rewatcher
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[edit]rewatcher (plural rewatchers)
- One who rewatches.
- 2014, “Previously, on Arrested Development”, in Gareth Cook, editor, The Best American Infographics 2014, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, →ISBN, page 140:
- For example, Cole noticed that one character’s major injury is referenced in myriad ways a full season and a half before it actually happens—details that reward longtime viewers and rewatchers, and hint that the show is far more planned and complex than it may seem.
- 2015, Jason Mittell, “Comprehension”, in Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 177:
- The rewatcher shares the spoiled viewer’s knowledge of the narrative events to come but also knows how those narrative events will operationally unfold through the specific telling; yet according to Bordwell, a rewatcher still experiences suspense through the familiar but powerful emotional cues of the storytelling.
- 2021 February 19, Travis M. Andrews, “Finding comfort in the familiar”, in Messenger-Inquirer, volume 147, number 50, Owensboro, Ky., page D2:
- While being trapped in homes may have converted some folks into rewatchers, the contingent was strong even before the pandemic.