Post by Salzmank on Sept 16, 2017 15:53:40 GMT
BATouttaheck
My seventh-grade English teacher, a genial woman who despised capital punishment or any other kind of punitive measure, was known to remark, "Hang 'em!" in reference to anyone who spoiled a film, novel, etc.
I'm a bit less extreme than that, but suffice it to say I find spoilers annoying, especially when there's a SPOILER key staring you right in the face.
I do like to discuss sections of the material that would usually go in spoilers, as I think we under-discuss these because we are so afraid of spoiling, but I'd either mark it off in big letters on top SPOILER--one of the rare good places for all caps
--or, simply, just use the spoiler key.
I don't really know how to avoid it, sadly. In terms of famous twists, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was spoiled for me, as was Hitchcock's Psycho. (Perhaps that has to do with my never loving--liking, but never loving--the latter? But I do love the former.) The Crying Game was all kinda-sorta spoiled for me, but I wasn't impressed with it anyway.
(It wasn't spoiled for me, but I guessed the twist to The Sixth Sense upon a few minutes of going in, and I was right, so that doesn't really count. Same thing happened for me with Christopher Nolan's recent Interstellar, which is why I was surprised to see many people celebrating the "huge twist"!)
I've noticed that people just like to tell everything, as they think it will get you even more excited for the experience (not realizing that being surprised by the twist is part of the experience)--which may be one of the psychological motivations for which you're looking. Sorry I can't explain any better than that, Bat...
My seventh-grade English teacher, a genial woman who despised capital punishment or any other kind of punitive measure, was known to remark, "Hang 'em!" in reference to anyone who spoiled a film, novel, etc.
I'm a bit less extreme than that, but suffice it to say I find spoilers annoying, especially when there's a SPOILER key staring you right in the face.
I do like to discuss sections of the material that would usually go in spoilers, as I think we under-discuss these because we are so afraid of spoiling, but I'd either mark it off in big letters on top SPOILER--one of the rare good places for all caps
--or, simply, just use the spoiler key.I don't really know how to avoid it, sadly. In terms of famous twists, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was spoiled for me, as was Hitchcock's Psycho. (Perhaps that has to do with my never loving--liking, but never loving--the latter? But I do love the former.) The Crying Game was all kinda-sorta spoiled for me, but I wasn't impressed with it anyway.
(It wasn't spoiled for me, but I guessed the twist to The Sixth Sense upon a few minutes of going in, and I was right, so that doesn't really count. Same thing happened for me with Christopher Nolan's recent Interstellar, which is why I was surprised to see many people celebrating the "huge twist"!)
I've noticed that people just like to tell everything, as they think it will get you even more excited for the experience (not realizing that being surprised by the twist is part of the experience)--which may be one of the psychological motivations for which you're looking. Sorry I can't explain any better than that, Bat...