To co-sign and expand upon: This is also a thing that often happens after a first season that grows in popularity after it finishes airing. Now that fans who binged have to watch week to week, they struggle with the fact that stories are going somewhere and not immediately resolved.

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Your post is insightful. Might I add that the chem trails of the commenting medium aid and abet these struggles? When we once spoke to friends in person and on the phone, the conversations had end points. We moved on. But SM is a kind of endless pause button to pick back up, and engage new takes.
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Like this issue has definitely gotten worse of late, but you see proto versions of it when the TV on DVD era begins. Lost discussion was plagued by early versions of this.
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I wrote a tiny bit about this in 2023!

www.garbageday.email/p/internet-sleuthery-cannot-abide-a
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Woof. How would modern audiences even fair with a release schedule like Lost's? Always felt like 2 to 3 episodes and then six weeks between.
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