Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!pierce!topaz!king From: king@Kestrel Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: should there be spoiler warnings? Message-ID: <2622@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 12:12:23 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2622 Posted: Tue Jul 9 12:12:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 08:03:41 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 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