It's so common in web comics of some genres that I've seen characters snarkily bringing it up in some at the start, as though the writer is saying "who would want to read that? It's a totally different genre by the end!"
I just stop watching. That’s why I stopped watching FRINGE, too. The trouble is, questions are more interesting than answers. But eventually, you do have to come up with answers, which are generally unsatisfying and don’t provide for subsequent narrative tension. So you have to ask new questions…
…and eventually the series collapses under the weight of its baroque, twisty architecture. Plan stuff out, then stop. This is true for many book series, too, alas.
How many times have I heard, "The first two episodes aren't that great, but then it gets really good." What's happening is that, as with soap operas, the critical faculty dies, and addiction takes over. It leads you by the nose from ep to ep toward nothing. I avoid all streaming series. Films only.
It’s great. Very much broken up like an episodic TV show because it was originally serialized in newspapers. Easy for the modern fragmented mind to digest.
And while we’re on recommendations, I got the idea to (re?!)read ‘Great Expectations’ because it was mentioned in a totally different but also wonderful and much shorter book called ‘Everything Is Too Small’ by Becca Rothfeld, which you also check out.
My kids are like that too. They play Chopin on the piano and shit. Either my wife had an affair with a more talented man (wouldn’t blame her!) or there was a mix-up at the hospital.
I watched it when I was unemployed. Binging helps riding through the slow and/or tiresome parts. My advice is to just watch until you don’t care any more.
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