It’s like they suffer from “sunk cost fallacy” but with entertainment.
‘I’ve already watched 30 episodes of this show… But I can’t stop now. Not until it gets good!’
I recently watched a video called Why Do We Play Games We Hate? I feel it applies to other media as well.
The thing that stuck out to me was that some people don’t feel ready to decide whether or not they like something until they’ve totally completed the experience. They feel it isn’t fair to judge the partial product, so they’ll stick it out through the end, even if it’s terrible, just so they say without a doubt they did not like it.
I can understand the mentality, but sometimes you have to just jump ship.
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I kinda got sad when he got back to the main topic about games and stopped talking about the history of the concord.
He taught me a lesson about aviation engineering history I didn’t expect to learn, I’ll give him that.
I have a friend who grimly stuck it out through Wheel of Time long after he stopped enjoying it out of completionism.
Screw that.
The books or the godawful Amazon series?
Books.
Yeah, I don’t blame him. If the slog were one or two books, that would be forgivable, but four and the majority of Knife of Dreams is excessive.
I’m pretty sure I would never have fully read the series if I didn’t start it as a teen with too much time to spare
For books, I get it. I feel a deep compulsion to finish any book I start, whether I like it or not.
For television shows? Nah, I’ll stop right away if I get bored.
Me with Bojack. I straight up tell most folks to skip the first 5 episodes and start with 1-6. The jump in quality the show does when it gets to “The Telescope” is staggering, it doesn’t feel like the same show.
I mention Bojack to pretty much everyone I care about. I am just worried there’s someone out there that could love the show as much as me and just doesn’t get the chance to.
Well, yeah, I get that, even if I don’t find those episodes bad myself, but I do think episode two, Bojack Hates the Troops, is a really good satirical episode that shouldn’t be missed.
Ok, yeah, my partner loves the Mc Neal Seal puns, and even when we were watching it he was like “season one is supposed to be the bad one? Jesus the show is good then”
let me start on episode 6 and get back to you.
The first few episodes of Bojack were super rough. I think I had a friend that loved the first few episodes and fell off as the show went on.
Guess I need to give it another shot lol
Star Trek TNG.
It’s literally Season 3, too.
Annoyingly, there are one or two really good episodes in Seasons 1 and 2. But the majority are total crap.
TNG, DS9, and VOY really.
I feel like this comic should be letting in people who convinced others to stick with DS9.
I guess I really just love the show then haha
I literally just started with season 3 (for the first time) and I loved most of season 1 and 2
You won’t believe how much better it gets!
Yeah, but the thing with the old shows is you can just skip ahead. It was all made for an age where everything was self contained. The most you’d get was a two-part episode.
Now it’s all made for the Netflix binge generation, where every new episodes assumes you’ve seen all the previous ones. I mean, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, and it gave us great shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad, but it does mean they need to get their shit together immediately, and not have several seasons of shit before they find the story they actually wanted to tell.
This is season 1 of Parks and Recreation. It didn’t really start to get it’s footing until season 2. I’m glad I stuck with it, so many great characters!
Yeah, S1 was trying to be the office too much. The camera shots and everyone’s delivery was just off a bit.
Yeah, on rewatch I generally start at season 2. Same with The Office (US). Both shows are phenomenal, but they take a while to find their footing.
However, I’d certainly argue that even on first viewing, the first seasons can be skipped. You might miss a bit of backstory, but you’d be able to understand most things perfectly fine.
felt the same with What we do in the Shadows
I think a lot of those kind of shows just need to get to know the characters better and see what works and what doesn’t in the first season and then improve on that when viewers also have a better understanding of that
Even then, you could skip half or more of season 1. I can’t remember which to skip, but there’s advice online somewhere I’m sure.
And I don’t think it really landed until season 3 with the cast change.
I like that after Mark leaves, he’s never even mentioned in passing again.
Your mom is a great character.
This image is fucking with me because the way it’s drawn reminds me a lot of Family Guy, and Family Guy is one of those rare cases where this concept is inverted and the show starts going to shit after season 3.
The first few seasons were so good.
Just wait until you get to season 107, it will really pick up!
This is Picard for me. I thought season one was alright, season two was hot garbage, but season three is what star trek fans had been waiting for all these years. Perfect conclusion, but boy was it rough getting there lol
Yeah they completely lost me with the ending of S1 and I gave up on the show.
But RLM said S3 was actually good, so I watched it. Completely skipped S2. Nothing of value was lost. I guess Raffi and Seven are in a relationship? I think that’s the only thing that happened in S2 that carried over.
I think I’d have liked S3 more if I was a big TNG fan. But as it was, it was basically the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, just that it brought back a beloved character rather than killing off a beloved character in the middle part of the story. Which of course made it so much better. But still, it’s basically the same kind of thing. It was fine. A good ending for the TNG crew.
I hope the Legacy thing can happen, I want to see how things are going on DS9 because that’s my Star Trek.
Totally agree, and yeah DS9 is my favorite trek as well (I’m actually watching it as I type this on my phone lol) so would love a revisit to the promenade.
But Picard season three was what I think TNG needed for a good wrap-up. It didn’t blow me away but the final scene of the last episode was perfect for me.
RLM didn’t like Strange New Worlds, I couldn’t take their Picard S3 recommendation
I agree with your take on the first two, but s3 was so gratuitous I could barely stand it. A reunion episode would have been fine, but they didn’t do the story justice.
Shit, if a show doesn’t interest me after 30 minutes I’m done with it. If the story only gets interesting after the forced exposition dump part of the script, then the script needed more work before they filmed it. In my opinion anyway.
Me recommending Amphibia (it has like 3 good episodes)
Honestly my biggest blunder of this was telling my boyfriend we watch Miraculous Ladybug and that it gets really good in season 5. I honestly lucked out that we both found it a riot from start to end, it’s now one of our favorite shows.
Clone wars be like
I really don’t get the hate for friends. It’s just a tv show with funny bits here and there.
It’s exactly what a sitcom is supposed to be. Light watching that’s generally funny. Also if you miss an episode or two here and there it’s easy enough to pick up what’s going on.
I love shows like that, after a long day of mentally draining work. I don’t want to think, I just want to drink a beer and zone out. Even though I’m still thinking about work lol
That’s how Andor fans talk to me
But, there’s only one season? And its all fire!
It’s literally, one of hte most boring things I’ve ever seen in my life… but the fans keep gaslighting me, trying to tell me I “Just don’t get it” or am “Too simple to enjoy something without pew pew”
I like plenty of things without pew pew, Andor just isn’t one of them.
The prison arc is decent, but it didn’t save the show for me and was not worth the god awful heist arc.
Andor is good, but a lot of people treat it as amazing because everything else in Disney Star Wars has been garbage. Cassian is by far the most boring part of his own show.
If watching some Andor scenes is the cost of a Luthen vs the ISB plot I’m willing to keep watching.
Obi-Wan was unironically better than Andor though, I will give you that Book of Boba Fett was a complete middlefinger to the audience.
Andor however doesn’t even feel like it belongs in the same universe as Star Wars until the prison arc when they remember Storm Troopers exist and stop having “Imperial Soldiers in Imperial Uniforms”
I find Secret Wars to be a great show and a more successful version of what Andor was trying to accomplish. The fact that a show as boring as Andor is loved, but Secret Wars is written off as trash, is… honestly baffling to me.
I will grant that if Andor was cut out of Andor, and we focused more on Mon Mothma, it would be a lot better, and actually be this “Political Intrigue” show that people bill it to be.
Yes show, I get it “Empire Bad”, you don’t need to keep reiterating this point. Tell an actual story please.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion… except you now. J/k
I really liked the “origin story” character development without any superpowers. But I also liked Secret Invasion for the exact same reasons.
American TV seasons are really a commericalized Stockholm syndrome, innit ?
At least American episodes come out more than once a decade
Just has to grow its beard.
And Rikers Beard is glorious.
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