And when professional fiction crosses over those warnings in ways that don't work, it pretty much gets clobbered for it.
The vast majority of stories are not actually "spoiled" when you have some idea of what happens in them (let alone learning the minor details that many people consider spoilers!).
Truly if the main draw is the surprise, it's not much of a draw. Even for stories where a twist ending means something. For instance, I've never liked M Night Shamalayan, and the one movie where people tend to think the twist really works of his is the Sixth Sense. But even there I just don't think the big surprise adds anything. As opposed to one of my favorite movies, The Others, which has a similar surprise ending, but in that movie the surprise ending adds to it, both making sense of things that were mysteries before and adding more mystery that makes it more interesting imo.
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Date: 2009-06-24 02:47 pm (UTC)The vast majority of stories are not actually "spoiled" when you have some idea of what happens in them (let alone learning the minor details that many people consider spoilers!).
Truly if the main draw is the surprise, it's not much of a draw. Even for stories where a twist ending means something. For instance, I've never liked M Night Shamalayan, and the one movie where people tend to think the twist really works of his is the Sixth Sense. But even there I just don't think the big surprise adds anything. As opposed to one of my favorite movies, The Others, which has a similar surprise ending, but in that movie the surprise ending adds to it, both making sense of things that were mysteries before and adding more mystery that makes it more interesting imo.