Mmmyeah. That pretty well covers why I never got much into mystery as a genre - once you know who did it, the books are very often not worth a reread.
The only exceptions to which are the more procedural ones, where it doesn't really matter so much WHO did it as HOW you find out, how you prove it, which requires a lot more 'remembering of the plot' before it's boring. And the character arcs, where again it's not so much 'who did it' as 'how the process of finding out who did it changes the narrator'.
I like the City Watch Discworld books :) And I enjoy rewatching episodes of Castle, or CSI, but I've found I can't rewatch Criminal Minds much unless it's marathoning seasons, because the character arcs are the only thing left to be interesting and CM character arcs are slooooow.
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Date: 2014-02-13 03:38 pm (UTC)From:The only exceptions to which are the more procedural ones, where it doesn't really matter so much WHO did it as HOW you find out, how you prove it, which requires a lot more 'remembering of the plot' before it's boring. And the character arcs, where again it's not so much 'who did it' as 'how the process of finding out who did it changes the narrator'.
I like the City Watch Discworld books :) And I enjoy rewatching episodes of Castle, or CSI, but I've found I can't rewatch Criminal Minds much unless it's marathoning seasons, because the character arcs are the only thing left to be interesting and CM character arcs are slooooow.