{"id":499001,"date":"2022-10-07T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-pilot-and-move-on\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:30:45","slug":"watch-the-pilot-and-move-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-pilot-and-move-on\/","title":{"rendered":"#Watch the Pilot and Move On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a288b1394e4c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a288b1394e4c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-pilot-and-move-on\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_the_Pilot_and_Move_On%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch the Pilot and Move On&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-pilot-and-move-on\/#Cant_We_Go_Back_to_the_Way_Things_Were\" >Can\u2019t We Go Back to the Way Things Were?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-pilot-and-move-on\/#Going_Down_with_the_Ship\" >Going Down with the Ship<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_the_Pilot_and_Move_On%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch the Pilot and Move On&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-794963\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/multimedia-video-tv-screens-remote.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Closeup of a TV remote in a person's hand, with at TV screen showing multimedia options in the background.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/multimedia-video-concept-on-tv-set-1439344193\">Proxima Studio\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently I was stumbling around the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=204a528a336ede4177fff0d84a044482&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbomax.com%2F&amp;cuid=xid:{xid}&amp;___trxnet=vg\">HBO Max<\/a> page while cheaply hesitating before subscribing, and I noticed\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=204a528a336ede4177fff0d84a044482&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.hbomax.com%2Fpage%2Furn%3Ahbo%3Apage%3Ahome&amp;cuid=xid:{xid}&amp;___trxnet=vg\">HBO lets you watch pilots<\/a> on some of its television shows for free. It\u2019s like career day in high school, a chance to spend an hour learning how you could spend the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Because the shows go on forever. While I wound up subscribing, I had little urge to watch the rest of any <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, even the good ones. You should try it out sometime.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that baseball is no longer the country\u2019s pastime. People seem to be watching more television than ever before and spend the other half of their time talking about them at the office and on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. We feel like a restless nation anxiously awaiting TV plot developments to be resolved as if we\u2019re hearing about Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, except television\u2019s more real (kidding).<\/p>\n<p>The pressure to be up to date with TV shows\u00a0is immense. There are entire websites dedicated to TV show recaps, and we all have that friend who says things like, \u201cWhaddya mean you haven\u2019t seen so-and-so, I couldn\u2019t imagine life without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can. Yes, we may be living in the most golden of golden eras of television, with more quality content than ever before, but\u00a0it\u2019s fine to miss much of it.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cant_We_Go_Back_to_the_Way_Things_Were\"><\/span>Can\u2019t We Go Back to the Way Things Were?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Anyone who grew up in any era of television knows that few of them stay good forever. Stories are often stretched thin until they\u2019re repetitive and uninteresting, characters become unintentional parodies of themselves, and writers try too hard to reinvigorate the plot with cheap twists to a story that should have ended 78 episodes ago.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, most of the time, it\u2019s best to just watch the pilot and then stuff your heart with steel while making a clean break. \u201cNow I\u2019ve gotta turn my back on you,\u201d I usually utter during the credits, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4JsmXrrOwus?t=78\">like Paulie in <em>Goodfellas<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just me being contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian; there\u2019s quite a bit of good in many pilots. The pilot contains the sum effort of all the pitch meetings and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> rehearsals and casting sessions, all the pressure to be good and stay on the air, all the grand attempts to draw the viewer in and compel them to at least watch another episode. I appreciate all the love and hard work that went into its production, and watch them as if I\u2019m reading a short story.<\/p>\n<p>But you see, I am merely a mortal man whose time on this great blue marble is limited. If a show starts off bad it\u2019s unlikely to get much better, if it starts off good it\u2019s unlikely to stay at that level, and if it starts out just ok it\u2019s difficult to know which direction it\u2019ll go in. It turns us all into talent scouts trying to gauge if the new guy is going to make it in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few months, I watched the first episodes of <em>The White Lotus<\/em>, <em>House of the Dragon<\/em>, <em>Euphoria<\/em>, <em>The Rings of Power<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Succession<\/em>, <em>Barry<\/em>, <em>Ted Lasso<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Flight Attendant<\/em>, <em>Station Eleven<\/em>, and so on. They were <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly fine, some quite good. Even as I\u2019m writing this, though, I guarantee you there\u2019s someone thinking, \u201cHow could you not watch the rest of what-have-you? You\u2019re missing the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe so. Only watching the first episode of everything is equally as fanatic as feeling compelled to watch the entire series. I\u2019ve obviously watched my share of shows all the way through and may even return to a couple of the ones above. But it\u2019s a bit freeing to not feel compelled to.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Going_Down_with_the_Ship\"><\/span>Going Down with the Ship<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-816371\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TV-remote-IR-blaster.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"TV remote.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/hold-remote-control-hand-zap-male-2061521948\">Filippo Carlot\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t always like this. I used to be one of those types who would go down with the ship, who would never walk out of a bad movie, was compelled to finish long horrible books, and would continue to watch bad shows as if it were a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to come from a neurotic need to complete something even if it\u2019s bad, partially based on a na\u00efve hope that the story will return to form, as well as a need to know what happened and understand all the references to it that your idiot friends make.<\/p>\n<p>Some people take this to the extreme and find themselves still watching shows where there are now more bad episodes than good episodes. At least when you cut out early on a show, you can remember some of the good times, but that becomes increasingly difficult the longer you stay with it.<\/p>\n<p>Watching only the pilot allows you to remain in that bubble of innocence, like never knowing that <em>Godfather III<\/em> was made or the last two seasons of <em>Arrested Development\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>The Simpsons<\/em> for God knows how long now. You can do that thing where you watch the first few episodes and then read the summary of what happened in the end on Wikipedia to satiate the desire to know, but even with that clever and efficient tactic, you\u2019re still somewhat giving in to that compulsion to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how in <em>The Dark Knight,<\/em> the joker used hope to torture innocent people? That\u2019s what TV executives do. If you\u2019re the type that hate-watches shows and\/or is ashamed of wasting your time on one because you feel compelled to, let it all go and free yourself. Try approaching anything new that comes out with the merciless one-and-done discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I have to go and hypocritically try the newest of the endless flavors of Doritos. I\u2019m through the looking glass with that franchise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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