[ SECRET POST #4244 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4244 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Jane Austen's Emma]


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05. [SPOILERS for The 100]

[Monty Green/Harper McIntyre]


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06. [WARNING for discussion of incest]

[The 100]


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07. [WARNING for discussion of fictional shota/bestiality/rape]























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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

IA in principle but I also feel like just, like, skipping the shitty seasons is often a good option to explore

There's no law saying that you have to watch every episode of a TV show

[(Anonymous)]

There's no law saying that you have to watch every episode of a TV show

...no shit? Some people don't like feeling like they're missing a lot of important stuff or not get references to earlier episodes

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry if I offended you?

I think it's a balance between those feelings and the burden of forcing yourself to watch shitty episodes? Or, like, choosing to just read about an episode on Wikipedia to see if you're missing anything? IDK, I get the impression from people talking about the way that they watch TV that a lot of people are really committed to completism in a way that's alien to me and that I don't think really makes a lot of sense.

[(Anonymous)]

IA too, though other than TNG, very few shows' first two seasons are uniformly bad.

op

[(Anonymous)]

It just so happens TNG was the show that inspired this secret!

[philstar22]

Well, I'd say season 1 of Babylon 5 is not great. B5 is probably my favorite show of all time. But I had to force myself to keep watching through season 1, and I usually only pick and choose a few episodes on rewatch. It was once I hit season 2 that suddenly I fell in love.

[cloudtrader]

There are a few season 2 episodes that are secret favs of mine, one I even wrote fanfic about back when I was in high school in the 90s (don't worry, it never made it to the internet, I think I showed it to my best friend and that's it).

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, if you can just skip a high amount of episodes up to entire seasons of a show without missing much, chances are it's not and probably won't be a particularly good show.

[greghousesgf]

there are far more TV shows where it's the earlier seasons that are the good ones

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I can think of only a single show that started out poorly and improved later on (Babylon 5). It's always the other way around.

[(Anonymous)]

It's both tbh

Most shows peak somewhere between seasons 2 and 5 ime

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, should've put more effort into not starting out like shit and remaining shit for multiple seasons!

[(Anonymous)]

In fairness, it's like... really, really hard to make a good TV show. It's not shocking that it takes some time.

In my ideal world, you'd let shows make 4-6 episodes (maybe specifically low-budget bottle episodes) and then deposit those episodes straight into the fucking garbage can, never to be seen again, and go and make your real episodes. Especially sitcoms.

[(Anonymous)]

Goes for all other lengthy media as well. No, I have no interest in tediously trudging through several books in a series I find bland before it gets good, nor read 60+ chapters of a webcomic (looking at you, people who tried to get me into Homestuck back in the day).

[(Anonymous)]

Oooohhhhhhh my god fucking Homestuck is the worst with this shit

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, Homestuck is intentionally set up so that each of the 4 first acts contain only part of the story, and you need to have all four parts before you get a full picture: like a jigsaw puzzle in the form of a story.

This isn't for everyone, but it's not that the first acts are bad. You just need to have read all four to see what was good about them. Of course, no one sane could blame you for not feeling like doing it.

[nightscale]

Personally if something doesn't keep my interest after an episode or two(it depends on the episode length for me as to how many I'll be willing to sit through before I give up) then I'll bail.

With movies I'm a bit more willing to stick it out 'till the end because it's usually only about 2 hours max until it's over, but TV shows can take hours and hours and if I'm not enjoying it after the first couple of episodes I'm out.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this when it comes to manga, no I'm not reading 100+ pages of something I'm not enjoying because someone swears it gets good around the second major arc, sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. Especially with novels for me. Someone recced... Jim Butcher, maybe, and said "It gets good at book four!"

Like hell I'm spending days/weeks (I can be a slow reader) reading three mediocre books just to establish character, world building, etc. to understand what comes next. I'll give a series ONE BOOK, and that book has to have something promising.

[tabaqui]

Man, this. I am not going to slog through two seasons - much less *one* season - of something i find boring, tedious, poorly written, or gross just for some mythical 'improvement' down the line.

I have better things to do with my time.

[(Anonymous)]

This though. And hell, this can apply to just several episodes of a season. I hate having to slog through a bunch of episodes to 'get to something good.' It's got to hook me right away or I'm not bothering with it.

[rosehiptea]

I walked out of a movie after 20 minutes and had more than one person tell me it got much better after the first 20 minutes. I mean exactly how long was I supposed to sit there waiting for it to get better?

(It was Punch-Drunk Love.)

[(Anonymous)]

Same. There has to be something I enjoy for me to invest my time in a boring show until it gets to the good bits, even if it's something shallow. I honestly only watched the first three seasons of Supernatural because I thought Dean was hot. I can't get into a show if it doesn't have even the smallest pull for me. Ain't nobody got time for that.

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to stop watching Steven Universe after the first couple of episodes because I didn't like it. A friend said to stick with it, that it got better in the second season. I kept watching and now it is in my top five favorite animated TV shows.