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Post by lobsterjohnson on May 13, 2016 11:37:48 GMT -5
What is your opinion on spoilers? Do they affect your enjoyment of stories at all?
I personally despise spoilers, with a level of hatred usually only seen in the way certain individuals feel about bananas. I hate the sinking feeling that I just found out something important, and I usually try to convince myself that the information is somehow false. That never works. I even dislike finding out minor details of stories, like dialogue quotes. In my opinion, it is best to read or watch a story completely unaware of what’s going to happen or what the characters are going to say. Story events and dialogue can lose their impact if I have heard it before.
What do you think? Do you enjoy a story just as much when you know what’s going to happen, or do spoilers bother you as much as they bother me?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 13, 2016 12:03:28 GMT -5
For the most part they don't bother me at all. Once in a great while if a book or movie or comic actually has a twist or a plot point that I wouldn't likely see coming I'll try to avoid spoilers. But for the most part I just don't care.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 13, 2016 12:11:53 GMT -5
I only like spoilers when I seek them out myself. Can't stand when someone else tries to spoil it for me.
Take Star Wars TFA for instance, I knew everything about that movie leading up to release and still enjoyed it.
But when a troll on another forum intentionally leaked a huge plot point in an episode of Game of Thrones, it irked me. I wanted to enjoy the episode without knowing anything beforehand.
So as long as I'm spoiling myself I'm good.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 13, 2016 12:13:32 GMT -5
In the context of video games that are so heavily secretive about what they're about that you really can't even tip-toe around them (i.e. Gone Home, Stanley Parable), it's just better if you don't talk about said game at all In the context of Doctor Who's Riversong, I'd just as soon shove a dirty rag down her throat so I don't have to hear her incessantly quip "spoilers" every time she's on screen  SAY SPOILERS AGAIN!! I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 12:35:03 GMT -5
I have mixed feelings about spoilers and having said that I feel that (weighing on this heavily) that they tends to spoil the fun; and I try my best to avoid them until I seen the movie and after I seen it - - - I go back to the thread and read the member's spoilers for fun.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 13, 2016 12:44:03 GMT -5
They don't bother me in the least. Knowing what might happen does not spoil the adventure to get there, whether that be a comic, novel, movie, video game, etc. I do strictly adhere to spoiler tags when I share something on the internet about something I like as I know other people feel strongly about them. I do think about the nature of spoilers though, before the internet. I don't ever remember really actively thinking about telling someone something specific about some type of entertainment before. I'd just tell someone about something. So it's kind of interesting with such access to so much information about entertainment at our finger tips, that spoilers were almost a knee jerk shield created out of necessity because we can find out about entertainment so easily. It's like we created our own monster. And I thought of this right off the bat at seeing this thread .... |
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 13, 2016 12:56:46 GMT -5
What is your opinion on spoilers? Do they affect your enjoyment of stories at all? I personally despise spoilers, with a level of hatred usually only seen in the way certain individuals feel about bananas. I hate the sinking feeling that I just found out something important, and I usually try to convince myself that the information is somehow false. That never works. I even dislike finding out minor details of stories, like dialogue quotes. In my opinion, it is best to read or watch a story completely unaware of what’s going to happen or what the characters are going to say. Story events and dialogue can lose their impact if I have heard it before. What do you think? Do you enjoy a story just as much when you know what’s going to happen, or do spoilers bother you as much as they bother me? Probably not a spoiler, but I think I'm the one the banana comment is directed towards. Regardless, I have to agree about spoilers. I hate them. Years ago Return of the Jedi premiered on my birthday. I planned to take the day off, have my favorite meals and then treat myself to the movie. I was alone at the time so that was all I was doing for my birthday. My boss heard my plans a few days before and blurted out "You know they're brother and sister, right?" Still ticked off about that. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 13, 2016 13:17:04 GMT -5
They don't bother me in the least. Knowing what might happen does not spoil the adventure to get there, whether that be a comic, novel, movie, video game, etc. I do strictly adhere to spoiler tags when I share something on the internet about something I like as I know other people feel strongly about them. I do think about the nature of spoilers though, before the internet. I don't ever remember really actively thinking about telling someone something specific about some type of entertainment before. I'd just tell someone about something. So it's kind of interesting with such access to so much information about entertainment at our finger tips, that spoilers were almost a knee jerk shield created out of necessity because we can find out about entertainment so easily. It's like we created our own monster. And I thought of this right off the bat at seeing this thread .... I agree. And maybe it was because fandom was so separated or maybe I just wasn't paying attention, but I really don't remember "spoilers" being a big deal before the internet. I know that I read the Star Wars comics adaptation before I ever saw the movie and it didn't effect my enjoyment in any way. And I have major issues with what are viewed as "spoilers" on the interweb. If it's in the trailer...it ain't a spoiler. If you can pretty well assume it's going to happen just by the nature of the film...It's probably not a spoiler. If it's a film based on a book that's 10 years old...ain't nothin in there a spoiler. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 13, 2016 13:17:58 GMT -5
Probably not a spoiler, but I think I'm the one the banana comment is directed towards. Everyone knows you're bananas. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2016 14:10:42 GMT -5
For stuff I'm not that keen of reading or seeing anyway but have a passing interest in, I don't mind spoilers at all... In fact, I welcome them. When I don't want something spoiled, I generally avoid places where it's likely I'll encounter them. (I've been avoiding threads on the latest Captain America movie, just in case). Nevertheless, I think it's very rude to spoil a recent book, film or TV show without taking a modicum of precautions to protect innocent eyes. Naturally, my outrage diminishes the longer something has been available. If someone were to tell me how the last season of Walking Dead was like, I couldn't really blame them even if I'd be annoyed on a personal basis.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 14:30:44 GMT -5
I don't mind spoilers at all.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 13, 2016 14:56:44 GMT -5
They don't bother me in the least. Knowing what might happen does not spoil the adventure to get there, whether that be a comic, novel, movie, video game, etc. I do strictly adhere to spoiler tags when I share something on the internet about something I like as I know other people feel strongly about them. I do think about the nature of spoilers though, before the internet. I don't ever remember really actively thinking about telling someone something specific about some type of entertainment before. I'd just tell someone about something. So it's kind of interesting with such access to so much information about entertainment at our finger tips, that spoilers were almost a knee jerk shield created out of necessity because we can find out about entertainment so easily. It's like we created our own monster. And I thought of this right off the bat at seeing this thread .... I agree. And maybe it was because fandom was so separated or maybe I just wasn't paying attention, but I really don't remember "spoilers" being a big deal before the internet. I know that I read the Star Wars comics adaptation before I ever saw the movie and it didn't effect my enjoyment in any way. And I have major issues with what are viewed as "spoilers" on the interweb. If it's in the trailer...it ain't a spoiler. If you can pretty well assume it's going to happen just by the nature of the film...It's probably not a spoiler. If it's a film based on a book that's 10 years old...ain't nothin in there a spoiler. This and what RR said about how old the spoiler maybe, is probably what makes it so hard to tip toe around talking about entertainment. Some people I've encountered on the internet find the smallest most minute things a spoiler. To the point that it's even in our culture. I'll say things at home, like when my son was watching the Gregory Peck Moby Dick he asked how close the book was to the movie. I said pretty close. Ahab still dies. And my 10 year old walking by goes "Dad .... spoilers!" even though he didn't know what we were even talking about. I remember saying this on the Bendis board about Fringe. We were talking about what we thought about the show and I said .... I think it should have ended when Olivia got shot. Someone who hadn't even been through the first season said that was a spoiler, cause I didn't tag it there, and I got a warning. I mean it's a show where police and agents run around shooting the bad guys and getting shot themselves. They absolutely had no point of reference for what I was talking about. Only someone that had seen past that point would get what I was saying. So since then, I've been very careful on the internet. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 13, 2016 15:15:47 GMT -5
Probably not a spoiler, but I think I'm the one the banana comment is directed towards. Everyone knows you're bananas. But not for bananas. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2016 16:03:57 GMT -5
I don't mind spoilers much. I'm one of the people who had Citizen Kane spoiled by a Peanuts comic strip, but I still enjoyed the movie. Schulz really caught some flak over that, though.
My wife actively seeks out as many spoilers as possible. She won't see a movie until she knows enough about it.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 13, 2016 17:12:40 GMT -5
With me, it depends on if I want to see the movie bad enough. A friend spoiled Batman vs. Superman and I didn't care because I was ho hum about seeing it. But I made sure to stay away from spoilers for Civil war before seeing it.
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