Also if some scenes are drawn out too long (or the entire 2 hour movie only has 20 minutes of content), I've found VLC's 3 seconds, 10 seconds, and 1 minute skip hotkeys to be highly effective. On Windows it's (shift or alt or Ctrl) then the left or right arrow key. It would be kind of nice if you could watch or download entire seasons with outros and intros cut out, too.

I use 1 second forward skip (and have 4 seconds backwards skip). Makes it easy to skip all the time when I know nothing is gonna happen in the next few seconds.

It also significantly changes how you experience them.

I hope this is meant to be a joke.

I've 'finished' tv series or film series by reading the synopsis before, the show/film series it self was becoming dull or bad or whatever, but I still wanted to find out how it ends.

Done the same with books too. Usually YA series that I didn't realise was a YA series when I started reading it.

Only so many times you can read about a 14 year discovering they're special and then somehow they kick vastly more powerful, trained and skilled adult ass. Or the other variant in book 1 they're not special, and still win, but then in book 2 they become special and win because they're basically unkillable. Woo-hoo!

Hah, I did that with the Dune series once I was halfway through Messiah. It's a great story but the writing was so hammy to me.

When I binge watch shows, specifically cartoons, I find that I can watch comfortably at 1.5x-2x speed.

I can't quite do this for movies, and I definitely do miss some jokes (e.g. in Bob's Burgers I miss the intro and food of the day gags) but for shows like Adventure Time, I feel like I absorb 99% of what is happening.

I would recommend giving it a shot. Start slow at 10% and work your way up. Stick to cartoons first. It is definitely a different experience, but personally, it's not a worse experience.

GP specifically mentioned movies, but I don't know that a good story would work with the pacing short-circuited like that (eg: comedic timing in a show like Archer, or the myriad pregnant pauses in Mad Men and the Wire). I'll give it a try, though.