[ SECRET POST #2112 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 102 secrets from Secret Submission Post #302.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[wauwy]

If you can't enjoy it knowing how it ends, you must not have liked it that much to begin with.

wuh... what?

My brother informed me that Aeris died 0.5 minutes after I learned they were making a new Final Fantasy. It didn't ruin my enjoyment of the game but it definitely tainted something that was supposed to be a shocking reveal.

u dumb.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I can see how for some people being unspoiled makes it better. I just don't see how being spoiled destroys it.

Re: OP

[wauwy]

But how can you say

If you can't enjoy it knowing how it ends, you must not have liked it that much to begin with

when many times people's first introduction to the media IS the spoiler? Or a spoiler-ridden summary of some kind? Your claim makes no logical sense and seems to apply exclusively to like, TV fandom, or anything with ongoing canon. A lot of fandoms aren't like that.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Because that sentence is an oversimplified blurb which probably wanted to end in "so there", is the short version, because I was trying to avoid a Wall of Text...

I was thinking primarily of TV when I wrote the secret, yes, and I'm not familiar enough with game fandom to say anything authoritative about it. I'm not sure I understand what argument you're making here? If you run into the spoiler before anything else, obviously, you can't have liked it at all to begin with because you didn't know about it. If it's the kind of thing you like, can't you... still like it?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

You've never seen The Usual Suspects, but some asshat told you before you went that Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze and the entire movie is a story he makes up by taking a word here or phrase there from around the office so that you have no idea how much of any of the story was real except that people died. You don't think that's going to take all the fun out of the reveal when he suddenly stops limping down the sideway and lights a cigarette with completely useful hands?

Or how about The Sting? If you know the entire back half of the movie is a con and who perpetrates it, what's the fun of going along with the act?

Instead of concentrating on the narrative as it was intended, for you to trust the characters as they are and wait for the development, you instead spend the entire time knowing that you have to be looking for something. If you know Kevin Spacey will be revealed to be Keyser, you spend the entire film waiting for the reveal and instead miss the whole movie.

I will honestly never understand wanting to read the last page of the book first. It's like knowing how your life is going to turn out before you've even lived it. Where's the adventure in that?

[scentbombed]

Agreed, anon. And The Usual Suspects is one of my favorite movies, in part because of how much I loved the way I felt when I got to that final discovery.