Matthew Brown wrote:
On 5/25/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Yes, if I read the plot in a Wikipedia article it's to save me the trouble of wasting time to watch the movie just to find out about it. If it's going to be really long, I might as well watch the movie.
Some of ours are almost to that point - especially of movies, novellas and short stories.
Even worse, single episodes of TV programmes. Nevertheless, with <s>programmes</s> soap operas like "Lost" or "Desperate Housewives" it's easy to become confused if you miss an episode. I'm just as happy reading a plot summary than going back and trying to recreate a past episode.
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