If you could go back in time and watch any show for the first time again
 

What would it be?

To clarify, it would be like you knew nothing about what was going to happen on the show.

I wonder which poster inspired this thread.

Hmmmm?!

Cobra Kai, bitch.

Terminator 2

Time travel back to 1969 and watch the moon landing live

To watch MASH

so wait am i the person i am now or the person i was then?

Dunno. Whichever one you want to imagine.

if my personhood is a collection of my past expriences and i went back in time to relive a show would i even be myself without having seen it as i have in the present timeline? can i be sure that without it i would be a wholey different person through some butterfly effect tomfoolery?


and if i am the person i was then who's to say i would have the same expriences? maybe i would make an infinite number of minor decisions in my mind differently; altering how a joke lands or a emotional climax grips me? what if i ruin the very thing i nostalgicly cling to?

no...this whole thing doesnt work for me

i dont think i can participate

Meanwhile, I say Firefly.

I still think it's funny that I missed out on the show entirely because I happened to be flipping channels one night, saw the first opening battle section of the pilot episide (which is another whole chunk of nonsense since Fox aired it out of order), and literally said aloud: "Meh. I don't feel like watching Starship Troopers."

Destor's persona is solely made up of all of the TV shows he has watched over the years.

I posted before reading the thread right. Married with Children.

Homeland season 1.

arent we all

I guess imagine how you were when you first watched the show and you would be that. For instance you could answer that you wish you could be a kid watching Looney Tunes for the first time.

I'll have to think of something that was spoiled for me before I watched it the first time....Only Fight Club is coming to mind.

Maybe the entirety of the Austin McMahon Feud from 1998 and 1999? Dunno.

TV: Avatar Last Airbender
Movie: Avengers Endgame

If I had seen Endgame before I saw the spoilers I'd have been blown away by the ending I think.

Still pretty good though.

Maybe my answer to this question is 24, but maybe not, because I did watch some a year or two ago after it being years and it was still exciting as heck and I didn't remember a lot of the specifics.

24 was lame af

So is yr face

You're a stupid idiot!

That's not what your mom told me last night!

Yeah......


She was all yelling and screaming.....


"Who are you?! How did you get in my house?! Get out before I call the police!!"

For some reason, my brain jumped to five kids holding up rings of top five TV shows, and forming us Captain Planet style.

My problem was more in my experience with Infinity War. Saw it in the theatre, and mostly everyone let out a disappointing groan at the end and people like "aw man, I gotta wait for a sequel?!" ... like NOBODY KNEW this was in two parts. It was only planned and promoted as such forever.

back to the future

Apart from where they literally said they weren’t doing a two-parter?

Big Brother USA Season 2

The introduction of the veto in season 3 rUiNeD IntEgRitY oF tHe GaMe

I know that by doing so I’d be setting myself up for a massive fall, but...

LOST.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Scrubs

I didn't expect anyone to say that.

Now I'm sad.

You really want to see "My Screw Up" again, don't you?

Sarah Chalke ended up in her underwear an awful lot on that show.
That is the best thing about Scrubs.

Hmmmm a comedy show is actually a good call. I was trying to think of only serious shows.... but thinking about it, discovering and seeing something like It's Always Suny in Philadelphia for the first time again would be amazing.

Mr. Robot

Oz

That was and still is the most disturbing show I’ve ever seen. Virtually every character was literally a villain and I thought seeing foes interacting and feuding with each other was highly entertaining because heels will do anything to accomplish their goal.


Another interesting thing they did on Oz was they would take a violent and evil character and put him in a storyline where we the audience felt bad for them. However, as soon as people would like that character, he would do something violent and shocking to show you that he was still a very dangerous person that belonged in prison.


On the flip-side, they would take generally less violent characters and have them do something shocking and violent to again show the audience....these are prisoners. And they do not belong in society until they can get rehabilitated.

No but after looking up what that episode was about since I didn't remember, that comedy series sure did have a bunch of depressing stuff in it.

If it wasn't for ABC trying to squeeze out a completely unneeded season, that series would have had one of the best ever finales.

True Blood

I don't remember anywhere that was an actual comment. I *do* remember the "roadmap" of upcoming MCU as it was back then titles, and before "Endgame" became a subtitle, they were listed as "Infinity War part 1" and "Infinity War part 2". Intitally, people took those with a grain of salt, but as the MCU started forming and the movies started coming to fruition in the order they were listed, it was being backed up into stone written gospel. The eventual battle with Thanos was slated to be a two-parter, and there was an ever increasing reason with every film launch and in-credit PS to not believe it to be otherwise.

If that comment *was* made, it was prob'ly because some studio nonsense where they dropped the number conventions, and considered them "two separate movies" because it doesn't explicity say part 1 and part 2 in the official titles. The whole "we're not lying because of semantics" shit.

this joke was amazing. fuck you all

Six Feet Under

I would have my memory erased just to rewatch the episode when David was carjacked/kidnapped; fucking crazy.

The Shield

I might watch The Shield but it just seems so grim to me.
I did watch an episode once but I was young and reckless back then.

It has all the Walton Goggins goodness that you might need.

Does it?!

Ok, will begin tomorrow

Actually fuck it I'll start tonight

Daredevil got me walking away with a Nigerian sized boner. I turned on Netflix and clicked on Daredevil without knowing how good it was going to be. I just assumed that it was going to be another run-of-the-mill action hero story and so while I had interest, it wasn't that much. Daredevil blew me away. So in answering your question, I would watch Daredevil for the first time again.

Band of Brothers for TV show

Movie: Stepbrothers. I've never laughed that hard at a movie before or since.

Step Brothers might make my top 100 funniest films but I'd probably have to get rid of Grown Ups 2 to make room.

Sure... in full context and not taken as a legitimate answer to the question, it was a real knee-slapper.

But I would totally MIB "flashy thingy" that series from my brain (let's pretend for sake of topic that's how the neuralizer works) to watch it again fresh.

The only let-down was the fact that you kinda *needed* to watch season 1 of Iron Fist for the full context of Defenders. People were waiting for a major motion picture from the MCU to flop, and that one show was the turkey all along. Hell, it really didn't get much better until season two was in full swing. Prob'ly wouldn't have bothered if not for all the eye candy flanking Danny.

Separately: "Nigerian sized boner"... is it sad that the anatomical implications were secondary to me initially wondering what an erection would have to do with a rich prince emailing you out of the blue to send money?

I was the only one who liked Iron Fist S1... wasn't great or anything but I enjoyed it..... Luke Cage S1 was the one I found a snorefest.... S2 was great though... (Iron Fist S2 was better but still not great, but I still would have liked more)

I loved season 1 of Luke Cage, down to the meta of the episodes being named after Gang Starr songs. This show made me a bigger fan of Luke than the comics ever did for me.

Besides s1 Danny Rand (the legendary Iron Fist, protector of Kun Lun; it is his destiny) being portrayed as such a whiny weenie, the action scenes were horribly lackluster. Part of it was because Daredevil set the bar so high, but even with that... a blind guy kicking ass with essentially bat sonar and boxing/MMA is super awesome, so the guy whose entire identity is martial arts should be able to... ugh? What the fuck is all this ticklefight bullshit and jerky cameras trying to hide the horrible choreography?

IF's first season was just bad. Badly written. Bad fight scenes. And it had to follow up on the heels of three other acclaimed series that aired before it. They had to do some serious work to pull of from that nosedive, and they did the nigh impossible with season 2 to show a glimmer of hope for what season 3 might bring... just in time for the Disney+ effect to happen and all the axes fall on the Marvel Netflix Universe.

TV-The Prisoner
Movie-Twin Peaks Fire Walk with me