When people tell me their interpretation of something before I try it

snowfoxofdeath

This happened when I was looking for the main theme of Howl's Moving Castle on Youtube. The highest rated comment told me what that person imagined while they were listening to the song, and then I could not get their image out of my head while I listened. I just couldn't. I can draw my own conclusions, thank you very much. I suppose that today, I learned not to look at comments before I watch /listen to a video, but if someone does this to me in real life, I just want to scream at them to shut up.

Chagen

inb4 DYRE and other people start hating on comments for no fucking reason.

DYRE

Yeah, this annoys me too.  It's why I don't like looking at reviews of shows and movies and stuff before I watch them.  I guess it's like, first impressions generally last a while, and if you look at someone's interpretation or review or whatever, that becomes your first impression of the thing, so when you end up watching it or whatever, you are always thinking of it in terms of someone else's ideas of it.

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RedEyedAbyss

Though it is loads of fun to see people's interpretations afterwards. Hence why I enjoyed looking at Bit.Trip's fanart: it's a game series that is particularly conductive to a wide variety of interpretations.

inkblot

(Where did you get that avatar?)

it's not something you can avoid unless you don't look up anything about a work except it's Wikipedia article.

DYRE

You actually probably shouldn't look at its Wikipedia article either, at least for plot-based things, since Wikipedia is very spoilery.

Bob

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