Warning: Skip the 12 episode rule, it burned me on three shows in a row
I used to force myself to watch 12 episodes before dropping anything, and last month that cost me about 14 hours on three shows I hated from minute one. A guy at the anime meetup in Austin told me to bail after 3 episodes instead, and when I tried it on a slow fantasy series I saved a full weekend. What is your cutoff number, and has it ever made you drop something you ended up loving later?