The lighter side of ADHD
Honestly, I think this is a good thing. Sure, it means that I often don't finish shows or games, but I also don't care to, which suggests that it wasn't important to me anyway. I'm being more true to myself than to the expectations of society as a whole, which I think is healthy. I usually go back to an abandoned franchise when I'm ready, anyway, even if it's a decade or more later.
I completely agree with you.
I'm really conflict averse, so I find myself dropping anime right before climactic conflicts XD
Like I watched AoT all the way through to the episode before the rumbling
I'm enjoying Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, but like 6 episodes in, one of the characters made a terrible decision (calling one of the "bad guys" for help), and I had to stop watching and step away. Consequences will ensue, and I don't wanna see 'em!
I also watch Independence Day every 4th of July and turn it off right after the White House blows up, but that's different
I never watched the last episode of Good Omens S2. And this was before the Gaiman controversy.
"Everything everywhere all at once", but watching most of it standing in the living room, spread over 18 months.
It's not ADHD, it's weaponized ennui
Did this with one show literally halfway through an episode too
OP: there was a reason… you had been watching shit. That’s why you quit. When you are watching quality, you don’t quit.
i did this with cowboy bebop multiple times over. it started becoming an annual occurrence. i didn't finish it until about four years after i started it. i checked it out on blu-ray from the library and the discs barely worked, i think that anger at the dysfunctional discs propelled me in motivation to actually finish watching it
I'm the same with games.