[ SECRET POST #3206 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3206 ⌋

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Comments

[sarillia]

The extent to which people prioritize total unpredictability is weird to me. The thing that I just can't wrap my head around is when people say that there's no point in watching something when they know what happens. Do they never rewatch anything? Do they get as much out of reading a synopsis of the story on Wikipedia as actually watching the thing? I understand wanting to be surprised the first time since that's part of the experience and I understand being disappointed if that part of the experience is taken from them. It's acting like it's the only part of the experience that matters and none of the rest of it is worth it without that that I will never understand.

But I'm weird. I also don't understand that thing where people like a song but then it's "overplayed" and then they don't like it. Obviously that's a really common thing that happens but I can't get it to make sense in my mind. It just doesn't happen to me.

[feotakahari]

Speaking personally, the way I'd frame it is that there are books I like and would enjoy rereading, and there are books that are similar to those books. If they offer something new or different, they're worth a look. But if they're just like books I already read, why not just reread the old books?

[sarillia]

I also have much much higher standards for considering one story to be too much like another. While other people are matching up broad details that make the stories too similar to them, I'm busy looking at other aspects that interest me in their differences.

For example, I had a little speech I repeated a lot when The Hunger Games was getting popular and people kept shouting that it was a rip-off of Battle Royale. The difference in the dynamics between people who were mostly with strangers that they only knew based on the reputation of where they came from and between people who had grown up together were interesting enough to me that it felt like it diminished both of these stories to claim that they were so alike. To name just one of the differences that made it so I read and liked both of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you...I love to go back and analyze the complexity and the gorgeousness and squee over it. Whether it's music (which, if I love a song, I will listen to over and over again) or other media. If it's good enough, I will delight in analyzing the awesome to death after I've seen it and am re-watching.

I'm not so into pre-analyzing what's going to happen because then I'm not actually immersing myself.