The collective GASP when Orpheus turns around in Hadestown is proof we all hoped that THIS TIME it would be different. 😭
2025-12-17 01:58:01
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Courtney Walsh :
It’s like Rogue One. You KNOW how that’s gonna end, but it’s masterfully written and makes you love the characters.
2025-12-16 21:11:26
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Marie (Baz ❤️🔥) ✨🍉 :
"It's a sad song, it's a sad tale, it's a tragedy. It's a sad song, but we sing it anyway. Cause here's the thing. To know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again, as if it might turn out this time... I learned that from a friend of mine". I know that's technically from the last song in Hadestown but Hermes says essentially the same thing at the start. You KNOW it's gonna end badly from the get go and yet you're still surprised and devastated when Orpheus turns around.
2025-12-16 22:41:23
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Troy Zaher :
Yes, thank you! People are very obsessed with the idea that a story is somehow ruined if it’s spoiled for them. But honestly, I’ve found people are farrr more engaged with things like Shakespeare and other early modern or older texts when they already know what happens. And having it in the text itself creates great dramatic irony.
2025-12-16 20:55:50
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Jared Hollingworth :
de-marvelizing my consumption of media. doing the lord's work, you are
2025-12-16 21:01:12
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Pearl :
hadestown does it beautifully right at the beginning of the play they're very upfront of it being a tragedy, but you still want to watch just to see if it turns out good this time
2025-12-16 22:46:43
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Benjamin Appel :
I think that if spoilers matter more to you you're about moments over substance. I can watch Casablanca a million times and never get tired of it but I will never watch Infinity War again
2025-12-16 23:07:22
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Nex :
Yeah, ive noticed a lot of criticism for sunrise on the reaping because "theres no twist end". We know haymitch wins. We knew from him being a mentor. Its the journey of how we got to this point. It informs his decisions in the rest of the books especially because katniss is an unreliable narrator who doest know why haymitch is the way he is
2025-12-17 02:12:16
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Lorelei :
Hot(?) take: trailers are the modern day equivalent of Shakespearean prologues. Trailers tell you just enough to know what its about, and some even tell you all of the major plot points.
2025-12-17 01:02:46
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Big Nerd :
Spoiler culture *way* predates the MCU. As far back as 1960 Alfred Hitchcock was begging people not to spoil the end of Psycho, this has been around a long time it definitely doesn’t come from Marvel
2025-12-21 05:47:39
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🧜🏼♀️ :
it's like watching Titanic
2025-12-16 22:34:59
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skyesidhe :
Yes! People always apologize for spoilers for me and I'm always like "oh I don't mind knowing the what, I like the how" unless it's somehow like a mystery? But i still don't mind. 🤷♀️
2025-12-16 21:47:07
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CoolCatBrak :
i mean the first line in Tangled is "this is the story of how I died", but by the time that happens I kinda forgot about the fact they already told us and the shock value is still there
2025-12-17 12:13:21
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Maeve O’Grady | Writer :
As another example: We all knew how Sunrise on the Reaping was going to end, but we all read it anyway because we trust Suzanne Collins and we knew it was going to be incredible, even knowing how it was going to end.
2025-12-17 06:51:44
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charlleedodson :
When I read it, the prologue intrigued me because then I was thinking “why do they die in the end? What’s gonna cause them to die?”
2025-12-16 21:41:40
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Sarah Z :
IN A GOOD STOEY IT DOESNT MATTER 📣📣📣📣
2025-12-16 21:13:54
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trappedinthemountains :
"But surely this time they won't die, right?"
That's so true. We're such hopeful creatures.
2025-12-16 21:08:43
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Knotta Hooker :
Moulin Rouge does this! I watched it with some friends for the first time and they FORGOT that at the beginning, the movie “spoil” the ending and my friends were SO MAD at the ending. I was like “they TOLD you!” And that’s how you do a story.
2025-12-17 13:12:30
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E :
It adds so much to know from the beginning that they’re doomed, and to fall in love with the characters anyway. My favorite way of storytelling by far. To watch or read with bated breath going “well it can’t be!” Like YES
2025-12-16 22:14:29
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blackwall’s husband :
unrelated but the haircut looks GOOD
2025-12-16 22:37:09
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Sumer Brown :
Thank you! I was trying to explain this when I went to see Hadestown because the opening song does something very similar. There is beauty to be found in the story being told and messages that are so nessessary to the audience, it doesnt matter how it ends we're going to keep retelling it. If only for the chance that this time it will end differently
2025-12-16 22:44:36
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rob :
video about the epilogue to Taming mayhaps? 👀
2025-12-16 21:42:13
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Hoff Reads Books :
I always would mention to my high school classes that this ties into the theme of fate in the play. R and J must die, it was written that they would.
2025-12-16 21:15:00
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Billy D Howell :
wait, are the youngins back to liking R&J? for a while, it became en vogue to dunk on it.
2026-01-17 20:59:23
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