[ SECRET POST #2667 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2667 ⌋

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Comments

[gondremark]

It's like if you have a seven course dinner, and all the courses are great except the dessert is burnt, you can go away disgruntled that what should have been a delicious chocolate cake was instead a block of cinders, or you could go away thinking about how great the rest of the meal was.

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't agree more. For example, I was very much into the HP books and pretty involved in the fandom. I read HP7 in less than 8 hours. Period. I just stopped. Like some people quit smoking. Literally like flicking the off switch. I look back at those times of enjoying HP very fondly, but for me the fascination is just over.

[(Anonymous)]

But that's not really a good comparison, because the dessert wasn't dependent on the rest of the meal. A bad dessert doesn't change the taste or content of earlier courses.

To pull a comic booky example, if they suddenly reveal that a character's friendship was so he could get close to another character in order to kill him, it's not "five issues of two characters being really good friends and then one where he suddenly wants the other guy dead." That guy always wanted his "friend" dead. It changes the story that came before. And if you found that reveal to be bad enough, then it's going to retroactively make the rest of it bad too.

Or that bane of literary storytelling, "it was all a dream." If you get someone really invested in your world and characters and then reveal that even within their fictional world nothing that happened had any weight, impact or meaning, it feels like you were lied to, and it can totally ruin things retroactively.

Not saying it has to ruin things for everyone. But it's certainly undestandable how it will for some people in serial media.