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Zeus posted...

JJ1 doesn't have any connections that I remember. Even Turk doesn't show up and he cameos in pretty much *every* NFMCU show. (Just looked it up and apparently the only things he's not in are JJ1, JJ3, and IF1.)

You're not seeing the connections because you're looking in the wrong direction.

The character of Jessica Jones (as in, the specific character canonical to her Netflix show, as opposed to just the character in general) appears in The Defenders. I am aware of this. Therefore, in my brain, Jessica Jones is inextricably linked to The Defenders. Regardless of whether or not the link is really mentioned or explored in her own show, the link is there. The Defenders, in turn, links back into the shows of the characters who are in The Defenders - meaning that Daredevil and Jessica Jones are linked even if neither of them ever mention anything from the other show, no characters of any kind cross over, no shared events occur, and the two shows are otherwise seemingly separate.

Knowing that all of those shows exist in a shared universe itself is the link that tends to push me into an all-or-nothing mentality. And then goes hand-in-hand with the idea that, if I can't access all, then I will access none.

No amount of logic or attempts to justify why they're not connected will ever really change that, because I acknowledge it's not a rational or logical viewpoint. But that also doesn't matter, because humans in general aren't entirely rational or logical creatures, and tons of our preferences, biases, or behaviors are fully predicated on illogical, impulsive, emotional triggers.

And to pull all of this back around to where this started, if we lived in a universe where content was rare and I felt like I was missing a major cultural milestone or felt a void of worthwhile content in my life because of not watching it, I might deliberately behave counter to my instincts and watch the show anyway, and just try to ignore the niggling sensation in the back of my brain annoyed that I'm watching Jessica Jones without watching Daredevil, judging the show on its own merits and discounting its shared universe context.

But while drowning in a sea of endless content, where I don't have the time to experience half the worthwhile things I DO want to experience, where there always seems to be more to see and do than there is time to see and do it, I don't feel particularly motivated to bother. So content that other people praise as being "incredible" or "must see" becomes an afterthought to me, because instead of watching two episodes of Jessica Jones, I just spent 2 hours writing posts on PotD.

I don't even really have the social pressure to do it, because very few of my friends in real life watch/enjoy all of the same sort of stuff I do anyway. So it's not like I constantly have my best friend calling me up because he wants to talk about how awesome the latest episode of [insert Netflix show here] is, or wanting to play [insert popular multiplayer game here]. There will likely never be a show again where I feel "compelled" to watch just because I know everyone "will be talking about it around the water cooler on Monday".

It's not like I'm sitting in a dark room staring at a wall in silence, brooding. I'm constantly consuming media (and usually multitasking to boot). I've probably experienced more entertainment media on the whole in the last 10 years than my grandparents did in their entire lives. So while from one perspective it's easy to say I'm "missing" a ton of "must see" content, from my internal perspective I don't really feel like I'm missing anything at all.
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