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I should get back into The Expanse.

I do this with games too. It takes literal years for me to beat games because I always reach a point where I get distracted by something else and then drop my current game for over a year and feel no motivation to continue once I've pivoted. These days if I want to beat a game I'll lock in and do nothing but play that game for days on end. New game came out? Nah, I gotta stay locked. Friends hanging out online playing games together? Nope. Locked in. I'll even turn off my phone and other monitors just to make sure I don't get distracted.

With TV shows it's almost impossible to lock in sometimes because they just take too long. I can keep my attention on one thing for a few weeks at a time but I can't do it for the amount of time a show requires unless I somehow habitualize it into my day like watching it when I eat dinner. And even then I'll often times switch shows about halfway through.

Most shows end like shit. I say this is a way to save ourselves the disappointment

I’ve got the gist already, time to move on. No point in letting the writers’ ending ruin what I’ve come up with.

Boredom with a show is a good reason IMHO. So many shows drag things out when they get popular and don't hire good writers for the filler.

Does "I didn't watch the 4th season, because I forgot the first 3 while waiting for it to come out" count?

Sometimes I'll do the "advanced" maneuver where I love a show or game and I'm like "this is awesome, I don't want to go through it too fast" and I'll pace myself by never feeling like now is an important enough time, and never again experiencing something I was truly enjoying.

I'm actively working on "beating games I like" right now as, like, a skill I'm developing.

I used to do this and then I realized I just don't really like watching TV shows. So I stopped. And life is better.

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Yea, that tracks....

I'm still at the Monolith in Expedition 33. It was really good, I'd like to finish it, just not a huge priority and I'm in no rush

Oh my god, I’ve done this forever. This is an ADD thing!?

I hate this community…

And love it.

It just hits too hard.

All the time. But I don't see it as a bad thing. I love rewatching shows, and I can really enjoy a show, then years later rewatch it and realise I have a whole season and a half of new episodes!

“I feel like if it ends here I’ll be satisfied with the story” but there are ten more episodes…yeah i still do that.

I loved breaking bad but never watched the last season.

I forgot most of what happened now so I would have to rewatch it all.

That's around the time in a season that a TV shows run out of budget and are 80% soft spoken dialogue while the coffee mug magically teleports around the room.

Shit, I sometimes get half way through an episode and then all of sudden "I sure hope I dont start thinking about other things right about now, and put me off watching the rest of this show.... Fuck.".

Same, but with video games.

I do this with video games too

I do the same things with games. I suspect it allows me to fantasise about it for longer, since i binge everything and it allows me to not conclude it's experience by ending the show/game/book.

I’ll get 50-75% of the way through and just go find a written synopsis online.

Oof, I was watching stargate sg-1 while my second kid was young, but at some point I stopped and never quite got back to it. I started trending towards social media instead. Basically when it became easier to set her back in the crib, but also combined with her being more aware of her surroundings and the uncertain nature of how long she’d sleep/be awake/how much attention she’d need meant I became less inclined to use media that’d I’d get sucked into/not want to be interrupted

I don't want to rewatch an episode and don't want to miss anything, but I've forgotten where I was up to. Quite the bind

Yeah I did that with house of dragons, severance season 2 and the latest season of squid game. Sometimes it's just too hard to commit to a show and to choose random YouTube videos instead 🥲

I never watched the last episode of Good Omens S2. And this was before the Gaiman controversy.

And then rediscover the show several years later, have forgotten all the plot so I have to start watching over from the beginning, stop watching 75% of the way through, repeat ad nauseam.

There is a reason tho. If you stopped watching, it clearly wasnt interesting or memorable enough to come back to your mind and reignite your interest for it.

That just means it's a bad show. You gave it a chance. It failed.

If I have to wait more than a year for more episodes I'll drop the show entirely.

It happens more than it should