I really don’t care about being spoiled on most narrative media. I might have felt very different about it when The 6th Sense came out, but I don’t even remember. Anyway, spoil anything you want in the comments.
If something is good, it’ll still have some interest in the execution. I knew Gregor Samsa turned into a bug and whatever happened after that was sad, absurd, and unpleasant. The specifics still matter, still animate the reading experience.
But there is one story where I know the setup but do not know how it ends, and I would like to preserve the surprise. Maybe it’s because the hook is more compelling than most, with no obvious solution. Anyway, the story is centuries old; I’m a little overdue to find out.
But still, don’t spoil it!
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chigau (違う) says
Gollum falls into the Fire with the ring.
Great American Satan says
that wild sumbitch sure liked him that ring
Paul Durrant says
The Butler did it.
Pierce R. Butler says
Paul Durrant @ # 3 – who told you?
Jesus comes back, and boy is he pissed!
Great American Satan says
jesus shmesus. im more interested in your crimes, the butler.
gedjcj says
Nobody lives happily ever after.
Great American Satan says
aww maaan
chigau (違う) says
“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
– S. Morgenstern
Alan G. Humphrey says
Jesus, going by Charlie at the time, was trying to return but he’s still lost ‘neath the streets of Boston.
My opinion is that Henry VII projected and lied…, a lot.
Great American Satan says
is that a chud reference? im lost in my own comment section.
Alan G. Humphrey says
@ 10 in case you are lost in mine:
The first refers to the Kingston Trio’s M.T.A. song and my interpretation that’s how Jesus’ return was spoiled by a nickel tax. The second was a wild stab at your century’s old mystery and maybe it was about dead young English heirs to the throne.
Alan G. Humphrey says
I don’t know why autocorrupt replaced my ‘centuries’ with ‘century’s’…
Great American Satan says
thanks, i’ll look that song up…
as to my mystery, it isn’t an unsolved thing, just a story i can read. there have been adaptations and my curiosity was piqued because i saw an adaptation that surely did not end like the original.
if you figure it out, remember, spoil me not!
chigau (違う) says
The Romans went home.
badland says
chigau that is a remarkably silly comment and I am enamoured of it.