I'm with you -- I love behind-the-scenes nuggets, but I want them after the intial viewing experience is over, so they enrich what I've already received rather than skewing what I'm going to get. And I'd rather have fun backstage anecdotes than spoilers anyway.
If the story is well imagined and well told, why would I want to rearrange the manner of its initial telling by getting key sections in advance, out of order and out of context?
Here's a thought: every time I pick up a book, I have the option of flipping to the last chapter, but I don't do it. If I respect the storyteller enough to read his/her work, I'm not going to commit the disrespectful act of spoilage -- unless the book turns out to suck (thereby squandering the initial respect), and I care just enough about my own closure to flip to the end for a final check before hurling the book against the wall. (Did that idiot ever get his comeuppance? No? Screw him!!)
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Date: May. 27th, 2009 07:29 pm (UTC)If the story is well imagined and well told, why would I want to rearrange the manner of its initial telling by getting key sections in advance, out of order and out of context?
Here's a thought: every time I pick up a book, I have the option of flipping to the last chapter, but I don't do it. If I respect the storyteller enough to read his/her work, I'm not going to commit the disrespectful act of spoilage -- unless the book turns out to suck (thereby squandering the initial respect), and I care just enough about my own closure to flip to the end for a final check before hurling the book against the wall. (Did that idiot ever get his comeuppance? No? Screw him!!)