How can you watch those over and over?

[Forbin]

A friend's wife (who is a mundane) asked him that question one day as he was watching a TOS episode. She couldn't grok why anyone would want to watch the same episodes over and over.

"You know all the lines, you know how it ends. What fun is it?"

So a few days later he and his wife were puttering around the house, and she was listening to a favorite album ("CD" to you youngsters).

He asked her, "How can you listen to that same album over and over?"

Not remembering their previous conversation, she started to explain how she likes the music, and how she enjoys listening to songs she knows and loves and how they're something familiar that makes her feel good.

He raised an eyebrow and looked at her meaningfully. "Like watching a favorite TV show?"

She said "You set me up for that, you son of a bitch!"

 

[sonak]

well, I kind of agree to a point. I can watch episodes that I really like a lot over and over, but I'd still get sick of them if I watched them enough.

 

[sojourner]

^And the same applies for music.

 

[SFRabid]

Sometimes you have to watch with a new perspective. Right now I am watching TOS over again, this time on blu ray. I thought the effects would be the draw for me to sit through all the episodes again. Instead I find myself watching it as if it was modern Trek and thinking "cannon violation ... that story is a rip-off ... time travel again? ... How many times is Kirk going to take off his shirt?" Then it hits me, new Trek is just like old Trek.

 

[Paradon]

When you're really into the characters and the whole treknobable, you see new things every time you watch it...depending on your mood at the time.

 

[Keith1701]

A friend's wife (who is a mundane) asked him that question one day as he was watching a TOS episode. She couldn't grok why anyone would want to watch the same episodes over and over.

"You know all the lines, you know how it ends. What fun is it?"

So a few days later he and his wife were puttering around the house, and she was listening to a favorite album ("CD" to you youngsters).

He asked her, "How can you listen to that same album over and over?"

Not remembering their previous conversation, she started to explain how she likes the music, and how she enjoys listening to songs she knows and loves and how they're something familiar that makes her feel good.

He raised an eyebrow and looked at her meaningfully. "Like watching a favorite TV show?"

She said "You set me up for that, you son of a bitch!"

I wouldn't enjoy the show if I didn't know most all the lines in the episode.

 

[Keith1701]

^And the same applies for music.

I agree

 

[SteveJRogers]

There is an exchange in an episode of How I Met Your Mother that describes this perfectly. Though it is about the first Star Wars film.

One character is going out with a girl who has never seen it before, and tells her boyfriend's, actually IIRC the characters are engaged at this point, friend that she is kind of "meh" about it. To which the friend lays it out there that there is a connection between the movie and her boyfriend in terms of it being like that thing that you always watch for just about any sort of scenario (pick me up, rainy day, nothing going on, etc) and that is just something she is going to have to deal with in the relationship.

She ended up leaving him at the altar, but his viewing habits were not the reason!

 

[ngc7293]

I can watch movies on a regular basis like the Matrix or The Wrath of Khan because they are easy to watch. But if I had to watch one Trek episode over and over if I was on a trip or something I couldn't do it.

 

[sojourner]

^Wow, they used the Star War thing twice? Because I know I saw an early episode where the girl not having seen and not being thrilled by it led to a breakup, but they never got near reaching the altar.

 

[Forbin]

I'm mighty lucky - my wife not only likes ST & SW, she throws quotes around with the best of them.

 

[Paradon]

Dang! YOu must have a pretty understanding wife!

Anyway, my last girlfriend prefer ST over SW, but that didn't make it last between us.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I'm a little past the age, where I can watch something over and over again, but I still have favorites (and not just with Star Trek, but with a lot of things) that I can come back to with greater frequency than other things. Stuff I can almost always count on to improve my mood, and lift me back up to a half-decent state of mind.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I've never been one to watch the same thing continuously, but I can go for years between individual viewings and rediscover all the little things that I may have forgotten in the interim or even flat-out missed earlier.

 

[milo bloom]

I'm mighty lucky - my wife not only likes ST & SW, she throws quotes around with the best of them.

Same here, she loves them both. Now if I can just get her to try the po-neez show....


Also, the manager I report to drops quotes every now and then, his best was about some issue at work "this deal is getting to be like Cloud City: it gets worse all the time!"

 

[Forbin]

We were driving long distance once, and I started to drift into the next lane. My wife said "Stay on TARget!"

Whenever I happen to stumble, she'll say "I don't think you're entirely stable."

If I do something goofy she'll say "Is there some significance to this action?"

And for some reason I'm not going to argue with, she's taken to calling me Captain lately!

 

[Gary7]

I had a friend who was proud to say he only watches a movie once. Why just once? "Because I've seen it already. Seeing it again is boring--I know what is going to happen. I'd rather spend my time on something new." Nothing wrong with that, I guess. But if I like a movie, or TV episode, I like to revisit it... you can spend some time watching other things going on that you missed before, being focused on the lead actors or immediate action the first time around.

My response to him was this: "Do you have lunch with a friend only once? Wouldn't having lunch again with them be a repetitious experience?"

 

[Sector 7]

^I hope he's not married. It would be "torture" making love to the same person TWICE!!

I'm a little past the age, where I can watch something over and over again, but I still have favorites (and not just with Star Trek, but with a lot of things) that I can come back to with greater frequency than other things. Stuff I can almost always count on to improve my mood, and lift me back up to a half-decent state of mind.

Pixar movies do that for me... seriously. I know it will cheer me up whenever I watch one.

I've never been one to watch the same thing continuously, but I can go for years between individual viewings and rediscover all the little things that I may have forgotten in the interim or even flat-out missed earlier.

Wait until you are my age... it won't take nearly as long to forget what you watched last week!

 

[Forbin]

Pixar movies do that for me... seriously. I know it will cheer me up whenever I watch one.

Oh, man - I think I watched The Incredibles and Kung Fu Panda every time they were run on cable. I couldn't get enough.

 

[Anji]

Simple: TOS can be watched over and over again because it is soothing. Yes, soothing. When I come home from a bad day at work after dealing with crazy customers and a pain in the arse boss and getting paid nothing but minimum wage for it, I like to see Kirk and Spock get in there and put things right.

Lord knows, our government can't.