No I'm watching a series and I'm maybe 5 episodes in. At the point I'm at the entire show is him trying to fix his sister. It's one thing to watch a series and have that happen but you don't know until it reaches that point. It's another to watch a series and know in advance that part of the pitch of it doesn't pan out. Characters get killed off in series all the time but it colors a series differently when you watch it not knowing that will happen until it does and when you watch it from the beginning knowing that's what's going to happen.
It's just one of the risk you take when you fall behind on an ongoing series. Same thing happened with Game of Thrones and I dropped it. I was behind on it found out stuff I wasn't supposed to know at the point I was at and just dropped it.
how do you consistently fail to realize that you box yourself in with these kinds of knee jerk takes?
like you'll compare the intro episodes to the synopsis and assume you've got a complete grasp of where a show is going, what the stakes are, how things will develop, the quality of execution, etc
may as well not watch law and order because every episode ends with a trial