Imagine that you just made a couple new friends, who are more or less familiar with a couple of the biggest and most impressive anime you ever watched. You're interested in talking about your favorites and hearing their opinions on certain characters or arcs, maybe even directors and storyboarders, especially since they seem to have a couple interesting things to say. When the opportunity arises, you bring up the Monogatari Series, counting on a long and deep conversation about it. It's been a while since you last watched it, and at that point in time you were a completely different person, still lacking in experience and literacy. You feel somewhat confident about your takes, or at least too excited to doubt yourself, so you expect to be at least at the same level as they are, if not even higher. When your new pals start talking, however, you realize that some of their thoughts and observations are completely outside of your entire impression of the show. Even the approach is noticeably different, with several seemingly self-evident interpretations of theirs stirring up a whole lot of questions inside your mind. What do you do, when that happens ?