I have a medium level of spoilerphobia - I'm happy knowing casting details, for instance, and vague plot points, but I don't like being spoiled for whoah! moments because they're a big part of the experience for me.
Because it's so cuturally well-known and I have been watching Star Wars films since I was too wee to understand, I can't imagine what it must be like to watch ESB and find out for the first that Vader is Luke's father. That's a helluva whoah! moment. What a fucking revelation! That's the sort of thing I don't like being spoiled for. I didn't know Bruce Willis was dead or Tyler Durden was imaginary or Keyser Soze was Verbal Kint, and my first viewings of those films had much more impact than they would have done had I known the twists in advance. There's a kind of strange glee at being hoodwinked so well by the film-makers.
I'm hoping I get that sort of experience from the reveal of the final cylon's identity!
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Date: 2008-Jun-04, Wednesday 23:14 (UTC)Because it's so cuturally well-known and I have been watching Star Wars films since I was too wee to understand, I can't imagine what it must be like to watch ESB and find out for the first that Vader is Luke's father. That's a helluva whoah! moment. What a fucking revelation! That's the sort of thing I don't like being spoiled for. I didn't know Bruce Willis was dead or Tyler Durden was imaginary or Keyser Soze was Verbal Kint, and my first viewings of those films had much more impact than they would have done had I known the twists in advance. There's a kind of strange glee at being hoodwinked so well by the film-makers.
I'm hoping I get that sort of experience from the reveal of the final cylon's identity!