Spoilers

[merlinofchaos]

I just want to say...I don't care so much about spoilers.

That's all. I think some people get a little too worked up about spoilers. It's not like knowing that Dick has blue eyes is really going to detract from your enjoyment of the book.

Mostly, spoilers matter in suspense. Heroes turned out to be easy to spoil because they spent almost the entire season making you wonder and created a lot of suspense. So I found myself caring about spoilers there.

In fairly epic fantasy, I find it hard to care much about spoilers.

I don't particularly care about Harry Potter spoilers. If you're purposefully out to spoil people I think that's pretty asinine, but don't let the OH MY GOD YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT SO AND SO BREATHING ON PAGE 360 THAT MEANS S/HE CAN'T BE DEAD YET AAAAAAAAAH people get to you.

Comments

[dharshai.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you. Spoilers (read: all) actively ruin the entire experience for me. To me it's all about the exploration of the world and how you find out about the twists and turns that make the first experience the most worthwhile. By taking away that oppurtunity to explore the context of the plot or setting or whatever, you've effectively taken away my chance to immerse myself in the moment. That's what movies and books are for me.

Farther down you talk about being asked to leave when people wish to discuss something and you don't want to know (as an option). Most of my friends would find it rude to exclude someone from a conversation. But personally, it wouldn't bother me. If I'm the one causing the road block to a discussion, then I'll usually bow out. In the end, I hope that I'm adult about it and I try not to impose my strict "NO SPOILER" policy on people. That doesn't mean that other people aren't freaking obnoxious about the entire thing and shouldn't be taken out and shot. I'm all for shooting namby-pambys.