• MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
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    1 month ago

    I don’t mind that since it’s just a reminder of things I’ve already seen. It is wild when they reference things from many episodes or seasons ago, but it’s a nice reminder if you’re not bingeing the show.

    Plus Game of Thrones pulled off the best version of this.

    Game of Thrones season 5 spoiler

    The season 5 finale has a previously on that includes Uncle Benjen talking to Jon Snow, saying that they’ll talk when he returns. A scene that happened at the beginning of season 1.

    It’s an action packed episode so when we finally get to the end with Jon and he’s pulled away with rumors of his Uncle Benjen we’re already primed for it. Without the previously on some random character would have to bring him up during the episode, which would have been weird.

    The excitement comes from the viewer reacting the same way as Jon.