WTH was WRONG with me: your second chance discovery

[DrNewGod]

Have you ever checked out on a film or series, then come back to it and judge it awesome?

I am guilty on at least two counts:

1. Babylon 5
2. The Pacific

In both cases I dismissed them as inferior copies of better genre entries after the first view. When I gave them a chance? WT* was wrong with me?!?

You?

[Riv86672]

TEEN WOLF comes to mind.
Started watching it w. my spouse and didn’t like it. Came back to it later and got hooked.

[AndrewCrossett]

I declined to watch the early seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I assumed it would be like the movie. Finally gave it a watch and loved it.

Weird thing is, I later re-watched the movie too and it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd remembered.

I didn't get into Xena at first because it seemed stupid and campy. Later came back to it and realized that the actors actually made the campiness work.

Ghost Hunters. Hated the early episodes when they tried to gin up all this "conflict" among the team members. Liked it much better later when they focused on hunting ghosts.

[Kirby101]

Breaking Bad, thought it was too dark at first. It was dark, but also one of the best shows on TV.

Believe it or not, I didn't like Batman TAS at first.

[K7P5V]

Digimon - Season 1

Didn't like it at first because it was different from Pokemon.

Then when I came back, things had gotten dramatic & consequential that I couldn't help but get pulled in.

And I've been a fan ever since.

[DanMad1977]

Nothing comes to mind. When I don't like it the first time, I will never like it.

The other way around, I would know some movies...liked it the first time and got worse every time I see it

[DrNewGod]

...Believe it or not, I didn't like Batman TAS at first.

I went the opposite way. As Timm's Batman went on, I felt like it declined, and I dropped it shortly after Robin-Red-Pants showed up.

[Panic]

Yojimbo

Having heard that A Fistful of Dollars was based on the Japanese film Yojimbo, I eagerly stayed up to watch Yojimbo on TV (I must have been in my early twenties I think). I was not impressed at all, having been expecting some big drawn-out sword-duels, and not expecting it to be in black & white, or realising that much of it is in the vein of a black comedy. More than twenty years later I watched it again with an open mind, and I loved it. Now it's one of my favourite films.

[From The Shadows]

I declined to watch the early seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I assumed it would be like the movie. Finally gave it a watch and loved it.

Weird thing is, I later re-watched the movie too and it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd remembered.

I actually liked the movie and didn't think it was bad and I couldn't get into the show. I know I'm alone in this.

I saw the pilot episode of TNG as it originally aired but couldn't get past my love of TOS and when I gave it a try again in season 2 and I loved it and Data became a fave almost instantly and was in competition with Spock. Blasphemy.