The way people skip intros on streaming shows is ruining the experience

I've been rewatching a show from 2015 lately, The Expanse, and the intro music sets the mood for the whole episode. But my buddy skips it every time, like instantly, and then complains the show feels flat. I get it, you want to save 90 seconds, but you're cutting off the vibe before it starts. Does anyone else think skipping intros messes with the story flow, or is it just me being old school?

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harper_owens1d ago

Oh man, the "instantly skipping then complaining the show feels flat" part hit me right in the chest. I've seen this play out so many times at my place, I basically have a protocol for it now. The trick is to make a deal: you watch the intro fully on the first episode of the night and the last one, and skip the middle ones if you have to. That way you still get the mood set at the start and that nice bookend feeling at the end, but you're not sitting through it six times in a row. It's a compromise that actually works, because those 90 seconds are basically the show's way of telling you "okay, time to stop scrolling and pay attention.

perry.karen23h ago

That whole thing about making a deal to watch the first and last intros of the night, that's pretty clever actually. It reminds me of a time I was visiting my sister and she got so annoyed at me for not skipping the Game of Thrones intro. I kept saying it was part of the experience and she kept rolling her eyes. Then one day we watched the finale together and she actually got mad that the intro was shorter and different than usual, said it felt wrong. So I guess she was getting that mood setting thing all along, she just didn't want to admit it.