Worse are HBOs Season long previews where they show you the entire season thus spooling all the plot points. My mind like told to work through the possibilities of what can happen and previews eliminate lots of possibilities even with a line of dialog.
As for timing I think Facebook posts should wait a week for TV and about a month for movies. For sports I think it's fair game as they should be enjoyed love and the onus is on the individual to avoid all social media until they watch it.
The problem I have with the people who spoil is, what is gained by them revealing one? If they don't know if someone has seen it, why can't they take 3 seconds to ask first? It reminds me of some gossip who just can't keep their mouth shut about a secret they heard.
Do most people not watch older movies/TV series? I am constantly seeking out old movies; I probably watch more older ones than current ones. When it comes to TV, I hate watching shows while they air because of the long down time between seasons.
Imagine my elation when some blabbermouth just had to tell me how Breaking Bad ended...randomly and not even remotely contextual to the conversation. That was one month after the season ended but even if it were 5 years, ask first.
The problem I have with the people who spoil is, what is gained by them revealing one? If they don't know if someone has seen it, why can't they take 3 seconds to ask first? It reminds me of some gossip who just can't keep their mouth shut about a secret they heard.
Do most people not watch older movies/TV series? I am constantly seeking out old movies; I probably watch more older ones than current ones. When it comes to TV, I hate watching shows while they air because of the long down time between seasons.
Imagine my elation when some blabbermouth just had to tell me how Breaking Bad ended...randomly and not even remotely contextual to the conversation. That was one month after the season ended but even if it were 5 years, ask first.
I disagree with the forever spoiler. Some shows become part of the consciousness of society. It would be like you being annoyed someone spoiled that the flames won a Stanley Cup in 1989 because eventually you were going to watch the tape.
I typically watch shows a few days after they air and avoid spoilers in those instances, but if there are still several months until the next episode, I will sometimes read spoilers because half the time they are inaccurate and most of the time, I end up forgetting the details by the time the show is back on anyway.
__________________
"A pessimist thinks things can't get any worse. An optimist knows they can."
The "previously on..." are worse spoilers than the "Next week on..." IMO. Usually the "next week" don't give away much and sometimes even mislead, so they are more just annoying. "Previously on..." often set up everything that is going to happen on that episode by pointing out which scenes from the last year or two are relevant.
The problem I have with the people who spoil is, what is gained by them revealing one? If they don't know if someone has seen it, why can't they take 3 seconds to ask first? It reminds me of some gossip who just can't keep their mouth shut about a secret they heard.
Do most people not watch older movies/TV series? I am constantly seeking out old movies; I probably watch more older ones than current ones. When it comes to TV, I hate watching shows while they air because of the long down time between seasons.
Imagine my elation when some blabbermouth just had to tell me how Breaking Bad ended...randomly and not even remotely contextual to the conversation. That was one month after the season ended but even if it were 5 years, ask first.
Cool story bro time:
A Visions radio ad from about a year or so ago spoiled the Breaking Bad ending. Basically, they were plugging their TVs and watching ahead in a series, and said something like "Well, you can just act surprised when _______".
I already knew the ending, but I will never shop at Visions again out of principle.
__________________ "It's a great day for hockey."
-'Badger' Bob Johnson (1931-1991)
"I see as much misery out of them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm." -Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Yamer For This Useful Post:
If you haven't seen it by then, you don't care enough about it to be outraged by a spoiler.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Some people like to let a whole season of a tv show record on the pvr before watching all of them in succession. That usually takes more than a month.
__________________
The Following User Says Thank You to Mightyfire89 For This Useful Post:
I think all spoilers should be marked for at least a couple weeks to a month. Agree that if you have not seen it by then, you probably don't care enough if it is spoiled.
I'm really only sensitive to GOT and video games these days lately. (Gears of War was a good example of a game I stayed away from all media on so as not to be spoiled)
What is irritating, is when I got a warning for a "spoiler" in the Walking Dead comparing one scene to what happened in the comic (looking at you Ken ). I did not even touch on the fact of who died, but that the show runners cheaped out on the impact of the scene by making it a cliff-hanger.
I think the Grey area is if there is another medium, like TV and Books and it is compared. Ie I love reading about the differences between GoT TV from the Book, and don't get bent out of shape discussing them, but some people do.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Some people like to let a whole season of a tv show record on the pvr before watching all of them in succession. That usually takes more than a month.
Yeap. I'm not a fan of waiting week to week to find out what happens next in a show, so I prefer to let the season play out and then binge watch it. No waiting for commercial breaks, and no waiting for a week to see what happens the next episode.
Some shows I've given up on that though, like TWD for instance. That's because my wife now also watches the show and doesn't like to wait until it's over because she like to yak about it with friends who also watch, and also because a show with this big of a following it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid spoilers. If I hadn't watched this first episode of season 7 the night it came out, I would have been spoilered for sure because it was all over facebook and everywhere.
The Following User Says Thank You to Roof-Daddy For This Useful Post:
I got Game of Thrones, two years ago, spoiled for me in the GOT thread. Some Asshat came in and spoiled it brazenly and on purpose.
Accidental spoilers on twitter or facebook is my fault for going on there while i was waiting to start watching a show.
My brother is also notorious for texting me. "Did you see what happened last episode, that is crazy stuff... can not believe the would kill off that guy". While not a direct spoiler, it ruins the surprise.
I am ok if the ending gets reveled to my mind via some medium like the internet, people I know, tv or any one of the various street mimes that are in the Calgary area
__________________
If I do not come back avenge my death
I think all spoilers should be marked for at least a couple weeks to a month. Agree that if you have not seen it by then, you probably don't care enough if it is spoiled.
I'm really only sensitive to GOT and video games these days lately. (Gears of War was a good example of a game I stayed away from all media on so as not to be spoiled)
What is irritating, is when I got a warning for a "spoiler" in the Walking Dead comparing one scene to what happened in the comic (looking at you Ken ). I did not even touch on the fact of who died, but that the show runners cheaped out on the impact of the scene by making it a cliff-hanger.
I think the Grey area is if there is another medium, like TV and Books and it is compared. Ie I love reading about the differences between GoT TV from the Book, and don't get bent out of shape discussing them, but some people do.
Agreed. At least a week or 2. We all have busy lives
As long as you make a prank video out of spoiling things, you should be good:
Edit: Looks like I messed up the link. Was trying to link to an exact time in the video. Basically it's a dude driving along with a megaphone spoiling the release of a Harry Potter book to a bunch of people waiting in line outside of a bookstore. It's at 1:23 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL5NltsDWX8
It depends what it is. I will go pretty far out of my way to avoid GOT spoilers, because I stopped watching after the show caught up to the books a couple of years ago. It actually annoys the crap out of me when other media (say, late night TV) that I happen to catch a piece of decide to just spoil crap from HBO shows at random by making an offhand reference.
It helps if in conversation if someone brings up a TV show, they lead in with "do you watch (Show)?" or "Have you seen (movie)?" So as to give me the opportunity to say "no, don't spoil it for me though because I do want to watch it."
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
I understand show spoilers when the season is actively running...but if you haven't caught up on Game of Thrones and a plot line gets spoiled that's your own damn fault.
I understand show spoilers when the season is actively running...but if you haven't caught up on Game of Thrones and a plot line gets spoiled that's your own damn fault.
Yeah, there has to be a statute of limitations on spoilers and on something as massive as Game of Thrones while the season is running, that period is really short.
I've missed episodes of GoT and if you dont watch them by the next day you're screwed unless you live in a Faraday Cage.
__________________ The Beatings Shall Continue Until Morale Improves!
This Post Has Been Distilled for the Eradication of Seemingly Incurable Sadness.
If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a Fire Exit. - Mitch Hedberg
I understand show spoilers when the season is actively running...but if you haven't caught up on Game of Thrones and a plot line gets spoiled that's your own damn fault.
Um, no it isn't. It's not that I "haven't caught up", as if I haven't gotten around to it. I'm intentionally not watching so that I can read the book version first, because I think I'll enjoy it more in that order. I've been reading those books since my mom gave me a copy of the first one some time in the 1990's, it's like a holdover piece of childhood nostalgia.
I actively avoid videos and mediums where spoilers are likely to be and stop people before they tell me anything significant. I do about as much as reasonably possible to avoid hearing about it. It's really annoying when that fails to work.
... And of course now I have to close this thread and never open it again because someone is obviously going to hilariously spoil something for me.
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
). I did not even touch on the fact of who died, but that the show runners cheaped out on the impact of the scene by making it a cliff-hanger. 
