That word “homework” gets on my nerves and I don’t think I can fully articulate why. I guess in a way that’s what a pet peeve is, when you can’t quite explain why it annoys you. I think there are reasons I have yet to articulate, even to myself, but I will try to articulate it at least a bit.
They’re referring to watching TV and movies as work they’re being forced to do in order to watch more movies and shows. They’re upset that a group of movies and shows are connected and build on one another. I think they’re fundamentally viewing the MCU in a different way than I do, they’re viewing each movie and show as a seperate entity while I view it as one long series. To me it sounds as silly as complaining “I want to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but it requires me to read six other books for homework”. Obviously each book in the series builds on the previous ones. Maybe watching a long franchise consisting of movies and shows isn’t for everyone, if it’s a problem for you to watch every entry in the series, maybe just don’t watch this franchise.
I sort of get where some of these people are coming from. They want to see Marvel movies in theatres but some of the movies are connected to series they can only watch if they subscribe to Disney+, which they don’t want to do. But watching movies has never been free. Even if the movies weren’t connected to Disney+ shows, they’re still connected to movies you have to pay to watch somehow.
I don’t think that’s what is implied when using it in that context and wouldn’t understand it that way. The very reason the term “homework” is used is because it’s not really work and you’re not actually forced to do. That’s just the lighthearted implication because that’s how children perceive it.
I’ve never really heard “homework” used like that. To me, it’s always been something annoying that you have to do in addition to the main work.
I just had someone use it like that a few days ago. Basically we skipped a show on our group watch night so the admin wrote that he’ll assign watching Ep1 as individual homework, because we’ll be picking up on Ep2 next week.
What homework in school were you NOT required to do?
People use this phrase to refer to things you have to do on your own in preparation for the next group meeting/other thing you actually want to do.
All of it, really. Nobody actually cares that the work itself gets done but that the subject is understood by the student.
Exactly. You’re voluntarily preparing for something you like.
We just have gone to school in different eras. All my homework was graded, not optional.
And feeling like something is necessary to do in order to do something else doesn’t make it voluntary if you feel like you’re missing by not doing it.
And maybe even different areas. But thinking back to it, I think we had very good teachers. Like in elementary maths class there were two major ways of checking for homework:
The first one (and I think the best one), is that you get assigned a problem at home and then you’re called up and have to do it in front of the class. Now, if you did your homework, you could just copy your calculation to the whiteboard and if you did it correctly, that was it. If you did it wrong, the teacher would have you re-do it on the whiteboard. In that case you never actually had to do the homework, you could just do it at the whiteboard in the first place.
The 2nd one was more like the quick-check. They would just pick random students and ask for the final answer. If you got it right, they move on and if you’re wrong they either check your work or have you do it on the whiteboard. So you either copied the final answer from someone else to get a “move on” or you get it deliberately wrong so you have to do it on the whiteboard.
I think I stopped doing maths homework by 2nd grade.
Oh, you’re British[or other non American former colony]? That would explain a difference.
German.