I've got loads of spoilers about Lost, but I still intend to watch that to its conclusion. I try to avoid spoilers but it's no big deal if I'm exposed to one, especially if it's out of context.
I feel like knowing what happens doesn't necessarily ruin a story, because there's bound to be details you don't know about. If knowing what happens at the end ruined a story there would be no point in ever having remakes, or film adaptations of books, or re-watching a film or re-reading a book. Some shows have flash-forwards built-in (Breaking Bad does a lot of this, and Titanic flash-forwards directly to the end in case you didn't know what happens anyway) just to stoke you up, and those are a bit like spoilers.
All spoilers can tell you is some actual content of the story. Actual content of the story is important, but how the story is told (for example character development, which is the aggregate of tiny details that you can only pick up by actually watching or reading for yourself) is really important to how good the story is too.
What do you think of spoilers?
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I've got loads of spoilers about Lost, but I still intend to watch that to its conclusion. I try to avoid spoilers but it's no big deal if I'm exposed to one, especially if it's out of context.
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I feel like knowing what happens doesn't necessarily ruin a story, because there's bound to be details you don't know about. If knowing what happens at the end ruined a story there would be no point in ever having remakes, or film adaptations of books, or re-watching a film or re-reading a book. Some shows have flash-forwards built-in (Breaking Bad does a lot of this, and Titanic flash-forwards directly to the end in case you didn't know what happens anyway) just to stoke you up, and those are a bit like spoilers.
All spoilers can tell you is some actual content of the story. Actual content of the story is important, but how the story is told (for example character development, which is the aggregate of tiny details that you can only pick up by actually watching or reading for yourself) is really important to how good the story is too.