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pyresword posted...

Idk, my attitude is that outside of dedicated mystery stories, if a plot point fails to land because I know it's coming then it probably would have failed to land regardless.

It has nothing to do with whether it lands without it or not and everything to do with you only being able to experience it the way the author intended one time.

A plot can be good with foreknowledge, sure, but you only get one shot at letting a story teller manipulate you the way they intend. A story works by the author crafting an experience, and anything that gets in the way of the intended experience works against the experience itself.

If I wanted a bullet point list of everything that happened in the game, or in the movie, or in the book, why would I bother to go to all the trouble of reading, watching, or playing it myself? It's the experience as the author intends it I'm after, after all. Better to give the author the benefit of the doubt and let them actually, you know, tell the story as it is suppose to be told. I can experience the story with foreknowledge as many times as I want. I cannot experience the story without foreknowledge ever again.