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You heard me. Get over it.
A good story is a good story. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first time it’s being told or the thousandth. There’s a reason people go to see the same Broadway show or movie in theaters several times.
There’s a moment when you first enjoy something with a twist ending or a big reveal that can be fun to experience directly, but if the story is being written well, seeing it play out directly will still be satisfying if you appreciate things for their craft.
It seems like there’s a huge thing with the film and tv industry about avoiding spoilers, and if fans guess the ending, they change it for a significantly less satisfactory and worse narrative. Or in an effort to avoid letting the fans guess what the ending is, the producers go totally off the wall and jump the shark to an insane degree, to the detriment of their work.
If I get really pretentious about it, I could say that only enjoying the big reveal of a movie or tv show or whatever speaks to a shallow appreciation of the media as meaningful art, and not being able to still enjoy seeing it play out makes me think you are more consuming the content instead of digesting the story. And while it’s fine to have media that you consume shallowly, it’s ok to just turn your brain off sometimes, if you are obsessed with something enough to be deeply upset by a spoiler I would hope you have some deeper thoughts on the story and the work of media as a whole that would still make it enjoyable to see it for yourself, even if you saw a spoiler.
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A good story is a good story. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first time it’s being told or the thousandth. There’s a reason people go to see the same Broadway show or movie in theaters several times.
There’s a moment when you first enjoy something with a twist ending or a big reveal that can be fun to experience directly, but if the story is being written well, seeing it play out directly will still be satisfying if you appreciate things for their craft.
It seems like there’s a huge thing with the film and tv industry about avoiding spoilers, and if fans guess the ending, they change it for a significantly less satisfactory and worse narrative. Or in an effort to avoid letting the fans guess what the ending is, the producers go totally off the wall and jump the shark to an insane degree, to the detriment of their work.
If I get really pretentious about it, I could say that only enjoying the big reveal of a movie or tv show or whatever speaks to a shallow appreciation of the media as meaningful art, and not being able to still enjoy seeing it play out makes me think you are more consuming the content instead of digesting the story. And while it’s fine to have media that you consume shallowly, it’s ok to just turn your brain off sometimes, if you are obsessed with something enough to be deeply upset by a spoiler I would hope you have some deeper thoughts on the story and the work of media as a whole that would still make it enjoyable to see it for yourself, even if you saw a spoiler.
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