Even though I'm
completely caught up with Grey's Anatomy I still find myself going on Netflix
and re-watching the old episodes once again, I can't help it! I'm pretty sure
I've re-watched the first episode at least 5 times and I have all of the lines
memorized. When you finally get through the last episode of the last season of
a show on Netflix and it takes you back to season 1 episode 1 and then you go
through the 5 stages of finishing a show.
The first stage you enter when you finish all of the episodes
of all of the seasons of a show is a sense of accomplishment. You just finished
the ENTIRE show. All seven (or whatever) seasons of a show that you have been
watching for weeks or months and finally getting to the ending. Finding out if
your favorite couple will end up together, will they get off the island, and
will they ever really get together. You
find yourself sitting in your room pondering the ending and wishing some things
had turned out different and knowing that some of the things were absolutely
perfect.
Stage two: you feel like you have to tell anyone who will
listen. This stage includes even people who have never even heard of the show.
You text your friends and talk to your parents about how awesome the show is
and how the seriously need to start watching it. If your friends or parents have seen it you feel like you need to
have an in depth conversation about everything that happened in the end and who
your favorite character was and who you wish would have died/lived in the
finale.
Stage three: the wonderful, weird, amazing world called the
Internet. Once you have enter the Internet stage your friends and family and
any real people you can physically can talk to are tired of you talking about
Grey’s Anatomy every minute of every day even though you’re still not sure how
you feel about some of the plot holes. This is when you turn to the Internet
for help. On the Internet you can find thousands or millions of people who love
the same show or movie as you and actually want to talk about it and feel the
same as you. You can find blogs like this one dedicated to your show or movie,
fanfiction, art, and people’s opinions on every aspect of the show or movie,
characters, character’s death, who should have made out with who, why the
ending just was not the greatest, and way more. This stage is typically the
longest because there is just so much out there that stage three could honestly
last you weeks or months.
Stage 4: grieving. This is where you are finally starting to
move on from the show or movie and have to grieve for your immense loss. You no
longer feel like you have the time or need for the Internet and that you don’t
really want to watch the show either. Some of the show seems a bit cliché and
you’re not sure if that was really hot male main character is actually that
hot. You’re letting go, which is good. The posters get taken down and the
background on your laptop gets changed back to something normal again like puppies
or something. You tell yourself that you need to get your life back on track
and that this fandom is just taking up too much of your precious time.
Stage 5: finding a new obsession. This stage is by far the
easiest stage out of all five stages. This is when your casually looking
through Netflix (even though you said you wouldn’t in stage four) and seen a
picture that looks interesting. The Witches of East End? You click on the
description and start to get a bit more intrigued. And then you click. Even
though you said you wouldn’t. Sure maybe the first few episodes are a bit slow
but it gets so much better. Welcome back to stage one.
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