SenorBeef, if you’re that hyper sensitive over being spoiled, then perhaps you should just NOT GO INTO A FUCKING THREAD. O NOES I LEARNED THAT SO AND SO WILL BE WEARING A RED DRESS IN THE NEXT EPISODE IT IS RUINED FOR ME YOU BASTARDS!!!
Think that’s bad? I saw someone say, after seeing a preview, “And next week – wow!” And someone insisted THAT was a spoiler. WTF???
I can understand telling someone the complete twist ending (Snape is Luke’s father, Darth Vader kills Dumbledore), but some people get so caught up over each and every little detail that it seems almost useless to discuss any part of a book or movie or tv show around here. If you’re that concerned to where someone saying, “it looks like the next episode is gonna be a HUGE deal,” then perhaps you should stay out of these discussions.
There are some TV show threads (24 was this way, Lost was not) in which things from “next week on” are considered spoilers. In a thread of that sort, if someone posted “and next week - wow”, it seems reasonable to respond by reminding them of the rules of the thread. Not so much because “oh, your comment has ruined my enjoyment of next week’s show no matter what, now I will rend my flesh in woe” but just to make sure that everyone remembers what the rules are.
And while that comment is certainly fairly low on the spoiler scale, it is something that I would prefer not to read (I hate comments about next week on). Doesn’t mean that I get to make all the rules for all SDMB threads, but if enough people agree and that policy is formalized for a particular show, you should respect it. And that policy would clearly never have existed for any shows at all if a reasonable number of people didn’t support it.
So anyway, I’m back. There was a specific reason I had to make my last post about leaving the thread, but it’s resolved. Come at me bros.
As stated up thread, why is telling people just never to discuss the show with anyone superior to having a discussion where people who watch the show can discuss things without being spoiled?
I’m not hypersensitive to spoilers really, but the problem is… if we allow judgements as to what constitutes a spoiler, there will be errors in judgement. Some people may think it’s safe to reveal something because the show advanced past something in the story and therefore it won’t be covered and could be background information, but then it turns out oh wait, the show covered it in a slightly different order than the books, so now it goes back to being a spoiler. Some people think telling others that a particular character will die isn’t a spoiler. There are all sorts of borderline cases.
The simplest implementation by far is just to say - in certain threads, we’ll discuss the TV show with no outside knowledge at all. No judgement calls on what is or isn’t a spoiler, no guesses as to what the show will reveal, just… discuss the TV show as its own work. It’s the easiest way to handle things.
And I’ve been at the forefront of that simply because someone has to lead the charge for shit like that to get done. We found a good solution at the end of last year and I wanted to avoid the massive clusterfuck when we started over again this year. Mission accomplished, the threads have been very successful with pretty much no drama.
I’ve asked people to spoiler box that shit in the past because those things are fucking horrible. They’re not written by the show creators to give you hints that they find acceptable where the story is going - they’re written by a marketing team who can reveal the entire episode if they think it’ll get viewers. If I know I’m going to watch the episode next week, why do I need to be teased into it? I don’t want to see the shit that some marketing asshat thought would shock the most viewers and get them to tune in, I want the story as presented by the storyteller. So it’s courteous to box those things so that people who avoid them (and I know lots of people who do, not just me) can keep avoiding them.
It’s fitting that this thread ultimately led to purging of the person responsible for the majority of the childishness around this issue and the multiple trainwrecks that resulted.
So, while my opinion of the OP stands, I have now gained a new appreciation for it.
It’s more sad than hilarious. Consider that he was so offended by the existence of people who wanted to take precautions against spoilers that he descended to fraud.
I’ve yet to see anything more ridiculous than last year when someone started whining about mention of the slope of the floor in the sky cell compared to how the book described it, but I haven’t been in any of the threads for this season because I haven’t watched any of it save the first ep yet.
Frankly, I like it when a show based on a book comes in and tells how things differ from the book. Once in a while maybe they mess up and give something away too soon, but oh well, I found out that Sookie was a fairy a season before the show said so, big fucking whoop.
I was at least one of the people objecting to it, and I don’t consider it ridiculous. The producers of the TV show had decided to hold back the information about the nature of the sky cell. In the very next episode, the Tyrion scene started with the revelation that he was practically hanging over the edge and it’s then that we learn about the nature of the cell. The information was held back for a reason, so it would create tension from an unexpected source, and I would have preferred to have learned it in the manner that the TV show intended for it to have been learned. That’s part of the journey of experiencing a narrative work. Knowing in advance the nature of the cell robbed me of that surprise.
But overall, what I don’t understand is why people like you feel so obligated to judge how someone like me should enjoy these things. There’s now a thread for those who feel the same way I do. And there’s a thread for those who don’t. It doesn’t bother me that there are people who are content to enjoy the show in a different manner than I do. Why can’t you be content with my choice?