Actually, also the Luke only being in the last scene. I read posts from people here who were going to hate the film if Luke wasn't all over it, swinging his lightsaber. I tried to gently talk them off the cliff as best I could to manage their expectations better but they would have none of it!
Yeah, I didn't really care about that part. I think I saw it as I went looking for whether Han dies, but I didn't care one way or the other. I was a little surprised to find out that he had
literally no lines, but I'm sure Mark Hamill was chuckling all the way to the bank. Probably in his Joker voice, too! At least, I hope that's how he sounded...
For Star wars, I prefer to go in completely blind. Growing up, my parents would actually tell me specifically where my Christmas presents were hidden, knowing that I liked surprises and would make sure to steer clear of them so as not to spoil it for myself. I like being surprised.
Unfortunately, other people seem to be unable to allow that.
I knew Han was in this one because he was in the trailer...which I DID avoid, but no one could shut the hell up about it for like three weeks, so learning that he was in it was absolutely unavoidable.
Other people spoiled Hans death for me. AND Luke being in it at the end...for no better reason than that some people like being mean.
First, I agree on the Christmas presents thing. My wife, however, is entirely different, and I have to SERIOUSLY hide her stuff. I don't think she'd go searching for it, but she wants to know NOW, rather than waiting for a surprise.
Second, people who spoil just to be mean suck.
To each his own...some definitely prefer to be spoiled. But for me it's much more impactfull if it's a surprise...like Wash dying...that was like a gut punch...so I do still feel a little cheated that I was robbed of that experience with Han...a character who has been my favorite since childhood...I felt only annoyance that the spoiler was real.
I guess bottom line is: some of you like to speculate and look things up ahead of time. More power to you, I hope all of your predictions come true, and more than that: I hope you at least get the pleasure of an I-told-you-so in these after-release threads. But for God's sake keep it to yourselves before-hand.
(For the record: no one on this forum spoiled it. People here are usually very good at keeping info confined to places where it will only be seen by those who want it. It's pretty much...all of the rest of the internet who suck).
Actually, for me at least, it was Wash's death that made me go looking for whether Han dies. Han's my favorite character, too (I know. Shocking, right?), and Wash was my favorite on Firefly. When Wash died in the film, it completely took me out of the film. I was absolutely locked in up until that, completely absorbed by the experience of the film, right up until that moment. After he died, I spent the rest of the film going "Wait, what? He died?! WTF?! THIS IS BULL****!!!" in my mind. So, rather than let Han's death distract me, I wanted to be prepared for it.
But otherwise, I wanted to go in cold. I'm glad I did, too. I've actually been doing this since The Phantom Menace came out. That was the last Star Wars movie where I got super into the hype, and I can't help but think that it probably contributed to my disappointment. Not that the film wasn't disappointing in its own right, but that my disappointment was magnified by what the film turned out
not to be that the pre-release hype had led me to expect it'd be. So, I haven't watched a Star Wars trailer since, nor have I followed the development beyond casting and unavoidable glimpses of costumes here and there.
