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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
so that’s why streaming shows suck, they rarely make it that far.
After GoT and all the cancelled shows on Netflix, Prime, etc. I refuse to get into a show until it has a few seasons under it’s belt. Nothing like getting invested in a show only for them to cancel it.
I’m the same way but it’s quite the catch 22 considering if people don’t want the first season or two it’s unlikely they’ll make another
I avoid shows until they are finished completely
I avoid shows until all the actors playing the main characters are dead. Got into Golden Girls about a year and a half ago, and I figure I’ll be watching Friends from a retirement home.
Fucking jojo
But JoJo got good long before halfway through. For me it starts with Battle Tendency but for many it’s good from Stardust Crusaders on. That leaves many more seasons and even more manga.
My advice for anyone getting into JoJo would probably be start with Stardust Crusaders, they explain why Dio is a big deal in the narrative and the mask isn’t relevant anymore so none of it really matters.
You are right that the first season is a total drag and very skippable though.Yeah I agree. However, Battle Tendency may be hard to jump into it somebody skipped part 1.
People like to bring up the first Jojo parts as an example of skippable content, but I also want to emphasize part 1 & part 2 almost have less episodes (26 combined) than half of part 3 (48 episodes), so it’s hardly skipping anything since there are 6 animated parts.
One Piece fans lmao.
That’s why I’m hoping the live action becomes a success. One piece has a lot of amazing things, but the anime adaptation is just shat out of someone’s ass every week. I can’t recommend that to anyone.
If Netflix is successful in recreating the one piece experience - and so far it looks like they are - I’ll finally have something to show people why I like this story so much.
I can’t deny this lol. Sometimes you like it from the start, but the start is very corny since it was made in the 90s, so it doesn’t grab everyone right away, but it matures really well over time and becomes more timeless. But even then I have to admit it can be an acquired taste with its cartoony style and wacky characters/world.
Unfortunately it will always still suffer from the shounen curse of reared in stakes and development. Certain mainstay characters simply won’t grow anywhere but in power and no one is ever allowed to die or leave. Everyone simply has their personal story “on hold” perpetually till they get rushed near the end.
I do not watch One Piece. But I did start to play One Piece Odyssey. Every character in the crew there was already present in a One Piece Musou game I played in the early 2010’s. That tells me all I need to know about how much the story progressed for real. That’s Why I scoff and laugh whenever I see people not list out which large chunks of a long runner to skip, or when directors like FF14’s states it’s all worth it and you should not skip to HS. I’m a human with basic pattern recognition. I’ve seen that bullshit before and recognize it for what it is.
You’re right and wrong, but the way you said it makes me think no one likes talking to you or much less holding a conversation with you. Which is why that’s all I’ll say.
I’m not really sure why it’s such a bad thing. The fact that they’re there and alive doesn’t necessarily detract from the story. They interact with so many other characters that get a lot of screen time compared to the main crew, and those characters eventually leave or die. And it’s fine. I’m not looking for the crew members to die and be replaced.
My GF loves One Piece, she started me at just one episode quite a ways in - the one with Bink’s Sake - basically just to say “hey look, this story is actually going somewhere”. Then we started at like episode 60 or so and kept watching from there - it’s definitely a lot rougher, but I’m hooked enough now to watch it with her!
This week’s episode is actually really good. You just have to watch the other 1071 episodes first and I swear you’ll like it.
I think that’s just called Stockholm Syndrome.
It’s unfortunate that it is true. No going around it - the first 25 or so episodes are cartoonish and the old drawing style kept a lot of people away. I tried to convince people to stick with it but most of my friends left it around episode 2 or 3.
It’s also evident that it is perceived as a dumb teens series since producers brought it to TV to a channel named 4Kids. And then they quickly realized by the second batch of episodes that kids definitely shouldn’t watch that.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Yep, went the same route myself. I’m looking at you, Critical Role campaign 1 👀
But for others I always recommend start with the 3rd now.
I’m your worst nightmare. I refuse to get to s2 or s3 until I finish the dredge that is s1 because I’m of the belief that CR is only good because the people who watch it went through s1 first
I actually liked the first season of TNG.
Same here. I like the more OG feel the first and second season have, and some of the characters that are only there for those seasons. RIP Tasha Yar 😥
In all fairness that actress showed up fairly often for playing a dead character
I was sold the moment bug aliens took over Starfleet, and Picard and Riker blew Commander Remmik the fuck up!
I enjoyed even the first season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but it really starts to pick up in Season 2 when they introduce Danny DeVito’s character. Well, it really starts to pick up when his character evolves into trash goblin mode in like Season 3/4. Well okay actually seasons 5/6/7 are where it gets REALLY good!
That’s how Andor fans talk to me
