If you stopped The Lion King halfway through, would it be a happy ending for Simba, Nala or Pride Rock? The answer is unequivocally “no.” What does this prove? Not much, in and of itself, but extrapolated out, it means that you can’t always judge something when you’re in the middle of it. Whether good or bad, it’s impossible to see the forest through the trees when you’re in the middle of a dense bramble of vines and thorns.
Replace Simba from The Lion King with the Chicago Cubs and you might just have an idea where I’m going with this.