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Rewatching the first season after finishing the last one feels like a betrayal
I spent 14 hours on the finale over the weekend, and now going back to season one makes the characters feel like annoying kids who know nothing. Is sticking with a show's full arc overrated when the early episodes are genuinely better, or am I just letting the ending ruin the climb?
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thea8571mo ago
The thing about calling the early characters "annoying kids who know nothing" is you're watching them with the ending already baked into your brain. That's not a betrayal, that's just bad timing. Season one moments like the quiet ones, where they're just figuring out how the world works, hit way different when you already know what choices they're gonna make later. I did a rewatch years after a show ended, not right after a marathon, and it felt like watching a separate thing entirely. Maybe the fix isn't picking a side, it's just letting your brain cool down for a month before you go back. Otherwise you're not rewatching the climb, you're just staring at the cliff you already fell off.
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