March 9, 2003
Spoilers
Do you think it's wrong to spoil the ending to a book or a movie for someone who hasn't read or seen it? I don't. Do you think it's necessary for the person to fully experience the book or movie, unhindered by someone else's bias? I do. But you know, I would rather know the ending to a movie or a book or even a TV show. In fact, when I start to read a book that might turn out badly, I always flip ahead towards the end to see which characters' names show up. That's my way of appeasing my apprehension. I don't really like suspense that much, so when Captain Archer or Buffy get themselves into a pickle, I know nothing severely bad will happen because their shows haven't been cancelled...well, Buffy is over after this year, so the sky's the limit with that one. And now since the advent of DVDs, it's much easier to skip to the last chapter to see what happens. A friend of mine just watched Signs, and since I hadn't seen it, I wanted to know what it was about, if there really were aliens, and how the movie ended. He didn't want to share with me at first, but he did, and I still want to see the movie for myself. Those kinds of spoilers don't spoil anything for me. It gives me peace of mind to know how it's going to turn out. Like with Moulin Rouge, no one told me the ending of that movie (and though I like spoilers, I won't spoil anything intentionally for someone else), and so I had no idea that what happened was going to happen. It made it that much more intense, but I wish I had been prepared. And yeah, whatever, you can't prepare for life, you can't know the ending to life (unless you're Sylvia Browne), so watching the endings to movies before I watch the movie is my way of cheating life, etc., yadda yadda whatever. I don't know. Maybe it's just a control issue.
