They look horrified. “But you’re missing the context .”
I invented a new rule:
If I started a TV series, I had to finish it. If I bought a band’s first album, I owed it to them to buy the limited-edition vinyl reissue. If a movie was part of a “Cinematic Universe,” I treated the homework (the wiki deep-dives, the timeline videos, the post-credit scene analysis) as sacred liturgy.
Use it like a firehose, not a leash.
I put on a thirty-year-old episode of a cartoon where a coyote gets hit by an anvil.