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From: king@Kestrel
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Subject: should there be spoiler warnings?
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 12:12:23 EDT
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From: king@Kestrel.ARPA

    Someone else wrote "The big question when watching television is not
    *WHETHER* the hero will get out of their crisis.  We know that they
    will.  The big question is *HOW* the hero will get out of their
    crisis."  To me that is the enjoyable part of fiction, the "how".
    If I am concerned about the "whether", I cannot enjoy it.

    Ken Moreau


I knew I stopped watching, for example, the Man from UNCLE, because the
title role always won.  I wrote a letter to the network saying that I
would like him to either lose or possibly even get killed about 15-20%
of the time, that I would mind him being resurrected less than I minded
the status quo.  I never got a reply.  , one of childhood's
disappointments.

-dick