It Gets Better Later

[ronald1840]

Eureka Seven is my all-time favorite anime. I'll calm down and ignore the hate here. Deep breaths.

If you don't enjoy a certain piece of entertainment than you don't need to suffer through it unless there's a moral, physical serious obligation. We don't care what anime you like and there's nobody you need to impress, or wants to be. Watch whatever you want as many times as you want. Have fun!

 

[Spitfire]

I think it greatly depends on the medium. A film might take long time to build up, but eventually, it might become really good. A TV series, on the other hand, is formulaic, so if 2 or 3 episodes in there's nothing to even remotely hold your interest, then that's probably not going to change later on.

 

[Tanis]

Sometimes I think it's also one of those 'you had to BE THERE'.

NGE, for its time, was pretty cutting edge...but now it's, well, like KISS.

Less entertainment, and more franchise for money sake.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Certain narratives are a slow burn, and that's fine if that's the intention. If a narrative is bland and subtly builds up a bunch of different things, then hits you with them all at once it's like "holy shit, everything led to this and i should have seen it coming but I didn't" in cases like this, having a slow beginning can be really effective. But if something is just shit really early on with no payoff, I'm not saying that it doesn't get better later but that should definitely be a mark against its overall quality.