I don't even watch Walking Dead and I already hate AMC for firing Frank Darabont.
How can they be so stupid with successful shows? They've got a gaggle of golden geese and they just want to cut off their feet and beat them with sticks.
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear. Wash: So?
'Objects In Space'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 6:00:12 am PDT #20121 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Vortex - Aug 11, 2011 6:12:21 am PDT #20122 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I am a total spoilerphobe. I remember when it happened, I was spoiled for Angel turning human in IWRY, and I spent the whole time waiting for it to happen and wondering how, and didn't enjoy the show until then. After that, I just didn't want to know.
Polter-Cow - Aug 11, 2011 6:13:47 am PDT #20123 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm with you, Vortex. I glare suspiciously at that study.
beekaytee - Aug 11, 2011 6:14:11 am PDT #20124 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm 5 foot nuthin' and had a bf for years who was 6'5". People laughed. It was never really a problem, though. He used to say, 'Everything is equal when you are horizontal.'
I kind of liked it. Much more than the bf who was shorter than me. That one had a great sense of style and I enjoyed wearing his clothes, but the convenience wasn't worth it.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2011 6:23:22 am PDT #20125 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But everything isn't equal when you're horizontal. I never understood that.
It send weird for a study to be that conclusive about something so many people personally disagree with. It can't make spoilerphobes suddenly not exist or be okay with advanced news.
smonster - Aug 11, 2011 6:26:51 am PDT #20126 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
But everything isn't equal when you're horizontal.
Well, the difference in heights is more about the legs than torso, usually. Even with those two, the difference between their torso lengths is much less dramatic.
sumi - Aug 11, 2011 6:29:37 am PDT #20127 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
My mother was 5'2" and my dad was 6'1".
Jesse - Aug 11, 2011 6:32:04 am PDT #20128 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This article says:
But in all three kinds of short stories, people like the texts with the spoilers worked into the opening graphs about as much as they liked the unspoiled texts.
And I'm sorry, but that sounds like foreshadowing rather than spoiling -- if it's in the first paragraph of the story, by definition, it is not a "shocking twist" story!
Polter-Cow - Aug 11, 2011 6:34:21 am PDT #20129 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It depends on the context, Jesse. If they thought the spoilers were part of the story, then you're right. That makes it a different story. If the spoilers were not integrated so that it was like, "I'm going to be a dick and tell you the end of the story. Okay, now read the story," the reactions may have been different.
Jesse - Aug 11, 2011 6:43:31 am PDT #20130 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The volunteers read three versions of four of those stories. One with a spoiler given in a paragraph that was independent to the story, another with the spoiler worked into the story's opening graph and a spoiler-free version of the narrative. They rated how much they enjoyed each version of the stories on a scale of 1 to 10.
OK, so I guess they liked the separate spoiler best on average, and the other two versions about the same.
But still, you know, on average.