The politics of online spoilers
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matgbOne of the things that always bugs me online is different peoples reactions to plot 'spoilers' for media things—unpredictable and at times downright weird, as Nick Mamatas demonstrated last month. Now me, I tend to seek them out for shows I like—before the internet I had a subscription to SFX partially for the spoiler zone section, I loved reading about shows way in advance and knowing what would happen. But then I tend to rewatch stuff I like a lot anyway. So, inspired by this old poll at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nmg's, I thought I'd update it a bit.
Warning though, below the fold are some minor spoilers for recent films such as Iron Man, Harry Potter 5 and Spiderman, and also endings/character reveals for Hamlet, Sixth Sense, Citizen Kane, the Star Wars trilogy, Soylent Green and Fight Club. Nothing is revealed that isn't on this classic t-shirt but if you really are that averse, just scroll to the last question...
[Poll #1199471]
Obviously some things, like the end of a genuine mystery, are worth hiding if that's how it's written—knowing who did it never seemed to hurt my enjoyment of Columbo though, and a chunk of my reading is always history books where, y'know, I normally know the ending. It's not what happens that matters to me, it's how—I'm there for the ride, not the big splash at the bottom. You?
nmg's, I thought I'd update it a bit.Warning though, below the fold are some minor spoilers for recent films such as Iron Man, Harry Potter 5 and Spiderman, and also endings/character reveals for Hamlet, Sixth Sense, Citizen Kane, the Star Wars trilogy, Soylent Green and Fight Club. Nothing is revealed that isn't on this classic t-shirt but if you really are that averse, just scroll to the last question...
[Poll #1199471]
Obviously some things, like the end of a genuine mystery, are worth hiding if that's how it's written—knowing who did it never seemed to hurt my enjoyment of Columbo though, and a chunk of my reading is always history books where, y'know, I normally know the ending. It's not what happens that matters to me, it's how—I'm there for the ride, not the big splash at the bottom. You?
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Date: 2008-Jun-05, Thursday 22:40 (UTC)But in the movie Sol's suicide and the revelation of the nature of Soylent Green aren't the real shocker. The real shocker is that Soylent Green is people because all the crops have failed. The planet's fucked. Utterly banjoed. Cannibalism (or more accurately, recycling human carcasses for nutrients) isn't the issue; the issue is that the end of civilisation as we know it is imminent.
But I guess even though Heston was into ecology back in the 70s you couldn't have a movie ending by saying "we're all going to starve to death!"...
Ironically the body-processing plant in the movie was a sewage works just outside LA that wasn't in use because of some legal tangle or other, and was bypassed by a 36" pipe spewing Angeleno shit straight into the Pacific Ocean....
Soylent Green and Make Room! Make Room! are very different entitites, both very good in their own way.