Are Tipp responding to Sheedy’s Pygmalion Effect?

Is it possible to a view a game through fresh eyes? To sit back and let what unfolds take its course without expectation, opinion, or prediction to cloud the experience?
The extent to which we are swayed by previous behaviours, results, and the weight of history makes it very difficult, but it is possible if we work hard against the many biases that fight to feed our opinion.