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Hyperthetical question

whisky

whisky

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Yeah I know I probably spelled that wrong, anyway..

Say you are a fan of a show, a show where the characters regulary die suddenly.

Say you are on a BBS that already has a spoiler thread for that show, which you have been avoiding, because the show had built up on your hard drive for several weeks while you caught up with other shows.

Suppose someone else then started a new thread, that had a spoiler warning in the title, but also a character name in the title.

Would your first thought be "well, that character is dead"?
 
Well yes. So you can all troll me by posting "Star Trek villain spoilers! [character name]" threads because I've decided to avoid finding out who it is for as long as possible (it's an experiment more than anything).
 
I was reading at HuffPo and they had headlines screaming about a spoiler warning!!! don't read if you don't want to know what character died!!! and they had the fucking actor's photo in the header. Great job.
 
I'm going to assume you're talking about The Walking Dead.

"X dies" is barely a spoiler. The show should be keeping you on edge that anyone could bite it at all times, so unless there's a time and method of death attached, I don't think the knowledge that a specific person will die in the future is anything new at all.

I'd probably extend that to say that a character death is unremarkable as a spoiler, so a spoiler about a character dying would probably go under EPISODE X (SPOILERS) instead of CHARACTER (SPOILERS). It's likely that the spoiler is just about something the character does, or something that happens to them.


And I legitimately love your misspelling of hypothetical. A hypothesis is something that's under (hypo) thought, or proposition (thesis). Hyperthesis isn't actually a word, but it's fun thinking what it could mean, since hyper is the exact opposite of hypo. Unstated, unchallenged assumptions that nevertheless inform our worldview, maybe.
 
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