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Welu:
I try as hard as I can to avoid them. I'm also one of those people who loves going into a show or film with as little knowledge as possible because I love getting surprised. Finding something big out does ruin the enjoyment for me even if the story telling is good, especially if it's something current. It takes out some of the emotional impact? I think there's a better word for what I mean but can't think of one right now.
I accept there is some blurry measure of time when something becomes fair game to talk about though but it still frustrates me if I hear something. Like I don't watch Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead but I want to, and when you're talking to someone and they assume you're completely caught up on a popular show and just spout information without checking if you're caught up or mind if they talk about it if you're not, that seems a bit ignorant to me. That's my issue though.

Blue Kitty:




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Aziraphale:
It also occurs to me that a lot depends on where the spoiler falls in relation to the broader story. I knew before I saw "The Empire Strikes Back" that Vader was Luke's father, for instance, but between the storytelling and the fact that you knew there'd probably be another movie, I wasn't as mad as I'd have been if, say, somebody'd spoiled the ending of "The Usual Suspects." Also, I was eight and it was Star Wars, so...

People talk about the willing suspension of disbelief all the time when it comes to fiction. But I think there's also another suspension of sorts that goes on... one that comes with kinda surrendering yourself to the story and suspending what you know, allowing that knowledge to be reshaped or remixed by the narrative. That's why I can still enjoy something that's spoilered, and why I can also enjoy things like "Apollo 13," where I already knew the backstory long before I saw the movie.

Hope that makes some kinda sense to somebody besides me...

explicit:
Yeah, as long as it doesn't completely ruin the movie or was obvious without even watching the movie. Like, if someone spoiled the 6th sense that'd be horrible. If someone told me the Avengers win in the end, I'm pretty sure I could take it.

Lines:
I always ask if someone wants a spoiler, otherwise I don't tell them. Except I have accidentally let a few out, most recently was about a book I thought my friend had read and she obviously had not. Luckily it wasn't a major spoiler, just one of the highlights, so it didn't ruin it completely.

I will sometimes ask for spoilers, but usually it's if I am missing a piece of a story I only know part of or if it's a movie or book I don't plan on watching/reading but need more information on when someone else is talking about it. But if someone completely ruined the ending for something I knew nothing about and was really excited about (like seeing a list of all the characters that die in the last Harry Potter book AT the release party* :x :x :x ), then I get kind of mad. That's a journey I want to make myself. I don't want outside influences when I'm enjoying something unless I seek them out.

*The party was a midnight release of the book at a bookstore and after my friends and I had gotten our books, we were walking through the parking lot and there were a couple of people sitting outside with a GIANT sign propped up against their car with a list of all of the characters that died. I was so upset.

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