BEFORE CONTINUING, PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL POTENTIALLY BE ALL KINDS OF SPOILERS BELOW IF THEY ARE NOT HIDDEN By participating, you are consenting to spoilers you might come to regret :)
There’s a spoiler-hiding button on Lemmy but since this discussion is about spoilers, I’m not sure how useful it will be.
Does any time in your memory particularly stand out as a truly regrettable spoiler?
examples:
- warned of a Spoiler Alert while scrolling on YT comments or threads, but clicked anyway. You regretted it.
- watched weekly-released shows with friends and you weren’t caught up but needed to know what happened before you watched it, and you regretted it.
- haven’t seen the movie, thought you weren’t going to, you spoiled it for yourself by finding out the plot, and came around to watching the movie and thought to yourself “It would’ve hit better if I didn’t know before hand”.
- podcaster gave a spoiler alert, you proceeded to ignore it, you regretted ignoring it.
It’s such a specific feeling of regret, so I am curious how others’ experiences were and how they compare.
For me,
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I keep spoiling myself with the show Bleach, reading into the lore and finding out info before actually chronologically watching it (TV)/ reading it in the manga. I come to regret it when I didn’t experience the creator’s (Tite Kubo) work myself first, then follow up with reading into it for background info. In the earlier part of the series I didn’t spoil myself and I feel it was a richer experience because of it.
Also sometimes I listen to “Get Played” which is a podcast about gaming, where they frequently enter “spoiler country” and I love to hear them talk so I get my cowboy hat on and follow them in. I regret it only part of the time.
Knights of the Old Republic.
I’d heard for many years how amazing they were, so I finally tried them.
Each game has a major plot twist. Both are obvious enough but if you google anything the spoiler in the first game is ruined.
The one in the second I was assured was a better game but apparently only if you download the unofficial patch that finishes the game, and it still can’t save the game from the obvious fucking fact you’ve been carrying around the BBEG since the goddamned beginning while everyone tried to pretend otherwise.
People want remakes of these games primarily for nostalgia, and they do not hold up.
Thanks for sharing! Avoiding major plot twists, in our era, seems to require constant vigilance.
lol did you put a spoiler in your story about spoilers?
Yes, but the warning was included in the subject. Also there’s no more obvious twist than that.
I was watching Sons of Anarchy, and had gotten pretty far. I had heard that it was based on Hamlet, and could see a bit of the similarities with it. I wanted to know who some of the other characters were supposed to be in relation to the play… and I discovered thanks to the first article at the top of the search that HUGE SPOILER COMING IN AND IDK HOW TO TAG IT OTHER THAN THESE BIG OLD CAPS the main character Jax becomes a widower thanks to his loving mother, and a very large fork. Absolutely brutal to watch, but less impactful than if I went in cold.
Lol @ the CAPS. Thanks for sharing!
I’ll add an experience I had in the inverse.
Friend of mine who works in film and has a great appreciation for interesting movies recommended me the movie Barbarian. He was talking about the major plot points but only got about 20% of the way through before saying there was a twist and I stopped him because it sounded interesting. I downloaded it on my tablet and promptly forgot about it.
About a year later I was on a flight and decided to give it a shot. At exactly 21% of the way through the movie the plot shifts and becomes exactly the type of movie you should not be watching on a flight surrounded by coworkers. I was too engrossed to register that, watched the whole thing, then had the pleasure of explaining to my pearl clutching coworkers what it was.
Great movie by the way.
Interesting, so for you it was about reaching the point of nonconsent. Glad you had the pleasure to break it down for your coworkers 😁
Get played used to be called How did this get played, right?
I love those guys. Haven’t listened to it in years, but even after listening to Spoiler Country on games I never heard of, it often made me go try the game, or suggest it to my brother so he could experience the twist in the raw.
Yes that’s right! (With Heather Anne Campbell, Nick Wiger and Matt Apodaca) That’s true - it made me try all kinds of games. And for some, I feel I wish I’d have tried them without knowing what was coming. Though I wouldn’t have tried it without knowing… so it’s a bit of a paradox.
I think it’s cool you let your brother experience it raw like that, since you couldn’t.
What Happened to Edith Finch was one of my favorites that I only played because of their review. I had mostly forgotten everything that was spoiled in the podcast, (except for the bathtub) so it was still great to experience the twists and turns!
Fight Club and the Sixth Sense. Would have been so much more exciting had I not known the twists. Still great movies, but I feel like I missed out on the reveal.
I can only imagine it, but I feel you on both. 😩
When it happens, I’ll tell you.
I’ve always avoided spoilers. To me, it seems that someone is displaying a lack of self control if they read/see them. Be patient and enjoy the thing when it’s released, don’t ruin it for yourself in advance.
I seem to recall that there was a game release over the past couple years where the players were angry that the game was what they saw in the spoilers. People actually ruined it for themselves and then got mad at the studio for not miraculously having new content that wasn’t spoiled.
I have very nearly accidentally spoiled an episode or two of Doctor Who. I try to avoid any place that talks about the cool thing just before the cool thing comes out.
Never, spoilers help me determine if something is worth my time
Interesting perspective. There has never been a regret - not even once? Are you the type that wouldn’t mind if someone told you a surprise party was being planned for you? Just wondering.
Surprise parties? Nope, in my family parties are month long planning that involves the person the party is for
So… I rarely if at all consent to spoilers. Most things that got spoiled happened because someone else was too impatient to get there himself and then couldn’t keep his mouth shut when it finally came up. Did I regret getting spoiled? Eh, I tend to find most things people get all excited about to be not that exciting or shocking or what have you. I still don’t like getting spoiled because it takes the discovery out of the experience and that’s what it is all about.
