breaking_bad nr i'm very late to this party, but any series where vince gilligan's goal was to transform bryan cranston's character from mr. chips into scarface is probably worth watching. 260615 ... raze when the show reached the end of its run, i watched the sixty-second and final episode without having seen any of the sixty-one that came before it. somewhere around the halfway point, with an angry macbook burning a hole in my boxer pants, i had two thoughts. one was, "i should go back and watch the whole thing from the beginning." and the other was, "this is as good a metaphor as i'm going to get for how warped my decision-making is. what person in their right mind willingly subjects themselves to the end of a thing without knowing how it begins?" i also still kind of can't believe hal from "malcolm in the middle" grew up to be walter white. talk about range. 260615 ... releaseofwarmth responding to raze but addressed to the room: I think there's something enticing about a spoil. Not just a teaser, a complete spoil. Even though I know it's a fundamentally wrong way to experience the artist's vision. Ironically one of the things that makes the "original" (first) Star_Wars trilogy work and become astronomically successful in the 70s is the fact that audiences started on part 4 and had the blanks filled in gradually. If we knew that Vader was Luke's father the whole time, the reveal in Empire doesn't work. By being forced into believing or deciphering huge chunks of the story that you didn't witness, it toys with your perspective and it tickles your sense of wonder (how did this get to be this, how did these people become this way, etc.) It can be a fun way to experience things. I watched Serenity without having seen Firefly, and I was much less emotionally damaged than most people. I got to experience Firefly after the fact and enjoy it and say "oh yeah this show is way better than that movie." But the OG fans of Firefly that were subjected to Serenity? They truly, truly suffered. I've enjoyed experiencing this New_Mexico downward spiral of a show and Sopranos and The_Wire and many other shows through YouTube rabbit holes, clips, compilations, maybe watch a few individual episodes. It's not such a bad way to go, getting the gist of it and saving a lot of time and potential emotional harrowing! But of course if the whole point for you is to put in the time and go through the harrowing, well. More power to ya. 260616 what's it to you? who go blather from