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I think you should flag this as breaking bad spoilers - not everyone has finished watching the show
by acallahan 13y ago
I think you should flag this as breaking bad spoilers - not everyone has finished watching the show
- atlbeer 13y agoThat's a year and a half old info. It can't be a spoiler forever.
- pyre 13y agoI don't think that the actual amount was mentioned until the last run of episodes. Prior to that I only remember it being a huge pile of cash that they had "stopped counting."
- pavel_lishin 13y agoI don't think that an amount of money constitutes a spoiler, unless that very specific amount has something to do with a specific plot point. ("Ouch, my cancer! If only I had $80,000,001 exactly!")
- BlackDeath3 13y agoI always err on the side of "it's a spoiler". If it's not in the show's trailer, I treat it like a spoiler. I know that I'm personally much more sensitive to spoilers than a lot of other people, so it always annoys me how somebody says something thinking they're not spoiling anything without fully thinking through the implications of what it is they're saying. It's almost arrogance, really, to simply assume that you know what will and will not spoil some given experience for another person.
- samstave 13y agoHave you seen Titanic? It sinks. Seen JFK? He dies.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoWHAT???? More spoilers!!
- pavel_lishin 13y agoJesus dies. The Zebra did it.
- hansjorg 13y agoThe anti-spoiler crowd are pretty demanding. A large and vocal group fought hard to introduce prominent spoiler warnings on Wikipedia. There was a time when every other literary work there had a warning that the article might be discussing the subject at hand.
- javajosh 13y agoIt's a strange phenomena, and I'm not entirely convinced that it doesn't imply poor quality entertainment. Good quality entertainment is eminently re-watchable. How many times have I seen "Groundhog Day", or read "Lord of the Rings"? The fact that I know exactly what happens doesn't seem to diminish my enjoyment at all. In fact, it seems like with every re-experience I pick up some new detail or insight. OTOH I can totally understand spoiler alerts with respect to sport and sporting-type events (like politics). It usually does seem to diminish the pleasure of watching a game when you know the outcome.
- reinmen 13y agoi think there are two different qualities to entertainment/art: -one is the structural quality, which remains with every repetition. -another is the novel quality, which is basically the (un)pleasant surprise of something new or unexpected, which obviously is heavily diminished by repetition. i believe aristotle's catharsis to be based on this quality. i agree with you that entertainment/art that only possesses the latter quality is poor quality entertainment. it does not follow that entertainment/art with both qualities does not lose at least some of its value when the spectator is exposed to spoilers.