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I do this with video games too
I’m the same with games.
I should get back into The Expanse.
I literally stopped watching halfway through the finale episode of the series.
I didn’t want it to end, so it didnt
I call it media separation anxiety
scrolled past this, processed it, scrolled back up, upvoted
Oooh the show is great but the books are even better.
That’s interesting. I heard the show was good, so started reading the books, and stopped after one cause the characters were so annoying.
I think they definitely improve from the first book. They have great politics and they’re kind of structured like 3 trilogies. Try 2 and 3 if you want a decently satisfying conclusion without committing to more. The break between 6 and 7 is much more clear, and the reason the show ends at book 6.
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.
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.
It’s not even boredom. I watched all the way up to mid season 4 of The Good Place, and then got distracted by who knows what and haven’t finished the show in years. I want to watch the end, but now, 5 years later I feel like I need to rewatch the show from scratch to do it justice, and that’s a commitment my brain can’t come around to making. So I’ll watch 7 seasons of New Girl or Parks and Rec for the 50th time instead.
The Good Place is definitely worth starting over and finishing, if that helps.
If it helps, The Good Place managed to end it well, at least IMO.
You can tend to find season recap videos for TV shows on Youtube. It’s been really useful for me, when I want to see the next season that came out but don’t really recall much of what happened since I last watched it.
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.
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
Exactly!! Not rewatching probably hurts a lot with this…
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.
Hatewatching shows i already know I’m going to hate in the second monitor if my computer.
If I like the show, I will read the plot of the entire series. I will keep watching it, but my husband still hates it.
I despise watching shows as they come out because I can’t stand being subject to their suspense building.
Did this with one show literally halfway through an episode too
You get as far as 75%? Impressive.
I never watched the last episode of Good Omens S2. And this was before the Gaiman controversy.
So hard for me to even make it through the first episode these days. I’m glad to see a lot of new sci-fi being popular but most of it is so boring.
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.
Games are entertainment, not chores. You don’t have to finish them, nothing wrong with enjoying a game for a time and then being done before the “end”.
Well, yeah, I know that. The problem is that I do want to finish them, I just never do. I want to know the storyline, the lore, the ending, the plot twist, the emotional scenes, I love it all as an experience. I just know that if I don’t lock in I’ll never know the story and how it ends. And as long as I stay locked in I enjoy it thoroughly. If anything, taking breaks from the game makes it not my main focus and then it does become a chore which is when I lose interest. I’m grinding it out while I enjoy it specifically so it does not become a chore.
I used to do this with JRPGSs all the time, I’d spend hours and hours grinding levels but when it finally got near the end I’d just stop playing.
I literally got to the final area in Tales of Berseria and Paper Mario: TTYD and just stopped lol…
It’s even worse because I’ve played through everything before that in TTYD like four times.
This has been me with Morrowind. I’ve been trying to play it for literal years, but I can’t ever finish a playthrough. Which sucks because I actually really like the game, I just can’t get hooked on it for some reason.
I didn’t beat the main quest Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind until at least a decade after I bought them. Didn’t even beat Morrowind until just a couple years ago. :P
I sank a few hundred hours over many different characters into Skyrim. Still never finished the main quest line.
I’ve got over 5k hours and in the realm of 50-100 playthroughs and I’ve probably only beat the main quest 2 or 3 times.
