Where'd you stall, btw? I.e. do you mean last two years of shows by "last two seasons?" Or all of 4 and 5? I wrote after season 4 that some of the bloom was gone, that the show had hit some inevitable point where we knew it too well, where its potential to be really new had been spent.
But I'm now wondering if I was wrong, and my other theory that we all mostly hit the same doldrums (e.g. the newspaper section of Ulysses, for people not minding difficulty; not much past "ineluctable modality" for others) is the relevant one - that we just get tired when someone's being tiresome, stop when they stop, but are liable to mistakenly believe the fault's ours for being short-winded or theirs for being long-winded, at any rate assume it's a permanent feature of the relationship and terminate the experience. Where in reality what a shame it is to drop Ulysses at either place.
But if you stopped after 3 that's way different, and something's either wrong with you, me or my theory.
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Date: 2013-09-22 05:44 pm (UTC)But I'm now wondering if I was wrong, and my other theory that we all mostly hit the same doldrums (e.g. the newspaper section of Ulysses, for people not minding difficulty; not much past "ineluctable modality" for others) is the relevant one - that we just get tired when someone's being tiresome, stop when they stop, but are liable to mistakenly believe the fault's ours for being short-winded or theirs for being long-winded, at any rate assume it's a permanent feature of the relationship and terminate the experience. Where in reality what a shame it is to drop Ulysses at either place.
But if you stopped after 3 that's way different, and something's either wrong with you, me or my theory.