immortalfrieza said:
Let's be honest here, most stories get gradually worse in subsequent viewings, even the best stories tend to start get boring after two or three more viewings. Some stories in particular like mysteries rely pretty much entirely on surprising the viewer and thus have little to offer in further viewings.
Just because something can't really be watched more than once or twice doesn't mean it's not good, it's very hard to be good in multiple views with any story. Nearly every story is the best the very first time it's viewed, and even those few that are only are because they have things you wouldn't notice the first time viewing.
I guess so? That being said, the only thing I can think of is I wouldn't mind marathoning MLP. So that?
That being said, that's not entirely true. LotR trilogy is pretty much utterly without any real allegory behind it, so that is the only thing I can legitimately think of where you could just constantly enjoy it with a mind-wiping device and not actually lose anything important.
So MLP: FiM and The Hobbit+LotR books. ...
What makes me kind of spooked is that idea of allegory. How you can watch/read something, come away with a different opinion solely on how you consumed it at the time and what mindset you were in, and how clever the writer is.
How a mind-wiping device may make you lose all of the nuance and new appreciations you have about something as you think about it. Hrm ... how about the Colder and MLP comic books...? Diminished periodical serialized content w/ direct visual representational mediums seem less dangerous.
The Colder comic books are pretty good, but you know ... not amazing, but pretty good.