IRwF, Instant Rewatch Factor

[JesterFace]

IRwF, Instant Rewatch Factor, something you may not have heard of before because I made it up but have you experienced it with Star Trek?
Perhaps with some other series?

Symptoms: You watch an episode. Approximately 5 to 6 hours later* you want to watch it again.
Reason could be that it was just that good.
* time may vary between different people.

For me this is a fresh thing, it began this summer after watching STNG.
The episodes that caused this were 'Elementary, Dear Data' and 'The Emissary'. I don't know why.
So far I have watched only few episodes as my annual summer STNG (best of) marathon began recently, there could be more episodes on the way that cause this reaction.

Have you experienced this?

This thread is a serious one but a joke at the same time. =)

 

[The Wormhole]

I've been known to do multiple rewatches over the course of a week of new episodes the week they aired, but that's the closest I've ever gotten.

 

[Frontis]

Yes I know this feeling.
It's like a song you like and than you listen to it again and again...

 

[fireproof78]

ST 09, easily.

Balance of Terror close follow up.

 

[BillJ]

Probably Star Trek Into Darkness was the last time I’ve wanted to rewatch currently produced Trek.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Rewatching a whole episode right away isn't my thing, I usually need to give things 20 years or so or else they're too familiar and I get bored. Reaction videos are the closest I get to an instant rewatch.

That said I rewatched parts of episodes like The Die is Cast, Way of the Warrior, Sacrifice of Angels, What's Past is Prologue, Such Sweet Sorrow and No Small Parts right after they ended. Why those episodes in particular, who can say?

 

[StarMan]

I rewatched the shit out of Sacrifice of Angels back in the day. Epic ship count; big boom.

The charge of the Fed fleet was glorious.

"No one stops until they reach Deep Space Nine."

<jaw drop>

It's a pity that nothing in NuTrek - in spite of the vast improvements in CGI in the intervening years - has approached the satisfying spectacle of that episode. Of course, it was the culmination of multiple years of build up that contributed to that satisfaction.

 

[fireproof78]

Probably Star Trek Into Darkness was the last time I’ve wanted to rewatch currently produced Trek.

If we're talking current Trek "Terra Firma" from Discovery is for me. I'll rewatch that pretty regularly.

 

[Saul]

The most recent experience with this was Picard season 3.

 

[Lord Garth]

I haven't done a re-watch within the same six hours. Neither in the '90s nor Today.

Okay. That's a lie. Don't hang me for this, but: After I became hooked on Star Trek through watching TVH on VHS around the beginning of 1991, a few months later, my mother bought TFF for me. I was taken to the theater to see it in 1989, but I wasn't a Trekkie yet. Now I was a Trekkie. So totally different experience. It was the latest Star Trek movie (TUC wasn't coming out until the end of the year). So, when we got home, I put on TFF. Then I watched it again. Then I put it on a third time, and I finally turned it off in the middle of that third time. I was 11. What can I say?

 

[fireproof78]

I haven't done a re-watch within the same six hours. Neither in the '90s nor Today.

Okay. That's a lie. Don't hang me for this, but: After I became hooked with Star Trek through watching TVH on VHS around the beginning of 1991, a few months later, my mother bought TFF for me. I was taken to the theater to see it in 1989, but I wasn't a Trekkie yet. Now I was a Trekkie. So totally different experience. It was the latest Star Trek movie (TUC wasn't coming out until the end of the year). So, when we got home, I put on TFF. Then I watched it again. Then I put it on a third time, and I finally turned it off in the middle of that third time. I was 11. What can I say?

As a I discovered each movie in the 90s I would rewatch some of them pretty often. TUC for sure, as well as TVH. Not as much with TSFS or TWOK.

 

[drt]

I haven't done a re-watch within the same six hours. Neither in the '90s nor Today.

Okay. That's a lie. Don't hang me for this, but: After I became hooked on Star Trek through watching TVH on VHS around the beginning of 1991, a few months later, my mother bought TFF for me. I was taken to the theater to see it in 1989, but I wasn't a Trekkie yet. Now I was a Trekkie. So totally different experience. It was the latest Star Trek movie (TUC wasn't coming out until the end of the year). So, when we got home, I put on TFF. Then I watched it again. Then I put it on a third time, and I finally turned it off in the middle of that third time. I was 11. What can I say?

Yeah, it was similar for me with TMP (I was also 11), I had been a Star Trek fan since 73 or 74 and here was something I hadn't seen a dozen times, so I would go and stay for extra showings as their guest. I'm sure my parents through I was crazy.

 

[JesterFace]

Rewatching a whole episode right away isn't my thing, I usually need to give things 20 years or so or else they're too familiar and I get bored. Reaction videos are the closest I get to an instant rewatch.

That said I rewatched parts of episodes like The Die is Cast, Way of the Warrior, Sacrifice of Angels, What's Past is Prologue, Such Sweet Sorrow and No Small Parts right after they ended. Why those episodes in particular, who can say?

20 years? No way....

I watch my favourites once a year, more than that and the risk of learning every line inside out becomes too much. Partly because there are already those lines or even discussions that are almost too familiar.
But, I had the urge to watch those episodes I mentioned again right away but resisted, the time will come to revisit them later.

 

[fireproof78]

20 years? No way....

I watch my favourites once a year, more than that and the risk of learning every line inside out becomes too much. Partly because there are already those lines or even discussions that are almost too familiar.
But, I had the urge to watch those episodes I mentioned again right away but resisted, the time will come to revisit them later.

Yeah, favorites are usually a once a year rewatch for me.

Depends on life though.

 

[Lord Garth]

With new episodes, whether it was TNG/DS9/VOY or later on with DSC/PIC, I'd always watch an episode at least twice. Unless it was an episode I thought was horrible. Beyond that, reruns of TNG used to play every day, and I watched it every weeknight for five years. So I've lost track of how many times I've seen those episodes. I set my VCR to record TOS overnight while I was asleep, and I lost track of how many times I watched those as well.

Other than TOS, TNG, and the Movies... I watched "The Way of the Warrior" in particular a bunch of times. If I really liked a DS9 or VOY episode, I'd watch it more than a few times. More recently, I watched DSC Season 1 a bunch of times. I've only seen PIC Season 3 in its entirety three times BUT, one time I re-watched it, I watched the entire season in a day. I haven't done that with any of the other seasons.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

20 years? No way....

I watch my favourites once a year, more than that and the risk of learning every line inside out becomes too much.

Sometimes I can watch something again fairly soon, if I'm watching it with friends and we're talking about it. Otherwise I lose interest and get distracted because I already know what happens. So you can imagine how I feel about spoilers.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I've done IRwF for most of the new shows, Trek and nonTrek, that I watch. The only exceptions have been PIC3 and DISCO5. They just weren't worth rewatches.

 

[JesterFace]

I've done IRwF for most of the new shows, Trek and nonTrek, that I watch. The only exceptions have been PIC3 and DISCO5. They just weren't worth rewatches.

As far as I know, IRwF was something I just made up, lovely that the acronym made its way into a post. =)

 

[tomalak301]

I think the last episode where this happened was a recent Discovery episode where they visit Trill. It was more I didn't really understand it and it was more background noise, but I should have watched more closely.

There have been a few episodes in the new era where I would rewatch it a day or 2 after it aired post reading comments realizing I might have missed something.