Suggestion to help avoid accidentally skipping episodes // mod: warn if skipping unwatched episodes

Feature Suggestions
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One thing I would like to see is a prompt to help avoid accidental skipping of episodes in a series when someone is a bit behind what is broadcast. For example, I’ve seen this happen:

Joe had started watching Show X a while back, and has played episodes 1 through 3. Yesterday episode 6 got recorded and added to Plex. On the home screen the On Deck list has no poster for Show X because other shows were played more recently (it could be found on the full On Deck list, if Joe were to go there). There is, however, a nice poster in plain sight in the Recently Added list, enticing Joe to use it. When Joe hits play on episode 6, episodes 4 & 5 get silently skipped, and the On Deck list does not recommend watching episode 4 any more. As the season progresses, Joe doesn’t even realize that 2 episodes were omitted.

What I’d like to see is this: when a play request happens in the Recently Added list for an episode that is not the On Deck episode (or the 1st episode of a show that is totally unwatched), a pop-up appears asking the user: “Did you mean to skip 2 episodes? [Yes - play episode 6] [No - play episode 4]”

This change would make all the posters on the home screen safe to use without fear. For me I tend to avoid using the Recently Added posters unless I’m 100% certain I’m caught-up on a series (which often means using a lot more key presses to go find the show in On Deck).

The pop-up would NOT appear in other contexts, such as someone browsing through the seasons & episodes of a show and directly choosing what episode they want to watch.

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Hi!

For the 2nd time now, I have started watching a series starting with s3e1, (of The Bear, to be specific). Then proceeded to watch all 10 episodes over the next few days.

On coming back to watch s2, it was marked “Unwatched”. At this point I realized I had missed all of s1 & s2.

In my defense, s3 became watchable; I thought maybe it was some weird out-of-order story-telling. And I’m old.

Two things I hope could be added:

  1. When I chose the “Play” button it was not obvious I was started at s3e1. The full 3 seasons have beed sitting on my server for at least a month. Not sure why s3e1 was the first episode offered.
  2. Please add a warning if there are any unwatched episodes before the one I start playing. And maybe offer to play the earliest unwatched episode instead.

I search around for a relevant setting, but no joy.

Cheers!