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fandomsecrets2025-08-08 05:18 pm
[ SECRET POST #6790 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6790 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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08. [SPOILERS for 28 Years Later]

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09. [WARNING for discussion of bestiality/necrophilia/etc]

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10. [WARNING for discussion of noncon/dubcon]

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(Anonymous) 2025-08-08 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)I understand some good media are really impressive when you go in knowing nothing and the twists and turns are revealed as you go along.
If a thing sucks because you knew the spoilers ahead of time, it might have relied on the spectacle more than the story.
And for me, story is way more important than spectacle.
I knew about the many twists in The Matrix, The Sopranos ending, the Titanic ending, the Knives Out twist, the Murder on the Orient Express ending, and the twists in Gone Girl and I still enjoyed all of them!
I don't know if knowing the endings or twists to things I liked (like the ending to Pan's Labyrinth, the ending to Inception or the ending to Lost) would have dulled my experience but given that I didn't experience it that way I'll never know.
And why dwell on that? XD
If other people did feel like the twists or spoilers ruined a thing for them, that's valid.
We all can't experience things in the same ways.
Also, knowing the endings to some things didn't change the fact that a crappy thing was just crappy. It wasn't the spoiler that ruined the thing. It was the thing sucking that ruined the ending.
Looking at you, Game of Thrones.
When I read the spoilers I thought, "No, it can't end like this. That would be terrible."
It ended like that. It was terrible.
But I'd found GOT irritably bad since seasons 5 and 6. I wanted to believe it would get good again or have an ending that pays off, so I kept watching.
Same with Veronica Mars. I heard the ending to season 4 was terrible, but I thought "I recall liking season 3 more than most other viewers, and the VM movie was pretty good. Maybe season 4 isn't that bad."
It was that bad.
It wasn't the spoilers that ruined these shows.
It was the bad execution.
tl;dr spoilers aren't that high on the ratings scale in terms of what makes something bad/not good; enjoying things a specific way is not the end-all-be-all way to engage with a story/piece of media
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(Anonymous) 2025-08-09 12:08 am (UTC)(link)(Also, shoutout to "Gravity Falls" and how well it still works you get if the twist about The Author of the Journals" if spoiled ahead of time.)