Season 1 of the wire is definitely this. I tried to get a friend to watch it and we started with the pilot and I could tell he was like “this is so boring”. It’s definitely a slower show but when shit pops off it pops hard.
Not TV, but I’ve told people to skip the first two books in the Discworld series, Sir Terry doesn’t really get into his stride till a little later, but book three is where his talent starts to shine.
The Good Place gets good in the season 1 finale
I remember putting on Kevin can fuck himself, and being super bored and not sure wth was going on. What was I supposed to be watching here. I turned it off. Wasn’t until I heard someone describing it’s message, and I dived back in. Man that was a ride! Pure brilliance. I love that it ties up, too. It was never made to be a long run, they don’t do that tired thing of teasing new concepts, to never answer them, because they were beating a dead horse. It’s just bam, all in, all tied up. But so delicious.
After the first season: The Office
Late first season: Breaking bad maybe
After the first season: The Office
Late first season: Breaking bad maybe
It’s not a show, and typically one would play that game of “never read this” fairly unironically. But the webcomic Homestuck starts off REALLY slow and takes a few hundred pages to really even become interesting. It was so long ago, but I’m guessing page 246 was when I started to legitimately be interested in it. And I would say it finally gets good at page 1149.
So why did I read 245 pages of a story I wasn’t very much interested in? The music, pretty much. I had already known Toby Fox had worked on something called Homestuck because of the history behind Another Medium (YouTube), and then I encountered this track (YouTube) in the wild and decided to read it at least until I reached the page this music is from.
Also, if you look at it purely for the ratio, getting good 1/8 of the way through is a little better than standard.
DragonBallZ Abridged used a lot, and I mean a lot of referencial humor in their earliest season, only really starting to make characters come into their own towards the end of season 1.
By the start of season 2 with the Namek saga, they’d largely nailed their characters personalities and ditched most of the references, and as a result, seasons 2 and 3 are much more fun to watch
When I switched from the One Piece Anime to the One Piece Manga. I am sorry, but the Toei adaptation is a fancy power point presentation. So. Many. Static. Shots.
The newer arcs are good in that aspect. But the problem of outdated sound design persists.
I didn’t watch a lot of the newer arcs, but I found Wano to suffer this exact problem, which was dissapointing. I had high hopes after they slightly modified the artstyle to look more traditional.
I meant after wano. I’m watching egghead and the animation is a lot more fluid. It looks plain at times, but the static shots have lessened
I’ve heard One Pace is good, but I’ve never compared it to one piece
It’s a very fair comparison :3
I forgot the exact episode, but I felt The Expanse was pretty mediocre until one of the last episodes of S1. I stuck with it because I was told prior to starting that it takes a while to get going. I’m glad I stuck with it, as it’s my favorite sci-fi show.
Yeah, I was about halfway through S1 and I was thinking “why do people rave about this show?”
Also glad I stuck with it.
Expanse is a slow burn start. I personally think it was great from the start but will tell anyone to watch at least until E3 or 4 (episode called CQB). At that point if you don’t want to keep watching it’s likely not a good fit.
For me its’ the opposite, it started strong (complex politics, realistic space travel) and by the end it turned into just another space opera about hardy space ship crew fighting space battles.
Damn, I watched the first two seasons before moving and never got around to finishing but those things were exactly what I was into. I thought the interplanetary politics were awesome
From what I understand there’s a lot of material from the books that didn’t make it into the show. I bet the politics were more extensive too.
Every one I have forced to sit through the first 3 episodes of Red Dwarf has gone on to watch every episode and now incorporates quotes from the show in normal conversation.
Idk they had me from episode 1. Best episode though imo is tikka to ride
They’re all dead
That’s because there are no bad episodes of Red Dwarf
Of course it’s The Office season 2. So, episode 7. Although Basketball (episode 6) is also pretty good, it’s definitely more part of the more dreary realistic season 1 feeling.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Starts like the average random magical girl anime until episode 3, then suddenly deconstructs everything giving you an amazing whiplash. I had to beg a friend of mine to watch until ep3 because he absolutely could not stomach the first episode. He thanked me later
Madoka is like a blend of Sailor Moon, Made in Abyss and a drop of LSD for the artists
Black mirror Episode 2 lol
They never managed to recapture the horror of the first episode although a couple of times they got close. Netflix is not even trying though, black mirror used to be the only unbingeable show where you had to let each episode sit with you and think about how you feel about it. Now it’s twee sci-fi with happy endings. I could just watch old star trek for that.
The Good Place really takes off at the end of the first season.
No way. Episode one was a banger.
Personally I consider The Good Place one of the rare shows that is solid all the way through without a single bad or weak episode, however the end of season one is certainly where it goes from great to fantastic.
For me, the twist at the end of season one retroactively makes the rest of season one better
alsimoneau figured it out? That’s a new low…
Ted Danson’s reaction to that scene is too perfect… That one hurts
