Without wanting to sound like a broken record... that's the question. Do spoilers ruin what you're watching? You seem to be resistant to the question!
Do spoilers bother you?
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Without wanting to sound like a broken record... that's the question. Do spoilers ruin what you're watching? You seem to be resistant to the question!
billd91
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Without wanting to sound like a broken record... that's the question. Do spoilers ruin what you're watching? You seem to be resistant to the question!
You can check both the poll results and my first post in the thread. They don't affect me much. But in any event, I think the uproar they cause is overblown. I think the responsibility to avoid spoilers resides mainly on the person who doesn't like spoilers. I don't have a lot of sympathy when someone chides me for revealing the end of Murder on the Orient Express (something that actually happened - which I find weird considering the movie had been out 35 years at the time).
Yeah, so I gathered. You've made that very clear.
I wouldn't have sympathy for someone chiding me about a 35-year old movie, either.
GMforPowergamers
Legend
spoiler alert I am going to talk about Agents of shield....
I don't mind very basic spoilers but things meant to be a mystery annoy me. I didn't mind when my friend told me that Victoria Hand would appear in a few shows... but got very upset when he told me about Sky getting shot.
I don't mind very basic spoilers but things meant to be a mystery annoy me. I didn't mind when my friend told me that Victoria Hand would appear in a few shows... but got very upset when he told me about Sky getting shot.
Well, there's a prime example! By the time I saw your spoiler alert, I could also see the spoiler. The second half of the season hasn't started here yet*; but now I know Sky gets shot.
This doesn't upset me as much as it says it upset you - I'm not very invested in that show, though I do watch it. But I think it does show that it's not *that* easy to avoid spoilers unless you're going to just avoid the internet entirely - which isn't a practical solution.
*[edit - huh; apparently it sneakily started back here last week!]
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MarkB
Legend
I like to go into a show or movie as 'fresh' as possible. I'm currently avoiding Sky's trailers for Game of Thrones because I don't want to go into the new series with too many preconceptions, even though I've read the novels.
Back when the Doctor Who anniversary episode was in the offing, I seriously curtailed my forum reading and actively avoided press stories in order to keep spoilers to a minimum. I still knew the general gist, but was a lot happier for not knowing too many twists ahead of time.
I recall getting spoiled for the Serenity movie just before it came out over here, by someone who didn't even think his comment was spoilerish.
[sblock=Don't read if you haven't seen the Serenity movie]He said that two major characters died, and that while one of the deaths came naturally out of the plot, the second was totally unexpected.[/sblock]
It completely changed the way I watched the movie the first time, both providing unintended tensions and deflating tensions that should have been there. I feel a definite sense of loss for the movie experience I would have had that first time, if not for that one comment.
Back when the Doctor Who anniversary episode was in the offing, I seriously curtailed my forum reading and actively avoided press stories in order to keep spoilers to a minimum. I still knew the general gist, but was a lot happier for not knowing too many twists ahead of time.
I recall getting spoiled for the Serenity movie just before it came out over here, by someone who didn't even think his comment was spoilerish.
[sblock=Don't read if you haven't seen the Serenity movie]He said that two major characters died, and that while one of the deaths came naturally out of the plot, the second was totally unexpected.[/sblock]
It completely changed the way I watched the movie the first time, both providing unintended tensions and deflating tensions that should have been there. I feel a definite sense of loss for the movie experience I would have had that first time, if not for that one comment.
Tom Strickland
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The time limit I consider irrelevant. In person among trusted friends, we always ask first if a person has seen a movie--even years in the past--before mentioning illustrative plot points as part of an enjoyable discussion. [Sometimes people would like to see something about which they never knew with fresh wonder for the first time.] Nevertheless, I have always accepted hearing plot points of unseen movies when asked. The key is the respect among people. [And "truth is stranger than fiction" so I have no great investment in any fictional plot anyway, but it is nice to be asked.]
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GMforPowergamers
Legend
I am invested in AoS, and was in star gate (the last time I threatened to stop talking to such friend) in this case I in demand AoS on Wednesday after work, because when it airs Tuesday night I am running a D&D game. At that game one of the players is a major SPoiler addict... he knows already the ending to Captian America the Winter SOldier and the end credit scene, and the end of Guardians of the Galaxy... No matter how many times I tell him I want to watch the movies first he still lets things slip...
If something is ment to be a twist or a shock, or a conclusion or even major change, I don't want to know... I don't mind basic information though...
[sblock=winter soldier]I read comics so I know it is Bucky Barns... but that comic used things I doubt they will in the movie... so there is still a lot to be surprised about, but I don't want to know how it ends[/sblock]
One of the greatest suprises for me was the Man of Steel movie, and I would have hated the movie if the ended wasn't the way it was... so a spoiler could have lessened my fist pumping "Yea" moment when...
[sblock=man of steel]superman is forced to kill zod. It is one thing I loved from the Man of Steel Mini back in 85 and 86, there are times you have no choice...[/sblock]
Batman begins also got a good surprise that in later watches changes the movie...
[sblock=Batman Begins]Ras being played by leam neason was not spoiled for me and watching the early training scense is very different now.[/sblock]
Dr who is impossible to not be spoiled on... I know the ending of shows that wont air for weeks sometimes.... I knew about captian jack becoming immortal before I got to the show that introed him... I would love for a surprise regen or compainion change mid season without the whole internet exploding weeks or months before...
I watched six sense in the theater with my best friend and
[sblock=if you are the last guy not to know the trick] half way through I asked him "Why is no one talking directly to bruce's character?" and just as I was asking we got the line "They don't even see each other." and he turned and asked me "Do you think he's a ghost too?"[/sblock]
I find it hard to imagine if that movie came out today and we went opening weekend we could have that same exchange (It wasn't opening weekend we saw it)
The TV show leverage is one my girlfriend has never seen, and it's hard watching ones I remember and not spoileing it for her... because the fun of the show is "What is the next twist?"
delericho
Legend
Sometimes. It depends on the spoiler and it depends on the show.
For the most part, I tend to avoid spoilers. If a thread indicates that it contains spoilers for a show I watch and for episodes I've not yet seen, I'll tend to avoid it. Likewise, I'm deliberately avoiding reading anything about casting or other details for the new Star Wars films (and will be avoiding reviews) until I've seen it - I want to see it as cold as possible.
The big thing I don't like, is when a spoiler comes out of nowhere. There was an incident on here some years ago when someone dropped a big 24 spoiler into a tangentially-related thread in the 2-day gap between the US and UK screenings, which really wasn't cool.
And I would have thought that, since people know it does bother others, common courtesy would suggest they react accordingly - use the sblock and spoiler tags to conceal the spoilers, or mark the thread itself to indicate that there are spoilers. That way, people who want spoilers can seek them out, people who want to avoid spoilers can do so - everyone wins.
(And yes, I agree that there should be a reasonable time-limit to this. Complaining about 24 during the screening gap is one thing; complaining about it now would be quite another.)
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