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07-26-2022, 03:15 PM | #1021 |
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I used to love watching Sentai and Rider weekly, but as time went on, I found myself lagging behind. At first, it would be a couple weeks. Then it would be months. I'd completely lose my momentum, and catching up felt like a chore. So I just kind of stopped trying. My current habit tends to be: I'll watch roughly the first four or five episodes weekly. Then, I'll lose momentum. Then, around a month before the show ends, I'll catch a wave of excitement that propels me to finish it before the finale airs. This helps keep the shows from being fully spoiled, preserves the hype of watching it with the larger fandom, keeps my opinion of the show from being influence by fandom groupthink, and allows me to watch it at my own pace (which almost always helps when it comes to the yearlies). It's a win all around. Last edited by Kamen Rider Lucha; 07-26-2022 at 03:24 PM.. |
07-27-2022, 11:46 AM | #1022 |
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Yeah, to echo what other people have been saying, for years the weekly SHT was a nice, fun portion of my week. But after LuPat, I watched the first few episodes of Ryusoulger, and realised that I wasn't actually interested in it or really enjoying it, I was just doing it because, hey, it's Sentai and that's how I watch it. So after the first mini-arc, I bowed out, and stuck to only Rider. But even then, life kept getting busier, and I didn't manage to keep up with 01 weekly. It felt like a chore, not because I didn't like the show, but because I got bad at my own schedule and my bugmen show had to come last over studies and work. Saber I watched weeks behind everyone else, and Revice I've just skipped entirely, which has definitely made me feel a bit disconnected from the fanbase. That doesn't mean I'm not a Rider fan, it's just... real life comes first? Don't feel obligated to do things? Idk, all I know is I'm going to try and do weekly for Geats when that airs, and see how it goes.
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07-27-2022, 12:31 PM | #1023 |
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I'm still enjoying it a lot myself, though I definitely understand how it can feel like a chore. This is really where MOTW-orientated series (which Sentai still mostly follows) have a big advantage; it's a weekly dose of self-contained funny bullshit that can easily make your week. But if you've got something like say, the recent Revice episodes where you're just watching one part of an ongoing story; it can feel very sloggish and a bit like a waste of time -- I often say of certain Rider series that they'll likely be better when you can binge them and watch a bunch of episodes of certain arcs in a row, and I feel this way about Revice (as someone who's still a big Revice fan!)
Meandered a bit at the end but I think my point got across, right? Some things are much better suited to weekly watching than others
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07-27-2022, 12:42 PM | #1024 |
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I kept up with KR weekly for a while. However, when Drive began and didn't do much for me, then the next show, Ghost, did even less, I found myself really uninterested in things.
It wasn't helped that, by the time Drive did begin, I was already finding myself on a toku burnout because I was consuming Sentai, KR, PR, and tidbits of Metal Heroes, I basically ended up not watching any Kamen Rider between Drive to Saber (And on the Sentai side of things, the only series I watched as they aired during this time were Zyuohger and LuPat) The break turned out to be a good thing for me, honestly. I got back into the franchise reinvigorated. Even though forms and a few events were spoiled for me because I still frequented the boards, ultimately, watching the series at my own pace, at my own leisure was far more refreshing than forcing myself to keep up with it weekly.
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07-27-2022, 12:45 PM | #1025 |
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It's funny, I agree that some shows are better binged, but I don't always find that correlates with how "episodic" the show is for me. I've only watched Rider live, but I found both Ex-Aid and Build were extremely fun to watch live, while Revice is a bit of a chore, but all of them are shows with strong overarching elements.
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07-27-2022, 01:25 PM | #1026 |
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It's funny, I agree that some shows are better binged, but I don't always find that correlates with how "episodic" the show is for me. I've only watched Rider live, but I found both Ex-Aid and Build were extremely fun to watch live, while Revice is a bit of a chore, but all of them are shows with strong overarching elements.
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07-27-2022, 01:52 PM | #1027 |
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I think, sometimes, it doesn't even matter on the show. If you have it in your head you have to watch Rider/Sentai/Ultra/whatever this week or not-at-all, and it's more about that fact than whatever the show's doing, sometimes it can feel like you're pressuring yourself to get round to it unnecessarily?
There's no right way to watch a tv show. Weekly with everyone else, at your own pace binging arcs, or just going back and watching an old show because then you can decouple it from the SHT grind, do what makes you happy. Even if, for a while, that's "Not watch Toku at all".
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07-27-2022, 02:09 PM | #1028 |
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I don't always watch the new episodes the week they come out, but I try to get no more than a week behind because I know that the more episodes I let pile up, the less likely I'll be to get around to watching them.
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08-01-2022, 12:11 PM | #1029 |
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There's no right way to watch a tv show. Weekly with everyone else, at your own pace binging arcs, or just going back and watching an old show because then you can decouple it from the SHT grind, do what makes you happy. Even if, for a while, that's "Not watch Toku at all".
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08-27-2022, 08:02 PM | #1030 |
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Current mood, kind of mad that people only talk about the bad parts of ghost.
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