[ SECRET POST #2112 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋

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

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Comments

[truxillogical]

I can still enjoy a show knowing what happens, but for me, half of my enjoyment is in the rush of emotions of surprise, shock, and anticipation.

And that's the whole purpose of story-telling, really. Anyone can give you a play-by-play of what happened. A story-teller, an artist, a director, and actor, is supposed to make you experience it. And part of that experience is seeing it for the first time. I don't usually say something like "The Way The Creator Intended!" but in this case, yeah. It interferes with the storytelling.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I just don't like "you're reading it wrong."

I don't like being surprised. I don't process subtext well, my attention span is generally crap, and battle and fight scenes bore me. Nine times out of ten, if I don't get spoiled I'm going to miss significant segments of a story simply by not slowing down enough to notice them properly. The fun for me is in the analysis and the tropes and the particular way a story is told -- not in what exactly happens.

[truxillogical]

I'm not phrasing it well. Surprise is part of it, yes. As Robert McKee phrased it, "the closing of the gap" that is at the heart of story telling. If you hear a story at all, even just rehashed on wiki, it happens. The point of a writer or a director is to make it work as well as possible. A writer doesn't just have an Idea. Everyone has Ideas. A writer chooses exactly the right words to convey what happened. A movie is even more a culmination of that--a director choosing exactly what shots to make, and actor choosing how to deliver the lines, the composer choosing the sounds that will best highlight the scene.

The difference is the difference between saying "Coulson went to stop Loki and got stabbed" versus the emotional impact of the scene itself. It's just about "being surprised." It's about a story being told well.