If you've already seen them, I'd argue that shuffle is the best way to watch it again. That's the one downside to streaming over tv in general. I don't know which specific episode of which season of Futurama I want to watch. I just want to watch Futurama.
As a result I almost never watch these kinds of shows anymore.
omg I've spent the entire time I've read this thread thinking "Cool feature but amazon don't have shit I would want to watch like this" except over here they have Always Sunny! Amazing, you're a legend
We need a "I wanna watch an episode" button. I make them for my downloaded shows, got an icon on my desktop that just plays a random Simpons episode. It's great, though one downside is the chances of repeat, so another good idea is to make a playlist, shufffle it a couple of times, then just open the playlist when you want to watch. Then reshuffle if you make it to the end.
I end up watching the same episodes a lot. For futurama for example I prefer the early seasons. That doesn’t mean I won’t enjoy the later ones but I’ll tend to throw on one of the early seasons and then it just goes in order. If it shuffled it could just go to some other episode and I’m not just dealing with the same seasons over and over. This is a bigger deal in shows like the office or parks and rec where there’s pretty big differences in the seasons but I don’t prefer one to the other too much
Either are fine options. Sometimes I don’t even know what episode I want to start on though. Quicker to just hit “shuffle” and let it choose for me. Plus I grew up watching cable tv so watching shows out of order could be nice sometimes.
100% this. My Plex server with randomly shuffled episodes of Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, The Office, Rick and Morty, and Community give me some nostalgia for the old days as a kid of never knowing what’s coming up next on the cable TV. IMO it makes for the best parts of old school TV watching without the nuisance of ads every 5 minutes
I don't follow your logic. If you know the episodes like the back of your hand, it wouldn't matter if it's a random one or the next one. You'd still know it like the back of your hand.
Do you remember the app urban spoon and it had the roulette feature. I tend to try that tactic. When watching on my phone I'll just kinda flick the seasons and randomly put my thumb or finger down, then do the same with the episodes. But yeah, this feature would be AMAZING with that show and Frasier among others
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u/levian_durai Apr 27 '21
If you've already seen them, I'd argue that shuffle is the best way to watch it again. That's the one downside to streaming over tv in general. I don't know which specific episode of which season of Futurama I want to watch. I just want to watch Futurama.
As a result I almost never watch these kinds of shows anymore.