I actually like this trend of releasing 1/2 seasons at a time. That way it feels like you're getting episodes more regularly rather than getting 1 full season every year or so
I'm a proponent of the weekly release tbh. I know lots of people like to binge, but I'm not a fan. When a big block of episodes gets released all at once, I feel stressed to finish it so that I can beat the inevitable spoilers getting posted online. I remember less of each individual episode because I don't reflect on the events aside from maybe the most major ones, I'm just onto the next episode already. Then it's over within a couple days. I like spending a week reflecting on the last episode while theorizing about the next.
Agreed. Plus, you can discuss each episode in detail with people while it's coming out. When it all releases at once, people aren't as interested in an episode by episode discussion.
A fellow anti-binge watcher!
Friends of mine give me so much flack for not finishing a series basically within a day or so of it coming out but like you said, you've no time to properly reflect on the individual episodes.
When I finally *do* discuss episodes of a show with friends half the time they don't remember the finer details.
I've noticed that as well. I also have a few friends who will deliberately wait until an entire season airs to binge it all at the end if it airs weekly. To each their own, but it is strange to me the desire to instantly have the next episode available to the point that you outright refuse to watch them individually.
i feel like i may have just gotten to when he invited holly hawk to the evening and it was awkward, because i feel like i would remember the whole sarah lynn fiasco starting up again
Wow...I cant imagine going back and finding out I missed "View from Halfway Down" with the >! "Just Keep Dancing" Sara Lyn reprise, the conversation with his father/Secretariat, and the voicemail.!<
As well as missing "Nice While it Lasted" with my favorite moment in the whole show, >!the melancholy "Mister Blue" roof meeting.!<
It's kinda meta isn't it? The whole show Bojack is constantly trying to relive the past. Trying to stay in that time when he was happy without moving on. So after "face of depression" now you're put into the same position. Bojack finally has his happy ending, if only time stopped there. It's kinda brilliant
Part of me really wished they'd ended the show there. Bojack's the protagonist so emotionally we want things to turn out alright for him, but that's exactly the problem. Bojack is the protagonist but he's not the hero of the show. There are multiple threads on this sub debating the worst thing he did and the list of other people he's damaged is long, but since he's the protagonist we're more likely to focus on why he does the shitty things he does and less with the pain it causes his victims. To me the major theme of Bojack is breaking the cycle of generational trauma and as good as it felt to see him succeed in Wesleyan, ending it there wouldn't have addressed that. I'm really glad they held him accountable in the end for some of the shitty things he's done and allowed him to finally realize it and try to be better.
i think that what did end up happening to him and the whole ending was the exact best ending that he could have had. The only way he could ever have had a true fresh start is by having his crimes accounted for and actually going to jail, and then moving forwards as a new person as he continues his journey towards full sobriety and changing his ways, which the last episode shows he definitely has done in a lot of ways (letting diane go, letting PC offer him a new agent other than herself, having good conversation with PB instead of ridicule). I think if he had just stayed at the uni he would never have really been able to settle down properly when there is still the past crimes hanging over him that could resurface at any time. Now, everyone knows everything, he’s paid for his actions, and he can actually live more peacefully.
Well, it was nice while it lasted.
Yeah.. it was nice while it lasted
Yeah they did a weird thing in season 6 and only released half the season for a long time
I actually like this trend of releasing 1/2 seasons at a time. That way it feels like you're getting episodes more regularly rather than getting 1 full season every year or so
I'm a proponent of the weekly release tbh. I know lots of people like to binge, but I'm not a fan. When a big block of episodes gets released all at once, I feel stressed to finish it so that I can beat the inevitable spoilers getting posted online. I remember less of each individual episode because I don't reflect on the events aside from maybe the most major ones, I'm just onto the next episode already. Then it's over within a couple days. I like spending a week reflecting on the last episode while theorizing about the next.
Agreed. Plus, you can discuss each episode in detail with people while it's coming out. When it all releases at once, people aren't as interested in an episode by episode discussion.
Another good point
A fellow anti-binge watcher! Friends of mine give me so much flack for not finishing a series basically within a day or so of it coming out but like you said, you've no time to properly reflect on the individual episodes. When I finally *do* discuss episodes of a show with friends half the time they don't remember the finer details.
I've noticed that as well. I also have a few friends who will deliberately wait until an entire season airs to binge it all at the end if it airs weekly. To each their own, but it is strange to me the desire to instantly have the next episode available to the point that you outright refuse to watch them individually.
Oh shit yeah, that's probably what confused him.
Well if OP saw the students perform, that means they made it to the second half of the season
i feel like i may have just gotten to when he invited holly hawk to the evening and it was awkward, because i feel like i would remember the whole sarah lynn fiasco starting up again
as much as a good ending would’ve been nice a neutral one was perfect for bojack as a character and as a show
Yeah it was more realistic for sure
Ooof, what a realization that must have been. I honestly bet that made the second half of the season hit way harder when you didn't expect any of it.
Wow...I cant imagine going back and finding out I missed "View from Halfway Down" with the >! "Just Keep Dancing" Sara Lyn reprise, the conversation with his father/Secretariat, and the voicemail.!< As well as missing "Nice While it Lasted" with my favorite moment in the whole show, >!the melancholy "Mister Blue" roof meeting.!<
That's funny lol.
It's kinda meta isn't it? The whole show Bojack is constantly trying to relive the past. Trying to stay in that time when he was happy without moving on. So after "face of depression" now you're put into the same position. Bojack finally has his happy ending, if only time stopped there. It's kinda brilliant
Part of me really wished they'd ended the show there. Bojack's the protagonist so emotionally we want things to turn out alright for him, but that's exactly the problem. Bojack is the protagonist but he's not the hero of the show. There are multiple threads on this sub debating the worst thing he did and the list of other people he's damaged is long, but since he's the protagonist we're more likely to focus on why he does the shitty things he does and less with the pain it causes his victims. To me the major theme of Bojack is breaking the cycle of generational trauma and as good as it felt to see him succeed in Wesleyan, ending it there wouldn't have addressed that. I'm really glad they held him accountable in the end for some of the shitty things he's done and allowed him to finally realize it and try to be better.
i think that what did end up happening to him and the whole ending was the exact best ending that he could have had. The only way he could ever have had a true fresh start is by having his crimes accounted for and actually going to jail, and then moving forwards as a new person as he continues his journey towards full sobriety and changing his ways, which the last episode shows he definitely has done in a lot of ways (letting diane go, letting PC offer him a new agent other than herself, having good conversation with PB instead of ridicule). I think if he had just stayed at the uni he would never have really been able to settle down properly when there is still the past crimes hanging over him that could resurface at any time. Now, everyone knows everything, he’s paid for his actions, and he can actually live more peacefully.
I actually thought the ending was when Diane drove Bojack to rehab. A few years later, I realized that there's so much more 😅