Have you ever seen the movie Jaws? I haven’t. But I think I get it. Big bad shark terrorizes beach-goers one fateful summer. It is incumbent upon the townsfolk to both evade and eventually capture the shark, lest it maim or kill even more people.
The shark is ferocious and maleficent the whole way through.
Let’s say you watched the first hour of Jaws in March. Then you paused it, got sidetracked, and decided to resume the final half hour of the film sometime in July. Late July. Would you, given your previous knowledge of the movie already in progress, press play thinking: eh, I think the shark gets a bad rap.