kriadydragon | (Reply)

I'm very much that way -- although, like

octoberdreaming, a lot of it is because I don't often try shows until they have a season or two. It's too disappointing to get into a show that's cancelled six episodes later. But I also have a history of trying shows and abandoning them after the first episode or two, then getting into them later, when there was a bigger chunk of show to watch. (I did that with both SGA and White Collar, as it happens ...) I think that I just need more than one or two episodes to know if I'm going to like a show. Plus, the first episodes in a series are usually the shakiest; the actors haven't quite settled into their roles, and the character relationships haven't really gelled yet. Most of the good stuff is yet to come.

Usually it takes me at least half a season to get hooked on something, if not longer. The only show I can think of off the top of my head that hooked me from the first episode was Lost, but it also happened to come along at EXACTLY the right time for me -- I hadn't really watched TV in years, and I'd just moved halfway across the country and was really lonely, so being able to lose myself in a twisty mystery show with a ton of characters once a week was perfect. (But Lost never really hooked me in a fannish way, and I later drifted in and out of love with the show over the years.)