh it's just dragons and tits' then tbh I don't really care! I'm very happy for you to miss out :-) (And BTW I hate films like Saving Private Ryan, hate battle scenes, hate violence. But that's not what this episode is, honestly.)
I think YBU not to watch ten minutes of it, smile and nod though. I watch loads of shit music documentaries with my other half and he sometimes sits through Hollyoaks in order to please me, albeit with a rictus grin on his face all the while. But that's marriage, innit.

My husband watches GoT. He prides himself on having read the books before the tv series, and feels smug about being a "proper fan". I've never watched it, doesn't do anything for me!! So I let him get on with watching it on his own . I have my shows and he has his. (Mine are better ).

Just say to your husband "that's nice dear!" and carry on with your work.

I think you are both being unreasonable. Him for asking whilst you were working and you for being so dismissive, it means a lot to him, he is excited about it and he wants to share it with you. To be fair it is an amazing scene.

Monkey I started to read your post and then stopped. It seems like a great big massive spoiler (unless I misjudged, in which case, sorry!).

Shouldn't do that! Some of us haven't got that far yet!

I've got lots of programmes I love and DP doesn't like and vice versa, I can't imagine trying to force him to watch it just because I like it and I wouldn't be happy if he did. We watch stuff we like together, and watch the other stuff when the other one is busy or out or whatever.

I think I have some kind of deep-rooted psychology in this behaviour, which reflects very badly on me, I fear.

If someone tells me I have to see this or listen to that, I immediately resent the implication that they know something I don't, that they are putting me down in some way. I respond by telling them it's shit for XYZ reasons.

I only feel this with particular people, and I see now that they are the people I genuinely believe to be more intelligent/intellectual than me.

Does that actually mean, if I feel like the clever clogs compared to the recommender, I am patronising them by deigning to tolerate their recommendations?

It's a pretty ugly trait and one I've only just, thanks to this thread, realised is a pattern. I'm horrible.