On the matter of spoilers--

[yukitsu]

I always get asked this, all the time, by many, many, MANY different people. "Rachel, why do you like spoilers so much?" and the only thing I can usually say in reply is, "I look forward to watching/reading it more that way," and it's hard to elaborate on the "WHY" part of THAT statement. Someone in my F-list finally worded it properly for me.

I'

Comments

[orenodake]

XD, My friends always ask me why I like to read 2 chapters of a novel and suddenly flips back to read the end, before continuing normally.

Naps away, it'll help your brain kick-start :D

[yukitsu]

Ouh, I don't really do that, since it confuses the heck out of me. I like being linear with my stories. However, I do like knowing what happens in random parts of the story by being told or by (accidentally) reading it up. There's still anticipation there. XD

[orenodake]

XD to me its more like "how the heck it could happen like that in the end?"
that will anticipates me to read or to finish the story.

[yukitsu]

XD XD True, true. Lolol.

[morgan_d]

That's a subject tekalynn and I have discussed ad nauseam over our many years of friendship. She says the same thing: how it happens is more important than what happens, and she doesn't like surprises

[yukitsu]

Aaah, see. *nod nod* That's a good point. I suppose for me, the emotional impact hits me more when I think about it a lot, I suppose, regardless of if I was spoiled or not. Now that I think about it, though, I the stuff that I really enjoyed were those that I found out for myself -- however, the stuff that I enjoyed outside of the experience of watching itself were the stuff that I was spoiled for.

[whitedestiny1x2]

I'm really indifferent about spoilers because I never get into anything that anyone wants to spoil ... so I never encounter them to develop an adverse response towards spoileryness. And when I do, I'm just like, "Ohh, well that seems cool, maybe I'll check that series out" or something. Unless the spoiler makes the series seem bad then I'll be glad that I didn't read/watch it. I guess if anything, spoilers keep me from wasting my time. XD

[yukitsu]

That's true, too. XD XD XD Haha, more of a warning or an enticement than anything else.

[yukitsu]

LOL. XD XD XD

"Kenshin dies."
"Goku dies."
"Snape killed him."
"Zack is dead."

[yukitsu]

Lolol. I wonder if the PoT fandom fails more.

[jiruchan]

I'm usually a spoiler whore, but like you it depends on the series and how heavily I've invested myself in it. See, right now, it doesn't bother me at all that I already know what's going to happen in HP (and you know that I just started reading it), but it's going to bother me in a major way if someone tells me how Devil May Cry 4 ends. Then again, DMC is a video game and I feel more "complete" when I find out what happens all by myself (that's why I only get spoiler-free walkthroughs if ever I use them :D).

[yukitsu]

XD Yeah, that makes sense. Anyway, if something is really good, it'll still be good even if you know that so and so dies in the end !! *lame*

I think if I ever get into games, I really will need the walkthrough. The only game I've ever played was FF7 and I'm not even a quarter done with the first PC disk yet. >_> Stupid error. If I didn't have the walk through, I'd never be done. @_@