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Spoilers have a long history, going back to the time when some Greek theater-goer shouted Thats Oedipuss mom! But spoilers didnt use to be so intensely despised as they are today. The new, fierce hatred of spoilers is associated with the Golden Age of television and the ubiquity of DVR/Netflix/Hulu, and the like. Today, most people have their own personal horror story about the time when they were subject to the most unfair, unjust, outrageous, and unforgivable spoiler.
A first definition of spoiler might be revealing any information about a work of fiction (in any form, such as a book, TV show, or movie) to someone who hasnt encountered it. But this isnt quite good enough. It wouldnt be a spoiler to say The next Star Trek movie will include a Vulcan. Nor would it be a spoiler to say, The story of Shawshank Redemption comes from a short story by Stephen King. There has to be something at least a bit unexpected or unpredictable about the information, and it has to be important to the content of the work. And you could perpetrate a spoiler by divulging information about something other than a work of fiction, for example details of a sports game, to someone who has tivoed the game but not yet watched it.
Timing and other matters of context may make the difference between a spoiler and a non-spoiler. It could be a spoiler to say Theres a Vulcan in the next Star Trek movie if spoken to someone raised in North Korea and knowing absolutely nothing about Star Trek. It can also be a spoiler to say something about a movie or TV show when its new, and not a spoiler when it has been around for some years.
This raises the distinction between personal spoilers and impersonal spoilers. Personal spoilers are spoilers for some particular individual, because of their circumstances. You should never give personal spoilers (such as when someone says that they have never seen a particular movie, even though the plot is common knowledge. You cant tell them the plot).
Sometimes facts other than facts about a story can be spoilers, because they allow people to deduce something about the story. To reveal that a certain actor is not taking part in shooting the next episode may allow someone to jump to conclusions about the story. Spoilers need not be specific; they can be very vague. If you told someone there was a big surprise ending to The Sixth Sense or Fight Club, that might spoil these movies for people who havent seen them.
You can spoil by mentioning things that are common knowledge, if someone has missed out on that knowledge (Luke and Darth Vader are related), but you usually cant be blamed for this. People have some obligation to keep up. This means that in general you cant be blamed for spoilers about stories that are old. Both Romeo and Juliet are dead at the end could be a spoiler for someone, but you cant be blamed for it. This is a rule thats often observed: many publications have regulations forbidding the release of some types of spoilers for a precisely fixed time after a movie release.
However, some spoilers never expire, either because the plot twist is so vital or the work is so significant. So, if youre talking to young kids, you probably should never say Darth Vader is Lukes father, Norman Bates is Mother, Dorothys trip to Oz was all a dream, All the passengers on the Orient Express collaborated in the murder,...
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Spoiler Alert!
(Its a Book about the Philosophy of Spoilers)
RICHARD GREENE
OPEN COURT
Chicago
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Open Court Publishing Company is a division of Carus Publishing Company, dba Cricket Media.
Copyright 2019 by Carus Publishing Company, dba Cricket Media
First printing 2019
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Open Court Publishing Company, 70 East Lake Street, Suite 800, Chicago, Illinois 60601.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Spoiler Alert! Its a Book about the Philosophy of Spoilers
ISBN: 978-0-8126-9469-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019934548
This book is also available as an e-book (ISBN 978-0-8126-9473-4).
For Rachel Robison-Greene
who spoils me more than I deserve
Contents
Thanks
T his book wouldnt have been possible without the support of my wife, Dr. Rachel Robison-Greene, with whom Ive had countless wonderful philosophical conversations about pop culture in general and on the topic of spoilers in particular, my son, Henry, a weapons-grade level revealer of spoilers, the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Weber State University (including dozens of students with whom Ive discussed spoilers during classroom breaks and before and after class), David Ramsay Steele and the good folks at Open Court, Joe and Christina Charbonneau, whose insights about spoilers have made their way into this book in pretty significant form, Robert Arp, Patrick Croskery, Greg Spendlove, and Wayne Yuen, each of whom provided useful feedback on early versions of this book, the attendees at the 2017 and 2018 Salt Lake Comic Conventions (now known as FanX), the students and faculty members of the Philosophy Department at Harper College, who provided essential feed-back on early versions of some of the arguments contained in this book, my friends and colleagues at Charity Beyond Borders, who afforded me time to write and plenty of inspiration while traveling together in Ghana during June of 2018, The Shakespeare Room, the many who shared their spoiler horror stories with me, and of course all those jerks out there who love to spoil things for others, without whom this book would not be necessary or possible. Im most grateful to each of you (albeit slightly less grateful to the jerks who love to spoil things for others).
A Few Words of Warning
S poiler Alert!this book is really good.
Also, this book contains quite a few spoilers. People talk about spoilers all the time. It seems that you dont go more than a few days without hearing the expression Spoiler alert! and you dont go much longer than that on average without hearing someone berate or admonish someone else for having spoiled something. Spoilers have become a huge part of contemporary culture, at least in those segments of society that pertain to popular culture and the Internet.
Spoilers also raise a number of interesting philosophical issues. What is a spoiler? What sorts of things can be spoiled? Is it bad to spoil something? If so, why is it bad? Is it ever okay to spoil something? Are movie trailers spoilers? Just to name a few. In the pages that follow, we will address all these questions and many more.
Naturally, this book will discuss the specifics of many of your favorite television shows, movies, novels, plays, and comic books. Not only is this necessary in order to give a thorough philosophical treatment of spoilersone that conveys the full impact that spoilers can have and all their implicationsit will also make the discussion a lot These topics are listed in the order in which they appear in the chapter, so you can choose where you want to stop reading (although my recommendation is that you simply watch all these movies and television programs and read all these books before you read any further, so that you wont miss anything).
So be sure to exercise the requisite caution as you delve within. Youve been warned.
Obviously, if I post the actual spoilers, anyone attempting to avoid spoilers by looking at the spoiler list, will necessarily see the spoilers. So instead, here Ill just list the titles of works that get spoiled in each chapter.
Spoilers Topics Revealed in This Book
Chapter 1
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Oedipus the King
The Mousetrap
Les Diaboliques
Psycho
Happy Days
Mr. Roberts
A Simple Favor
Million Dollar Baby
Battlestar Galactica
Mad Men
Chapter 2
Lost in Space
Avengers: Infinity War
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Wicked
Planet of the Apes
Night of the Living Dead
Game of Thrones
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Chapter 3
The Empire Strikes Back
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Planet of the Apes
The Simpsons
The Wizard of Oz
Avengers: Infinity War
Psycho
Murder on the Orient Express
Soylent Green
The Twilight Zone
Citizen Kane
Chapter 4
The Devil in the White City
American Horror Story
Chapter 5
Avengers: Infinity War
Oceans 8
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Fault in our Stars
The Empire Strikes Back
Chapter 6
The Empire Strikes Back
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Red Sparrow
Psycho
Murder on the Orient Express
Better Call Saul
Chapter 7
The Usual Suspects
Game of Thrones
Old Yeller
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Westworld
Twin Peaks
The Walking Dead
Chapter 8
Sharp Objects
The Man with Two Brains
Planet of the Apes
The Happytime Murders
Breaking Bad
Shameless
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