Find where to watch something with "Discover" and your "Watchlist"

I would like to give some feedback about the Universal Watchlist.

I think the general idea behind the watchlist is great, but when I add content that’s also present in my local libraries, the fact that it doesn’t respect the carefully curated posters/backgrounds/metadata of these items is very jarring.

Right now, each time there’s an item added to the watchlist it becomes a representation of what’s on https://watch.plex.tv. I think it would be much better if after detecting that a particular item is also present in a local library it would respect how this local item is displayed.

Specifically, I’m talking about matching:

  • Poster
  • Background
  • Title
  • Studio
  • Summary
  • Directors
  • Writers
  • Genre

I find that I would use the watchlist a lot more if the items in there would be displayed the same way they are in my local libraries. Because right now, the visual clash that happens with the items I add to the watchlist doesn’t really make me want to use it much.

Does it make sense?

Would it be appropriate to create a feature request about that?

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