actually having a piece of media "spoiled" is not a big deal CMV
In retrospect, history has vindicated the people driving past the Harry Potter premier screaming "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDOR"
Totally depends on the specific book and what the author had in mind with the plot imo
Knowing the ending spoils the fun of trying to guess what it will be as the media progresses.
Come now I'm sure there's an excellent chance Moby Dick has a happy ending where everything turns out great
Memory is fuzzy but I think I remember a study where people did that having the ending spoiled didn't ruin the fun for people. I think I remember whole ass news segments in the 80's spoiling Empire Strikes Back's "I am your father" scene.
I've never gotten spoilers perversion. If the journey isn't worthwhile knowing the destination then there's some major issues with the movie or book or whatever. I'm a rewatcher to an extreme degree and usually the first time I see something I enjoy and am being surprised by it is the shallower viewing I have. I read the script for mgs2 years before i played the game cause I couldn't get a ps2 for a while. Knowing everything ahead of time helped me to absorb it and not just be confused the whole first play
My favorite shows and movies, Twin Peaks, Dark, and Mulbolland Drive, are all media that could be completely spoiled to you and you could still have an entirely new experience watching them. I know because I appreciated each of them more on the rewatch.
"Who killed Laura Palmer?" is barely even the point of the show past the first few episodes. It's one thread in a tangled up spiders web
I wouldn't even know how to go about spoiling Twin Peaks honestly.
You could say that they're actually living in a fake world, but that's obviously meaningless because of course they are, it's fiction. And diegetically it doesn't really change a thing that they live in a Donnie Darko style tangent world, so much so I'm not even gonna spoiler tag this comment.
I still need to go back and play the expansion, so I at least have that going for me.
Story spoilers are fine, but puzzle spoilers actually ruin the activity.
Being spoiled ruins the intended experience of the piece and while it may not be a negative depending on the story, it's probably rare for spoilers to add anything
I don't think I've ever stopped because of a spoiler though that's kinda dumb
I'll defend not-spoiling things like Outer Wilds, where the process of discovery is literally the entire point of it.
That blurs the line between spoiling plot details, and telling you puzzle solutions to be fair.
The plot and the puzzles are so intertwined, it's definitely hard to talk too much about the story without giving a new player 'puzzle clues'.
Lol dude the book came out like 150 years ago and is widely referenced in culture all the time, I'm more surprised that this person started to read Moby Dick without having some idea of how it ends already.
Depends on the piece of media. I think there are scenes and scenarios that really benefit from approaching them organically without foreknowledge so they can really hit with unexpected twists etc.
There is plenty of media that’s been out for so long it’s just weird to get mad about though - the OP image for example.
Some of my favorite
slopmedia is the kind of story that can’t really get spoiled because either the journey is the entire point, or the spoilers would be so esoteric and incomprehensible out of context that they’re meaningless - see JoJo for both.Yeah. Sometimes even when I hear "MC dies" I wanna know how. But sometimes the spoiled plot was all that tied the whole thing together.
Hell, I’ll frequently purposefully spoil myself on media in those “does X character die” situations
idk if a story was only held together by its ending, it probably wasn't worth the time, imo. so I love spoilers and can't get enough of them. like if spoilers are so bad, how can you possibly reread/whatever the work?
Not just ending spoilers - I was recently watching the anime HunterXHunter with my gf. In the series a major plot development
spoiler
is a ruthless inhuman “villain” figure learning empathy over the course of the arc, forming a human friendship, and after surviving certain death, giving up his dreams of conquest and supremacy to die alone with the only human connection he’s ever formed.
Over the arc we see the antagonists portrayed as more human over time and the previous protagonists and designated heroes, your typical shonen hero types, proving more selfish and brutal than the supposedly monstrous antagonists
By the time of the designated villain’s absolutely heartbreaking death my partner was taken off guard at how the plot turned and was crying at the end
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In that case it’s not spoiling the ending necessarily since the series continues for a good while. The gradual experience over time builds understanding of the characters though, and while it doesn’t ruin the story to have foreknowledge I prefer to have this kind of story unfold at the pace it intended yknow?
On one hand - I get this. I am the type of person who gets annoyed whenever god-forbid I'm watching an episode of a show or a movie that I've never seen before with friends (I tend to avoid watching shit with them for the first time unless we're going to like, a movie theater, because my friends love doing this) & one of them pulls up their phone and looks up the entire synopsis and plot of the film 15 minutes into it.
On the other hand - even when I've been spoiled on something personally, I've never been the type to go "oh well guess I'll NEVER finish it now since I know". There's a whole 100 chapters between where that dude stopped and the ending of Moby Dick lol - he arguably could've forgotten the finer details of what was spoiled for him by the time he got to it.
I had the end of Red Dead Redemption 2 spoiled for me, by myself because I'm a nosy bitch that can't stop digging for info, and it honestly made me enjoy the game more. All the way up to the point where the gang goes to Cuba I had been more or less rushing through the game, not really taking time to sit down and listen to folks, touring the countryside with my horse, or separating random townsfolk from their cash in a good game of blackjack.
After Arthur officially got the sniffles, I began to tour the entire map just to find all the little points of interests so Arthur can take his time sketching them, hunting down every Lemoyne klansman and dragging as many of them to death with my lasso, and going around to pay a visit to every grave of every person that rode with us. That by the time it came to go on one last ride, I wasn't so much sad at how things ended up but satisfied that I did everything I could to do right by the folks Arthur cared about.
Spoiling the end for myself actually made me enjoy the story more.
i want to know what's coming so i can know if it's worth my time.
lol what a nerd, i normally just end up spoiling media to myself just to see if i would have liked it, like reading the wikis or watching the clips. thats how i got into chainsawman
