I've recently been catching re-runs of some Classic Who episodes. I watched nearly all of Classic Who a few years ago, but now, since it's been a while, I really don't remember a lot of the details in each episode. That's usually the reason why I like re-visiting old things. Even if you
think you remember something really well, it's amazing how much you realize you'd forgotten once you actually sit down and watch it again.
Case in point: I re-watched some of Sherlock earlier this year (I meant to re-watch all of it, but apparently I got distracted at some point because I stopped before I even finished season 2), and I honestly didn't remember how most of those episodes ended. XD Even when I went into an episode thinking "ah yes, I remember this one", I soon realized that I honestly didn't know where the plot was headed or how the mystery would be solved. XD Shows like this have some serious re-watchability for that very reason.
Last year I re-watched Trigun. I've re-watched Trigun quite a few times, and each time I watch it, I not only pick up on things that I didn't catch any of the previous times and re-experience the episodes that I'd apparently forgotten the finer points of, but I also feel like this show really
speaks to me in a different way every time. There are always hardships that I've endured in life since the last time I watched it, and the show always resonates with those experiences in a meaningful way. I just... really like this show. It's so important to me.
The year before that (or, maybe just early last year? I dunno, some chunk of time before I re-watched Trigun), I re-watched Samurai Champloo. Or at least, I re-watched about half of it. Like with Sherlock, I must've gotten distracted from it at some point. I own the whole series on DVD, so I could finish re-watching it at any time -- but, now it's been so long since my last attempt at re-watching it, that I kind of want to start over from the very beginning again. XD
I've been meaning to re-watch Firefly. I've only watched the series once before, and I remember enjoying it -- but I already know that I have definitely forgotten a good chunk of it, and I would most certainly get that whole "I don't remember the plot of this episode so now it feels like I'm watching it for the first time all over again" experience out of re-watching it. I just haven't gotten around to finding a good service through which to watch it.
ALSO, I've been having mixed feelings about re-watching things lately... Yes, I definitely enjoy re-visiting shows that I like, for the reasons mentioned above. But also... I feel like I've kind of stagnated in terms of TV-viewing (and really all forms of media consumption) over the past couple years. There's always a show in mind that I want to re-watch, or series that I still have to get around to finishing after I've been a fan for years already -- and it feels like I haven't really gotten into anything
new for... quite a while. It's like all my favorite shows, games, and fandoms have been sort of...
frozen for a while. A time capsule of the stuff that I discovered and got super invested in back in high school.
So I guess I can definitely relate to what
@Opal was saying about feeling content playing the same 6 games all over again instead of trying anything new. But at the same time... I dunno. I'm kind of
not content. I kind of want to discover new things. But, when the time comes, I just... don't seem to be very interested in or willing to try anything new. Not only that, but it feels like I have such a long to-watch/to-play list just for the things that are already part of a series that I already like or have already played before, that I just don't leave myself any time for new things. :/
And, I mean, it's not like this whole thing really bothers me enough to keep me awake at night or anything like that. It's certainly pretty low on the list of things I worry about in life. But, it is something I think about sometimes...
