After all these years...

[Kelly]

I really don't get it.

Well for example...have you ever started watching a tv series and missed the last few episodes? You download the ones you missed, but you just haven't had the chance to watch them or just haven't been in the mood to watch them. Then someone starts to talk to you about what happens at the end...and you panic and tell them to shut up  coz you wanna watch the ending yourself!

[anijen21]

no I get that part, I don't get how he can seriously request that the rest of us don't talk about it when he "just doesn't feel like watching it." I'm pretty unforgiving when it comes to this stuff, though.

[Darth Revan]

You're unforgiving about those who don't want others to spoil books for them? If you're talking about Sixth Sense, and someone says, "oh, I haven't seen that yet, don't talk about it, please." You get mad at that person?

[anijen21]

at this point, yes. It's been out for years.

Don't get me wrong, I was getting pissed as hale when a bunch of people were posting Deathly Hallows spoilers 2:00 AM the night the book came out, but Parker it's been 10 years. These things have shelf lives.

[Darth Revan]

So because someone doesn't read or watch a show by your timeline, you won't respect their wish to not have the plot spoiled?

[anijen21]

if it's just you and me, and I ask "oh have you seen Citizen Kane" and you're like "No," it would be a pretty douchey thing for me to go "IT WAS HIS SLED LOL."

But if you're on a forum, interrupting others who HAVE ALL READ THE BOOK and stop them from having a conversation that at no point included you, then yeah, I get a little irritated.

And I am perfectly willing to admit that the timeline is a gray area. How long does someone have to read Harry Potter, a week? A month? Two years?

My main point is: I don't mind being respectful of people who haven't read/seen something, but you have to be respectful of the people who have.

[Darth Revan]

Um... Citizen Kane is on my Netflix queue.

How did the convo not include me? I was the twelfth poster on this thread. I posted two spaces behind when ThinkAgain started talking about the ending of Ellimist. I've been a part of this convo for two months.

I didn't interrupt the convo on TEC, I stared it.

[Kitulean]

Sorry, Parker, but I'm with her on this one. If it's something that's been out this long and you're on a forum devoted to that subject, you run the risk of so called 'spoilers' and pretty much just have to deal with that.

[anijen21]

yeah, you're right, but you're posting on an Animorphs forum where people talk about Animorphs books. If there's a particular book you haven't read, it's really something to fault the other people for talking about it beyond the point you've read it.

I think there's a certain level of entitlement involved in limiting what other people can talk about based on something as inessential and self-imposed as spoilers. People at an Animorphs forum shouldn't be punished because you can't find the focus to get through a 180-page young adult book.

[Darth Revan]

This thread isn't devoted to The Ellimist Chronicles, it's talking about Animorphs's value to all age groups. Then I stated that I haven't finished TEC, and I just haven't gotten to finishing it, then TA stated the ending. That's what went down.

There are plenty of threads across this site that mods asked that spoilers are used when talking about the ending. My request wasn't random and out of line.

[Kitulean]

dude, they didn't give away the ending to the Ellimist Chronicles, they said that part of the ending gave away that an Animorph would die over in the Animorphs series. That really doesn't give away anything about the plot for EC whatsoever.

[Darth Revan]

Ah, please use spoilers!

I didn't give anything specific about the plot itself, like how __ actually ___ ___ and ends up ___. The book just ends with the death alluded to of an unspecific Animorph. 

Yeah, it was mostly just a proactive request.

[Terenia]

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after ALL these years I believe that Animorphs deserves its credit NOT because of its characters, but because of the nuances and messages that those characters delivered. The Ani's themselves fall into various cliche's, but the message was strong, clear and well delivered (for the most part). THAT is why it sticks with me.

[anijen21]

I guess I'm going to have to come down and say that all spoiler tags in this forum are a coddling, obstructive waste of time then.

If you don't want to be spoiled about Animorphs, then don't visit an Animorphs forum until you've finished the series. It's not like they're unavailable.

[Darth Revan]

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after ALL these years I believe that Animorphs deserves its credit NOT because of its characters, but because of the nuances and messages that those characters delivered. The Ani's themselves fall into various cliche's, but the message was strong, clear and well delivered (for the most part). THAT is why it sticks with me.

Yeah, definitely. And morphing has been a fantasy of humans forever, and KAA did it really well while mixing it with the fantasy of aliens!