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My point was that the purpose of watching this kind of TV show isn't to gain specific knowledge; it's about the progression of events towards the goal. I just
by rcfox 15y ago
My point was that the purpose of watching this kind of TV show isn't to gain specific knowledge; it's about the progression of events towards the goal.
I just finished "Star Trek: Voyager", so I'll use that as my example. In the first episode, they get stranded far away from home. You know they're going to make it home because that's how stories work. Does that make the show spoiled? Well, they saw reason to make 7 seasons of 24 episodes, so I'm guessing it wasn't spoiled.
Actually, studies[0] have shown that spoilers make stories more enjoyable.
[0] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoil-anything/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoi...
- chc 15y agoStudies found that spoilers make stories more enjoyable or one study involving a very homogeneous group found that people reported more enjoyment from stories they were forced to read if those stories had been spoiled? I'm not sure there's actually enough evidence to even validate that study as showing what it appears to show, much less to generalize the result to all humans everywhere.
- dkl 15y agoI find it hard to believe you don't understand why alanfalcon was ticked off (regarding the spoiler). Your example has nothing to do with the issue.
- rcfox 15y agoI honestly don't understand.
- Game_Ender 15y agoYou can't draw solid conclusions from a single study with undergraduates.