jayseven Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Soooo. I think I accidentally spoilered The Dark Knight Rises, though it makes sense because I knew of some of the lore. I survived a fair few weeks, though! I was meant to go with my cousin to the cinema but he ended up ditching me for his mates, and I've not had the time during the day to go and see it yet. Someone on facebook mentioned bruce wayne's funeral. I told my cousin, and told him about the Bane lore that I knew re: Bat's broken back and he was all "oh that doesn't last long" O_o, and he then confirmed my suspicion that JGL was robin and shit. My cousin claims not to know the ending to The Sixth Sense - which I find to be a generation-gap definer, right there. I managed to NOT spoil the ending to Assassin's Creed: Revelations to him for MONTHS, yet he fucks up with TDKR after like a week :P Also i had a friend back in Sheffield who was a smallville fan. he knew I was typically a few days behind on the show, yet he would still frequently say things like "You watched it yet? AW MAN! Naw I won't spoil it, let me just say one word; [massive spoiler, either in terms of character apperance or other plot twistery]." DAYMN! These days if I want to see a film due to it being an awesome sequel or because I love the actor/director, I'll avoid all stuff. Same with games. I know people who HAVE to read the last page of a story. Mad.
Charlie Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 My flatmate and I watch a few of the same programmes. We tend to watch them at different times due to different schedules and we have very firm rules in place. No words can be said about the programme whatsoever if if the other hasn't watched it. Even if it was good or bad because that can sway your feeling on it.
Hero-of-Time Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 The last place I worked, me and my mates all watched Big Bang Theory, 24, Smallville, Scrubs and Supernatural. Like Charlie, we all respected the spoiler rule and kept quiet until everyone had caught up with the latest episodes. I don't understand people who follow a TV show and then actively look for what happens next on the internet. I mean, why bother watching the show at all?
Retro_Link Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Yep these days I try and stay much more spoiler free with films I know I'm going to go and see (basically Comic book movies :p)... I'll likely watch the first trailer and then that's it! And I'd say it's definately paying off! It was SO difficult to avoid stuff about TDKR, but I pretty much did it... *even if it meant looking stupid shutting my eyes/looking away from the TV/cinema screen to avoid adverts and trailers*... and I'd say consequently it turned out to be one of my favourite films ever. Same with all the Batman films actually. Also doing the same with more and more games. The internet is there to utterly ruin a game for you if you let it (as learned by Super Smash Bros Brawl), so those games that I'm really interested in/I know I'll buy, I'll pay less and less attention to in the build up. And again, with Skyward Sword it worked!
jayseven Posted September 6, 2012 Author Posted September 6, 2012 Oh man, I am very much known to just sit and shout LALALALALLALALALALALAAA! at the tv if it threatens to spoil shit for me. I very much miss MOTD and the entire day of trying to avoid spoilers (an excellent Likely Lads' episode about this).
Daft Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Someone blurted out what happens in Mt Doom at the end of LotR about 100 pages before I got there. Needless to say I was not happy.
Cube Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Well, the ending of TDKR is a massive talking point. Assassin's Creed Revelations is not. I can't even remember what happened at the end. Nothing of any importance, anyway. Although I'd still refrain from talking about TDKR when within earshot of someone who I have no idea if they've seen it or not (i.e. random people). I managed to avoid most stuff about the film (mainly because I wasn't that fussed about it). However, after exiting the cinema after watching it, two girls behind me were talking loudly about the ending. Right in front of the massive queue of people waiting to watch the next showing. There should be a law against that. The subject of "how long can something go before you can spoiler it" is a tricky one. For example, I try not to spoil Battlestar Galactica in front of anyone who hasn't seen it, mainly in the hope that they would some day watch it. Stuff like The Sixth Sense - he sees dead people - should not count of a spoiler (I've never seen the film anyway).
jayseven Posted September 6, 2012 Author Posted September 6, 2012 If I was still a teenager; oh, man, the cinema! You queue up for about 15 minutes before a film starts to make sure you're near the front, then the cinema empties and you're left accidentally overhearing EVERYTHING about the movie that you're about to see! Awful. @Cube: funny, as it was me editing Daft's post in the BSG thread that led me to this new thread. I was worried that I was being overly cautious with the spoiler warning. I do also find that if my only spoiler is "YOU'LL LOVE IT!" then I have a sudden compulsion to TRY and love it... and my records dictate that, generally, I'll hate it even more.
Magnus Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I sometimes find myself pressured into watching things just to avoid spoilers. I recently watched The Cabin in the Woods because I'd heard that the less you knew about the movie, the better, and I'd stayed completely spoiler-free up until that point. It was the same with Scream 4, where I made sure to watch the movie before I stumbled upon any spoilers. I usually avoid spoilers for things I think I may watch/play at some point in the future, but I love reading spoilers for bad things. I know about most of the big moments on Smallville thanks to reading spoilers for it and every time I see an article about a "shocking turn" on NCIS, I'll click on it in the hopes that it's something the fans will hate. :p Though sometimes it's a bit hard to avoid television spoilers just because the writers on entertainment blogs are so inconsistent with what they consider a spoiler or not. They won't spoil if a character gets written off a show because of creative reasons, but if an actor chooses to leave a show, it's all over the blogs weeks in advance. And sometimes they're just jerks. On one blog, there was a post about a "shocking surprise on [TV show]", which was spoiler-marked, so I didn't click on it. Then a few days later, there was another post with "pictures from the surprise wedding between [characters] on [the same TV show as before]". Spoilers, right? Apparently not! "This isn't a spoiler anymore, since I already posted about it the other day." Well, thanks for that! For the full spoiler experience, I recommend the IMDb boards, where even suggesting that people should spoiler mark their threads always leads to the person suggesting it being ripped to shreds. Because God forbid people want to come there to discuss a TV show when they haven't watched the latest episode - or if they don't live in the US. Ironically, the Caprica board was filled with Americans sternly reminding people not to post spoilers when the second batch of episodes aired in another country first. The GameFAQs boards have a policy against people posting unmarked spoilers, which is great if you want to read about a game before buying it. If they were like the IMDb boards, you'd only get three posts down before getting the Mass Effect 3 ending spoiled, and then the rest of the first page would be filled with spoilers for every major moment in the game. My cousin claims not to know the ending to The Sixth Sense - which I find to be a generation-gap definer' date=' right there.[/quote']I didn't know the ending to The Sixth Sense until Dr Cox spoiled it for the janitor on Scrubs. I know exactly how the janitor felt. I managed to NOT spoil the ending to Assassin's Creed: Revelations to him for MONTHS It's a good thing the story in Revelations was absolute pants, because I had the ending spoiled to me, and that would normally have annoyed me to no end. I was reading this list on a website of the best gaming moments of 2011, and one of the moment's was "the death of Altaïr". People were understandably annoyed, but the writer defended it by saying that he lived hundreds upon hundreds of years ago, so of course he's dead! Which was kind of funny in itself. But then she finally relented and went back and changed it to "the skeleton in the chair", which was less spoilery... unless you'd already seen the old version of the article, in which case it just spoiled things even more! Oh, gaming journalists.
Shorty Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I hate spoilers, because I get a great deal of enjoyment from absolute surprise. From sitting down to watch anything and having no idea where they're going with it, not even a sneak preview or a trailer, although I usually struggle to avoid those. I had a friend used to read the last pages of a book before she started She said the enjoyment was in trying to figure out how they got there.
Serebii Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I also hate spoilers, but sometimes I just get swept in and end up reading some, and it pisses me off. I used to exclusively read spoilers for the shows I watched, but I started realising it ruined a lot of the episodes. Things like the reveal of The Master in Doctor Who's Utopia and various things in Stargate got spoiled and it ruined it for me. Since then, I try to stay completely spoiler free, and that's the way to go. Enjoyment is high!
Agent Gibbs Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 every time I see an article about a "shocking turn" on NCIS, I'll click on it in the hopes that it's something the fans will hate. :p I hate spoilers, but i think once something is more than 6months to a year old its fair game (in all countries not just the US, so everyone's had that period to access it) Theres someone in my work who has never seen the likes of Goodfellas, Casino, GODFATHER! he keeps saying he intends to watch them, but he ends up watching comedies with his girlfriend, and he actually got pissed off when someone mentioned plot points from goodfellas - theres no point watching it now apparently Another friend of mine STILL hasn't seen Avengers because he hates the cinema (too many kids talking through it, cramped leg room etc) so i can't mention that around him sometimes i just want to real off endings to films because its got beyond a joke
Magnus Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 If they ever decide to kill you off on NCIS, I'll be sure to warn you beforehand! :p
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I hate spoilers, but i think once something is more than 6months to a year old its fair game (in all countries not just the US, so everyone's had that period to access it) Theres someone in my work who has never seen the likes of Goodfellas, Casino, GODFATHER! he keeps saying he intends to watch them, but he ends up watching comedies with his girlfriend, and he actually got pissed off when someone mentioned plot points from goodfellas - theres no point watching it now apparently Another friend of mine STILL hasn't seen Avengers because he hates the cinema (too many kids talking through it, cramped leg room etc) so i can't mention that around him sometimes i just want to real off endings to films because its got beyond a joke Hey, have a bit of respect for people like us who are slow to watch films! There's still bunch of classics I need to see, yet most of them have already been spoiled for me. A lot of the ones I have seen were spoiled long before I got to see them. The Sixth Sense, Planet Of The Apes, Fight Club ... I think the only classic I know there's a twist in that I've managed to avoid having spoiled so far is Psycho.
Cube Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Spoilers are also much more complicated when it comes to games. Some would consider the items in Zelda to be a spoiler, for others would consider the characters in Smash Bros. as spoilers. It's different for everyone. Although the worst kind of spoiler can be the trailers. Some of them pretty much outline the entire film.
Serebii Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Spoilers are also much more complicated when it comes to games. Some would consider the items in Zelda to be a spoiler, for others would consider the characters in Smash Bros. as spoilers. It's different for everyone. Although the worst kind of spoiler can be the trailers. Some of them pretty much outline the entire film. That's actually quite common these days, or if it's a comedy...all the best jokes will be in the trailer. It has got ridiculous
The Bard Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I genuinely don't mind spoilers in the least. Knowing how a plot is going to unfurl never spoils my engagement with it. I tend to enjoy watching something more the second or third time than I do the first.
Agent Gibbs Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 That's actually quite common these days, or if it's a comedy...all the best jokes will be in the trailer. It has got ridiculous The film bridesmaids was basically its trailer with filler in between
Iun Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Someone blurted out what happens in Mt Doom at the end of LotR about 100 pages before I got there. Needless to say I was not happy. You should have thanked them, they saved you 100 pages wasted on one of the DULLEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN. You could have done some gardening, made a birdhouse, cooked some lovely Toad-In-The-Hole or read a ook that's actually worth reading. Spoilers... Yeah, they ruin it. I'd rather lose myself in the story. It was something that bothered me about Mrs Iun when we were watching TV - there'd be a cliffhanger and she would suddenly scream "Is he dead? TELL ME!" as if I had intimate knowledge of the next episode without having seen it.
The Bard Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 You should have thanked them, they saved you 100 pages wasted on one of the DULLEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN. Word. Lord of The Rings is a despicable, wretched piece of shit.
Daft Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I read LotR twice and enjoyed it more the second time.
Iun Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 Word. Lord of The Rings is a despicable, wretched piece of shit. Well, hang on: I respect the books for being the archetypal fantasy novel - without LOTR, there would be no Belgariad, no Game of Thrones and no Dragonlance. I grew up reading fantasy novels that were inspired by Tolkien, and for that I am thankful. However, as an interesting and engaging work of fiction, they really are overrated. The formula was right, but the actual events, characters and overall story bored me to tears. I had to force myself to read to the end. I was glad I did, because I can now authoritatively confirm that I read it and hated it.
The Bard Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 It was just poorly written and atrociously paced, full of bullshit ancillary arcana and unnecessarily baroque language. I read until halfway through Two Towers and had an existential moment of realisation that I really didn't need it in my life.
EEVILMURRAY Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 I thought I was the only one who was bored to tears with Lord of The Rings! I'm feeling better about life now Well, the ending of TDKR is a massive talking point. Assassin's Creed Revelations is not. I can't even remember what happened at the end. Nothing of any importance, anyway. Now read the book of Revelations (...) there's an ending beyond the ending.
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