Rambling Thoughts #67: On why I like to read spoilers from the author · 5:59am Aug 4th, 2019
First off, we assume that said spoilers are more than just random babblings all over the place. The story is so raw it sometimes wanders off when you’re not looking.
There is some sort of order, but limited to not much more than a script, of dialogue and direction.
The type of spoilers I’m talking about, and I do quite enjoy, are spoilers that are essentially the story but without polish. It doesn’t have any extraneous details, just each event and plot as it happens, then goes to the next. This format of the story, when told correctly, is an entirely different experience to the final product.
The first time I truly experienced this was Skirt’s spoilercast of EoP. In the space of f roughly 4 hours, the viewers were essentially subjected to a freight train’s worth of plot being blitzed through. What would probably have taken another 500K or more was just dumped on our faces. And, probably ironically, this also prevents any hint of Skirt’s signature purple prose from his earlier days from filling the details.
Why I like this format so much is because the story is already there, as the author envisioned it. Sure, we don’t really flesh out the environment, but every beat, climax, and failure is still there, just with a noticeable lack of brakes. There isn’t exactly much to talk about when someone’s just sitting around, after all, so the author almost has to skip over the slow points. Instead, as mentioned, the story is blitzed, compressed into a more easily digestible format, but with every major event still intact but told at a relentless pace. There is no time to stew in mistakes, nor time to revel in success. Each high and low comes through as a succession of whiplashes, and man is that the wildest high I have ever experienced.
Now, I’m not saying people should just write stories like this. But I do feel it is a distinctly unique experience from the finished product and not something to regret if encountered. It’s also something entirely subjective, and may sound like heresy to some people. I just have an affinity to “stories done quick”.
