Part of this might be that GvK performed exactly in line with my expectations from like, February. I was tracking covid recovery quite closely and it was apparent that the end March market was going to be stronger than people expected.
“Always going to hit” kind of elides then difference between 450M and 750M, which is a pretty big difference. For instance, a difference of 3 GvKs.
If NWH was just puttering to like 625 from a weekend around TLJ perhaps there would be a serious argument here.
I agree that expectations/surprise play an important role, but NWH is absolutely crushing those in addition to being in a different stratosphere of raw nums. Until PS started nobody thought it had a snowball’s chance in hell to beat TFA and IW openings with omicron on the rise, and thanks to @Cap we have the receipts on that.
Obviously NWH is more of a preordained hit, but not to a 7x DOM gross degree.
Needs ~738M to match TLJ true fss legs, think we will get there.
Also 2nd weekend looks very likely 9th, but it's less than 2% away from 8th so I am waiting for actuals before contest scoring.