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May. 19th, 2019
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Dr Who: And then, we will connect all the computers in the world together!
Me: Yeah, we got that, it’s called the internet.
Dr Who: And computers will rule us all!
Me: Good.
Dr Who: It will be the end of all that you know!
Me: Again I see no downside.
War machines: 1966 internet takes over the world by means of the Post Office tower. Because that’s what people worried about in 1966.
Dr Who: And then, we will connect all the computers in the world together!
Me: Yeah, we got that, it’s called the internet.
Dr Who: And computers will rule us all!
Me: Good.
Dr Who: It will be the end of all that you know!
Me: Again I see no downside.
War machines: 1966 internet takes over the world by means of the Post Office tower. Because that’s what people worried about in 1966.
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systlin:
caram3lk1ng:
systlin:
systlin:
systlin:
systlin:
systlin:
Spoiler culture and people obsessing over ‘twists’ is honestly just. Fucking exhausting, and is gonna keep fucking up media until people realize this.
I casually mention something about Black Sails at work…a show, you will note, that has been out and finished for several years…and two people yell “Don’t say anything! I haven’t watched that yet I don’t want spoilers!”
My dudes. Bro. My guys. That show was concluded two years ago. I’m gonna talk about it and if you knowing that Captain Flint finds the Urca wrecked at the end of season 1, which has been out since 2014, ruins the experience for you, well, how’s about you go and fuck yerself, K?
I have re-watched Lord of the Rings approximately 300 times, after reading it about 500 times, and you know what?
I still enjoy it even when I’ve got every scene basically memorized.
I had one co-worker tell me not to spoil the end of Spartacus for him.
SPARTACUS.
Like, my man, if it happened in 71 BCE, I don’t think it CAN be spoiled.
But anyway, when you have directors so obsessed with keeping absolute plot secrecy that they literally do not tell the actors what is going on in the movie they are making you are GOING to have negative impacts on the performance of the actors and the quality of the end product.
And when you have ‘twists’ just for the sake of twists, it sometimes (often) isn’t gonna make a goddamn bit of fucking sense.
And if you ask me not to ‘spoil’ a historical event that took place literally two thousand goddamn years ago, I may have to slap you.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN JUST WRITE THE HERO’S JOURNEY AGAIN, KAREN, HUMANS HAVE LOVED IT FOR FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AND WE STILL DO
I would like to be ten again and not already know how sixth sense ends. Just saying some people were born yesterday and you are spoiling it for them💯
If something came out more than a year ago, I am going to talk about it. It is not my job to ensure that I carefully never talk about pop culture in public because I might give away a plot point for a movie that’s been out for ten years.
If you want to watch something that has been around for ages without being spoiled, watch it now. Because otherwise you’re going to pick up things via cultural osmosis. It’s just going to happen. That’s on you. Not me or my buddies over here chatting about the Lord of the Rings and Gollum taking the ring and falling into Mount Doom.
And also, if you can’t enjoy a story even knowing how it ends, it is not a very good story.
Here’s the thing, if something is actually good, then it doesn’t fucking matter how spoiled it is, because it’ll still pack a punch.
My parents didn’t like Star Wars. We never had it in the house (they did however like James Cameron, and my brother and I happily quoted Terminator 2 to each other aged 6 and 8 respectively).
That meant I was 18 by the time I finally got to hear the iconic line ‘Luke, I am your father’.
Was I spoilered?
Was I heck. Do you know how many riffs, pisstakes, imitations and reference there was of that one scene? I grew up in the 90s ffs.
And yet, when i watched it- it still packed such a punch. Because it was well written, the characters acted the hell out of that scene, it had been well built up to and just felt right.
systlin:
caram3lk1ng:
systlin:
systlin:
systlin:
systlin:
systlin:
Spoiler culture and people obsessing over ‘twists’ is honestly just. Fucking exhausting, and is gonna keep fucking up media until people realize this.
I casually mention something about Black Sails at work…a show, you will note, that has been out and finished for several years…and two people yell “Don’t say anything! I haven’t watched that yet I don’t want spoilers!”
My dudes. Bro. My guys. That show was concluded two years ago. I’m gonna talk about it and if you knowing that Captain Flint finds the Urca wrecked at the end of season 1, which has been out since 2014, ruins the experience for you, well, how’s about you go and fuck yerself, K?
I have re-watched Lord of the Rings approximately 300 times, after reading it about 500 times, and you know what?
I still enjoy it even when I’ve got every scene basically memorized.
I had one co-worker tell me not to spoil the end of Spartacus for him.
SPARTACUS.
Like, my man, if it happened in 71 BCE, I don’t think it CAN be spoiled.
But anyway, when you have directors so obsessed with keeping absolute plot secrecy that they literally do not tell the actors what is going on in the movie they are making you are GOING to have negative impacts on the performance of the actors and the quality of the end product.
And when you have ‘twists’ just for the sake of twists, it sometimes (often) isn’t gonna make a goddamn bit of fucking sense.
And if you ask me not to ‘spoil’ a historical event that took place literally two thousand goddamn years ago, I may have to slap you.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN JUST WRITE THE HERO’S JOURNEY AGAIN, KAREN, HUMANS HAVE LOVED IT FOR FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AND WE STILL DO
I would like to be ten again and not already know how sixth sense ends. Just saying some people were born yesterday and you are spoiling it for them💯
If something came out more than a year ago, I am going to talk about it. It is not my job to ensure that I carefully never talk about pop culture in public because I might give away a plot point for a movie that’s been out for ten years.
If you want to watch something that has been around for ages without being spoiled, watch it now. Because otherwise you’re going to pick up things via cultural osmosis. It’s just going to happen. That’s on you. Not me or my buddies over here chatting about the Lord of the Rings and Gollum taking the ring and falling into Mount Doom.
And also, if you can’t enjoy a story even knowing how it ends, it is not a very good story.
Here’s the thing, if something is actually good, then it doesn’t fucking matter how spoiled it is, because it’ll still pack a punch.
My parents didn’t like Star Wars. We never had it in the house (they did however like James Cameron, and my brother and I happily quoted Terminator 2 to each other aged 6 and 8 respectively).
That meant I was 18 by the time I finally got to hear the iconic line ‘Luke, I am your father’.
Was I spoilered?
Was I heck. Do you know how many riffs, pisstakes, imitations and reference there was of that one scene? I grew up in the 90s ffs.
And yet, when i watched it- it still packed such a punch. Because it was well written, the characters acted the hell out of that scene, it had been well built up to and just felt right.