Also, general curiosity.

[featherynscale]

It seems to me that just about everybody is more rabid about not being told plot points in works they haven't yet read or seen than I am. I don't mind at all if you tell me what's going to happen, as long as you don't tell me the whole plot of the story. In other words, the Internet did not ruin Harry Potter and the Half-Blod Prince for me. By the time I got to the Big Awful Event, I had actually forgotten that I'd been told about it.

So anyway, what do you think?

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[nova-albion.livejournal.com]

It all depends on how predictable the plot twists are.

Really, I think the worst offenders are movie trailers. Did you see "Sideways." A very nice little film, if you like that sort of thing, but once you'd seen the trailers there were absolutely no surprises. Why would the people pushing a film go to so much trouble to undermine the viewing experience?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I didn't see it.

But I'm sure that extensive marketing studies show that people don't want to be surprised by a film, or something. Neophobia. It's related to why Hollywood seems to make the same film over and over and over again instead of telling different stories. People like what is comfortable, so anything outside the norm needs a spoilery trailer to innoculate people with the plot so that it won't be alarming.

Something like that, anyway.