Anyone who posts Game of Thrones spoilers should be banned

[whatthehey]

44. This is my point exactly though.

People, me included, do re-read and re-watch and re-examine with enjoyment. This is not just normal but pretty much universal, especially extending the question to human interaction.

That is precisely my point though. Given that that is so universally accepted, how can that be reconciled with the extreme fury if somebody mentions something about the work before you see it the first time? If absolute novelty and tabula rasa appreciation were so vital, nobody would watch, read, look at or interact with the same thing twice, ever. Since we almost all do, and with enjoyment, how is the first interaction ruined by partial foreknowledge when subsequent interactions are not ruined by complete familiarity?

I knew Macbeth gets to be king and is deposed before I read the play the first time. I knew Godot never shows up (the old chestnut; he's not in the cast list, waste of time waiting!), I knew Rocky lost and that Darth Vader was Luke's father before I saw the movies. I've re-read and re-watched all the above. Hell I have a bit of a guilty pleasure with horror movies, where many of the mediocre ones rely on jump-scares and shock-reveals. I'm not the only person who cheerfully rewatches them and their whole raison d'etre is the sudden surprise. How is that ok for such thin premises as scary monster in the dark but not ok for complex multi-layered intertwined epic story lines like GoT?