Sci-Fi Shenanigans

Spoiler alert! (revisited)

Science appears to support spoilers  .

I'm thinking I should add io9 to my links list, because I keep stumbling upon great stuff from that site. Anyway, while the study itself doesn't directly use sci-fi stories, sci-fi has been one of the most notorious genres for spoilers running amok like corporate donations to political campaigns post-Citizens United. As I've said before, I can go either way with spoilers. The more I think about it, though, I'm like many of the people who participated in this study. I was very much spoiled for The Sixth Sense but still enjoyed it. I think for me, the spoilers put me in a frame of mind where I ask myself when this spoiler is going to happen or perhaps look on with a sense of dread/excitement/what have you as the story works toward a conclusion that might have been "spoiled" for me. The article also omits another possibility: that spoilers pull the focus away from the plot and onto character development, which many are taught as the heart of the story, anyway. So perhaps spoilers are a good thing.

On a lighter note, the comments (so far) are fairly silly, lighthearted and almost fail at trolling because they're so irreverent. They're worth a quick glance in this case. Unless you don't like spoilers, of course.