Woman demands another plane passenger turn off her movie to avoid spoilers, starts acting petty when she refuses
If you don’t want spoilers – just look away… or watch the damn movie yourself! Look, we understand that these days there are a lot of different ways you can accidentally spoil the plot of some new movie, TV show, book, or video game. If everyone’s talking about The New Cool and Popular Thing, it’s hard to keep your head in the sand for long: What are you going to do if you go offline for years?
There’s a huge difference between someone intentionally ruining a movie for you and, say, someone watching it on the plane in the next row of seats. For some entitled persons, this is a violation of their rights. According to the internet, those people are wrong. Very wrong, in fact.
Shared by Redditor Business-Yam-3669 how her first flight to work took a confusing turn when the woman sitting behind her asked her to stop watching a movie “Didn’t work.” When the OP refused, the woman started acting. Scroll down for the full story, Pandas, and be sure to share your thoughts on what happened. What would you have done in this situation? How do you deal with legitimate people? How to avoid potential spoilers? Head over to the comments section and let us know.
A woman traveling by plane for work found herself in a very unusual situation. One passenger demanded that she turn off the movie during the flight
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This is how the dramatic story unfolded
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Ideally, you shouldn’t blame others for enjoying a piece of media that you’ve avoided. Accidental spoilers can and do happen! And that’s completely different from people who spread them on purpose in hopes of ruining someone’s day.
We understand the desire to enjoy a good story with all its twists and turns – we love it too! (Hell, when the very first episode of Game of Thrones dropped, I stumbled across some ridiculously huge spoilers in the first YouTube comment below the show’s intro video.)
But it’s up to us to do it. We can’t keep putting off watching something and then blame others for “ruining” things. Hell, if someone’s talking about that totally awesome new Netflix show at the water cooler or watching a review on the bus, just go away. Then go home and see for yourself.
It really doesn’t make sense to you that a passenger on a flight would actually tell someone in the next row of seats (or even the aisle) to turn off the movie. What right do you have?!
There are so many solutions to the problem that don’t involve twitching. You have a chance to watch the same movie you’ve been avoiding. You can put on another movie and see what everyone else is watching. You can read a book. You can take a nap. You can meditate or write a crossword puzzle. Or you can just, you know, turn your head a few inches to the other side so you can’t see the other person’s screen.
Each Panda decides how much spoilers spoil the whole story. Personally? I don’t mind spoilers as long as they are small or you can see plot twists from a mile away. But overall, I’d always go with “blind”.
UC San Diego psychology professor Nicholas Christenfeld actually found this spoilers may increase viewer enjoyment. They don’t ruin the story. They help you enjoy it more.
“What we’ve found remarkably is that if you screw up the stories, they actually like them more,” he said. “The bottom line is that we don’t really look at these things all the way through.” To the skeptics, I point out that people repeatedly watch these films with joy and often with increasing pleasure.
In further research, Christenfeld found that spoilers help to understand the purpose of the overall narrative.
“If you know the ending when you watch it, you can understand what the filmmaker is doing. You can see this bigger picture and basically understand the story more smoothly. There is ample evidence that this smooth processing of information is pleasurable; that is, a certain familiarity with a work of art allows one to enjoy it more,” he explained.
Whether that changes your mind about spoilers, Pandas, is up to you. Enjoy things the way you like them the most. Just remember not to try to interfere with someone else doing the same thing.
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