[ SECRET POST #3886 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3886 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

It makes sense. First seasons are usually pretty bad, and often not a great indication of what a show ultimately becomes. So when you start later in a show, you get to see the best quality stuff right away, and get a better idea of what the show is like. Whereas if you love the first season of a show, later seasons often change quite a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

This. It often takes a season (or three) for a show to hit its stride and early seasons can be very hit or miss.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It depends a lot on the show. Once Upon a Time should have been a one-season show. Star Trek: TNG was hit or miss until Season 3.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it's usually the opposite. The first season is great and hooks me. Then the show gets worse with each season. Either it's too repetitive or it goes to ridiculous extremes trying to top the previous season.

[(Anonymous)]

Same, if I really loved the first season I don't want it to change. There's a very few I can think of that take the things I love about the first season and refine them, but so many just falter or change directions.

Like Dexter, I watched the first season for the whole serial-killer-killing-serial-killers things. And then I forget how many episodes I watched into the second season, but it was all relationship drama and sex and I lost interest entirely. Did it eventually go back to crime-show-with-a-twist? I dunno, I stopped watching after the big plot was if Dexter would chose the rabid manic pixie dream girl or the damaged good girl. I guess other people might call it hitting its stride, but for me I just lost interest. I didn't want a relationship drama show.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I really loved the first season I don't want it to change. There's a very few I can think of that take the things I love about the first season and refine them, but so many just falter or change directions.

This is exactly how I often feel as well. Though I think for me, it also depends on how good S1 was. If S1 was barely good enough to keep me watching, then S2 has a good chance of improvement in my eyes. If I really love S1 of a show, though, I almost start to dread S2 coming out, because the odds are I'll be dissatisfied with where the writers take things.

And the more enamored with a show's first season I am, the more likely I am to be dissatisfied with where the writers take things in S2. (I'm really scared about both Stranger Things and Dirk Gently for this reason. I loved S1 of both, so of course I'm going to come back for S2, but oh man, the odds of disappointment are painfully high.)

Whereas, if I get into a show later in its run, I start with a basic sense of the story's general shape over time. So even when I don't like a particular development all that much, I'm much more able to accept it as a part of the show, because I kind of already have? Like, I've been at least low-level aware since the beginning that eventually [X] was a thing that was going to happen, so when it does happen my reaction isn't, "This isn't the stORY I FELL IN LOVE WITH!" It's "Ah, okay, so this is when Thing X happens."

[(Anonymous)]

Does it have to do with whether or not you binged the season or not? I find sometimes when I binge one season I have trouble remembering to keep up after that, but if I've binged a few seasons I may be addicted enough to keep going.

[arcadiaego]

Well you had a lucky escape with Prison Break, that's for sure.